Guides
In the Scheunengut guide, we explain vitamins, minerals, plant compounds and dietary supplements clearly and with a solid scientific grounding – from correct intake to the right product for you. Use the search or the topic filters to quickly find what you need.
Hops: Calm & Sleep – What's Behind It
Winding down late in the evening, quieting the mind – hardly any plant is so closely associated with this as hops. Most people know it from beer brewing, yet in...
CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid): Explained
CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) is a naturally occurring fatty acid found above all in the fat of ruminants – in milk, butter, cheese and in the meat of cattle and...
Sulforaphane from Broccoli: Effects Explained
Sulforaphane is a secondary plant compound from cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli – young broccoli sprouts are especially rich in it. What makes it special: sulforaphane is not present ready-made...
Betaine (TMG): Effects & Function Explained
Betaine – also called trimethylglycine or TMG for short – is a natural substance that serves the body as a methyl-group donor. Chemically it is the amino acid glycine with...
BCAA or EAA? The Honest Comparison
The core in one sentence: EAAs are all nine essential amino acids, BCAAs are only three of them – leucine, isoleucine and valine. BCAAs are therefore a subset of the...
L-Tyrosine: Effects, Intake & Building-Block Function
L-Tyrosine is an amino acid your body uses as a starting material for important messengers and hormones. From tyrosine it forms, among other things, dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline as well...
L-Lysine: Effects, Intake & Daily Requirement
L-Lysine is an essential amino acid – your body cannot make it on its own and has to obtain it from food. It is a building block of protein and...
GABA: Effects, Use & What You Should Know
It's 10pm, your mind is still racing, and the thought-carousel keeps spinning – right when you actually want to wind down. It's in exactly these moments that many people come...
Glycine: Effects, Uses & Evening Intake
A teaspoon of white powder, faintly sweet, dissolved in a glass of water after brushing your teeth – that's how unremarkable the evening glycine routine looks for many people. Behind...
Chondroitin: Explained for Joint Health
If you're mindful of your knees when climbing stairs, spend a lot of your working day on your feet, or want to do something targeted for your connective tissue in...
Digestive Enzymes: An Overview
A bite of bread, a piece of cheese, a spoonful of oil on your salad – to you, that is a meal. To your body it is, at first, a...
Serrapeptase: The Enzyme Explained
An enzyme that originally comes from the digestive tract of the silkworm, where it helps dissolve the cocoon – that sounds more like a biological curiosity than a dietary supplement....
Lactoferrin: Effects & Use Explained
A protein that nature packs into the very first milk after birth, that's found in tear fluid, and whose name already gives the game away: "lacto" for milk, "ferrin" for...
Beta-Glucans: Effects & Forms Explained
Beta-glucans are natural fibre-type sugars (polysaccharides) from grains, yeast and mushrooms – and the decisive question isn’t “does beta-glucan work?” but “which beta-glucan?”. Because an oat beta-glucan is structurally something...
Ergothioneine: the “Longevity Vitamin”?
Ergothioneine is a sulphur-containing, amino-acid-like compound that your body cannot produce itself – you have to take it in through food, above all through mushrooms. The truly fascinating part: your...
PQQ: Effects Around the Mitochondria
PQQ – short for pyrroloquinoline quinone – is a small, redox-active compound that occurs in many foods only in trace amounts and is being intensively researched around the mitochondria, the...
Colostrum: Effects & Use Explained
Colostrum is the very first milk that mammals produce in the first hours after birth – a thick, yellowish-creamy "pre-milk" whose composition differs markedly from the mature milk that follows....
Which Vitamin D Supplement Should You Buy?
The cursor is hovering in the shopping cart, and you're staring at three vitamin D products that differ in price by a factor of three and yet all say "high-dose"...
Which Omega-3 Should You Buy? The Buyer's Guide
Two omega-3 products, the same "1000 mg" on the front - and yet one delivers four times as much active ingredient as the other. How can that be? Because the...
Which magnesium to buy? The buying guide
"Which magnesium is the best?" - the question sounds like it has a clear answer, but there's a catch. Short and direct: There is no single best magnesium, but rather...
Antioxidants: the big overview
Hardly any phrase appears on as many packages as "rich in antioxidants" - and hardly any is as widely misunderstood. Do more antioxidants automatically mean healthier? Short and direct: No....
Adaptogens: Overview & Comparison
Ashwagandha from Ayurveda, Rhodiola from the Siberian mountains, Ginseng from Traditional Chinese Medicine, Maca from the Andes – as different as these plants are, they all appear under one shared...
Amino Acids: The Complete Overview
Creatine, BCAAs, EAAs, L-theanine, taurine – the shelf of amino acid supplements can feel like a crash course in jargon. Yet behind it all sits a surprisingly simple idea. Short...
Minerals & Trace Elements: The Complete Overview
You need around one gram of calcium a day, but only about 0.2 milligrams of iodine – five thousand times less. And yet, without iodine, the thyroid simply won't run...
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