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.
Vitamins: the big overview of all 13
Remember a single number and you've almost cracked the whole vitamin topic: 13. That's exactly how many vitamins there are – no more, no less. Four of them are fat-soluble...
Vitamin C: Liposomal or Regular?
You're standing in front of the shelf: on the left a cheap vitamin C powder, on the right a liposomal bottle at three to five times the price. Both advertise...
Iron: Heme or Non-Heme? The Difference
A steak and a serving of lentils can look almost identical on paper when it comes to iron content – and yet your body pulls far more iron out of...
Collagen or Gelatine? The Difference
Collagen, gelatine, collagen peptides – on the shelf, in a baking recipe and on labels, you run into these terms constantly, and they're often used interchangeably. Yet the truth is...
Whey or Casein? The Protein Comparison
Two tubs, near-identical labels, often the same manufacturer – and yet it's one of the most common questions on the protein shelf: whey or casein? Both come from milk, both...
Creatine for Women – Even During Menopause
You're over 40, you've been training more seriously in the weight room again for a few months — and suddenly there's a tub of creatine on your gym buddy's shelf....
Bacopa monnieri (Brahmi) & memory
In the Ayurvedic scriptures, a small marsh plant was handed to students and scholars for centuries before they turned to their texts. Its name: Brahmi — derived from Brahma, the...
Aronia: a portrait of the antioxidant berry
Hold a ripe aronia berry up to the light and you barely see any fruit — only a deep, almost inky black-violet. This colour is no coincidence: it is the...
Sea buckthorn: vitamin C & effects at a glance
When the bright-orange berries glow on the thorny shrubs of coastal regions in late summer, you are looking at one of the most vitamin-C-rich fruits of our latitudes. Depending on...
Lemon balm: calming & digestion
Rub a lemon balm leaf between your fingers and a fresh, lemony scent rises straight to your nose — hardly any herb is as easy to recognise as lemon balm...
Passionflower: calming & sleep
Its bloom is one of the most extraordinary in the plant world — a delicate, almost otherworldly work of art made of filaments and petals. Yet the passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)...
Elder (Sambucus): effects & use
There is that moment in late summer when the elderberries at the roadside gleam almost black-violet and virtually cry out to be harvested. This is exactly where the misunderstanding begins...
Echinacea (coneflower) & the immune system
When the first cold rain sets in outside, many people instinctively reach for the little bottle of deep-red pressed juice – with that characteristic tingle on the tongue. This tingle...
Chaga: the antioxidant mushroom
Anyone who spots it on a birch trunk for the first time takes it for a charred piece of wood: black, cracked, hard as coal. Yet the inside of Chaga...
Cordyceps: Effects, Energy & Sport
Imagine you train 4 times a week and are looking for the one natural substance that for decades has carried the reputation of the "energy mushroom". Almost always you end...
Reishi: Effects & Use
"Mushroom of immortality" – that is what the ancient Chinese scriptures called it, and for a long time reishi was so precious that it was reserved for the rulers. The...
Lion's Mane (Hericium): Effects & Use
A mushroom that looks like a white, hanging lion's mane, and one that Buddhist monks are said to have valued – Lion's Mane, botanically Hericium erinaceus, in German "Igelstachelbart" (bearded...
Collagen Type 2: the cartilage type for the joints
You kneel down to tie your shoes, get up after sitting for a long time or walk down a flight of stairs – and at some point, when it comes...
MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane): Effects & Intake
You hear "sulphur" and think of rotten eggs? Understandable – yet sulphur is a mineral from which your body forms a surprising part of its structural substance. Among the sulphur-containing...
L-Glutamine: Effects & Intake (Sport, Gut)
You train four times a week, keep an eye on your protein – and at some point the same name keeps cropping up in forums, in recovery threads and even...
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine): Effects, Requirements & Intake
Whenever your body forms new building blocks from protein, produces messenger substances for the brain or builds red blood cells, an inconspicuous helper is at work in the background: vitamin...
Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid): Effects & Requirements
The name says it all: "pantos" is Greek for "everywhere" – and that is exactly where vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) can be found, namely in practically every natural food. This...
Vitamin B3 (Niacin): Effect, Forms & Flush
It tingles, the skin becomes warm and turns red – anyone who has ever taken a higher dose of vitamin B3 (niacin) knows the famous „niacin flush“. No reason to...
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin): Effect & Requirement
You've taken your multivitamin, and on your next trip to the toilet your urine suddenly glows neon-yellow like a highlighter. No reason to panic – on the contrary: you've just...
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