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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.
Vegetarian or Vegan: the Nutrient Differences
"But I don't eat meat – isn't that the same as vegan?" You hear this question often, and it reveals a widespread misunderstanding. Because between a vegetarian's plate and a...
Switch Supplement or Stick With It?
The jar is barely half empty and the next supplement is already tempting: a different form, a new composition, a better price, an advertising promise that hits exactly your sore...
Adjust Dosage to Body Weight?
You're standing there with a new jar in your hand, doing the maths: "I weigh 90 kilos – is one capsule even enough?" With medicines you know the principle, where...
Supplement Expired: What to Do?
While clearing out the cupboard, up it turns: a jar of supplements whose date passed a while ago. The jar in one hand, the question in the other – throw...
Order for Many Supplements: Keeping Track
Magnesium, vitamin D, iron, plus a multivitamin and maybe some omega-3 as well – in the morning your breakfast table looks like a small pharmacy. And with every new jar...
Supplement Subscriptions: Worth It or Not?
Picture reaching into the cupboard one morning and the jar is empty – of all things, the very supplement you've taken every day for months. A two-week gap until the...
Storing supplements correctly in summer
It's a hot July afternoon, the sun beats down on the windowsill, and that's where your omega-3 tin has stood within easy reach for weeks. What looks practical is one...
Supplements for on the go: practical tips
You know the situation: the tin sits on the shelf at home – and you're at the office, on the train or in a café. Between appointments, changing meals and...
Supplements for the travel first-aid kit: checklist & tips
The travel first-aid kit is often thrown together at the last minute: plasters, headache tablets, something for travel sickness – done. Supplements are almost always forgotten in the process. Yet...
Omega-3: who is it useful for?
Omega-3 is among the best-selling nutrients of all – yet the honest core question isn't „Is omega-3 good?“ but „Do I need it?“. And you answer that with a single...
Covering omega-3 on a vegan diet (algae oil, ALA)
„Omega-3 is only found in fish“ – this sentence persists stubbornly and is nonetheless wrong. Because the actual source of EPA and DHA doesn't swim, it drifts: it's microalgae. The...
Omega-3 without fishy taste & burping
You've bought a good omega-3, you dutifully take it – and an hour later that unmistakable fishy aftertaste comes back, every single time. No wonder many people stop for exactly...
The omega-3 index explained simply
Imagine you could know not just what you ate yesterday, but how well supplied with omega-3 you've been over the past months – in a single percentage figure. That's exactly...
EPA and DHA: the ratio explained
Two letter abbreviations appear on almost every omega-3 product: EPA and DHA. One oil promotes a high DHA content, the next a high EPA content – and before long you're...
Omega-3: how long should you take it?
„Three days of omega-3 before the holiday, that'll do the trick“ – that's how many people think, and with omega-3 of all things they get it wrong. Because hardly any...
Omega-3: how much per day?
You turn two omega-3 tubs over in your hands: both advertise „1000 mg“ – and yet they could hardly be more different. Because the boldly printed amount of oil says...
Omega-3: when is the best time to take it?
Morning or evening? Before or after eating? Hardly any question comes up as often with omega-3 – and hardly any is as overrated. The reassuring news first: with omega-3, it...
Trace Elements: Overview and Function
Trace elements are minerals that your body needs only in tiny amounts – from a few micrograms to a few milligrams per day – but without which central processes would...
Zinc: Take It With or Without Food?
Zinc tends to be absorbed better on an empty stomach, but is usually better tolerated with a meal. The practical compromise for most people: zinc with a small, low-fibre meal...
Potassium: Meeting Your Needs Through Diet
For most people, potassium is easy to obtain through diet – provided the menu regularly includes plant-based foods such as vegetables, fruit, legumes and nuts. Potassium is widely distributed, which...
Calcium: morning or evening?
With calcium, portioning is more important than the time of day: the body only absorbs a limited amount well per single dose, so you should split larger daily amounts –...
Selenium: how much per day makes sense?
Selenium is only needed in microgram amounts, and the gap between a sensible and an excessive intake is narrower than for most nutrients – with selenium, „more helps more“ explicitly...
Iron: how long until the stores are full?
How long it takes for the iron stores to be filled cannot be answered with a fixed number - it depends on the starting situation, the capacity for absorption, the...
Zinc: how long should you take it? A course or long-term?
You have a pack of zinc in the cupboard and wonder whether to finish it in four weeks or whether zinc belongs permanently on the breakfast table. The short answer...
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