ConsumerLab.comReviews 621

A subscription to ConsumerLab is one of the best values going if you care about reliable, detailed information and reviews of nutritional supplements. The internet is chock full of nonsense and stuffed with utter crap about vitamin, mineral and nutritional products, and ConsumerLab is the best place to find long-form explanations, product reviews and a distillation of quality research. If you buy these products, you really should understand if they "work", how they "work", and where to put your money (and when to run away!). I recommend it strongly!

I have been subscribing for the past few years. The research reports are very useful to me and guide my use of supplements.Please keep them up! I only wish that ConsumerLab would include reviews of supplements by Natural Grocers (formerly Vitamin Cottage). This is a very important provider throughout Colorado and other western states. Very often, I see Consumer Lab focusing on companies that I am familiar with from living on the East Coast, which are not widely used here. I would appreciate better regional balance.

I have enjoyed most of what CL provides and it has been helpful.
Improvements: - Please retest and confirm when a product that has been recommended has changed vendor/source or has been unavailable for a long period of time due to supply chain issues and may have changed vendor/source. - When testing products like health/protein bars; (Ideal has real food and minimal processing) 1)Please analyze how much real food is included, such as having peanuts as the first listed ingredient, instead of being way down the list, if there at all 2) Please opine on what level of processing has gone into the product.

I use your site constantly but one thing you neglect constantly are organic products. Considering how much glyphosate, plastics and chemicals also fillers are used in supplements, powders etc, - used everywhere today, I think it's a shame that you don't include organic and that you really should.Also you dont talk about fillers in the supplements you review. Its great to discuss heavy metals and you do for sure but organic is really important today as we are consuming so much garbage!

Supplements were vital in preventing recurrence of inflammation when I was in remission from a bout with an autoimmune condition in 2014. I discovered CL when I was buying 15 different supplements from the same store. The CL breakdown of labels revealed more than I expected and I've followed the recommended sources for many years. CL went from being "good information" to being an essential tool for Health maintenance. My doctor agrees that continuing these daily supplements beyond recovery, accounts for exceptionally good health in my Eighties.

I have subscribed to CL for years. In addition to checking that supplements actually contain the substances—and quantities—shown on the label (and checking for harmful contaminants), they provide thorough, detailed reports about the supplements, including not only a list of relevant formal studies but also an analysis of the quality and reliability of those studies! As new studies are done and reported, CL integrates the results into its online articles. Sometimes this has caused me to switch from one supplement to another, following their latest analysis of ALL of the studies. I do not regard such a change of recommendation to show a flaw in their methodology; instead, I regard it as a demonstration that they are "following the Science", since Science too continuously reevaluates its prior conclusions, sometimes completely changing what is "true". Only complaint--sometimes my questions (via email) have been ignored.