It can be hard to determine which supplement companies to choose when there are so many options and so many people out there telling you they know the best brands out there. Well I am not here to tell you which companies are the best, but to give you the tools and some quick guidelines on how to know when a company may be superior over others.
Supplement Company Tips:
Manufacturing Processes:
A company should be transparent about how they manufacture their products. You should be able to access this openly on their website. This is important because some companies may not want to openly express how their products are manufactured.
A manufacturing process is how the product is made. It follows how much the company cares about their standards and quality they are providing to their consumers. You want to ensure they are focused on the identify, purity, quality, strength, and composition of their product.
Identity: means that the product meets certain standards, contains certain proportions of ingredients, and possibly how it is manufactured
Purity: ensures that the number of impurities in the sample are low
Quality: ensures that it meets high quality manufacturing each time it is produced
Strength: is the amount of active ingredient in the dosage
Composition: ensuring that the supplement has the accurate ingredients in its correct proportion
cGMP (good manufacturing processes) Facility: This means that the company follows the FDA’s strict quality control guidelines.
A company that does not have these processes clearly outlined on their websites means that they may not be as concerned with these processes as others.
Ingredients:
It is important to know that the product contains ingredients that we know and want to consume. You do not want to have a long list of fillers or other ingredients on your supplement bottles. This means that the product is full of other ingredients and not just your supplement that you are wishing to use. This means it could take longer to breakdown and fully absorb the product.
Absorption is another factor ingredients have a role in. You want to make sure that these ingredients will breakdown and be absorbed properly. This means that the right form of the supplement must be used to ensure you are getting optimum results.
Testing:
Testing is another factor that should be transparent by the supplement company. It should be independently tested by the supplement company and third party tested to ensure no bias is occurring.
Ensures that their raw materials used are screened properly and assess for any contamination before using them in their products, correct proportion of ingredients are used, the product itself is tested for identity, purity, and strength, and ensures that the product is stable and can be kept until the expiration date.
Their Purpose:
Something else that is important is making sure the company has a good purpose. You want to make sure they are actively trying to help people and provide the most quality products to their customers. You want to make sure that the owners and people working there want to take these products and whole heartedly believe in them. You do not want to go for a huge mass marketed company unless its goal is to help you, the consumer. If they follow all of the other points above their purpose should be expressed clearly!
Here are some examples of companies expressing their manufacturing processes:
These are just two examples out of many others out there of products I currently trust based on their processes they follow. I want to share this with you since I do have companies that I favor and do have affiliates through some of them BUT I want to make it clear that I will never and have never stood for companies that do not offer the values I mentioned above. I want to also make it known that you do not have to stick to one brand because there are a lot of added benefits from combining other companies since everybody’s formulations have pros and cons. You must choose the best supplements for you and change when the product or company is not serving you. We also have to accept that science is ever changing and evolving and that means that so are these products and companies. I hope this helps you when researching what supplements you will use next! Let me know what you look for when you look for a supplement company and any other questions you may have!
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