Sheni Labs · Supplements

Supplements

Food supplements are the lab’s first domain. The question is never “is this ingredient good?” but “is this product — this form, this dose, this brand, this label — worth it?” The answer comes from the evidence, the regulation and the documentation.

Tools on supplement.ge

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Check a supplement

Enter a product or an ingredient and see dose, form, evidence, safety, interactions and products on the market.

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Ingredient encyclopaedia

Hundreds of ingredient pages: deficiency, dosage, form, evidence, safety and toxicity, interactions, lab and regulatory status, references.

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Brand safety scorecards

How brands score on disclosure, documentation and recalls.

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Drug–supplement interactions

What not to combine with your medicines.

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Label Index

Reading a label line by line: what each term means and what it hides.

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Price Index

Price per effective dose across products.

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How we evaluate a supplement

Ingredient and claim. Is the claimed effect supported by the evidence for this ingredient at this dose? Claims are graded (see Evidence grade); only claims permitted under EU Regulation 1924/2006 or the equivalent Georgian rules (Resolution №360) pass.
Legal where it is sold — and where else? Each ingredient’s status checked in Georgia, the EU and its member states, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and Japan: an ingredient lawful at the point of sale may be prohibited or dose-limited where the buyer lives, and online sales cross those borders daily (see the method).
Form and dose. The right chemical form (for example methylcobalamin or cyanocobalamin, MK-7 or MK-4, ubiquinol or ubiquinone) and a dose within the effective and safe range — including the upper levels set by EFSA.
Composition and additives. Everything on the label, nothing hidden: excipients, allergens, sweeteners, colourants; proprietary blends without quantities are a reason for “not assessable”.
Documentation. Certificate of analysis per batch, identity and potency, contaminants (heavy metals, microbiology, residual solvents where relevant), and a lot number that traces to a document — see How to verify.
Interactions and population. Medicines not to combine with, and who should not take it (pregnancy, children, kidney or liver disease).
Price. Cost per effective dose against equivalent products.

Verdicts

RecommendedEvidence supports the use; ingredients, dose and form are right; labelling is complete; no safety signal.

Acceptable with caveatsUsable, but with a stated limitation: weak evidence for a claim, a non-optimal form, an avoidable additive, or a price out of line with equivalents.

Not recommendedA safety concern, an undisclosed or misleading ingredient, an illegal claim, a dose that is ineffective or excessive, or no verifiable documentation.

Not assessableDocumentation insufficient to reach a verdict; we say what is missing.

Automatic “Not recommended”A product fails if any of its ingredients is prohibited for that use in any of the reference jurisdictions — Georgia, any EU member state, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan — regardless of whether it is lawful where the product is sold. The reasoning is public-health reasoning: a prohibition by one competent regulator is evidence of a safety concern that does not stop at a border, and online sales do not stop at borders either. The verdict names the jurisdiction, the legal basis and the date. A dose limit or restriction elsewhere (as opposed to a prohibition) does not trigger the rule: it leads to “Acceptable with caveats” with the limit stated, or “Not recommended” if the product exceeds it by a wide margin.