Colostrum
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colostrum products in our catalogue reach the 10 g daily dose the studies used. Not one.
The manifesto
You swallow it. Then you hope.
Two capsules, a scoop, a gummy that tastes like candy. You take them because someone you trust said they help, and somewhere behind the routine sits a question you never get to answer.
Is this doing anything at all — or am I being played?
- Is this dose big enough to do anything?
- Why is this one $9 and that one $40?
- Would a trial have used this much?
- Is the form in here even absorbable?
- “Studied ingredients” — this product, or one ingredient, once, somewhere else?
- Am I making expensive urine?
- Did I buy the research, or the packaging?
Standing in the aisle, you have no way to check any of it. So you guess. And then you pay.
How the shelf wins
The label is legal. The dose is too small to work.
A product can print every impressive ingredient on the front and put a fraction of the studied amount inside. Nothing about that is against the rules. It is the business model. The front of the bottle sells the research; the back of the bottle quietly opts out of it.
Third-party tested. GMP. Made in an FDA-registered facility. Every one of those can be true of a product that does nothing, because not one of them measures the dose.
Certified means it is what it says. It never meant it was enough.
On a certified label10 mg
In the published trials2,500 mg
Both bottles can pass every certification on the market. Only one of them carries a dose the research recognises.
What we keep finding
This is not rare. It is the normal case.
Biotin
Zero
RCTs support biotin for hair growth in people who aren't deficient. It is in almost every hair gummy on the shelf.
Curcumin
~27×
more bioavailable: Theracurmin against standard curcumin. Same milligrams printed on the panel, a different product in your body.
Zinc
Same panel
Two bottles can print the identical milligrams. Zinc oxide absorbs far worse than zinc bisglycinate, and the label rarely tells you which one you're holding.
What we believe
Supplements work. At real doses, in absorbable forms, for the things the research actually looked at.
The category is not the problem. The problem is that a shelf makes no distinction between a product built on trials and a product built on a mood board — and charges you the same either way.
Nobody should need a PhD, a subscription, or six months of blood work to discover they bought something that was never going to do anything.
You should know before you pay. Not when the bottle is empty.
So we built the thing that checks
Every product, scored against the actual research.
BioStacks reads what is in the bottle and scores it against published RCTs, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Not brand reputation. Not the claim on the front. Three things decide the number:
The dose on the label
Every active is measured against the range used in trials, at the serving the bottle tells you to take. A quarter of the studied dose scores like a quarter of the studied dose — not like a tick in a box.
The form in the capsule
Absorption is part of the dose. Well-absorbed forms earn full credit; the cheap ones earn what they're worth. Two identical panels can be two different products.
Safety can only take points away
Safety is a penalty, never an average. A spotless, under-dosed product still scores low — because “does it hurt me?” was never the question you were asking.
More than 14,000 products have been through it. Every ingredient links out to the reference, so you can check our work.
The promise
Know what actually works, before you pay.
Point your phone at a barcode. Seconds later you have the score, the ingredients that earned it, and the ones that dragged it down. Put the bottle back, or don't — either way, you decided on evidence instead of packaging.
Not I hope this works. I can't be fooled.
Never guess at the shelf again.
Certainty is a science.
Not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before changing what you take.