by Darren ng | Aug 13, 2026 | Compounding Pharmacy
Short answer: A compounded supplement does not carry a factory expiry date — it carries a beyond-use date (BUD): the last day the pharmacy can stand behind its quality after preparation. A BUD is deliberately shorter and more conservative than a mass-produced...
by Darren ng | Aug 12, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Boswellia — Indian frankincense — is an old anti-inflammatory with a modern, specific reason to take it seriously in joint clinics: a single constituent, AKBA (3-O-acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid), is a potent and selective inhibitor of 5-lipoxygenase,...
by Darren ng | Aug 12, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: The saffron that turns up in mood and sleep trials is not the jar of threads in a kitchen — it is a standardised extract of Crocus sativus, defined to a consistent level of its active constituents and dosed with pharmaceutical precision, usually around...
by Darren ng | Aug 12, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Urolithin A is a gut-derived metabolite that supports mitophagy — the cell’s process of clearing out worn-out mitochondria. Most people cannot reliably make it from food, because the conversion depends on gut bacteria that roughly half the...
by Darren ng | Aug 12, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Milk thistle’s active, silybin, has a genuine evidence signal in fatty liver — but plain extract is poorly absorbed, so the delivery form largely decides whether a meaningful dose ever reaches the patient. Complexing silybin with phospholipid (a...
