by Darren ng | Aug 15, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Luteolin is a plant flavone with an unusually rich mechanistic story — it stabilises mast cells, crosses into the brain and calms activated microglia — and it has drawn real clinical interest for neuro-inflammatory presentations such as long-COVID...
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...
by Darren ng | Aug 9, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Alpha-lipoic acid is one of the very few nutritional actives that Malaysia’s own regulator has singled out for a mandatory warning statement. In April 2022 the Drug Control Authority directed that health-supplement products containing alpha-lipoic...
