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Overhead photograph of the six Kura Mynis ingredients laid out separately on a pale surface: dried brown seaweed, yuzu, white bitter melon, amber acacia gum resin, white inositol powder and a lemon with its peel.

Blood Sugar Science

The Research Behind Kura Mynis: What the Human Trials Found

Two randomised controlled trials, 200 mg a day, and 24% of participants no longer prediabetic after twelve weeks. Every study behind the Kura Mynis formula, with the doses and the p-values.

White calcite mineral crystals with flat geometric faces on a pale glass disc, the crystalline form of calcium

Product Knowledge

Calcium and Skin: The Gradient That Tells Skin Cells When to Become a Barrier

The epidermal calcium gradient controls how skin cells mature. It is regulated inside the skin, which is why swallowing 50 mg of calcium does not touch it — and why no claim can be made for that amount.

A shaft of daylight from a window falling across clear crystals with dust visible in the beam, the sun exposure vitamin D3 synthesis depends on

Product Knowledge

Vitamin D3 and Skin: The Cost of Staying Out of the Sun

Protecting skin from the sun reduces the vitamin D your skin makes. What 2000 IU is based on, what the trials at that dose measured, and what a supplement is allowed to claim.

A mound of pale cream yeast beta-glucan powder on a glass disc, with round cell-like shapes softly blurred behind

Product Knowledge

Yeast Beta-Glucan: The Sugar Your Immune System Is Built to Recognise

A sugar chain from baker’s yeast that immune cells have a dedicated receptor for. What dectin-1 does, what the oral human trials measured, and why it is not the molecule that is in oats.

A cracked coconut half showing white flesh with clear virgin coconut oil pouring from its edge

Product Knowledge

Virgin Coconut Oil in a Supplement: The Fat That Carries the Rest

Three of the actives in a Lipo Crystal sachet are fat-soluble, and fat-soluble compounds need a lipid to be absorbed. What the 100 mg of virgin coconut oil carries, and why it is a powder.

Fresh red oil palm fruitlets with a single golden oil droplet falling, the fruit tocotrienol vitamin E is extracted from

Product Knowledge

Tocotrienol: The Other Half of Vitamin E

Tocotrienols are the half of the vitamin E family most supplements skip. What forty years of Malaysian palm research shows, and why 20 mg of it sits beside the coconut oil in a skin formula.

Raw blue-grey zinc mineral chunks resting on a pale glass disc, surrounded by cut crystals

Product Knowledge

Zinc for Skin: What It Does, and How Much a Day

Zinc is required for the enzymes that copy DNA when skin cells divide. What the authorised skin claim actually says, the intake it takes, and where the safe ceiling sits.

A wedge of fresh pineapple beside a small heap of pale standardised extract powder on a glass disc, the difference between the fruit and the extract a supplement actually contains

Product Knowledge

Bromelain and Pineapple Extract: The Evidence, and the Missing Number

Bromelain is a pineapple enzyme with real randomised human trials behind it — on swelling and inflammation, not on skin. What those trials used, and what a 1250 mg extract figure does and does not tell you.

Translucent liposome spheres holding pale yellow vitamin C cores, suspended above cut crystals, illustrating liposomal encapsulation

Product Knowledge

Liposomal Vitamin C: What the Wrapper Changes, Measured

What liposomal vitamin C is, what randomised human trials measured about its absorption, and what 600 mg in a sachet can honestly be said to do for skin.

Overhead flat lay of the ten declared Lipo Crystal actives laid out separately on a pale grey surface: pineapple, white tomato, vitamin C crystals, coconut, yeast beta-glucan powder, oil palm fruit, zinc mineral, calcium crystals, vitamin D3 oil and the enzyme premix

Product Knowledge

Every Lipo Crystal Ingredient, and the Research Behind It

The ten declared actives in a Lipo Crystal sachet, each amount placed next to the dose used in the published human trials.