Independent product research
We work through the MitoLife catalogue product by product — what each one actually is, why people choose it, what is in it, and what it costs. Clearly enough that you can decide in a couple of minutes.
Whole-food and organ-derived products — nutrients in the form food delivers them.
Single nutrients and small combinations, where the form and the dose are the whole question.
Enzymes and cultures. The category where "on an empty stomach" is doing more work than the label.
Sleep and stress products, which is the category most likely to be oversold to you.
Filtration for drinking and for showering — two different problems with two different answers.
Grounding equipment, hair care, storage. The everyday-objects end of the catalogue.
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Foundational Nutrition
Shilajit tablets, and a lesson in what a certificate of analysis does not tell you.
Our price and stock reading for this product is out of date, so we are not presenting it as current. The rest of this page still stands.
Read the reviewMinerals & Vitamins
Plain niacinamide at a dose a multivitamin will not reach.
Our price and stock reading for this product is out of date, so we are not presenting it as current. The rest of this page still stands.
Read the reviewDigestion & Gut
A broad enzyme blend taken with food, one capsule per meal.
Chosen because we have reviewed them and they are in stock — never by what they pay.
Most of what is written about supplements is written by whoever is selling them. That is not a conspiracy, just who has the incentive to publish — but it means the practical questions tend to go unanswered.
Metabolism is the thread that ties this together: everything we cover is an input to how your body makes energy. That is a way of organising the work, not a promise about outcomes.
buying guide
Most shilajit lab reports are built so they cannot tell you anything. Here is what a useful one contains, what "pass" hides, and how to check the numbers yourself.
explainer
Proprietary blends, unstated doses and functional descriptions — how to tell what a label is actually promising you, and what to ask for.
comparison
MitoLife sells two enzyme products with opposite instructions. Here is what each one does, why the timing differs, and how to tell which question you are asking.
buying guide
Zinc and copper share an absorption pathway, so taking one changes the other. Here is how to think about the pair, and which forms answer which question.
Every product gets the same four questions. How deeply we go depends on what is at stake — a $25 bottle of a single well-characterised vitamin does not need what a $2,500 filtration system needs — but the standard a published sentence has to meet never changes.
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