We publish what our lab finds, including the results that make the industry uncomfortable.
Research snapshots for every formula, white papers from our analytical lab, articles, a podcast, and the independent board that checks our claims before they go live. Start with whichever question you brought.
What the research says, benefit by benefit, before you buy.
Every product, with the studies behind it.
Each snapshot lays out the published research a formula is built on, benefit by benefit, reviewed and approved by our Scientific Advisory Board before it reaches the product page.
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Long-form writing from the people who run the lab.
Ingredient deep dives, formulation stories, and the Analytical Sciences Division white papers that show where standard industry testing falls short.
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We tested the competition, ingredient by ingredient.
UPLC results for eight ingredients, from tongkat ali to black ginger, charted against the leading competitors on potency per dose and cost per milligram.
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Monthly conversations on the compounds, the mechanisms, and the testing, with the people doing the work.
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Choose the right form, dose, and standardization.
Practical guides for picking between extracts, formats, and stacks, written to answer the questions our customers actually ask.
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The scientists who check our science.
An independent physician, plant biologist, ethnobotanist, and nutrition scientist review every claim against the cited research.
Meet the boardWe stopped trusting contract manufacturers, so our founder built our own production facility and lab.
When ND started, it relied on contract manufacturers and outside labs like nearly every supplement brand. After repeated problems, from corner-cutting to batch specs that did not match reality to contaminated product, our founder Paul built the manufacturing company and the analytical lab himself. They are separate legal entities with separate teams, all owned and overseen by the founder, and they manufacture and test for other brands as well as for ND.
Supplement Logistics
The dedicated manufacturing company: ingredient sourcing, custom formulation, capsule and tablet manufacturing, bulk powders, bottling and capping, and label printing under one roof, in a cGMP, FDA-registered facility. Its formulation team takes each ND product from the bioassaying stage to a finished bottle.
supplementlogistics.comOmnient Labs
An independent ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited analytical laboratory specializing in novel bioactive testing for plants and fungi. Its scientists develop fit-for-purpose assays for compounds generic marker tests miss, from erinacine A in lion's mane mycelium to the full withanolide picture in ashwagandha, alongside identity, heavy metal, residual solvent, microbiological, and disintegration testing. Every ND batch goes through it before release.
omnientlabs.comNovelara
The ingredient company behind several of the standardized botanicals in ND products: erinacine A lion's mane mycelium grown without grain or fillers, Kashmir saffron standardized to crocins and safranals, and Jeju Island Ecklonia cava standardized to dieckol with DNA and HPTLC identity testing. Each ingredient is published with its source, specification, verification method, and the research that applies to it.
novelara.comYou have a right to know
Real transparency is a brand that has no trouble answering all four. Ours are on every product page and in the certifications we publish.
Read Trust Through TransparencyAnalytical work we published because nobody else was going to.
The industry tests to surface markers. We profile the actual bioactives and publish what we find, including the parts that make the industry uncomfortable. We also support the Future Nutra Foundation, an independent non-profit that publishes product test results free to the public.
- White paperThe Bioactive Imperative: why standardization to unique compounds is essential for botanical product integrity
Why a marker compound is not the same thing as the compound the research was about.
- White paperThe Electrolyte Delusion: intelligent hydration beyond the WHO's ORS formula
What two years of sweat-loss research showed about the template most electrolyte products copy.
- White paperBeyond the Marker: a bioactives-first standard for reishi quality
A profiling approach to reishi that separates real triterpene content from generic marker totals.
- Independent non-profitFuture Nutra Foundation
Public product testing results, published free by an organization ND supports but does not control.
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