Who writes this
The reference articles on this site are written and reviewed in-house by the MDR team, drawing on the published literature for each ingredient and on the verified Supplement Facts panel for each product we make. They are published under a team byline rather than a personal one, because that is accurate — no single named author writes them.
MDR has manufactured nutritional supplements in the United States since 1984. Several of our formulas descend from multivitamin patents filed by George Christakis, M.D. Those patents expired in 2017, and we do not describe our products as protected by them.
What we will not claim
Dietary supplements are not drugs. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act we may make structure/function statements — describing how a nutrient supports the normal structure or function of the body — and we may not claim that anything we sell diagnoses, treats, cures or prevents a disease.
In practice that means we write "supports normal prostate function," not "treats an enlarged prostate." Every article and product page carries the FDA disclaimer, and no page here should be read as medical advice.
How we handle evidence
Where the research behind an ingredient is genuinely unsettled, we say so rather than rounding it up. Several of our own articles argue against claims commonly made for the ingredient they are about:
- Resveratrol is poorly absorbed, and the longevity story attached to it ran well ahead of the human evidence.
- The wartime story about bilberry and night vision is not supported by controlled trials.
- CoQ10 has not been shown to resolve statin-associated muscle symptoms.
- Adult humans do not absorb colostrum antibodies into the bloodstream the way a newborn calf does.
- Most adult men should not take an iron supplement, and iron deficiency in a man needs investigating rather than simply correcting.
Those positions are deliberate. A page that only tells you what is convenient for us to sell is not worth reading.
When we tell you to see a doctor
Some questions are medical, not nutritional, and we try to say so at the point it matters rather than in a footer. Urinary symptoms in older men, unexplained fatigue, changes in vision, muscle pain on a statin, and suspected iron deficiency all appear in our articles with a recommendation to get assessed — because each of them has causes that a supplement does not address and that are better caught early.
Nothing here substitutes for advice from your own clinician, particularly if you are pregnant or nursing, managing a medical condition, or taking prescription medication.
Corrections
If something on this site is wrong, we want to know. Write to us through the contact page and we will correct it and note the change.