Our Story

About Supplements Mag

We built Supplements Mag because we were frustrated with the health product industry's lack of educational transparency — and equally frustrated with review sites that earn money by promoting the products they claim to evaluate independently. We set out to educate US consumers differently.

Who We Are

Supplements Mag is an independent educational platform staffed by a team of US-credentialed nutritionists, sports scientists, biochemists, and experienced health journalists. We do not manufacture health products, accept payment for product placement, or allow brands to influence our educational scoring methodology. Our only commercial relationship with the products we review is through actively sourcing working coupons and standard affiliate arrangements — which are fully disclosed on our Affiliate Disclosure page — and these arrangements have zero influence on a product's Supplements mag Review Score or ranking position.

How We Started

The founding team spent years working in health publishing and nutritional research. In that time, we noticed a consistent pattern: the health products with the largest marketing budgets received the most prominent coverage, regardless of their actual ingredient quality. Sponsored content dressed up as educational research. Affiliate-driven "best of" lists where ranking order was determined by commission rate rather than targeted cure efficacy. Influencer promotions with no ingredient scrutiny whatsoever.

We launched Supplements Mag to provide what was missing: an educational platform where the score a product receives is determined entirely by what is in the bottle — not by who paid for the coverage. The Supplements mag Review Score system was developed specifically for this purpose: a structured, reproducible, multi-criterion evaluation that any health product can be put through, regardless of brand size or advertising budget.

What Makes Us Different

Educational independence is not a policy we adopted — it is the reason we exist. Every ranking, targeted cure recommendation, and score on this platform reflects our honest assessment of the scientific evidence. We are aware that some of our conclusions will be unwelcome to certain brands. We consider that a sign that the methodology is working correctly to educate our audience.

Concretely, this means:

  • No product can pay to appear in our educational database or improve its score.
  • No brand receives advance knowledge of its evaluation results.
  • Our active coupon and affiliate relationships are disclosed in full and reviewed annually to ensure they do not create conflicts.
  • Our educational scoring criteria are published and applied consistently across all health products.
  • Products that fail our minimum threshold are not listed — even if they are popular or if we have an affiliate relationship with the creator.

Our Educational Review Methodology

The Supplements mag Review Score is a composite metric scored out of 10, assessing five equally weighted dimensions: Ingredient Quality (source, form, bioavailability), Dose Accuracy (does the formula reflect peer-reviewed educational research?), Third-Party Testing Compliance (Certificate of Analysis verification, contaminant screening), Transparency (full label disclosure, Good Manufacturing Practice certification), and Verified Outcomes (confirmed user reports from verified US purchasers).

Every health product in our database has been evaluated against all five criteria. Products scoring below 5.0 on any single criterion, or below 6.0 on the composite score, are not listed. This means the floor of our recommendations is substantially higher than the average quality of the health product market as a whole.

Our Commitment to You

We commit to maintaining educational independence, disclosing all commercial relationships, updating scores when new research becomes available, and removing products from our database if they fail re-evaluation or if a brand's testing compliance lapses. We believe that transparency and accountability in health education is not optional — it is a responsibility.

If you have questions about our methodology, our active coupons, or any specific educational review on this platform, we welcome the conversation. You can reach our educational team through our Contact page.