Guides
Plain-pharmacist guides.
No stack flex, no biohacking. Just clear answers on timing, interactions, and whether the thing you take every morning is doing anything at all.
- Timing The best time to take vitamin D Morning or night, with food or without, daily or weekly — a plain-pharmacist guide to vitamin D timing, where the one rule that matters is the fatty meal, not the clock.
- Basics Do you actually need a multivitamin? For most people with a decent diet, a daily multivitamin is low-risk insurance with thin evidence — a plain-pharmacist look at who genuinely benefits, why targeted beats scattergun, and when a multi can even work against you.
- Timing When to take creatine (and does timing matter?) Before or after training, loading or not, rest days or not — a plain-pharmacist guide to creatine timing, where the honest answer is that the daily total matters and the clock mostly doesn't.
- Interactions Which supplements shouldn't you take together? A plain-pharmacist guide to the supplement pairs that compete for absorption — calcium and iron, zinc and copper, and the rest — and the simple timing fixes that solve almost all of them.
- Timing When to take magnesium Morning or night, with food or without, which form for what — a plain-pharmacist guide to magnesium timing that admits where the evidence is thin and where it's solid.
- Dosage How much vitamin D should you take? NHS guidance, maintenance versus correction, IU and micrograms, the upper limit, and why a blood test beats guessing — a plain-pharmacist guide to vitamin D dosing in the UK.
- Method How to tell if a supplement is actually working Most supplements don't announce themselves, and placebo fools everyone. A plain-pharmacist method for finding out whether the thing you take every morning is doing anything — using outcomes, single changes, fair timelines, and the occasional blood test.
- Timing Should you take supplements with food or on an empty stomach? Fat-soluble vitamins need a meal, most minerals go down easier with one, and iron is the awkward exception. A plain-pharmacist guide to which supplements want food and which don't care.
- Forms Magnesium glycinate vs citrate vs oxide: which form should you take? The form on the label decides whether magnesium calms you, loosens your bowels, or barely absorbs at all. A plain-pharmacist comparison of glycinate, citrate, oxide, and the rest.
- Habit How to build a supplement routine that actually sticks The best supplement is the one you remember to take. A plain-pharmacist guide to anchoring, friction, forgiveness, and the small systems that keep a routine alive past week two.