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Supplement Evidence Guide
What research says about supplements, by health condition — evidence grades, plain-language summaries, and the cautions first. Compiled October 2026.
Not medical advice. Supplements don’t cure or replace treatment for any disease. Many interact with medicines, kidney or liver conditions, pregnancy and surgery. Check with your doctor or pharmacist first.
Reference Library
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📖 Wikipedia — live lookup
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🔎 Live web research
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📚 From the Nurse's Library
Books and guides by the same nurse who checked this guide (T. Lott Creative) — the shelf this reference was built from. Where one of them covers a card's topic, the card says so.
- Sleep Like Your Brain Depends On It · sleep
- Better Sleep 30 Days — Sleep Science Guide · sleep
- The First Year of Sleep · sleep
- The Sleep Revolution · sleep
- Stress Less: Global Strategies for Calm · stress & calm
- Finding Calm: Stories & Solutions · stress & calm
- 90 Days to Calm · stress & calm (audiobook)
- Understanding Stress — Complete Wellness Mastery · stress
- Everyday Calm: A 30-Day Stress Relief Journey · stress & calm
- Prayers of Healing: Finding Calm in Chaos · faith & calm
- Night Shift Nirvana: The Nurse's Complete Wellness Audiobook · nurse wellness, shift work & sleep
- The Steady Gut: IBD Companion Guide · gut health
- The Autoimmune Compass: A Survival Guide · immune & whole-body (audiobook)
- The Whole Body Blueprint · whole-body wellness
- Flow & Heal: Complete Lymphatic & Energy Wellness Course · lymphatic & energy wellness
- Maintain It: Sustainable Weight Management · weight & metabolic health
- Wholeness Redefined: A Journey through the Five Levels of Healing · healing
- Sacred Cycles — 8-Week Mind–Body Renewal · mind–body renewal (eBook & bundle)
Before taking any supplement
- Tell your clinician everything you take, including herbs. Blood thinners, antidepressants, transplant and cancer drugs have the most serious interactions.
- Pause and ask about supplements before surgery or procedures.
- Prefer products with third-party testing (USP, NSF, ConsumerLab). Label contents are not verified by FDA before sale.
- Get lab-confirmed deficiencies treated at doses your clinician sets. More is not better.
- Report bad reactions to FDA at safetyreporting.hhs.gov.
Keep it current: open sources to build on
- NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD): free, public, maintained by NIH’s Office of Dietary Supplements, with a bulk API download guide. It links to ODS fact sheets and PubMed searches. dsld.od.nih.gov
- NIH ODS fact sheets: the primary evidence summaries for each nutrient and ingredient. ods.od.nih.gov
- SUPP.AI + GitHub allenai/sdi-detection: evidence sentences for supplement–drug interactions pulled from literature, with search API and datasets. supp.ai
- SuppKG and iDISK: research knowledge graphs of supplement information built from PubMed and trusted sources. Search arXiv for “SuppKG” and “iDISK”.
- MedlinePlus and NCCIH: plain-language herb and supplement pages from the U.S. government.
- Hugging Face: only general nutrition and food datasets turned up. No ready-made supplement-by-condition dataset was found, so treat any model output as unverified.