Ashwagandha Benefits and Side Effects, Trial by Trial
What ashwagandha trials actually measured, the liver case reports behind the European restrictions, and the country by country legal position with dates.
What this section is for
What the published work measured, in how many people, for how long, and what it did not show. Every number here is attached to a citation you can open, and the ones that are not strong enough to state are left out.
science articles
Is Shilajit Safe? The Heavy Metals Question
Raw shilajit can carry lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium. What purification removes, what a lab report must show, and how to read one before buying.
Shilajit Benefits, Audited Trial by Trial
Every human shilajit trial, with its dose, duration, population and the extract it used. What was measured, what was never measured, and who should avoid it.
What Does Shilajit Do for Men?
Two randomised trials have tested shilajit in men. The dose, the duration, who paid for them, and the four things neither of them ever measured.
Shilajit for women, and what the evidence in women actually consists of
Two published trials have enrolled women: skin gene expression in 45, bone density in 60. What each measured, the iron question, and who should not take it.
Shilajit Side Effects, Contraindications and Who Should Avoid It
What shilajit side effects the published trials recorded, the six groups who should not take it, what not to combine it with, and what nobody has tested.
Keep reading
Science is one of five sections
Guides, science, sourcing, comparisons and protocols. The same subject approached from five directions, and the reading list holds all of it in one place.
The questions everyone asks
What is shilajit, actually?
A dark resin that seeps out of rock at altitude in the Himalaya, made of plant matter pressed and broken down over a very long time. What comes off the rock is not the product. Shodhana, the purification step, is what separates the resin from everything it was sitting in, and that is the step worth asking a seller about.
Why does fulvic acid matter?
Fulvic acid is a carrier molecule. It binds trace minerals and is studied as a way of getting them across a cell membrane, which is why the interesting question about a mineral is not how much is in the jar but how much of it arrives. That is the mechanism the research is built on. It is a line of study, not a settled fact, and nobody should sell it to you as one.
How much do I take, and when would I notice anything?
A rice-grain portion, dissolved in warm water or under the tongue, once a day. A 30g jar lasts two to three months at that dose. Shilajit is not a stimulant and nothing here works like one, so the honest unit of time is a month rather than an afternoon. If you want the caffeine experience this will disappoint you.
Resin or capsules?
Resin is the whole-spectrum mineral load and it tastes like it does. Capsules are 500mg split evenly between a standardised active and purified resin, in a vegan HPMC shell with no rice flour, no magnesium stearate and no bulking agent. Six blends, each built on the same resin. One caution: the Sea Moss and Bladderwrack blend is naturally high in iodine, so if you have Hashimoto’s or any diagnosed thyroid condition, take that one to your doctor rather than to the checkout.
Where does it come from, and how do I know it is clean?
Collected at altitude in Nepal and purified in a GMP-certified facility. Rock carries whatever the rock carried, which in the Himalaya can mean lead, arsenic and mercury, so every batch is tested for heavy metals by a third-party laboratory and a certificate of analysis is held for the batch you receive. A jar that cannot show you what came out the other side is asking you to take that on faith.
Do you ship outside Europe?
The launch markets are the EU, the UK and Switzerland. Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland get shipping rates without a localised site. Rates and delivery times go up once fulfilment confirms them.
