How to Ruin a great formulation

[rms80]

1: Come up with a novel ingredient and then bury it under 15 old ones
2: Come up with three novel ingredients and put them all into one product
3: Put flavor above efficacy
4: Over-hype it
5: Come up with a great formulation and then add x,y,z because this or that company has them in THEIR product
6: Don't do any research to determine if combining ingredients may interfere with their mechanism of action
7: Don't do any research at all, just combine "popular" ingredients into one product whilly nilly
8: Put waxy maze starch into your product even though dextrose would be a better choice because a few people are "sugar-phobic"
9: Come up with a killer product and then use low quality ingredients
10: Come up with a killer product and then underdose the hell out of it

Good post- there are a million different A and P interactions with different supplements and drugs- the more variables (ie. different compounds) you throw in, the greater the chance of reaching some sort of negative interaction. This is why I usually try not to go over 8 different ingredients in a size 00 capsule product- it is kind of an arbitrary number, but I use it as a rule of thumb because the max effective dosages of most compounds in the blend (depending on extraction %, of course) can be reached in a 4 to 6 capsule daily dosage.

As the number of ingredients increase above this amount, the chance of having an effective amount decreases (with some exceptions), at least when it comes to 00 encapsulated products....