Comment · Tue, April 27, 2021 · ND Owner
ND recommended products/brands when they don't make it?
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aa12bb · 28 points
If this breaks the rules, apologies and I will delete.
Unfortunately, ND doesn't make every single supplement in existence, which is understandable. When that happens, I have to go through the roulette and try to find a company that isn't a complete sham.
Has ND ever discussed or recommended secondary companies that they would trust for products that they do not produce?
Ideally, ND would produce everything that I need but that is not reality. Also, I understand if you do not wish to share. Love ND either way, buyer for life.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
The issue is that I can't recommend specific alternatives unless I have personally tested that product from that company. I would have said NOW, Life Extension, Jarrow, Pure Encapsulations, and Thorne in the past. However, I have since tested some products from them and all of them have had one or more fail our testing, save for Thorne. This is why I would probably trust Thorne the most at the moment. However, that is more a function of how little we have tested from them than anything. I would hope if we tested more that non-failure rate would continue. However, I would have said the same for at least NOW and LEF before. Having multiple things from multiple brands I considered trustworthy in the past fail our testing has made me basically just stop trusting anyone else without analytical data that my own lab has verified.