Vitamin B6 2mg – Getting an adequate amount of Vitamin B6 has been shown to decrease the severity of hot flashes, most women do get enough of this however. It’s not a bad ingredient as the body doesn’t store B Vitamins very well, so you need to get enough of it every day, but in better menopause supplements this is generally a nice extra rather than a key ingredient, making this a bit of a mediocre start for Meno. [1]
Vitamin D3 15mcg –
Again we have a decent inclusion, almost half of American adults don’t get enough vitamin D according to a lot of numbers, and considering that buy itself it can cause mood, sleep and hunger issues. [2,3]
Ashwagandha 300mg –
Ashwagandha is good for sleep issues, stress and as a result mood. There’s an awful lot of studies that back it’s use at 300mg, if it’s the 4 times extract, which Meno does not use. It does use that extract in the gummy product, but the dose there is only 150mg. It seems that it can have some effect at this range, but it is substantially lower, meaning that this is a bit of a disappointment for Meno. [4]
Black Cohosh 10:1 20mg –
The problem with Meno’s 10:1 extract is that they don’t specify which compound they’re standardized at, and there are 3 that they could’ve chosen and only one is particularly effective for menopause symptoms. If it’s the right one, this is within the effective dosage range as the range is 100-200mg. So, this is potentially good, and potentially not. The gummies only have 40mg of a standard extract, which simply isn’t enough. Generally speaking, black cohosh is best known for improving hot flash symptoms. [5]
Chasteberry 20mg –
Chasteberry at 20mg is the bottom end, it has shown to be effective for PMS symptoms at this range rather than menopause specifically. Some studies have even used it at 1600mg to get results, but generally they’re done at 20-240mg. It’s an OK ingredient although the menopause studies are limited. [6]
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References
1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6372850/
2 - https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-Consumer/
3 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7278294/
4 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34553463/
5 - https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/BlackCohosh-HealthProfessional/
6 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31067851/