Ingredient framework; direct source links are available in the studies library when published.
How it works
Sense -- inositol phosphoglycans act as second messengers downstream of the insulin receptor, the mechanism behind inositol's study in insulin signalling
Build -- myo-inositol is a structural precursor to phosphatidylinositol, a membrane phospholipid and the substrate for the PI3K signalling pathway
Exchange -- myo-inositol and D-chiro-inositol interconvert via an epimerase, and the ratio between them differs by tissue, which is why studies specify the form
Regulate -- studied in ovarian function, where the largest body of randomized evidence sits, typically at gram-level doses over months
Form matters
The same nutrient can be made in very different forms -- and a study done on one form does not automatically apply to another. Methylcobalamin is not cyanocobalamin; magnesium glycinate is not magnesium oxide; a whole-food extract is not the synthetic isolate that was studied. Two things decide whether what is in the bottle behaves like the research: the exact form, and independent lab verification (a Certificate of Analysis) that the form and dose on the label are truly what is inside. Without a COA, you are trusting a label, not the science.
The science on Inositol
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