MemoHoney FAQ: 66 Common Questions Answered

A dietary supplement in capsules, sold for memory and cognitive support. One bottle holds 30 capsules and the label's suggested use is one capsule daily with an 8 oz glass of water, 20 to 30 minutes before a meal. The Supplement Facts panel declares seven ingredients and prints an amount for every one of them.

Per capsule: niacin 7.5 mg NE, calcium as calcium carbonate 18 mg, L-arginine base 200 mg, L-arginine AKG 2:1 extract 200 mg, L-citrulline HCl 100 mg, L-citrulline malate 100 mg and beta alanine 40 mg. Other ingredients: hypromellose vegetable capsule, vegetable stearate and silicon dioxide. The seven declared amounts come to 665.5 mg, which is our addition rather than the label's.

No, and it is the best thing about this label. Every dietary ingredient carries a printed amount. Nothing is concealed inside a total weight, nothing is described only as part of a matrix, and the panel can be added up by anyone with a calculator. Of the products this desk has reviewed, this is the first with a full house.

Because it is the difference between a review and a guess. When amounts are hidden, the most a site can honestly say is what an ingredient does in the literature and that nobody can tell how much is in the bottle. When they are printed, the comparison against the research becomes arithmetic, and arithmetic can be checked by the reader.

We added the seven printed figures: 7.5 + 18 + 200 + 200 + 100 + 100 + 40. The label does not print a total and is not required to. We publish ours as ours.

It does. The Inside MemoHoney artwork is headed six named ingredients and the written brief lists the same six; both omit the calcium, which is on the panel at 18 mg. Nothing is concealed, because the panel is the document that governs and it lists all seven. But a buyer reading only the artwork has seen six of the seven.

Arginine is an amino acid the body converts to nitric oxide, which relaxes blood vessels. That is a real mechanism. The question is the amount: the monograph we read puts current daily dosage trends at 6 to 30 grams a day in three divided doses, and this capsule holds 400 mg counting both arginine forms.

Fifteen capsules a day to reach 6 grams, which is the bottom of the range in the monograph we read. The label says one. The NIH is less encouraging still: it reports that 2 to 20 grams a day of arginine has little to no effect on performance, and little to no effect on nitric oxide concentration or blood flow.

Arginine bound to alpha-ketoglutarate in a stated two-to-one ratio. None of the sources we opened covers this form separately — the NIH's exercise fact sheet mentions alpha-ketoglutarate once, in the creatine section — so this site does not convert the 200 mg into an arginine figure and does not claim the form has evidence of its own.

Citrulline is converted in the body to arginine, and it raises blood arginine more reliably than arginine taken directly. It feeds the same nitric oxide pathway. The capsule holds two citrulline salts, 100 mg of the HCl and 100 mg of the malate.

Eighty capsules to reach the 8 gram citrulline malate protocol the NIH records. The label says one a day, so that is two and two-thirds bottles in a single day. It is the starkest comparison on the site.

About 57 mg from the malate. The NIH gives the conversion: citrulline malate is 56.64% citrulline by weight, so 100 mg of malate is 56.6 mg of citrulline. None of our sources gives a conversion for the hydrochloride salt, so we publish no figure for the other 100 mg.

We do not know and the material does not say. It is an unusual choice on a panel with only seven lines. What we can say is that together they come to 200 mg of salt against a studied dose measured in grams.

That is a fair question. Beta-alanine is studied for muscular endurance and it appears in the NIH's fact sheet on exercise and athletic performance, not in NCCIH's digest on cognition. The studied range is 1.6 to 6.4 grams a day over four to eight weeks; this capsule holds 40 mg.

No. The NIH records that paresthesia — tingling, prickling or burning lasting 60 to 90 minutes — occurs at doses of at least 800 mg. At 40 mg you will feel nothing. That is a genuine comfort and also the clearest available sign of where this amount sits.

Yes, and it is the one ingredient here we would describe that way. 7.5 mg NE is about half the adult RDA, which the NIH gives as 16 mg NE for men and 14 for women. It is well under the 35 mg Tolerable Upper Intake Level for supplemental niacin, and far below the 30 to 50 mg at which flushing typically starts.

The NIH's niacin fact sheet contains nothing about cognitive function, memory or Alzheimer's disease. Niacin has a well-established role in energy metabolism; that is not the same claim.

The material does not say. Eighteen milligrams is 1.4% of the FDA's 1,300 mg Daily Value, which is not a calcium supplement by any definition. Calcium carbonate is also among the most common capsule fillers there is; we are not claiming that is what it is doing here, only that the amount is negligible as nutrition.

Yes. The Daily Value for niacin is 16 mg NE and 7.5 divided by 16 is 46.9%, which to the nearest whole percent is 47%. We checked it for the same reason we checked the calcium.

No. The FDA's Daily Value for calcium is 1,300 mg, and 18 divided by 1,300 is 1.4%, which to the nearest whole percent is 1%. The FDA's labeling guide says percentages must be expressed to the nearest whole percent. It is a small error about a small quantity and it changes nothing a buyer would do, but we recalculate every printed percentage and we publish what the recalculation finds.

Very unlikely at this dose. The NIH says flushing typically begins at 30 to 50 mg or more of nicotinic acid. This capsule declares 7.5 mg NE.

The label: as a dietary supplement, take one capsule daily with an 8 oz glass of water. For best results, take 20 to 30 minutes before a meal with 8 oz of water, or as directed by your healthcare professional.

The label says 20 to 30 minutes before a meal, and the written brief says preferably in the morning. Where the two differ in detail, follow the bottle.

Before a meal, by 20 to 30 minutes, according to the label, and with a full glass of water. That is the only timing instruction printed.

Thirty days. Thirty capsules, one a day, with no arithmetic required. It is the cleanest supply figure this desk has had to work with in months.

The label gives no instruction for a missed dose. The ordinary approach with a once-daily supplement is to take the next one at the usual time rather than doubling up, and the label's own first caution is do not exceed recommended dose.

The label: store in a cool, dry place away from heat and light. No temperature is given, so use the ordinary reading — a cupboard rather than a windowsill or a bathroom shelf.

Not published in anything supplied to us. The brief says the lot and best-before appear on the base of the bottle when the bottle shows them.

No timeline was published for this product and we print none. The brief contains a waiting figure, but it sits inside a review block the same document marks as layout copy. No published human trial exists on this formula.

Nothing in the seven printed ingredients is exotic, and the caution panel on the bottle is complete and properly worded. The specific thing to know is about the arginine: the monograph we read says it is not recommended following acute myocardial infarction and that caution is warranted alongside nitrates. If either applies to you, this is a clinician question before it is a shopping question.

For some people, yes, and it is the most important thing on this site. The monograph we read states that L-arginine is not recommended following acute myocardial infarction, and records a trial terminated early because 8.6% of patients in the arginine group died while none in the control group did. It also warns that caution is warranted when arginine is taken with nitrates. If either applies to you, speak to your clinician before the first capsule.

Speak to your cardiologist first. The monograph we read states plainly that L-arginine is not recommended following acute myocardial infarction, and records a trial stopped early after 8.6% of the arginine group died against none in the control group. That is the strongest caution on this site.

It may. Our source says caution is warranted in patients concomitantly using L-arginine supplementation and nitrates, because arginine may potentiate the effects of nitroglycerin and similar medicines. Ask the person who prescribes them.

Arginine is a vasodilator and our source notes that hypotension may occur. Combined with medicine that lowers blood pressure, that is a conversation to have with a clinician rather than a website.

Ask your pharmacist, and take the panel with you — which on this product you actually can, because every amount is printed. Arginine's effects on insulin and cholesterol-lowering drugs are described in our source as unpredictable, and hypotension may occur because of its vasodilatory effect.

For arginine, our source lists nausea, diarrhea, dyspepsia, palpitations, headache and numbness. For beta-alanine the characteristic effect is tingling, but that begins at doses at least twenty times this one. For niacin, flushing starts far above 7.5 mg.

The label's caution panel says pregnant or nursing mothers should consult a physician before using this or any dietary supplement.

The caution panel says children under the age of 18 should consult a physician first, and the brief says adults 18 and over.

No. The panel lists seven dietary ingredients and the other-ingredients line lists three, and honey is not among the ten. The name, the honeycomb logo and the dripping-honey artwork all point at something the bottle does not contain.

No. The product scene stands the bottle among ginkgo leaves, lion's mane mushrooms, blueberries and a herb sprig. None of the four is on the panel and the brand claims none of them in writing. On ginkgo, NCCIH writes that there is no conclusive evidence it is efficacious in preventing or slowing dementia or cognitive decline.

Nothing in the seven printed ingredients is an antioxidant in the ordinary sense, and none of the sources we opened attaches an oxidative-stress effect to arginine, citrulline or beta-alanine at any dose. It is the claim in this pack we would drop first.

The bottle's claim is ordinary structure-function wording and names no disease. The listing's five reach further — protect the brain from oxidative stress and improve mental clarity use verbs of prevention and outcome — but still name no disease. Our claims page takes each one separately.

It is, and the product's own boxed disclaimer says it is not intended to cure any disease. 21 CFR 101.93 lists statements in material accompanying a product among the ways a disease claim may be made. We are not lawyers and this is not a legal opinion; we are pointing at two things that arrive in the same box.

Natural has no regulatory definition for a dietary supplement. This formula is five isolated amino acid compounds, a mineral salt and synthesised niacin, in a hypromellose capsule with silicon dioxide.

The capsule is hypromellose and the other two excipients are vegetable stearate and silicon dioxide, all named on the printed label, and the listing carries a vegetarian mark. We have seen no certificate.

Nothing on the printed ingredient list is a gluten source and the listing carries a gluten-free mark. No certifying body is named and no test was supplied to us.

The manufacturer is not named. The label prints Distributed by: Instituto Experience, PO Box 12730, Ogden, UT 84404, with a telephone number and an email. 21 CFR 101.5 requires the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor, and permits a street address to be omitted only if it is shown in a current city or telephone directory. We could not verify that either way.

The label prints a number with a 507 area code beside the distributor block. The brief supplied for this site gives a different one, listed in the footer, as the sales and refund desk. beside the distributor block. This site's order desk is the order desk (its number is in the footer). For an order placed here, use the number on this site, because that is the desk with the order record.

Nobody is named in anything supplied to us. Two images in the pack show a white-coated figure with no name, qualification or institution attached; we did not publish either of them and we do not repeat the claim as a fact.

No dietary supplement is. The FDA “does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed”. The listing's badge says a registered facility, which is an administrative filing about a factory rather than an assessment of the product.

Good Manufacturing Practice is a process standard about how a facility runs. No certifying body is named here and no certificate was supplied. A GMP-compliant plant can competently make a capsule whose doses are a fortieth of a studied amount.

The bottle says Manufactured in the USA with globally sourced ingredients, which is the correctly qualified wording. The listing carries two unqualified Made in USA roundels, and the FTC reserves the unqualified claim for products that are all or virtually all made in the United States. Where the two differ, the label governs.

A mark on the listing says so. No laboratory is named, no report number is given and no certificate was supplied to us, so this site publishes no lab document.

MEM-26/ME-7647, with the certificate reference MEM-7647-26-ME. The pack's own note says these are draft labels rather than lab proof, and we publish them on that basis.

Because the review block supplied with this product is marked, in its own source document, as layout copy only. Printing those names and star ratings would be inventing customers. When verified reviews exist we will publish them and say how they were verified.

No price was published to us. Pack prices are the ones printed at checkout on the info page, which is why every pack card on this site says price at checkout.

One capsule a day means a bottle is thirty days, so a cost per day is simply the pack price divided by thirty times the number of bottles. We cannot do the division because no price was published, but unlike most products in this category the denominator is there.

One bottle. Thirty capsules is thirty days and the 60-day guarantee is still half open when it runs out. Two bottles finishes exactly as the window closes. Three and six run past it, on a formula with no published trial behind it.

From this desk, memoahoney.com, so that the 60-day window and this desk’s order record apply to your order. A marketplace listing is somebody else's policy and we cannot see, refund or trace it.

Not published. Orders ship from the United States unless the sales page says otherwise, and a tracking number arrives in the order email.

Sixty days from purchase unless the sales page prints a longer window. Call the order desk with the order ID, put your full name, email and order ID in the parcel, and send it with tracking at your own cost to 950 Third Avenue, Floor 7, New York, NY 10022.

Three to five business days for the desk to credit it once the return is processed, then five to ten days for the money to appear on the card.

The order desk’s number, listed in the footer. The website email, also in the footer, is for pages, typos, privacy and press — it cannot see orders.

Very little, which is unusual. The panel already answers the questions we normally tell people to telephone about. The one thing worth asking is the price of the pack you want before you reach the checkout.

Call the order desk with the order ID first. Put your full name, the email address on the order and the order ID on a sheet inside the parcel, and send it with tracking at your own cost to 950 Third Avenue, Floor 7, New York, NY 10022.

Memoahoney, a USA Authorized MemoHoney Retailer. We are a retailer, not the manufacturer and not a clinic. The manufacturer is not named anywhere on the label; the distributor printed on the bottle is Instituto Experience of Ogden, Utah.

We earn a commission on orders placed through this site. That is why the honest version of this page matters: the sentence telling a reader that eighty capsules would reach a studied citrulline dose costs us sales rather than earning them, and it is on the home page, the ingredients page and this one.

Because the label is excellent and the formula is not, and the score has to carry both. Panel completeness gets five out of five — the first we have awarded. Dose against the evidence gets half a mark. The average is 2.4 and we would rather publish that than round it in either direction.

The label. Every amount printed, no proprietary blend, a complete caution panel, a correctly qualified origin statement, a named capsule material, a boxed disclaimer, a clean thirty-day supply and a distributor block with a telephone number on it. If the doses matched the disclosure this would be an easy recommendation.