Written by the Memoahoney Editorial Desk · Reviewed by Dr. Judith Leone-Friedman, neuropsychologist · Revised
Two of the exclusions on this page are about the heart, and they come from the ingredient with the largest printed amount.
MemoHoney is made for healthy adults over 18 who want a simple once-daily capsule with a fully disclosed label.
Ask a doctor first if you have had a heart attack, take nitrates, blood pressure pills or any prescription drugs, or are pregnant or nursing.
Read the safety notes next.
This is the honest case for the product, and it is a real one. Every dietary ingredient carries a printed amount, the serving is a single capsule, the servings per container are stated, the other-ingredients line is complete and the caution panel is properly worded. If you are tired of proprietary blends, this label is the opposite of one.
One capsule, with water, in the morning. Thirty in a bottle, so a bottle is thirty days with no arithmetic. The supply question that takes three paragraphs on most products takes one line here.
7.5 mg NE is about half an adult day's requirement, well under the 35 mg upper limit for supplemental niacin, and far below the 30 to 50 mg where flushing starts. As vitamin doses go it is sensible.
The capsule is hypromellose, named on the label rather than left to be guessed at, and the listing carries a vegetarian mark. The other two excipients are vegetable stearate and silicon dioxide.
A US order desk (its number is in the footer), an office and a returns address in New York, an order email, and a second telephone number and email printed on the bottle itself. That is more contact detail than most products in this category publish.
Thirty capsules is thirty days, the guarantee is sixty, and one bottle finishes with the window still half open. As trial arrangements go this one is unusually clean.
This is the central problem and it is visible precisely because the label discloses everything. Eighty capsules to reach a studied citrulline malate dose. Forty to reach the bottom of the beta-alanine range. Fifteen to reach the bottom of the arginine range in the monograph we read. The label says one.
The monograph we read is direct: “L-arginine is not recommended following acute myocardial infarction.” One trial was stopped early after 8.6% of the arginine group died against none in the control group. The label's caution panel covers this only through its general known medical condition clause.
“Caution is warranted in patients concomitantly using L-arginine supplementation and nitrates.” Arginine's effect on insulin and cholesterol-lowering drugs is described as unpredictable, and hypotension may occur because of its vasodilatory effect.
The photographs show ginkgo, lion's mane and blueberries. The panel shows none of them. If those are what you were shopping for, this is not the bottle.
There is none. Seven dietary ingredients, three other ingredients, and honey is not among the ten.
The label's own caution panel says to consult a physician first, and the brief says adults 18 and over.
There is no published human trial on it. NCCIH's digest on supplements and cognitive function reviews ginkgo, omega-3, vitamin E, curcumin and B vitamins and does not mention amino acids at all.
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This is the strongest caution on this site, and it is not on the label.
The largest single amount on this panel is L-arginine, 200 mg of base plus 200 mg of the AKG extract. It is also the ingredient our sources have the most to say about, and not all of it is about dose.
The professional monograph we read states plainly: “L-arginine is not recommended following acute myocardial infarction.” It gives the reason: one trial was terminated early because “8.6% of patients in the L-arginine group died, while no deaths occurred in the control group.”
The same source adds: “Caution is warranted in patients concomitantly using L-arginine supplementation and nitrates,” because arginine may potentiate the effects of nitroglycerin and similar medicines. Its effects on insulin and cholesterol-lowering drugs are described as unpredictable, and hypotension may occur because arginine is a vasodilator.
Now the part that makes this page unusual for this desk. On every other product we have reviewed, a caution like that would run into the same wall: and nobody can tell you how much is in the capsule. Here we can. Four hundred milligrams, printed on the bottle, countable by anyone.
That cuts both ways and we should say so. Four hundred milligrams is a long way below the 6 to 30 grams the monograph's dosage trends describe, and a long way below the amounts used in the trial that was stopped. The honest reading is that the risk at this amount is probably small — and that probably is a word a clinician should be allowed to replace, with the panel in front of them.
If you have had a cardiac event or take nitrates, photograph the panel and ask your cardiologist before the first capsule. It takes a minute, the panel carries seven real numbers, and on this product that conversation is actually possible.
Somebody who has read about a specific ingredient and gone looking for it — which, on this product, is a strange thing to have to write, because the label tells them immediately.
If you read the citrulline literature and want the 8 grams of citrulline malate the NIH describes, this capsule holds 100 milligrams. If you read the beta-alanine trials and want the 1.6 to 6.4 grams a day they used, this capsule holds 40 milligrams. If you read the arginine monograph and want 6 grams, this capsule holds 400.
On a proprietary blend the informed buyer is the one who suffers most, because the information their reading prepared them to use is the piece that is missing. Here the informed buyer is the one the label serves best, because they can see the answer before paying rather than after.
That is a genuine service, even when the answer is no.
The buyer it suits best is the opposite: someone who wants a simple once-daily capsule with a modest niacin top-up and a label they can read, is not chasing a particular dose, takes no prescription medicine, and intends to judge it over one thirty-day bottle inside a sixty-day window.
Read off the printed label and the sources on our references page.
| Situation | What the label or our sources say |
|---|---|
| Healthy adult, 18+ | The label's intended user. One capsule daily with a glass of water, 20 to 30 minutes before a meal |
| Under 18 | The caution panel says consult a physician first; the brief says adults 18 and over |
| Pregnant or nursing | The caution panel says consult a physician first |
| Has had a heart attack | Our source: L-arginine is not recommended following acute myocardial infarction. 400 mg is declared per capsule |
| Taking nitrates | Our source: caution is warranted in patients concomitantly using L-arginine supplementation and nitrates |
| Taking blood pressure medicine | Arginine is a vasodilator and hypotension may occur. A clinician question |
| Taking insulin or a statin | Our source describes arginine's effects on both as unpredictable |
| Prone to low blood pressure | Same vasodilatory mechanism. Reported effects include palpitations, headache and numbness |
| Sensitive to niacin flushing | 7.5 mg NE is far below the 30 to 50 mg at which flushing typically begins, and below the 35 mg upper limit |
| Dislikes the beta-alanine tingle | It will not happen. The NIH puts the threshold at 800 mg; this capsule holds 40 |
| Avoiding gelatin | The capsule is hypromellose, named on the label, with vegetable stearate and silicon dioxide |
| Any known medical condition | The label's own caution panel says consult a physician before use |
Everything above is either printed on the label or quoted from a named source we opened. None of it is a judgement about your health, which we are not qualified to make. If any row in that table describes you, the useful next step is the panel in front of a pharmacist — and on this product, unusually, the panel is worth putting in front of one.
MemoHoney is a memory supplement in 30-capsule bottles, one capsule a day. Its panel declares seven ingredients and prints an amount for every one of them — and that disclosure is what lets anyone see how far below the studied doses those amounts sit. We publish the arithmetic rather than the adjectives.
Order NowRead the label firstNothing 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 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.
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 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.
One bottle is 30 capsules at one a day, so a bottle is thirty days and the 60-day guarantee still has thirty left to run when it ends. The guarantee runs from purchase, not from delivery, and the price is shown at checkout.
Order NowRead the label firstNo price was published to us. We print no figure we have not seen ourselves. · 60-day guarantee from purchase · Not for under 18, pregnancy or nursing