Dr. Michael Grandner

And they are, if you look at those, the ones that are the bigger companies that are on the shelf, they're almost always right on target for what they should be.

And I say that because what's on the bottle is actually not what's supposed to be in the bottle.

And a lot of people don't know this, but the bigger companies that have the higher quality and the higher quality control are following the law.

The law says that the amount on the bottle has to be within a certain percentage of the amount that's in the pill at the expiration date.

That is the definition.

So if you have a supplement that's sitting on a shelf with a three-year expiration date,

and you're working with a company that's trying to do everything really well and correctly, your chemists and food scientists have to calculate exactly how much they have to put in that pill so that as it degrades naturally over time, how much will it degrade to the point to hit the target two to three years out?

That's actually the calculation they're making.

So in melatonin, that answer is usually 30 to 50%.

So when you buy melatonin off the shelf and it says five, it's probably closer to eight, seven or eight when you buy it.

And then two to three years later, yeah, it's five because they did their job.

They followed the law and they had really high standards in their manufacturing.

But it's still, you're probably taking a higher dose.

And they can't tell you because the way the law is written, it's like if you tell people what's in there is different than what's on the bottle, you've now changed the label and now you have to meet that.

It's complicated.

The law was written in the way that I think they didn't foresee this problem.

But...

People need to know that actually, if it's a good brand, it's actually going to be higher than what's in the bottle because they're going to calculate in the overage needed to be able to degrade to the point that it hits the target.

Isn't that crazy?

People don't know this.