Standardized vs non-standardized

[mtcheral]

What's the difference to us taking these herbs for support supplements? Which one is better? I have noticed that the standardized have a lot lower mg's per serving which doesn't match up to what people are suggesting for PCT unless you take a lot of pills. Thanks.

[dinoiii]

Well, I am currently writing a Short Topic Series article that deals with this very topic actually. It will likely be done by the week's end...so there will be a couple posts on or about Friday/Saturday new articles in the "Open Articles" section of the forum). But in short...perhaps I can do some justice in a quick fire format response.


Standardization represents the concentrating of particular extracts (kind of like the active ingredient) in a pill versus the non-standardized form (one that has the non-responsible elements + active ingredients in them). In order to have the non-standardized equate with the standardized, you would obviously need to take more to get adequate concentration of the active ingredient.

Make sense?

[SNS8778]

Basically standardized means you get more potency per capsule of the actives in most cases.