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Inositol

Papers analyzed
101
Glucose and metabolic health markersMenstrual and women's healthCholesterol and triglycerides

Main benefit evidence

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Glucose and metabolic health
Glucose and metabolic health markers
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No direct evidence for general supplement use is confirmed under the current standard.

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Women's health
Menstrual and women's health
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No direct evidence for general supplement use is confirmed under the current standard.

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Blood lipids
Cholesterol and triglycerides
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Men's health
Male Reproductive Health Markers
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Exercise performance and recovery
Exercise performance and recovery
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Cognition and focus
Cognition, memory, and focus
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Side effects and combination findings in studies

Findings from studies of this ingredient alone are separated from findings involving another supplement or medication.

Caution signals
1
Side effects + combos + curated rules
Key precautions
No curated contraindication rule is available yet, but literature caution signals are shown below.
1 combo signals and 0 added-signal combos shown below.
These are signals reported in studies. They do not predict what will happen to an individual.

Findings to review with care

Side effects reported for the ingredient alone are separated from findings involving another supplement or medication.

Side effects reported when this ingredient was used alone

Symptoms or adverse events reported in studies of this ingredient without another active ingredient.

gastrointestinal adverse events1 papers
Myo-inositol likely causes fewer gastrointestinal adverse events compared with metformin, but these are typically mild and self-limited.Human studies · Meta-analysis

Positive combinations studied

Positive combination findings are separated by how the study compared the groups. This is not a recommendation to combine them.

Positive findings when used together

The combination had a positive result, but the contribution of each ingredient could not be separated.

SeleniumCombined administration of myo-inositol and selenium significantly decreased TSH, TPOAb, and TgAb levels and enhanced thyroid hormones compared to baseline.