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Berberine HCl 500 mg
Label snapshot
What the label says
What the product contains and what one serving costs, according to our catalog. Label amounts are not personal dose recommendations.
- Active per serving
- Berberine 500 mg
- Form
- Capsule
- List price (catalog, USD)
- $25.00
- Price per serving
- $0.42List price divided by servings per container. A per-day cost only if the label serving is once daily.
Full label record: servings, testing, ingredients
- Servings per container
- 60
- Serving size (label)
- 0.5 g
- Catalog monthly estimate
- $12.50
- Testing disclosure
- Brand lists third-party testing and a public certificate of analysis (CoA)Status as recorded in the catalog from brand materials; not independently verified by NO1GEVITY.
Ingredients as listed
| Ingredient | Amount per serving |
|---|---|
| Berberine | 500 mg |
What to check on the label
- Whether the figure is per capsule or per day, and how many capsules the label's daily serving contains.
- The salt form named (berberine HCl, dihydroberberine, Ca-AKG). The catalog does not convert between forms.
- Many labels carry interaction warnings for berberine. Read the label warning and the safety section on this page.
Amounts are per label serving as recorded in the catalog and are not a recommendation. Testing status reflects what the brand lists. Nothing here is medical advice.
Editorial score and research-dose calculations
These calculations describe our scoring method. They are not a recommended dose or proof of benefit from this product.
Public lab certificate, tested by independent lab.
Read the evidence (1 study)See the 1 supporting study
- Yin et al. 2008 (Metabolism) (Berberine)500 mg × 3/day for 3 months matched metformin for HbA1c reduction in type 2 diabetes. Studied at 500 mg. This product: 500 mg.
How we scored this product Show the full breakdown
Evidence gates dose: the evidence grade sets the ceiling, and the dose decides how much of that ceiling the product reaches. Value = inverse of price-per-trial-dose-day. Community = mean sentiment of external reviews. Safety caps applied after weighting.
This score is our editorial judgment, not a scientific standard. We combine published evidence, dose, price, transparency, and consumer signals into one composite: this is our method, not a peer-reviewed clinical rating. A higher score means a product does better on the factors we weight, not that it is medically proven to work.
Quick verdict
Our summary
Why this scored this way
This Nootropics Depot Berberine HCl 500 mg scores 7.6, making it a strong scorer. It delivers 500mg of Berberine, 55% of the studied range low edge (900mg) with grade A evidence (strong human trial data). Transparency is a clear strength (score: 9.0), with third-party testing and a public lab certificate.
What drives the score up
- Dose-evidence score of 7.2 shows decent alignment with trial doses.
- Quality transparency of 9.0: tested by independent lab with a public lab certificate.
- Community score of 9.2 with positive consumer feedback.
- Berberine has grade A evidence and is dosed at 55% of the trial dose.
What drags it down
- Berberine (500mg is 33% of the 1500mg trial dose) is significantly under-dosed.
Why you'd choose it
- You want a reasonably priced metabolic product.
- You want Berberine from a Nootropics Depot product.
- You prioritise tested by independent lab products with public lab certificates.
Why you might skip it
- You need a full trial dose of berberine (this product under-doses it).
- You want better value (this is $1.25/day with a value score of 8.4).
Question 1
Does the molecule work?
Does the molecule work?
The science behind each active ingredient, independent of which brand sells it.
Plant-derived AMPK activator; near-drug-strength effects on blood sugar and lipids.
Question 2
Is this bottle good?
Is this bottle good?
The specific product: dose, price, transparency, and what buyers report.
Question 3
What's the catch?
What's the catch?
Safety flags, transparency gaps, dosing concerns, and recurring buyer complaints.
What’s inside
The main ingredients of this product, in plain language.
Plant-derived AMPK activator; near-drug-strength effects on blood sugar and lipids.
Read about Berberine →Product data & verification
Hard numbers and independently checked status. Expand each block for its source.
The numbers
Data verification
Per-ingredient breakdown
All product data is checked against original sources. Prices, doses, and testing status are updated when product pages change. Evidence grades are reviewed when new human RCTs are published. Read how we verify.
What's inside
Consumer signals
Consumer signals gathered from 2 platforms.
Medium confidenceConsumer sentiment compiled from 2 public sources (Examine.com, Trustpilot).
positive sentiment
Berberine ranked among top-evidenced natural glucose modulators. NTD noted for HPLC purity.
Compiled from an Examine.com listing located during manual research; not independently re-verified against the live page at build time.
2,430 reviews · 4.6/5 · positive sentiment
Compiled from a Trustpilot listing located during manual research; not independently re-verified against the live page at build time.
These are consumer sentiment signals. They do not measure whether the product actually works. See our evidence section for that.
What others say, with a source hierarchy
We treat external opinion very differently depending on where it comes from. Tier A is our strongest signal. Tier C is background sentiment only. Tier Rejected is what we excluded, listed openly so you can see what we discarded.
These reviews are aggregated from third-party sources, not written by NO1GEVITY. Each entry shows its source, retrieval date, and whether the source has an affiliate or paid relationship. We do not edit reviews to change their meaning. Disclosure policy.
Registered dietitians and physicians, without affiliate ties
Credentialed commentary from clinicians who disclose no paid relationship. Useful as supporting critique but not a substitute for a clinical outcome trial.
Aggregated sentiment (Trustpilot, Reddit)
Mood indicator only. We never use aggregate stars as evidence of efficacy.
Commenters (including apparent NTD-affiliated participants) explain and partially defend the in-house Omnient Labs testing model as ISO-accredited and rigorous, while acknowledging it is not fully third-party for every test.
Community threads and aggregate ratings
Additional public mentions we located, kept separate from the deep independent reviews above.
Berberine ranked among top-evidenced natural glucose modulators. NTD noted for HPLC purity.
4.6/5. Users cite transparency and price.
Evidence, claims & regulation
Published evidence, claim checks, regulatory status and what could not be verified.
Evidence, what actually backs this product
Longevity brands rarely test their exact finished product. We separate what's tested from what's inferred.
Research behind this product
The studies that established the trial dose and evidence grade for each active ingredient in this product. Click through to read the original paper.
Claim check, vendor claims vs. our reading of the evidence
Not medical advice. We list the strongest claims made by the brand and check each against traceable evidence.
Regulatory status
Rules change often. We record when we last verified each row. See the full regulatory timeline →
What we could not verify
We list this openly. If a claim isn't backed by a source we can trace, we'd rather flag it than repeat it.
- No dedicated, methodology-disclosed Innerbody or Healthline review of this specific berberine (or berberine+silymarin) SKU was located; Innerbody coverage of Nootropics Depot found in this research pass was brand-level (e.g., best-nootropics, best-tongkat-ali, best-lions-mane roundups) rather than berberine-specific, so no Tier A finding is included in external_reviews_registry for this exact product.
- The 180ct variant's exact retail price could not be extracted (client-side JS renders it on variant switch); only the 60ct price of $34.99 was directly confirmed from live page data.
- No clinical trial was located on the exact 500mg berberine HCl + 100mg silymarin combination at this specific ratio, all clinical evidence in this dossier applies to plain berberine HCl at the ingredient level, not to NTD's finished combination formula.
- NTD's specific claim that its silymarin pairing allows 'lower effective doses than standalone berberine' is not backed by a located head-to-head clinical comparison; NTD's own instructed dose (1500mg/day berberine) is identical to the classic Yin 2008 trial dose, not lower.
- A currently valid, named third-party GMP certificate/registrar for NTD's Tempe, AZ manufacturing facility was not independently located in this pass beyond the vendor's own transparency-page assertion.
- Whether Nootropics Depot currently ships this product to EU customers, and under what claims/labelling, was not directly confirmed on the vendor site; this matters given the EU's 2025 decision not to authorize the berberine HCl + silymarin combination as a novel food.
Editorial notes
Best-priced published-purity berberine. Take 3× daily to hit trial dose.
Where this sits
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We review every request, verify it against primary sources, and publish any accepted change with a dated note. Corrections from brand owners are treated the same as corrections from anyone else: verified before they move.
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