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Three longer pieces, written because a product page has to stay on the product and these questions do not. One is arithmetic, one is vocabulary, and one is physiology.
The Lungoraformula blog covers the three questions this desk was asked most while reading this label: how a nutrient declared inside a proprietary blend gives away the weight of everything else in it, what a standardisation percentage is a percentage of, and what lung clearance actually is — which turns out to be the thing a “cleanse” claim never names.
The three posts
Read in that order, though none depends on the others. The first produces the numbers, the second explains a number that looks like a measurement and is not, and the third is about the organ on the front of the bottle.
All three were written from the same two rows of the same Supplement Facts panel. That is worth saying because it is the argument for reading panels at all: a document most shoppers skip, containing one printed amount and a total, turns out to support three separate pieces of reasoning, none of which needs anything the manufacturer chose not to publish.
What each one covers
The nutrient that gives a blend away
Start here if you have ever put a bottle down because the panel said Proprietary Blend and nothing else. The post sets out the FDA rule in full, including the clause most readers skip — that any ingredient with a Daily Value must be declared separately, with its weight, even inside a blend. Where that nutrient arrives as a compound, the elemental fraction converts the declared figure into the compound’s weight, and the blend’s remainder falls out of the subtraction. Worked on three magnesium compounds and then on this label: 80 mg of magnesium, about 567 mg of glycinate, about 8 mg left for five ingredients.
What a standardisation is a percentage of
The turmeric row on this panel reads 95% curcuminoids — the only standardisation on the bottle, and a real disclosure that most labels skip. The post explains what a standardisation says and what it cannot say, sets the same percentage against four different extract weights, and finishes the multiplication the label starts: at a ceiling of 1.9 mg of extract, 95% is about 1.8 mg of curcuminoids. It closes on NCCIH’s position that nothing is definitively concluded for turmeric at any dose.
Your lungs already clear themselves
The one this desk would want read last, because it is the one that explains why the category is odd. The mucociliary escalator, alveolar macrophages and the cough reflex, in plain language; what impairs them; what NCCIH publishes about “detox” and “cleanse” programmes; and the sharp version of the argument — that a claim to support lung detoxification never names the process it is supporting, on a label whose six ingredients have no respiratory monograph between them.
How these posts are written
Every quote comes from a source we opened
Eleven documents: four from the FDA, three from the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, three from NCCIH and one from PubChem. They are listed at the foot of this page. If we could not open it, it is not quoted.
No invented studies, and no invented people
No reference this desk did not read, no “a 2019 study found” without the source, and no doctors, reviewers, customers or laboratory staff anywhere on this site.
No amount is ever stated for a blend ingredient
Only ceilings, always labelled as ceilings. “At most 1.9 mg” is a statement about the label; “1.9 mg” would be a fabrication, and that difference is the whole of the method.
Where the sources are silent, we are silent
Butcher’s broom returns no monograph at either body. The posts say so and stop, rather than substituting a related page that would read as evidence.
A visible last-updated date
Matching the structured data on each page. Corrections go to the top of the queue — send them to the site desk.
Why read a seller’s blog sceptically
Including this one. Most supplement blogs exist to occupy search results for the questions buyers ask on the way to a purchase, and the pieces are written backwards from the conclusion the seller wanted to reach.
So here is the test to apply to any of them, this blog included. Does a post ever reach a conclusion that costs the seller money? Do its sources open, and do they contain the sentences attached to them? Does it name a specific weakness in the product being sold? And does it ever say we do not know where the honest answer is that nobody does?
On this blog the answers are on the page. The first post’s method exists to show that about 99% of this blend is one ingredient. The second finishes a multiplication the label left open and lands at 1.8 mg. The third concludes that the claim on the front of the bottle names no process at all.
This site scores the product it writes about at 1.5 out of 5, recommends the smallest quantity pictured, and publishes no rating, no review count and no testimonials. The reasoning behind all three decisions is on the pages linked below.
The eleven sources
Eleven documents, all opened and read, all linked wherever they are quoted. Four are from the FDA, three from the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, three from NCCIH and one from PubChem. None of these bodies sells supplements, and all of them publish their uncertainty in the same sentences as their findings — which is the quality that makes them quotable. A source that never says we do not know is not being careful.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide: Chapter IV. Nutrition Labeling.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Daily Value on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels.
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (2026). Magnesium — Health Professional Fact Sheet.
- PubChem, National Library of Medicine (2026). Magnesium Glycinate, CID 84645.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2025). Turmeric: Usefulness and Safety.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2019). Coenzyme Q10.
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (2026). Carnitine — Health Professional Fact Sheet.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2023). Diabetes and Dietary Supplements: What You Need To Know.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2025). “Detoxes” and “Cleanses”: What You Need To Know.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2022). Asthma and Complementary Health Approaches: What You Need To Know.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Questions and Answers on Dietary Supplements.
One is cited for an absence. Searching the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and NCCIH for butcher’s broom and for Ruscus aculeatus returns no fact sheet at all, so there is no reference to list — which is itself the finding, and it is flagged wherever the ingredient appears.
What these pieces will not do
- Recommend a product. Not this one, not a competitor, not a category. This site makes one recommendation — buy the smallest quantity pictured — and it lives on the pricing page where it belongs.
- State an amount for a blend ingredient. None is published, so none is printed. Only ceilings, labelled as ceilings wherever they appear.
- Describe a mechanism nobody published. Where a route is unstated, these posts leave it unstated rather than borrowing a plausible-sounding one.
- Print a price. None was supplied with this product at all. The live figure is on the seller’s checkout screen and nowhere on this site.
- Print a timeline. No trial of this formula exists. A “most wait 4–8 weeks” line arrived with the seller pack; it is a marketing sentence, not a finding, and it appears nowhere here.
What they will do is show the arithmetic. Every figure in every post can be recomputed from something printed on the bottle or quoted from one of the eleven sources, and where a calculation was done here, the post shows the division.
What this label does well, said once
It would be easy to read three posts about a 575 mg blend and come away thinking this is a careless label. It is not, and a blog that prints only the criticisms is doing the same selective job it complains about.
So, plainly: the Daily Value percentage on this panel is arithmetically correct, a low bar a great many panels fail. All six blend ingredients are named, where many blends name three and trail off. Both botanicals print their Latin binomial and their plant part. The turmeric prints a standardisation. The magnesium row names its chemical form and adds “from proprietary blend”, which no rule requires. The Other Ingredients line is complete, and the caution block names under-18s, pregnancy, nursing, medication and medical conditions.
None of that was compulsory, and it sharpens rather than softens the central problem. The four voluntary words in the magnesium row are the most informative thing on the bottle — and they are what reveals that five of the six named ingredients are present in single-digit milligrams at most.
Product pages, if that is what you came for
The posts above are about reading labels in general. The product pages are about this one: what the panel prints, what the arithmetic forces out of it, what each ingredient does and does not have behind it, and what the buying terms actually say. They are shorter, more specific, and they carry the twelve findings this desk recorded.
| If you want | Read |
|---|---|
| What is in the bottle | Ingredients |
| The panel, row by row, and the ceilings | Label facts |
| Whether it suits you | Who it is for |
| The caution block and the interactions | Safety |
| Packs and the return window | Pricing |
| The reading methods, as references | Guides |
Read the magnesium row before you decide
Thirty capsules, one a day. One amount is printed on this label — 80 mg of magnesium — and it is the amount that tells you what is left of the 575 mg blend for the other five ingredients. The live price and the 60-day return terms are both on the seller’s checkout screen.
60-day window · Questions first? The FAQ page answers most of them.