Four supplements, not forty.
Creatine, vitamin D, omega-3 and magnesium: what each does, and where they are sold here.
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Before you start.
- This page covers the four supplements with evidence that pair with a protocol, what each does, and where they are sold in the Philippines at the price printed.
- Four, not forty. Creatine, vitamin D, omega-3 and magnesium. Nothing else on this page, because nothing else clears the bar.
- You leave knowing what each is for, what to look for on the label, and where to buy it without being sold anything else.
Why only four.
The supplement aisle is long and the evidence is short. Four things have enough human trial evidence, across enough people, to be worth a line on a longevity site: creatine monohydrate for strength and muscle, vitamin D3 where a test shows it low, omega-3 from fish oil for the fats the diet is short of, and magnesium for sleep and for the shortfall most modern diets carry. Everything else sold beside them is either unproven, proven for a condition you do not have, or a version of one of these four at a higher price.
None of the four is a dose on this site. What to take and how much is a conversation with the doctor who sees your sheet, and this page gives you the words.
Creatine.
Creatine monohydrate is the most studied supplement in sport, with decades of trials showing more strength and muscle from the same training, and newer work on the brain and on older adults. It is a white powder taken daily in water, the plain monohydrate form, and nothing branded beyond that does more. On a shape protocol it is one of the two things, with protein, that help the weight that leaves be fat; on the strength protocol it is the obvious pairing.
It holds a little water in the muscle in the first weeks, which the scale shows and the tape does not; that is the reason to measure the waist.
Vitamin D, omega-3, magnesium.
Vitamin D3 is for the person whose baseline test showed it low, which in this country is many people; the sun page explains why. Omega-3 fish oil supplies two fats, EPA and DHA, that a diet low in oily fish is short of; the label lists the amount of each per capsule, and that number is what to compare. Magnesium glycinate is the form people take at night for sleep and for the shortfall a diet of rice and meat carries; the citrate form is for other things and the oxide form is mostly not absorbed.
All three are ordinary, cheap, and sold at every pharmacy and health store in Manila. The retailers below were fetched with prices as printed. We are not paid by anyone listed.
What to look for, and what to ignore.
On the label: the form, creatine monohydrate, vitamin D3, EPA and DHA in milligrams, magnesium glycinate. The amount per serving. A brand you can find again. Ignore proprietary blends, stacks, anything with a name that promises a result, anything with a testimonial on the tub, and anything sold by a person rather than a shop. Buy from the retailer's own store or a pharmacy shelf.
Take them to the doctor with the sheet, especially magnesium and fish oil beside any prescription medication. This page names four supplements and stops; the rest of the aisle is the aisle's problem.
Buy from a retailer with its own store and its own listing, a pharmacy chain or a supplement shop, where the label, the dose per serving and the count are printed on the page. Third-party marketplace listings are where counterfeit and expired stock live, and a supplement is the easiest thing in the world to fake. Ignore anything sold as a stack, anything that names a peptide on the tub, and anything with a proprietary blend in place of a dose. Four plain products, four plain labels, bought once a quarter.
How it fits your protocol.
The shape protocol on retatrutide and the KLOW blend asks for protein and training to keep muscle; creatine is the supplement that helps both do their job. The strength protocol on the growth hormone pairing is the same pairing for the opposite goal. Magnesium at night sits beside the sleep protocol on DSIP; vitamin D beside the energy protocol where the baseline test showed it low. The Tracker logs a note on any day, so the supplement's start date sits beside the doses.
The stacking checker is about our compounds, not supplements; this page is the supplements' equivalent, and it is deliberately short.
Shape protocols here are built on Retatrutide and KLOW Blend. Yours starts with three minutes.
Get startedQuestions
Which creatine?
Plain creatine monohydrate powder. The form is the whole specification; branded variants do not do more.
Do I need to test before vitamin D?
It is the one of the four where a test changes what you do. The sun page and the bloodwork page cover it.
Which magnesium?
Glycinate for sleep and the general shortfall. Oxide is mostly not absorbed.
What about everything else in the shop?
Not on this page, because it does not clear the bar. Four supplements with evidence; the rest is the aisle's problem.
Where do the prices come from?
The retailer's own page, fetched on the date shown, as printed. We are not paid by anyone listed.
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Longevity Manila builds your protocol from your answers. We are not a clinic. Fulfilment is by Primara Labs, our partner and supplier. Take it to a doctor who knows you before you begin.