Disclaimer
The required statements, and then the ones we think matter more.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Every claim on the CogniMary bottle is a structure-function claim, this site is written by the retailer that sells the product, and the ceiling arithmetic published here is an upper bound rather than a measurement.
The required statement
As printed on the bottle and required by law
“*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.”
That sentence appears on almost every supplement sold in the United States, which is exactly why most people read straight past it. It is worth stopping on.
It means the FDA has not assessed whether this product does what its label suggests. Dietary supplements are not approved before sale in the way medicines are. The responsibility for a supplement being safe and accurately labelled sits with the company that sells it, and the FDA acts afterwards if something goes wrong.
What a structure-function claim is
Every claim on the CogniMary bottle is a structure-function claim, and the grammar is not accidental.
| A structure-function claim | A disease claim |
|---|---|
| “Supports healthy cognitive function” | “Prevents cognitive decline” |
| “Memory, focus and mental clarity support” | “Treats memory loss” |
| Permitted on a supplement, with the FDA disclaimer | Not permitted — that is a drug claim |
| Does not require FDA review before use | Requires approval as a drug |
The left column is what this product says. The right column is what a lot of marketing implies without writing down, and the distinction is the single most useful thing to understand about supplement labels.
When you see “supports”, “helps maintain” or “promotes”, you are reading a claim that has not been evaluated by anyone. That is not an accusation; it is the regulatory framework.
The limits of what is on this site
- We sell this product. This site is written by the retailer. It is not an independent review and it cannot be.
- Cited research describes the research. When this site says a trial used 300 mg of bacopa for twelve weeks and found an effect on speed of attention, that is a statement about the trial. It is not a promise about this product.
- The ceiling arithmetic is a bound, not a measurement. It shows the most an ingredient can weigh, not what it does weigh.
- Absence of published side-effect data is not safety data. It is an absence.
- Individual results vary, and in a category where the outcome is subjective they vary more than usual.
If any sentence on this site reads like a promise rather than a description, it is a drafting failure and we would like to hear about it: [email protected].
Medical disclaimer
Talk to a clinician before starting this or any supplement if you take prescription medication, are pregnant or nursing, or have a diagnosed condition. The label itself says not to use it if you are pregnant or nursing.
In particular, this formula contains ginkgo, berberine and green tea extract, all of which have interaction profiles worth raising with a clinician, and none of which has a disclosed amount. The side effects page sets out what to name in that conversation.
The label itself says not to use this product if you are pregnant or nursing. That is the manufacturer's own instruction and nothing on this site modifies it.
If you are taking this for a diagnosed condition
Do not. This is a dietary supplement. If memory or cognition is a real concern rather than a general interest, that is a conversation with a doctor, and the evidence-backed interventions in that conversation — blood pressure, hearing, sleep, activity — are not sold in bottles.
Affiliate and commercial disclosure
This is the retailer's own product-information site. Orders are placed and paid for on the checkout page, which is where prices, shipping and the guarantee term are shown.
Gocognimary is usa authorized cognimary retailer. Orders placed through the checkout linked from this site generate revenue for this business. That is the commercial relationship in one sentence, and it is the reason every page here is written to be checkable.
No payment was taken from any third party to include or exclude any ingredient, source or claim on this site. The critical pages — the ceiling, the review audit, the testing page — cost us sales, and they are here anyway.
What “not evaluated by the FDA” actually covers
The sentence is short and its scope is wide. Here is what sits inside it.
| Not assessed before sale | Still required by law |
|---|---|
| Whether the claims on the label are true | That the label carries a Supplement Facts panel in the required format |
| Whether the formula does anything | That claims are structure-function, not disease claims |
| Whether the doses are meaningful | That the product is manufactured under good manufacturing practice |
| Whether the ingredients are the best choices | That ingredient identity matches the label |
| Whether the product is worth the money | That the FDA disclaimer appears where claims do |
The left column is the surprising one for most people. The right column is not nothing, and it is why a panel is worth reading — the format is regulated even though the substance is not reviewed.
The FDA acts after the fact: warning letters, recalls, enforcement against products found to contain undeclared drug ingredients. That is a real system and it is a different system from pre-market approval.
How to read any supplement claim
- Find the verb. “Supports”, “promotes”, “helps maintain” are structure-function verbs.
- Find the asterisk. It points at the FDA disclaimer, and its presence tells you the sentence above it has not been evaluated.
- Ask which ingredient the claim rests on, and at what amount.
- Check whether that amount is on the label. If it is inside a blend, use the ceiling.
- Check what the trial at that amount actually measured, and in whom.
Five steps, and most claims do not survive step four. That is not a conspiracy; it is what the regulatory framework permits and what competition rewards.
The limits of the arithmetic on this site
This site makes one original claim — the ceiling — and it is worth disclaiming it as carefully as we disclaim everything else.
- It is an upper bound, not a measurement. It says what cannot be exceeded, not what is present.
- It assumes the label complies with the descending-order rule, which is the assumption most favourable to the product.
- It does not account for extract concentration. A concentrated extract can in principle do more per milligram, and no extract ratios are published here.
- It says nothing about combination effects, which are possible and untested for this formula.
- It is only as current as the panel it was derived from. A reformulation makes every number on that page wrong.
Those five caveats are printed on the ceiling page itself as well as here. A claim that is only disclaimed in the small print is not really disclaimed.
Links to other sites
This site links outward in two places: to the checkout, and to the sources behind the numbers on each page.
- Source links go to journals, the FDA, NIH and the eCFR. They open in a new tab and carry
rel="nofollow noopener". We do not control those sites and their content can change. - The checkout link carries
rel="sponsored nofollow"on every page, because it is the commercial destination and search engines should be told so. - There are no other outbound links. No advertising, no social embeds, no third-party fonts and no analytics pixels from other companies.
A link is not an endorsement of anything else on the site it points at. We cite a paper because we read that paper, not because we vouch for the journal's entire catalogue.
If you take this and something goes wrong
- Stop taking it.
- Talk to a clinician, and take the panel with you. The transcription can be copied as text.
- Tell us: +1 (302) 200-3480 or [email protected]. We would rather know.
- You can also report an adverse event to the FDA through its MedWatch programme, which is how patterns across products get noticed.
That third step matters more than it looks. A seller who never hears about a problem can honestly say they have had no complaints, and the sentence is worthless.
One last thing
If any sentence on this website reads like a promise rather than a description of evidence, treat it as a drafting error rather than a claim, and tell us at [email protected] so it can be fixed. That invitation is not decorative; it is the only mechanism a reader has, and we would rather it were used.
Results disclaimer
Individual results vary. Nothing on this site is a promise of an outcome, and no supplement is a substitute for sleep, exercise or medical care.
Nothing on this site should be read as a prediction of what will happen to you. The results timeline is built from how long the underlying trials ran, not from what buyers report, and it is offered as a schedule for judging fairly rather than a forecast.
If you take this for three months and nothing changes, the honest conclusion is that it is not doing anything for you. That is a real outcome, it is worth the same as a positive one, and a return window exists precisely so that discovering it is not expensive.