CogniMary questions and answers

A dietary supplement in capsule form, sold in the United States by Gocognimary as an authorised CogniMary retailer. The bottle holds 60 capsules, the serving is 2 capsules, and the panel counts 30 servings to a bottle. The front of the label claims “Advanced Cognitive Support For Memory, Focus & Clarity”.

Yes, and that puts it ahead of most of this category. The panel quantifies folate, vitamin B12, magnesium and chromium individually, then puts eleven more ingredients inside a single 635 mg proprietary blend without splitting it.

Eleven ingredients, in this printed order: cinnamon extract, ginkgo biloba, bilberry, bacopa monnieri, green tea extract, berberine HCl, L-theanine, alpha lipoic acid, GPC choline, lutein and zeaxanthin. The order matters — federal labelling rules require descending order by weight, which is what lets this site work out a ceiling for each one.

Not published, and the seller is not required to publish it. What can be worked out is an upper bound for each position in the list, and the 635 mg ceiling page does exactly that.

That is a good question and we do not know the answer. Under the FDA's conversion guidance, micrograms of dietary folate equivalent are 1.7 times the micrograms of folic acid, so 320 µg of folic acid is 544 µg DFE. The panel prints 600. We publish both numbers and the rule, and leave the discrepancy visible.

BSE-free gelatin for the capsule, rice flour, silicon dioxide and magnesium stearate. The gelatin capsule means this is not a vegetarian or vegan product, which the label does not say in as many words.

The panel names Amplify Distribution, LLC of Scottsdale, Arizona as the distributor and prints a phone number for them. It does not name the manufacturer, which is normal for this category and still worth noticing.

It is the brand mark printed above the product name on the front of the bottle. Nothing supplied to this website explains it, so we are not going to invent an explanation.

The label says: take 2 capsules daily, or as needed, or as directed by your health care provider. That is the whole instruction. It does not specify a time of day or whether to take it with food.

We do not know, and it is an odd phrase to find on a product whose panel is built around 30 daily servings. If you follow the 2-a-day instruction, a bottle lasts 30 days. If you take it “as needed”, the servings-per-container count stops meaning anything.

The label does not say. Taking it with a meal is the conventional choice for a product containing magnesium oxide, which is one of the forms most likely to upset a stomach taken alone.

The label does not say. If you are sensitive to green tea catechins, morning is the safer default, but the label does not disclose how much green tea extract is in the blend.

Thirty days at the label serving. 60 capsules, 2 a day. This is the first thing on this label that can be worked out with certainty, and it is worth saying so.

Take the next serving at the usual time. Do not double up. Nothing on this label has a loading protocol behind it.

The ingredient with the clearest trial evidence on this label needed twelve weeks of daily dosing before its effect showed. Judge it at a month, decide at six weeks, and read the guarantee term on the listing before you start counting.

Check the magnesium first. 250 mg from this product plus magnesium in a multivitamin or a separate magnesium supplement can pass the 350 mg supplemental upper intake level, and the usual result is loose stools.

For some ingredients there is real literature; for others there is none in humans at all. The largest ginkgo trial ever run found no effect on cognitive decline. The cognition arm of AREDS2 found nothing for lutein and zeaxanthin. Bacopa's meta-analysis found a real but narrow effect on speed of attention. GPC choline has one recent positive trial. All of it is on the ingredients page with the citations.

In people who are not deficient, the systematic reviews say no. Cochrane found no benefit from folic acid with or without B12. A 2021 meta-analysis concluded B12 supplementation is likely ineffective for cognition without an underlying deficiency. A 2024 review found the magnesium trials too few to conclude anything. Chromium has one small trial whose primary outcome was null.

We cannot answer for the formulator. What we can say is that a high percentage of a Daily Value is a statement about a reference figure, not about an effect, and that correcting a deficiency you do not have is not a mechanism.

No upper limit has been set for B12, because the Food and Nutrition Board found its potential for toxicity low. That is not the same as a demonstration of benefit at that dose. It means no adverse-effect threshold has been identified.

It is the cheapest common magnesium salt and the least well absorbed of the common ones. NIH's own fact sheet says citrate, chloride, lactate and aspartate are absorbed more completely than oxide, and three published comparisons back that up. The widely repeated “only 4% absorbed” figure is not something we could verify, so we do not repeat it.

Officially, to protect a formula from being copied. Practically, it also means a buyer cannot check whether any single ingredient is present at a dose that has ever been tested. Both things are true at once, and the proprietary blends page covers it.

No price was published to this website for any pack. The figure is on the checkout page. Every pack card on this site says so rather than showing a number we do not have.

Through the official checkout from this site. Gocognimary is the authorised US retailer, and an order placed anywhere else is an order the seller cannot find when you need the guarantee.

The brief we were given says “as printed on the marketplace listing” and gives no number of days. So this site does not state one. Read the term on the listing before you pay and keep the order email.

Not published here. It is calculated for your address at checkout, along with sales tax.

The United States, unless the sales page says otherwise. Tracking arrives in the order email.

For an order, tracking, a change or a refund, call +1 (302) 200-3480, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm Eastern Time. The number printed on the bottle, +1 (623) 377-4609, belongs to the distributor named on the panel and is a different desk.

Matching a bottle to an order. The reference supplied to this site is COG-26/GO-2760. Check the base of your own bottle and quote what is printed there rather than what is printed here.

A reference number was supplied, COG-2760-26-GO. No certificate document was supplied, so this site publishes the reference as a reference and does not describe it as lab proof.

The label says do not use if you are pregnant or nursing, and to keep it out of reach of children. It is for adults 18 and over. Beyond the label, ginkgo, berberine and green tea extract all have well-known interaction profiles worth raising with a clinician.

Ask a clinician, and bring the panel with you. Ginkgo is commonly flagged with anticoagulants and antiplatelets. Berberine interacts with a range of medicines. This is not a formula to add quietly on top of a medication list.

None are published for this product, and that absence is not evidence. The predictable one from the panel is digestive: magnesium oxide at 250 mg is a common cause of loose stools.

No. The capsule is gelatin. The label says BSE-free gelatin, which speaks to sourcing rather than to diet.

Green tea extract is on the panel and the amount is not disclosed. A catechin extract is not the same as brewed tea and may carry little caffeine, but the label does not say, so neither will we.

The CogniMary Editorial Desk, for Gocognimary, the authorised US retailer. It is the retailer's own site. It is not independent, and the way we deal with that is to publish the label exactly and show our arithmetic.

Because the alternative is to publish things we cannot support. A buyer who reads the ceiling page and buys anyway has made a decision. A buyer who is sold on a number nobody published has not.

We do not publish any as verified customer reviews. The seller's figures are published as the seller's figures, and the reviews page shows why: five of the eight supplied quotes are word for word identical.

Email [email protected]. Corrections get made and the date at the top of the page moves.