Disclaimers
Four disclaimers appear in the footer of every page on this site. This page is the long version of all four, plus a fifth that most sites never write: the limits of our own method, and the things our arithmetic cannot tell you.
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 is printed on the back of the bottle and it is reproduced here because it means something specific.
This site is published by the merchant that sells the product, so it earns if you buy. Its arithmetic gives upper bounds, not doses, and it cannot tell you what is actually in a capsule.
The FDA statement, as it is printed on the label
Transcribed from the supplied photograph of the bottle back, asterisk included.
This is the line as it appears on the back panel of the bottle:
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.
The leading asterisk ties the sentence to the claim on the front of the bottle, which reads “SUPPORTS HEALTHY MUSCLE” around a crest. That is how the pairing is supposed to work: a claim carries a mark, and the mark leads to this disclaimer.
What “have not been evaluated” actually means
It is a statement about a process, and the process is not the one most readers assume.
The sentence is not modesty and it is not a legal flourish. Dietary supplements in the United States are not approved by the FDA before they are sold. A manufacturer does not submit a file, wait for a verdict and then market the product; it markets the product, and the agency acts afterwards if something is wrong.
So “not evaluated” means exactly what it says. No agency has read the evidence behind the claim on the front of this bottle and decided whether the evidence supports it. The responsibility for that sits with the firm that makes the claim.
What the seals do and do not mean →The questions this raises, answered →
Structure/function claims, and disease claims
The distinction the whole category is built on, and the one that explains why supplement labels read the way they do.
A supplement may say that an ingredient affects the structure or a function of the body. It may not say that the product treats, prevents, cures or mitigates a disease. That is the line, and 21 CFR 101.93 sets out the wording and the notification that go with it, including the requirement for the disclaimer above.
“Supports healthy muscle” is on the permitted side of that line. It is vague by design, and the vagueness is not a failure of copywriting: a more specific sentence would be a disease claim, and a disease claim would make the product an unapproved drug.
This is why a label can carry a blend named Test Boost and a front panel that never uses the word testosterone. The name implies a mechanism; the printed claim stays inside the structure/function wording. FDA’s rules do treat a product’s name as one factor in whether a claim is a disease claim, and we found nothing saying that this particular name is one.
Nothing on this site is a disease claim either. If a sentence here reads as a promise to treat something, write to the website inbox.
The medical disclaimer
The short line from the footer, and the label’s own caution behind it.
Talk to a clinician before starting this or any supplement if you take prescription medication or have a diagnosed condition. The label says adults 18 and over, and tells pregnant or nursing mothers and anyone with a known medical condition to consult a physician first.
The label’s own caution, printed on the side panel, is this: “Do not exceed recommended dose. Pregnant or nursing mothers, children under the age of 18 and individuals with a known medical condition should consult a physician before using this or any dietary supplement.” The label also says “do not exceed recommended dose”, and the product is sold for adults 18 and over.
There are specific reasons to ask rather than guess with this particular formula. Its third ingredient inhibits the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT, which is the same mechanism as two common prescription medicines. Anyone having a PSA test should tell the clinician ordering it what they are taking. And the capsule is gelatin, with bovine tissue in the blend, which matters to more people than it first appears to.
This site is written by the SodaPeak Editorial Desk and reviewed by Dr. James Bateman III, MD, MPH, a physician; that review checks accuracy and safety and is not personal medical advice.
The results disclaimer
Why this site prints no timeline of its own and no promise of an outcome.
Individual results vary. Nothing on this site is a promise of an outcome, and no supplement replaces sleep, exercise or medical care.
There is a particular reason this one is not boilerplate here. The trials behind these eight ingredients ran from seven days to six months, on different populations, at doses this label does not disclose. A finished formula that has not been trialled has no result to report, and this one has not been trialled that we were told of.
The eight review entries supplied to this site are published on the reviews page as supplied marketing copy, with their repeated wording shown rather than hidden. They are not treated as verified customers, and no review or rating schema is emitted on any page of this site.
What the trials actually measured →The supplied reviews, audited →
How this site earns
Stated here rather than buried, because it is the thing a reader most needs in order to weigh everything else.
This is the merchant’s own product-information site. Orders are placed and paid for on the checkout page, where the price, the shipping and the guarantee term are shown.
In plain terms: this is the merchant’s own product-information site, and the merchant earns when you buy. That is a conflict of interest. It does not go away because it is disclosed, and the only useful response to it is to publish the things a conflicted party would rather not.
So this site publishes the two ingredients the brief and both marketing images leave out, the position that mathematically forbids a studied dose, the contradiction between the vegetarian seal and the gelatin capsule, the mismatched footnote marks, and a scorecard that totals 2.3 out of ten. If it read like an advertisement, the disclosure would be the only honest thing on it.
No price is printed anywhere on this site either, because none was supplied to it.
The limits of this site’s own method
A ceiling is an upper bound. It is not an estimate of what is in the capsule, and this site will not let you read it as one.
Every quantitative statement on this site about a single ingredient comes from one division. The blend totals 1,200 mg per two-capsule serving, the regulation requires descending order of weight, and so the ingredient in position k can weigh no more than the total divided by k. That is the whole method.
| The question | What the ceiling says |
|---|---|
| How much nettle root is in a serving? | Unknown. The ceiling at position four is 300 mg and the true figure could be anything from that down to a trace. |
| Could nettle root be at its studied dose of 360 mg? | No. The ceiling forbids it whatever the split is. This is the one kind of question the method answers outright. |
| Is tongkat ali at a studied dose? | Unknown. Position two allows 600 mg, six times the lowest studied dose, but allowing is not the same as containing. |
| Does the product work? | Out of scope. Arithmetic on a label cannot answer that, and this site does not pretend it can. |
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The direction of the error matters as much as its size. Every choice in this method favours the product: the ceiling assumes an ingredient takes the largest share its position permits, the comparison dose is the lowest at which anything has been reported rather than a typical one, and no allowance is made for standardization, which this label states for nothing.
So when the arithmetic says a position forbids a dose, that finding is robust, because it survives the most generous assumptions available. When it says a position allows one, that is a permission and not a measurement, and no sentence on this site should be read as saying otherwise.
What would settle it
A certificate of analysis, or the individual milligram figures. Neither was supplied. A reference number for a certificate was supplied, and a reference number is not a document.
The lot SOD-26/SO-1425 and the certificate reference SOD-1425-26-SO are draft label references, not lab proof, and every page that mentions them says so.
What this page is not
The last honest thing a disclaimer page owes its reader.
This page is not legal advice and it is not medical advice. It is a plain-English expansion of four short statements that appear in the footer of every page, plus a description of how this site’s own arithmetic works and where it stops.
If you think something on this site overstates a finding, understates a risk, or reads as a promise, write to the website inbox with the page and the sentence.
References
The sources behind the numbers on this page.
- U.S. Government Publishing Office21 CFR 101.93 — Certain types of statements for dietary supplements — Code of Federal Regulations · source
- U.S. Government Publishing Office21 CFR 101.36 — Nutrition labeling of dietary supplements, including the proprietary blend and descending-order requirements — Code of Federal Regulations · source
- U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationQuestions and Answers on Dietary Supplements — FDA.gov · source
- Marks, Hess, Dorey et al. — 2001Tissue effects of saw palmetto and finasteride: use of biopsy cores for in situ quantification of prostatic androgens — Urology, volume 57 · DOI 10.1016/S0090-4295(00)01052-9 · source
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterSaw Palmetto — integrative medicine herb monograph — MSKCC.org · source
- Safarinejad — 2005Urtica dioica for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia: a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study — Journal of Herbal Pharmacotherapy · DOI 10.1080/J157v05n04_01 · PMID 16635963 · source
- U.S. Government Publishing Office21 CFR 189.5 — Prohibited cattle materials, including the definitions of specified risk materials and of gelatin — Code of Federal Regulations · source
- NIH Office of Dietary SupplementsBoron — Health Professional Fact Sheet — ods.od.nih.gov · source
When to see a doctor before SodaPeak
SodaPeak is a dietary supplement labeled to support healthy muscle. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent low testosterone, prostate disease, muscle disease or anything else, and it is not a substitute for a medicine you have been prescribed. See your doctor before the first capsule if any of the following applies to you.
- You take a blood thinner. Memorial Sloan Kettering lists a higher risk of bruising and bleeding when saw palmetto is taken with warfarin or similar drugs (MSK, saw palmetto).
- You have heart disease. MSK advises people with heart disease to avoid horny goat weed, after a report of a rapid, irregular heartbeat (MSK, epimedium).
- You take blood-pressure or diabetes medicine. Herbal products can interact with prescription medicines, so your doctor or pharmacist should see the full blend (MedlinePlus, high blood pressure; MedlinePlus, diabetes medicines).
- You have prostate symptoms. Saw palmetto and nettle root are studied for urinary symptoms of an enlarged prostate, and NCCIH reports saw palmetto on its own gave little or no benefit (NCCIH). Symptoms need a diagnosis first (NIDDK).
- You take iron supplements. The tannins in nettle may lower how much iron your body takes up from a supplement (NCCIH digest).
- You already take boron. The adult upper limit for boron is 20 mg a day from all sources, and the blend does not print its boron amount (NIH Office of Dietary Supplements).
- Surgery is planned. NCCIH asks you to tell your surgical team about every supplement well before an operation (NCCIH, using dietary supplements wisely).
If something feels wrong after you start, stop taking SodaPeak, call your doctor and let the order desk know with your order ID and the lot code. You can also report side effects to the FDA through MedWatch.
The short version
Weakness, tiredness or a change in drive that is new or lasting belongs with a doctor and a blood test before it belongs with a supplement.
See the SodaPeak packs
One, three or six bottles. The price is on the seller’s checkout page, because it is the one figure this site was never given — and a figure we were not given is not a figure we will print.
Shipping and the guarantee term are shown at checkout. This site publishes no number it was not able to verify.