Boron 6mg

Description

Boron 6mg a capsule, as the glycinate, with nothing else in the fill. The 6 mg figure is elemental boron rather than the weight of the compound, which is the distinction that decides whether a mineral label means anything. A boron 6mg capsule made from a chelate holds considerably more than 6 mg of material, because the glycine part of the molecule accounts for most of the mass. The elemental number is the one printed first.

Label figures

Why boron 6mg is cheap, and why that is not a quality signal

Boron compounds are industrial commodities produced in enormous volume, so the raw material cost of a year’s capsules is negligible. The price on a bottle reflects encapsulation, testing and packaging rather than the mineral. That is worth knowing because an expensive boron product is not buying you a better element, and a cheap one is not cutting a corner that matters.

What does vary is the form and the honesty of the label. Sodium borate, boric acid, citrate and glycinate all carry different elemental fractions, and a bottle quoting compound weight while implying elemental content is the common trick. The minerals page works through that arithmetic for every salt we stock.

What the published studies used

The research record here is small but specific. Early controlled work administered 3 mg a day and measured serum mineral concentrations and steroid hormone levels in postmenopausal women. Later studies used 6 to 10 mg a day, measuring plasma testosterone, oestradiol, sex hormone binding globulin and inflammatory markers over one to eight weeks.

Those are the doses administered and the measurements taken in the literature. They are not claims about this bottle. A boron 6mg serving sits in the middle of that range and well under the adult upper intake level of 20 mg, which is the comparison most product pages leave you to find elsewhere.

Boron 6mg against a trace mineral blend

Multivitamins and trace blends commonly carry this element at 150 micrograms to 2 milligrams, which is a fortification amount rather than a studied one. A boron 6mg capsule is a different proposition, and taking both means adding the two figures rather than assuming the larger one covers the smaller. Blends quoting a combined trace mineral total make that sum impossible, which is the practice set out in what a blend is allowed to leave out.

Glycinate, borate and citrate on a boron 6mg label

The chelate is used here because it is stable, well tolerated and straightforward to assay. Sodium borate and boric acid are the industrial forms, cheaper and with their own handling notes, and calcium fructoborate is a branded alternative with a small literature of its own. Each carries a different elemental percentage, so the same elemental dose means a different weight of material in the capsule.

Food sources, for context

Prunes, raisins, avocado, nuts and wine are the usual dietary contributors, and typical intakes in Western diets are estimated at around 1 to 2 mg a day. A capsule is therefore several times a normal daily intake rather than a top up of a shortfall, and whether that interests you is a separate question from whether the label is accurate.

Why it sits on the men’s page

Because of the hormone measurement studies described above, which is a commercial shelving decision rather than a physiological one. The element is not sex specific and the same capsule appears in the men’s range and in trace mineral blends elsewhere on the site.

Testing

Every lot of boron 6mg capsules is assayed for elemental content and screened for heavy metals and microbials by a laboratory with no ownership link to us, since mineral salts are mined material and arrive with whatever the deposit held. Under strength lots are withdrawn and the certificate stays published. Intake references for the minerals that have them are on the NIH fact sheet library, and your report is linked beside the price.