Evidence-based supplement and nutrition tools for health professionals
Cut through misinformation, save hours of work, and give your patients and clients the clarity and peace of mind they deserve.
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Spot safety risks in seconds
Confidently evaluate supplement-drug interactions, side effects, precautions, and more.
Create safe, evidence-based supplement protocols
Find the most effective supplements for your patient's conditions and goals.
Build handouts tailored to your individual patients
Create polished, fully customized handouts from Examine’s evidence-based content. Tailor information to each patient’s goals and share instantly. Handouts update automatically with the latest research.
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Being a health professional is demanding
Struggling to keep up with new research between consults and administrative work?
Tired of fighting nutrition myths and influencer noise? Did someone come in asking about TikTok cures again?
Wasting hours making your own patient resources from scratch, just to be stuck with outdated, one-size-fits-all handouts?
Feeling pressure to “know it all” — and burning out?
Constantly worried you missed crucial safety info, even though you cross-checked multiple sources?
Examine Pro is a suite of tools that lets you focus on your patients and clients
Research updates. Patient education. Safety evaluations. Personalized protocols.
From real-time safety checks to fully customizable handouts, Examine Pro simplifies the science so you can deliver better care in less time — all backed by research you can trust.
Ready to save a ton of time and deliver better care?
Choose your plan and get started with Examine Pro — backed by a 60-day 100% unconditional money back guarantee.
Your trusted supplement safety checker
Instantly check interactions, side effects, and precautions for the most popular supplements.
When it comes to supplements, "Is it safe?" is just as important as "Does it work?"
We provide all the information you need to confidently assess the safety of popular supplements.
Safety information is embedded on Examine supplement pages, and using the Examine Pro Safety Checker Tool, you can:
- •Check one or multiple supplements at the same time.
- •Instantly flag potential interactions with severity and evidence levels.
- •Perform reverse lookups. For example, look up what supplements can cause side effects like coughing.
- •Filter, search, and sort to zero in on exactly the data you need.
Examine Pro Safety information includes:
- •Interactions: Which supplements, drugs, and drug classes are contraindicated. Each interaction is tagged with severity and strength of evidence for easy risk evaluation.
- •Side effects: Unintended or undesirable effects of supplement use.
- •Precautions: Warnings for specific demographics, populations, and conditions.
- •Pregnancy and lactation: Dedicated guidance for these critical life stages.
- •Quality concerns: Contamination or adulteration issues.
- •WADA: Whether the supplement is prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Make confident, informed safety decisions without digging through textbooks, mid-session Googling, or risking AI hallucinations.
Examine Safety Information content is embedded in supplement pages, giving you fast access to up-to-date safety insights in context.
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Protocol Builder: Turn evidence into safe, personalized supplement plans
Match patient health conditions and goals to proven supplements. Get dosages, safety notes, and interaction checks all in one tool.
Here's how it works:
- 1.Start by entering all the supplements your patient is currently taking.
- 2.Instantly find out whether the supplements are supported by evidence for their intended use.
- 3.Enter the health goals and conditions your patient is interested in addressing. The Protocol Builder lists additional supplements they may want to consider, tiered by evidence level.
- 4.Click to add supplements to a protocol. Once added, each supplement will show a specific dosage for the health goal or condition entered earlier.
- 5.The Protocol Builder also provides safety warnings (side effects, interactions, and more) for each supplement, and includes a quick-lookup tool to check for specific drug interactions.
The Protocol Builder is the best way to turn evidence from thousands of supplement trials into actionable protocols.
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Handout Builder: Quickly create custom handouts for your patients
Personalized, professional, easy to share handouts that update automatically with the latest research.
Built with clinician feedback at every step, the Handout Builder has been designed to make your life easier:
- •Start fast with ready-made templates: Hit the ground running with handouts on the most popular goals and conditions.
- •Completely customizable: Add, remove, and edit expert-reviewed content, graphics, and tables from Examine. Add your own, too.
- •Easy to use: Assemble and reorganize handouts quickly using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
- •Branding-ready: Add your own logo, contact info, and notes. Customize the font and colors to match your branding.
- •Instant sharing options: Send a link, download a PDF, or print out your handouts.
- •Always up to date: Your handouts update automatically when Examine reviews new research.
- •Trustworthy information: Examine content is written and reviewed by Examine's team of researchers. No AI hallucinations or uncited information.
The Handout Builder empowers your practice. Educate patients more effectively, save time in sessions, and build trust — all while ensuring your guidance is clear, current, and evidence-based.
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Examine Pro includes Examine+
Stay current with the latest evidence. Don't waste hours reading papers or sifting through untrustworthy information.
Examine Pro includes Examine+, the best way available today to stay up to date with the always-evolving world of health research.
Examine Database
Look up and understand the body of evidence for hundreds of supplements. The Examine team collates and grades thousands of randomized clinical trials to evaluate the overall strength of evidence for an intervention.
Research Feed
Stay current with daily summaries of the latest most important nutrition studies — to the topics you are most interested in.
Supplement Guides
Actionable information on what works, how to take it, and what to avoid, with clear dosage, safety, and synergy information.
ExamineAI
Ask anything and get clear, evidence-based answers exclusively on over 30 million words of Examine's expert analysis.
Examine+ is a unique research resource trusted by thousands of health professionals, including physicians, pharmacists, and RDs — and it's included in your Examine Pro subscription.
Examine+ vs. Examine Pro
Examine Pro is a separate product built specifically for health professionals. It includes:
- •Safety Checker: Supplement–drug interactions.
- •Protocol Builder: Create safe, evidence-based plans in minutes.
- •Handout Builder: Instantly generate patient-friendly resources.
- •Extra tools like branding options, clinic licensing, and upcoming calculators.
Examine+ is the foundational membership of Examine and unlocks all the research analysis on the site. Thousands of our members are health professionals, so we created Examine Pro to help them turn health insights into actionable health information with practice-ready tools.
Examine+ is about staying up to date with the latest research. Examine Pro is about using that research directly in your practice.
What other health professionals say:
said Examine Pro saves them time.
said it makes explaining complex topics easier.
said it increases patient trust in their recommendations.
Examine Pro has become indispensable in my practice. The Handout Builder and safety info save me time while giving my patients unbiased, reliable guidance.
”Dr. Michael Hauman, MD
Examine Pro lets us create professional, branded handouts that stay updated with new research — it saves me enormous time.
”Serena Benali, RD
Before Examine Pro, I spent hours on PubMed. Now, it’s a game changer — faster, evidence-based, and far more effective.
”Dr. Sean Wells, DPT
Examine Pro is like UpToDate for supplements — finally a reliable, evidence-based resource I can trust.
”Dr. Caique Terhoch, MD
Examine Pro saves clinicians 5-10 hours per week by speeding up safety checks, protocol design, and patient-ready resources.
Full feature comparison
| Feature | Starter | Standard | Premium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safety Features | ||||
Safety summary | ||||
Safety warnings | ||||
Side effects | ||||
Safety interactions | ||||
Safety precautions | ||||
Safety Checker tool | ||||
| Handouts and Protocols | ||||
Saved Handouts and Protocols | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited | |
Use Examine content | ||||
Customize handouts and protocols | ||||
Downloadable PDF | ||||
Drag-and-drop Interface | ||||
Premade tables | ||||
Premade infographics | ||||
Directly edit Examine content | ||||
| Branding and Customization | ||||
Share live link | ||||
Add business logo/info | ||||
Remove links to Examine | ||||
Whitelabel | ||||
Customize fonts/colors | ||||
| Additional Features | ||||
Continuing education units | ||||
Safety ClinicView | Coming soon | |||
Examine tools | Coming soon: protein intake calculator | |||
Vote on pages to update | Coming soon | |||
| Examine+ Features | ||||
Examine Database | ||||
Research Feed | ||||
Supplement Guides | ||||
ExamineAI | ||||
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Examine is your trusted, independent partner in evidence-based care
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We don’t sell supplements or even ad space on our website.
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