Nature's Sunshine Slippery Elm Review

This product contains a single ingredient, slippery elm bark, at 7800 milligrams per serving. It is not clear whether that is one daily amount or several servings. We found no human studies testing slippery elm for reversing aging, repairing cells or repairing DNA. No study showed improvement, and no study showed a lack of effect, because none has been done for this goal. There is also no information on what a studied dose would be, so we cannot say whether the amount here matches anything tested in people. Shoppers rate the product highly. Of 309 counted reviews, about nine in ten are positive and very few are negative. However, we could not read any written reviews, so we do not know what buyers were using it for or what benefits they noticed. Those ratings may reflect other uses rather than aging or cell repair. No biohacker statements were available. Without human research for this goal, there is no study evidence that slippery elm slows or reverses aging. Animal and cell studies are never counted.

Three of the ten panelists spoke about slippery elm, the main ingredient, so this is a small sample. Two of them recommend it and the third is neutral, though that person recommended it in earlier years. The main reason given is gut support: soothing and coating the gut lining, helping with gut healing and inflammation, and one mentioned it as a mild laxative for constipation. Others mentioned it for the mouth, throat and lungs, for lowering stomach acid, and for bile flow. The preferred forms are bark tea, sometimes with honey, and powder, taken before or after meals or before bed. They pair it with marshmallow root and licorice root, and one used it in a decoction tea. No one gave a dose, no one reported a caution, and no one said they stopped.