Harmo Brain Ingredients: Six Names Sharing One 575 mg Blend

Every figure in this article starts from one small table on the side of the bottle. The Harmo Brain Supplement Facts panel gives a serving of one capsule, thirty servings to the bottle, and then exactly two amounts.

The first is magnesium: 80 mg, 19% of the Daily Value, printed with a note that it comes as magnesium glycinate from the proprietary blend. The second is the blend itself: 575 mg, with six names beneath it. Below the panel sit the five other ingredients that make up the capsule shell and fill.

Nothing else on the label carries a number, so the whole of this article is an exercise in reading those two against each other. Read together, they say far more than either says alone, because the first one is spent from inside the second.

The order of the six names is not a design choice. The federal rule for Supplement Facts panels, 21 CFR 101.36, has a proprietary blend declare its total weight and list its ingredients in descending order of predominance by weight. The heaviest name comes first and the lightest comes last.

On this panel that order runs: magnesium glycinate, alpha lipoic acid, butcher's broom root extract, L-carnitine, turmeric rhizome extract (95% curcuminoids) and coenzyme Q10 as ubiquinone. So before any arithmetic, the label has already ranked them: magnesium glycinate is the largest share of the 575 mg and CoQ10 the smallest.

The magnesium row adds the second clue. Magnesium has a Daily Value, so the panel must give it an amount of its own, and it says where that amount comes from: the glycinate inside the blend. That overlap is what turns the list into a budget.

The 80 mg of magnesium comes from the magnesium glycinate inside the 575 mg blend. Pure magnesium glycinate is 14.1% magnesium by weight, so 80 mg of magnesium would take about 567 mg of the compound and leave about 8 mg for the other five names. The label does not say which grade of magnesium glycinate is used, and some grades carry more magnesium per milligram, so the exact split cannot be worked out from the panel. The ceiling can: alpha lipoic acid, butcher's broom, L-carnitine, turmeric extract and CoQ10 share whatever the magnesium glycinate leaves of 575 mg. The compound's formula and weight come from PubChem record CID 84645: C4H8MgN2O4, 172.42 g/mol.

Read the last row as a ceiling rather than a measurement. It is what the panel allows if the glycinate is the pure compound, and it is the most the panel can say without a figure for each name.

Magnesium glycinate is sold in more than one grade, and some grades carry more magnesium per milligram than the pure compound. The label does not say which grade is used. That changes the answer in one direction only: a richer grade needs less compound to deliver 80 mg, which leaves more of the budget for the other five names.

Even at the richest grade in that table, the five names share well under a third of the blend. The panel fixes the ceiling; the grade decides how close to it the real split sits.

Every amount below is the amount a published study used, or a limit set for adults. The Harmo Brain panel prints magnesium at 80 mg and the six-ingredient blend at 575 mg in total, so no research figure here describes what one capsule holds. The third column does one thing only: it sets a single day of each studied amount against the whole blend, before magnesium glycinate has taken its share.

The sources are the alpha lipoic acid meta-analysis (Hsieh 2023), the L-carnitine trial (Badrasawi 2016), the curcumin trial (Small 2018) and the NIH magnesium fact sheet. The butcher's broom and CoQ10 research cited elsewhere on this website gives no milligram figure to set against the blend, so those two rows are left out rather than guessed.

The largest of the five shares. The body makes it in small amounts, and it works as a cofactor for enzyme complexes inside mitochondria, which is why it counts as one of the formula's three mitochondrial names.

The formula's circulatory name. Its best-known trial measured lower-leg volume in women with chronic venous insufficiency, which has an article of its own in this notebook.

Carries fatty acids into mitochondria. The liver and kidneys make enough for most healthy adults, and meat and dairy supply more, so a small share adds to a supply that is already there.

The standardisation is a real plus for comparing labels. Curcumin is poorly absorbed on its own, and the panel lists no absorption partner such as black pepper extract.

Last by weight, so the smallest share of all six. It is part of the mitochondrial energy chain and is made in every cell.

Put plainly, Harmo Brain is a magnesium glycinate capsule first. Nineteen percent of the Daily Value for magnesium, in a well-tolerated form, is a real amount, and it is the one a buyer can weigh against diet and against the upper limit.

Around it sit five named materials that match the supplier's description of a mitochondrial and circulatory formula: three mitochondrial names, one circulatory name and a standardised turmeric extract. The panel gives them their order and their shared ceiling. The six materials are introduced one by one on the Harmo Brain ingredients page.

The same five questions run on any label in the category. The choosing guide turns them into a ten-point checklist, and the Harmo Brain Supplement Facts page sets the panel out row by row.