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The Best Supplements for Ozempic Users

How insyder.ai scores supplements for people on GLP-1 medications: 2,847 products ranked from published NIH label data by a fixed, public methodology, by a site that earns nothing on any product it recommends. Covers why four categories matter, how a product gets ranked against six scoring criteria, the current top picks with their scores — including how few carry a third-party seal — and what the evidence does not yet support.

Full transcript
0:00 · Everyone ranking these is paid to

Search for the best supplements to take on a GLP-1 and you will get a great many confident lists. What you will not easily find is anyone telling you how they decided. That is not an accident. Almost every one of those lists earns a commission on the products it recommends, which makes the ranking and the revenue the same document. So let me be plain about ours before anything else. insyder.ai earns nothing. No commissions, no margins, no sponsorships, no affiliate links. Every product link goes straight to the brand, and we make nothing when you use it. What we have instead of a business model is a method, and the whole point of this video is that you should not take our word for a single ranking in it. You should be able to check it.

0:35 · What insyder.ai does

We take the published label data that supplement companies file with the National Institutes of Health, and we score products against a fixed, public methodology. Two thousand eight hundred and forty-seven products so far, across six categories. The scoring happens before we know anything about what we could sell, which is the part that matters. Every score carries what we call receipts — one line per axis explaining exactly why the product got the number it got. Not a star rating, not our impression, not a paragraph of adjectives. A dose in grams against a stated clinical floor. A certification with the listing URL. If you disagree with a score, you can open the methodology, open the label, and find the disagreement. That is the entire product.

1:11 · Why these four categories

GLP-1 medications work in part by slowing digestion and reducing how much you eat, and four fairly predictable consequences follow from that. First, rapid weight loss on a GLP-1 can include meaningful lean muscle, not just fat, and clinical guidance for this population recommends one point two to one point six grams of protein per kilogram of body weight daily to help preserve it. That is protein, and it is why protein is the first category. Second, and closely related, creatine monohydrate is the best-studied form for helping preserve strength during a weight-loss phase — though I want to flag now, and I will come back to it, that no trial has tested creatine specifically alongside a GLP-1. Third, these medications slow digestion, and soluble fiber like psyllium is the standard recommendation for supporting regular bowel habits when transit slows. And fourth, omega-3, which rounds out a cardiometabolic-support stack relevant to the same population many GLP-1 users fall into — adults managing weight or metabolic risk — on general, not GLP-1-specific, grounds. Four consequences, four categories. Nothing here treats or prevents anything, and none of it replaces a conversation with your prescriber.

2:13 · How a product gets ranked

Six axes. Dose against a clinical floor. Form, meaning whether the ingredient is the well-studied version. Third-party verification. Label transparency. Value per effective dose. And a GLP-1 tolerability overlay, which is where we account for things like sweeteners and format that matter more when your digestion is already slowed. Here is what a receipt looks like in practice, and it is worth seeing the difference. For the top creatine, the verification line reads: NSF Certified for Sport verified, with the listing URL, checked on the sixteenth of July. For almost everything else, it reads: no third-party seal found — checked NSF Certified for Sport, Informed Sport, Informed Choice, and USP. That second line is doing real work. It is not silence, and it is not an accusation. It tells you exactly which registries we searched and that the product was not in them. A missing seal is a fact about the search, and we say so.

3:01 · The picks

Creatine first, because it is the clearest result in the entire data set. The highest-scoring creatine for GLP-1 users is BulkSupplements dot com Creatine Monohydrate, at one hundred and eight points — eight clear of second place, and one of only nine products out of two hundred and forty-six that carry a verifiable third-party seal. Five grams per serving against a three gram floor, in the reference-standard monohydrate form. Behind it, the same brand's capsule version and Pure Power's unflavoured monohydrate, both at one hundred, both also certified. Protein tells the same story at larger scale. Of one thousand one hundred and eighty-two protein products, only fourteen carry a third-party seal — and the top three are three of them. Ladder Whey Protein at ninety-eight, GHOST Whey at ninety-eight, and Klean Athlete Klean Casein at ninety-five. Twenty-six, twenty-five and twenty-four grams of protein per serving against a twenty gram floor. All three NSF Certified for Sport. When almost nothing in a category is certified, the few products that are will separate themselves. Fiber is where that breaks down, and it is worth sitting with. Of two hundred and twenty-eight fiber products, not one carries a third-party seal. Zero. So the ranking there rests entirely on dose and label transparency. Herbal Secrets Organic Whole Psyllium Husk leads at ninety-three, then Source Naturals at ninety-two, then Health Plus at ninety-two — and Health Plus is worth a look despite third place, because it carries seven grams of soluble fiber per serving against a five gram floor, the highest dose of the three. Omega-3: Source Oil Algae Omega-3 at eighty-five, with two thousand and twenty milligrams of EPA plus DHA per serving against a one thousand milligram floor, then the lemon-flavoured version of the same product, then Metagenics OmegaGenics at eighty-four.

4:33 · What we don't know

Now the part that the affiliate lists leave out. There are no direct trials of creatine in people taking GLP-1 medications. None. We rank creatine because the muscle-preservation evidence in weight loss generally is good, and we say plainly on the page that the GLP-1-specific evidence does not exist. Two of our six categories — electrolytes and multivitamin — have no confident top three at all, because the products we would want to rank have no published label data in the NIH database. So those pages show you what to look for instead of pretending to a ranking we cannot support. And the verification axis is unforgiving on purpose: almost every product we score has no third-party seal, which is a genuine finding about this industry rather than a flaw in the method. If a category page ever looks thin, that is the method working. We would rather show you a gap than fill it with something plausible.

5:13 · Check us

So: check us. The methodology is published, the scores are computed from label data anyone can pull, and every product card tells you plainly that we have no relationship with the brand and earn nothing if you buy. That is at insyder dot a-i. And whatever any ranking tells you, including ours — supplements are not necessary for everyone on a GLP-1. Confirm any addition with your prescriber, particularly if you take other medications.

THE CONTEXT

How GLP-1 medications affect your body

GLP-1 medications (semaglutide, tirzepatide, and related drugs) work partly by slowing how quickly the stomach empties and by reducing appetite — that mechanism is behind the weight loss, and it's also why several common side effects (nausea, feeling full quickly, changes in bowel habits) show up for many users.

Source and evidence

THE EVIDENCE MAP

Start with the problem,
not the product.

01

Losing muscle along with fat

Rapid weight loss on a GLP-1 can include a meaningful amount of lean muscle, not just fat — clinical guidance for this population recommends 1.2–1.6 g of protein per kilogram of body weight per day specifically to help preserve muscle during active weight loss.

Source and evidence
  • Protein powder — A well-dosed, tolerable protein powder is the most direct way to hit the 1.2–1.6 g/kg/day target described above.
  • Creatine — Creatine monohydrate is the best-studied, reference-standard form for preserving strength during weight loss — general-population evidence only; no direct GLP-1 trials exist yet.
02

Digestive side effects

Slowed digestion is a documented, mechanism-level effect of GLP-1 medications, and it's the reason nausea, feeling overly full, and changes in bowel habits (including constipation) are common, especially early in treatment or after a dose increase.

Source and evidence
  • Fiber — Soluble fiber (psyllium, PHGG) tends to sit easier alongside a GLP-1's slower digestion than insoluble, bulk-forming fiber.
03

Eating less overall

Appetite suppression means many users simply eat less food overall — which can be the intended effect, but it also reduces total nutrient intake. In one study of adults on GLP-1 therapy, vitamin D deficiency was the most common nutrient abnormality found, present in 7.5% of patients at 6 months and 13.6% at 12 months.

Source and evidence
  • Multivitamin — A daily multivitamin with adequate vitamin D3 covers the most commonly documented nutrient gap in GLP-1 users, described above.
04

Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea

Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea are the most commonly reported GLP-1 side effects, especially early in treatment or after a dose increase. Clinical guidance for managing them is behavioral first: for nausea, increase fluid intake in small sips without over-filling; for vomiting, prioritize hydration; for diarrhea, hydrate generously with water (plain, or with lemon and a pinch of bicarbonate) and specifically avoid sports-style isotonic drinks. Severe or persistent symptoms are a conversation for your prescriber, not a product page.

Source and evidence
  • Electrolytes — Where reduced eating and fluid loss make electrolytes relevant, a clean-label formula (moderate sodium, potassium, and magnesium, no added sugar) can support the hydration guidance above — though no GLP-1-specific clinical guideline sets exact targets, and our scoring criteria say so plainly (see the electrolytes category page).

THE CURRENT STACK

One category at a time.

Ranked independently from store availability.
Scores reproduce from public data.
Creatine108

Top verified pick

BulkSupplements.com Creatine Monohydrate

creatine monohydrate — reference form
View creatine ranking
Fiber93

Top verified pick

Herbal Secrets Organic Whole Psyllium Husk 5 g

soluble-first fiber (organic whole Psyllium Husk); sugar-free
View fiber ranking
Omega-391

Top verified pick

Seeking Health Optimal Fish Oil

EPA+DHA mg drives the dose axis (see receipts.dose), not the overlay
View omega-3 ranking
Electrolytes

Criteria published

Review in progress

We have not verified enough products to name a confident winner.
View electrolytes ranking
Multivitamin

Criteria published

Review in progress

We have not verified enough products to name a confident winner.
View multivitamin ranking

OUR METHOD

Every score comes
with receipts.

Every product in every category is scored the same way: how well-dosed it is against a clinical reference amount, whether the form is a good one, whether an independent lab has verified what's on the label, how clearly the label discloses every ingredient, and price per effective dose — plus one GLP-1-specific check per category (see that category's own page for what it checks). Every score is public and reproducible from the same two data sources anyone can check.

Insyder Score v0.4 · last scored 2026-08-10 · how scoring works →

GOOD TO KNOW

Frequently asked
questions

What supplements should I take while on Ozempic?
It depends on what a real gap looks like for you — not everyone on a GLP-1 develops one (see the standing disclosure on this page). Where we can score with confidence (protein, creatine, fiber, omega-3 today), we publish a top pick per category; where we can't yet (electrolytes, multivitamin), we publish criteria instead of guessing. Full methodology, axis weights, and changelog: /glp-1-supplements/methodology/.
Complete supplement stack for GLP-1 weight loss — what do I actually need?
We score six categories relevant to GLP-1 users — protein, creatine, fiber, electrolytes, multivitamin, omega-3 — each on the same five weighted scoring factors plus a category-specific GLP-1-specific check. This page shows the current pick (or an honest 'not confident yet' state) per slot; the latest scoring update promoted products that pricing has not yet reached — coverage is currently thin even at the top of each ranked list — unpriced products show value as unverified, and picks may reorder as pricing coverage grows. Full methodology, axis weights, and changelog: /glp-1-supplements/methodology/.