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Most Supplements Say "Made in USA." Almost None of the Ingredients Are.

The label says "Made in USA." The bottle was filled in America. The capsules were sealed in America. Almost everything else came off a boat. Here is what that has done to a generation of American men, and what we built in Wyoming to fix it.

By James Callahan|May 2025|7 min read
Wyoming high desert landscape with ancient sedimentary formations
Wyoming — home to some of the oldest and purest mineral deposits in North America.

Pick up any supplement bottle in your cabinet. Turn it around. Read the label. It says "Made in USA." That means the capsules were filled in America. The bottle was sealed in America. The label was printed in America. The marketing was approved in America. What it does not tell you is where the ingredients inside those capsules actually came from.

Roughly 80% of the active ingredients in American supplements come from overseas manufacturing facilities, according to FDA data on imported pharmaceutical ingredients. American men have been spending billions of dollars per year on supplements largely produced in factories with quality control standards that would not be legal here.

And the population trends on every male health metric have been going the wrong direction the entire time.

~80%
of active ingredients in American supplements are sourced from overseas manufacturing
Source: FDA data on imported pharmaceutical ingredients

What's in the bottle

Heavy metal contamination in foreign-sourced minerals. Inconsistent dosing between batches. Undisclosed binders, fillers, and flow agents that make manufacturing cheaper. Synthetic versions of vitamins with poor absorption profiles. "Proprietary blends" that hide actual ingredient amounts behind a legal loophole. Third-party testing that exists on paper but doesn't get done on product.

This is not speculation. Consumer Reports and independent testing labs have documented contamination in supplement after supplement. Lead. Arsenic. Cadmium. Mercury. In products marketed as health solutions.

The "Made in USA" label gives American men the impression they're getting American quality. They're getting American packaging around foreign ingredients with foreign quality control. The distinction matters because you're putting this into your body every day.

Twenty years of the wrong supplements

American men spend more on supplements than any generation in history. The supplement industry has tripled in size since 2000. Over the same period, male testosterone levels have continued to decline. Sperm counts have continued to drop. Metabolic health has continued to worsen. Energy, drive, and physical capacity have continued to erode.

The supplements aren't working. Not because supplementation is wrong in principle. Because the supply chain is broken. American men have been paying for the wrong supplements with the wrong supply chain to fix problems caused by the wrong food supply. Three layers of wrong, stacked.

3x
growth in the American supplement industry since 2000 — while every male health metric has continued to decline

What we found in Wyoming

I tried supplements for years. I started reading the labels. I started tracing where the ingredients actually came from. I realized almost everything was imported and unverifiable. Then I went looking for what real American minerals would even look like, and I found it in the ground in Wyoming.

Cross-section of geological layers showing mineral-rich sedimentary deposits
Billions of years of geological compression created these deposits — the full spectrum of trace minerals in their natural ratios.

What we built

The active ingredient in Menerals is fulvic acid. It is a compound trace mineral that nature spent billions of years creating. Layer after layer of organic plant matter, compressed under heat and pressure across geologic time, slowly forged into a single substance that contains the full spectrum of trace minerals the human body was built to recognize.

It cannot be made in a laboratory. It cannot be synthesized. It can only be found, in specific places on earth where the geology and time allowed it to form.

We source ours from Wyoming. The deposits there are some of the oldest and purest in North America. Once the raw material is taken from the ground, it goes through a pure water filtration and extraction process. No solvents. No chemicals. No heat above what nature already did to it. The result is fulvic acid in the form the body absorbs.

What you get in a bottle of Menerals is a full spectrum compound trace mineral, in the natural ratios the body recognizes, sourced from American soil, processed in America, third-party tested in America. No fillers. No binders. No synthetic vitamins. No proprietary blends.

This is the foundation. The raw materials your body has been asking for, in the form it was built to use.

Menerals bottleClick to see supplement facts
MeneralsWhat's Inside
Fulvic Acid200mg

A compound trace mineral formed over billions of years in geological deposits. Contains the full spectrum of trace minerals in the natural ratios the body recognizes. Acts as a molecular transporter, carrying nutrients directly through cell membranes.

Magnesium140mg

Required for over 300 enzymatic reactions including ATP energy production, cortisol clearance, muscle recovery, and sleep regulation.

Zinc15mg

Essential cofactor for testosterone synthesis in the Leydig cells. Identified in peer-reviewed research as one of three elements that consistently supported higher testosterone levels.

Boron2mg

Reduces Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin (SHBG), increasing the amount of free, bioavailable testosterone in circulation. Supports mineral metabolism.

Third-party tested·Made in USA·GMP certified
Hand holding mineral-rich Wyoming soil in natural light
American-sourced. American-processed. Third-party tested in America.
Clear water flowing over mineral-rich stone
Pure water filtration and extraction. No solvents. No chemicals.

Why this matters

Your body runs on minerals. Not vitamins. Not herbs. Not stimulants. Minerals. They are the raw materials that make testosterone production possible, that make energy production possible, that make sleep and recovery and focus and drive possible. Every muscle contraction requires calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, iron, and phosphorus in coordinated sequence. Every breath. Every heartbeat. Every thought.

When the mineral foundation is depleted — by decades of stripped food and ineffective supplements — every system degrades. The fatigue, the brain fog, the low drive, the slow recovery. These are not aging. They are deficiency.

The 90-day restoration protocol

Menerals is sold as a subscription. The first bottle ships free. Most men feel a measurable shift between day 30 and day 60 as the foundation rebuilds.

The 90-day money-back guarantee is exactly what it sounds like. Run the protocol for ninety days. If your body doesn't shift, return it for a full refund. The bottle costs you nothing.

This is built as a protocol, not a one-time purchase, because restoration takes time. The body doesn't rebuild what was depleted across decades in a week. Most men report the first noticeable shift in energy and sleep within the first month, with deeper changes in mood, drive, and recovery accumulating through month two and three.

Menerals bottle

Twenty years of foreign supplements didn't work.

Try something American for ninety days.

Try something American for 90 days →
Free first bottle·90-day guarantee·Cancel anytime
Menerals bottle on stone surface in natural light

You spent twenty years putting questionable supplements in your body. Try something American for ninety days. See what happens.

Most men who run this protocol find that the difference is not subtle. The body knows the difference between raw materials it recognizes and raw materials it doesn't. It always has.

Made in Wyoming. Made for American men.

Sources

  1. FDA (2023). Data on imported pharmaceutical and supplement ingredients.
  2. Consumer Reports (2021). Heavy metals in popular protein powders and supplements.
  3. Tanaka, T., et al. (2025). Distinct Clusters of Testosterone Levels, Symptoms, and Serum Trace Elements in Young Men. Nutrients, 17(5), 867.
  4. Thomas, D. (2007). The mineral depletion of foods available to us as a nation (1940–2002). Nutrition and Health, 19(1-2), 21-55.