You get through the day and you have nothing left after it. You bought shilajit because it is what men your age are told to take for exactly that. What arrived was a jar of dark resin with no ratio on it, no concentration, and no way for you to know whether it was worth anything.
Shilajit is sold by the milligram, and the milligram is the least useful number on the panel. What decides the strength of the capsule is how much raw material went into it, which the label prints as an extract ratio, or how much of the marker compound survived, which the label prints as a percentage. Of the 26 shilajit products we read, 17 print neither. The number on the front is raw weight and nothing more.
The gap between ratios is bigger than the gap between milligram figures. A 1,000 mg capsule of a 10:1 extract starts from ten grams of material. A 400 mg capsule of a 30:1 extract starts from twelve. The bottle with the smaller headline is the more concentrated one, and you cannot see that unless both labels print the ratio. Only 1 of the 26 we read printed 30:1 or better.
Then there is the shape of the category. 21 of the 26 are shilajit and nothing else, and 6 of those are resins sold in a jar, portioned with the edge of a small scoop and a guess. Shilajit carries the mineral layer. Stress balance and stamina are separate jobs that a single-ingredient jar never starts. One formula of 26 cleared all four checks.
Bought shilajit and felt nothing? Check the ratio, not the milligrams.A big milligram number on a low-ratio extract is a small dose wearing a large label. Turn the bottle over and look for a ratio like 10:1 or 30:1, or a standardized percentage. If there is neither, the brand has told you the weight of the powder and nothing about its strength, and you are not comparing anything when you hold it next to the bottle beside it.