Disclosure first, as always: we're Nu Skin affiliates. If you buy MyEdge through our link we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Now let's see whether it deserves one.
We reviewed the whole ageLOC TRMe system recently and reached an uncomfortable conclusion: almost every product in the range names its botanicals and refuses to publish a single dose. That's a straight failure of criterion 03 of our filter — Specification.
MyEdge is the exception. It prints its numbers. Which means, for once, we can do the thing we're always telling you to do: take the dose off the label and go check it against the actual research.
So that's what this review is. Not a vibe. A number, checked.
What's Actually In It
Per stickpack: guar galactomannan 2 g · white mulberry (Morus alba) extract 1.25 g, stated as equivalent to 12.5 g of dry leaf · base of maltodextrin. Mix one stickpack into 175–235 mL of water and drink it immediately before a meal, once daily.
Two active ingredients. Both with a number next to them. Already this puts MyEdge ahead of Slim-S, SmartWin and MyTriumph, none of which will tell you how much of anything you're swallowing.
One correction before we go further. Nu Skin's marketing copy for MyEdge also names chromium picolinate as one of the things that "powers it" — but chromium does not appear in the published Supplement Facts panel. We don't know why, and we're not going to credit a product for an ingredient it doesn't list. So we've left it out of our product card, and it plays no part in this review.
The Guar Fibre: This One Is Real
Guar galactomannan is a viscous soluble fibre — the kind that absorbs water and turns gelatinous. Drink it before a meal and it thickens in your stomach, slows gastric emptying, and physically extends the feeling of fullness. There's nothing mystical here. It's plumbing.
The research Nu Skin cites for it is legitimate and on point.
Partially hydrolysed guar gum taken with a meal increased perceived satiety after eating and reduced subsequent energy intake. A follow-up review examined guar fibre's role in appetite control specifically. The mechanism — viscosity, slowed gastric emptying, prolonged fullness — is consistent and well characterised.
And 2 g is a real dose. This is the sentence we almost never get to write about a weight-management product. It isn't a sprinkle of fibre so a marketing team can put "with fibre" on the box. It's an amount in the range the research actually uses.
The Mulberry: A Real Ingredient, Sold for the Wrong Job
This is the part of MyEdge that needs correcting, and the correction comes from Nu Skin's own citations.
The two studies they reference for white mulberry are good ones — randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, which is more than most supplement ingredients can claim.
Both randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. Mulberry leaf extract improved the glycaemic and insulin response to sucrose in healthy subjects, and improved glucose tolerance while decreasing insulin concentrations in normoglycaemic adults. Both are studies of blood-sugar response to carbohydrate — neither is a weight-loss trial.
Read those endpoints again. Glycaemic response. Insulin concentrations. Glucose tolerance.
Not body weight. Not fat mass. Not appetite.
Mulberry leaf extract does something genuinely interesting — it blunts the blood-sugar spike from a carb-heavy meal. That's a legitimate, well-evidenced effect and there are people for whom it's meaningful. But it is being sold to you inside a weight-management product, and a smoother glucose curve is simply not the same thing as losing weight.
The Number Nu Skin Still Won't Give You
We wanted to end this review with a cost-per-dose figure, because "what am I actually paying per gram of the thing that works?" is the question that cuts through all supplement marketing.
We couldn't do it. And the reason is itself the finding.
MyEdge retails in Australia at A$124.00, or A$111.60 on subscription. So far so clear. But Nu Skin's Australian product page does not state how many stickpacks are in the box. And when we went looking, we found the product sold internationally in at least two different configurations — a 15-sachet version at 2.45 g per sachet, and a 30-packet version at 3.29 g per packet. Those aren't just different pack sizes. Different sachet weights mean different doses.
So we can't tell you your cost per serve, and — more importantly — we can't be certain the sachet in an Australian box contains the same 2 g of guar as the panel we quoted above. We've cited the Pacific-region product information page, which is the most AU-relevant document Nu Skin publishes. But the pack you receive should say. Check it.
For a product whose single genuine strength is that it publishes its doses, not publishing the serving count is a strange own goal. It means the one product in the range that passes our Specification criterion still can't be assessed on value. Look at the box when it arrives, confirm the sachet weight and count, and if it doesn't match the panel above, we'd genuinely like to know — we'll correct this page.
To be fair about what you're paying for: it isn't only fibre. You're paying for the mulberry extract, for a stickpack you can throw in a bag, and for Nu Skin's manufacturing QA. Whether that bundle is worth A$124 is your call — but you should get to make it with the numbers in front of you, and right now you can't.
The Honest Verdict
What we can stand behind: 2 g of guar galactomannan, printed on the label, at a dose the research actually uses, working through a mechanism that is boring and real. Taken before your hardest meal, it will help you eat somewhat less at that meal. That is a modest, honest, defensible claim — and it is more than we can say for anything else in the TRMe range.
What we're flagging: the mulberry evidence is about glucose response, not weight loss. Chromium is in the marketing but not the panel. There is no double-blind trial of MyEdge itself — the studies are on the ingredients, not the product. And Nu Skin doesn't publish the serving count, so you cannot calculate your cost per dose.
Who it's actually for: someone who eats sensibly most of the day and then loses the plot at one predictable meal. Take it before that meal. It is a tool for portion control, not a weight-loss agent.
Who should skip it: anyone hoping it works without a reduced-calorie diet. Nu Skin says this themselves, in their own fine print: "There is no magic pill when it comes to weight wellness." The deficit is the intervention. MyEdge just makes it a bit easier to tolerate.
If you want the honest one-line version: it's the only product in the TRMe range whose dose you can check — and it survives the check. That's a real endorsement, and we don't hand those out often.
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We are Nu Skin affiliates and earn a commission on purchases through our links, at no extra cost to you. We publish the limitations of every product we recommend, including the ones we're paid on. Educational information about evidence only — not medical advice, and not a claim to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. MyEdge is a fibre supplement; if you take medication, are pregnant or breastfeeding, or manage a health condition (particularly diabetes, given the glycaemic effects described above), speak to your GP or pharmacist first. Introduce soluble fibre gradually and with plenty of water.
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