Trenton Garza — Founder, SuppVault
Trenton Garza
14 years in supplements, including owning a brick-and-mortar supplement store and building the data pipeline behind SuppVault’s scoring system. I buy, sell, read labels, and argue about doses for a living. Everything on this site is something I’ve personally looked at.
Who I Am
I started taking supplements at 14. I started selling them a few years after that. For the last 14 years I’ve been inside this industry — as a customer, as a gym rat, as a brick-and-mortar store owner, and now as the person running SuppVault. I’ve watched the category evolve from the prop-blend DMAA era to fully disclosed clinical dosing. I’ve seen which brands take formulation seriously and which ones ride marketing budgets. I’ve read more Supplement Facts panels than I care to count.
I built SuppVault because the one thing nobody was doing was making all that label-reading accessible. Most supplement review sites are either brand sponsorships dressed up as reviews or editorial picks with no underlying data. I wanted something different: a scoring system that reads every label with the same rigor, compares every dose against peer-reviewed clinical research, and publishes the results whether the brand likes the number or not.
Why You Should Trust Me (And Where You Shouldn’t)
What I am:
- A supplement industry operator with 14 years of direct experience selling and using these products
- The person who built the ingredient knowledge base that powers the SuppVault Score (2,492+ entries with clinical dosing data sourced from peer-reviewed research and Examine.com evidence grading)
- Someone who reads actual supplement labels, not just press releases
- The owner of a store that sells products across the full quality spectrum — I stock products scoring 40 next to products scoring 95, because the score is only honest if the distribution is real
What I’m not:
- A registered dietitian, doctor, or licensed sports nutritionist
- An unbiased third party — I own the store that sells the products being scored, and I’m transparent about the conflict of interest and the specific places the scoring algorithm has blind spots
- Able to replace a conversation with your doctor about drug interactions, medical conditions, or personalized dosing
If you need medical advice, talk to a doctor. If you need personalized nutrition programming, talk to a sports RD. If you want to know whether a product’s formula actually matches what its marketing says — that’s what I built SuppVault for.
What I Write About
How the SuppVault Score works, where it’s reliable, where it has blind spots, and why proprietary blends aren’t penalized.
Category guides (best pre-workouts, best protein, best creatine) with clinical dose verification on every pick.
NCAA, WADA, high school, and professional league rules. Which ingredients fail tests, which certifications matter, and how to stay clean.
What the research actually says about specific ingredients — clinical doses, mechanisms, synergies, and the common label tricks.
Selected Articles
Found a Mistake? Disagree With a Score? Tell Me.
I make mistakes. The scoring algorithm has known blind spots (documented here), and there are probably blind spots I haven’t noticed yet. If you’ve got a product scoring wrong, a fact I got wrong, or an argument about how the scoring should work — I want to hear it.
Best place to reach me: Instagram DMs @trentongarza. I read them all.
A note on this page: This is a v1 author page. Over time it will include a real photo, specific credential links, published work beyond SuppVault, and deeper bio content. For now, the name, the 14 years of experience, the conflict of interest disclosure, and the Instagram handle are what’s here — and what’s real.