Noulega™ Choline Bitartrate 500 mg – 60 Capsules

Adults: Take 1 capsule daily with food, or as directed by a healthcare professional.

Do not exceed the recommended daily serving.

Each capsule contains:
Choline Bitartrate — 500 mg

Other ingredient:
Bovine gelatine capsule shell.

Noulega Choline Bitartrate provides 500 mg of choline bitartrate per capsule as a convenient once-daily source of supplemental choline.

Choline is an essential nutrient required for several normal physiological functions. It is involved in the formation of cell membranes, the production of acetylcholine, and the transport and metabolism of lipids. Choline also helps support normal liver function.

Although the body can produce some choline in the liver, this endogenous production is not sufficient to meet the body's requirements, meaning that choline must also be obtained through the diet.

- Helps support normal liver function
- Contributes to normal lipid transport and metabolism
- Plays an important role in normal cell membrane structure
- Required for the production of acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter
- Provides a convenient supplemental source of choline for daily nutritional intake

Choline is required to produce phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin, two major phospholipids that form important structural components of cell membranes.

It is also required for the production of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter involved in memory, mood, muscle control and other brain and nervous-system functions.

Choline also participates in lipid transport and metabolism. In the liver, phosphatidylcholine plays an important role in transporting lipids, helping explain the established relationship between adequate choline intake and normal liver function.

Why this matters: These functions make choline important for maintaining normal cellular structure, supporting communication between nerve and muscle cells, and enabling the liver to process and transport fats normally.

Because the body produces some choline but not enough to meet its full requirements, adequate intake from food and other nutritional sources remains important.

Pregnancy & Breastfeeding
Choline is an essential nutrient, and nutritional requirements increase during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Noulega™ Choline is positioned as a general adult choline supplement rather than a pregnancy-specific product.

If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, consider your overall choline intake from food, prenatal products and other supplements and consult a healthcare professional regarding your individual nutritional requirements.

For pregnancy- and maternal-nutrition-specific positioning, see the Fertimax Choline range. Choline requirements increase during pregnancy and lactation.

Medication Use
Choline is not currently known to have clinically significant interactions with medications. However, if you have a medical condition or are taking medication, discuss your supplement use with a healthcare professional.

Possible Effects
Choline is generally well tolerated when consumed within appropriate amounts.
Excessive total choline intake can cause effects including fishy body odour, vomiting, excessive sweating or salivation and low blood pressure. Consider choline obtained from food and other supplements and do not exceed the recommended serving.

Product Characteristics
Choline bitartrate has a naturally distinctive odour that may be noticeable when the container is opened. A characteristic odour alone does not indicate that the product has deteriorated.

Allergen Information
Free from yeast, wheat, gluten, soy, milk, egg, fish and shellfish ingredients.
Manufactured in a facility that also processes ingredients containing these allergens.

Storage
Store below 25 °C in a cool, dry place away from moisture and direct sunlight.

Keep out of reach of children.

Important Information
For adult use only.
Do not exceed the recommended daily serving.
Consult a healthcare professional before use if pregnant or breastfeeding, if you have a medical condition, or if you are taking medication.
Do not use if hypersensitive to any ingredient.
Do not use if the seal is broken or missing.
Discontinue use and consult a healthcare professional if you experience an unexpected or persistent adverse reaction.

This unregistered medicine has not been evaluated by the SAHPRA for its quality, safety or intended use.

This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease and should not replace advice from a registered healthcare professional.

What is choline?
Choline is an essential nutrient involved in several normal physiological functions, including cell membrane structure, acetylcholine production, and lipid transport and metabolism. The body can produce some choline, but dietary intake is still required to meet nutritional needs.

What does choline have to do with the brain and nervous system?
Choline is required to produce acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter involved in memory, mood, muscle control and other brain and nervous-system functions. This nutritional role should not be interpreted as a claim that choline supplementation improves cognitive performance in healthy individuals.

Why is choline associated with liver function?
Choline participates in lipid transport and metabolism, and phosphatidylcholine is important for transporting lipids from the liver. Adequate choline intake is therefore important for normal liver function.

Why does Choline Bitartrate have a distinctive smell?
Choline bitartrate naturally has a characteristic odour that may be noticeable when the bottle is opened. This characteristic smell alone does not indicate product deterioration.

Why does Noulega Choline advise consultation during pregnancy?
Choline itself is an essential nutrient and choline requirements increase during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The warning does not mean that choline is inherently unsuitable during pregnancy.

Noulega Choline is positioned as a general adult nutritional supplement rather than as a pregnancy-specific product. Pregnant or breastfeeding women should consider choline from food, prenatal supplements and other sources and follow appropriate professional guidance for their individual nutritional requirements.

Is there a Fertimax version of Choline?
Yes. Fertimax Choline Bitartrate provides the same form of choline — Choline Bitartrate — but is positioned specifically within the Fertimax nutritional range for pre-conception, pregnancy, breastfeeding and postnatal nutritional support.

Choline is particularly relevant during these stages because nutritional requirements increase during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Fertimax therefore presents choline within this maternal-nutrition context, with product information focused on supporting adequate choline intake during periods of increased nutritional demand.

Noulega Choline Bitartrate, by comparison, is positioned as a general adult choline supplement. Its product information focuses more broadly on choline's role in cell membrane structure, acetylcholine production, normal brain and nervous-system function, lipid transport and metabolism, and normal liver function.

The distinction is therefore primarily how the product fits into your nutritional needs rather than suggesting that choline itself becomes a different nutrient under the two brands.

If you are specifically considering choline as part of pre-conception, pregnancy, breastfeeding or postnatal nutrition, the Fertimax Choline range provides the more relevant product-information pathway. For general adult choline supplementation, Noulega Choline provides the general nutritional-support option.