Oratide Roots — Daily Hair Capsules
Oratide Roots — Daily Hair Capsules
Daily, Roots and Restore together: 20% less than buying them separately.
Oratide Roots is built on an amino acid, two vitamins, two milled seeds and a mineral. The doses are our own, and every one of them is printed on the front of the pack.
Built with L-cystine, a sulfur-containing amino acid and a building block of keratin. Copper and biotin are essential nutrients. Our pumpkin and millet are plant-based foods, milled whole.
Roots supplies the inputs to support the nutritional foundation of healthy hair.
- Supports the nutritional foundation of healthy hair
- Copper, biotin and pantothenic acid are essential nutrients
- 500 mg L-cystine
- 300 mcg biotin
- 400 mg pumpkin seed, milled
- 200 mg millet, milled
- 92 mg pantothenic acid — B5
- 0.9 mg copper — cofactor for collagen & elastin
- 60 capsules — a full 30-day supply at the recommended dose
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Product information
Overview
Two capsules a day. 500 mg L-cystine, a sulfur-containing amino acid and a building block of keratin, with 400 mg milled pumpkin seed and 200 mg milled millet seed flour. Biotin, pantothenic acid and copper are included as essential nutrients, at the amounts printed on the panel below. No proprietary blend — every amount is disclosed.
Every batch is tested by an independent laboratory, and the certificate of analysis for each batch is available.
Supplement Facts
Supplement Facts
Serving Size 2 capsules
Servings Per Container 30
† Daily Value not established.
Suggested use
Specifications
- Brand
- Oratide
- Serving size
- 2 capsules
- Servings per container
- 30
- Net quantity
- 60 capsules
- Supply
- 30 days at the suggested use
- SKU
- ORA-RTS-60
Other ingredients
Contains no milk, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans or sesame.
Warnings
Contains biotin. Tell your doctor and laboratory staff that you take a supplement containing biotin.
Consult your doctor before use if pregnant, nursing, taking medication or managing a health condition. Keep out of reach of children.
Disclaimer
Product information on this page is provided by Oratide and is for reference only. It is not a substitute for advice from your physician or other healthcare professional. Do not use it to diagnose or treat a health problem.
Packaging and formulas may change. We recommend that you read the label on the product you receive rather than relying only on the information shown here.
Ingredients
Every ingredient, one at a time
L-CystineCystine — two molecules of L-cysteine joined together500 mg per serving of 2 capsules
Provisional — this is our formulation, not yet confirmed in writing by our manufacturer. What is still open is written below.
An amino acid. Two molecules of L-cysteine bonded through their sulfur atoms, which makes it the more stable of the pair and the one that survives in a capsule on a shelf.
Cystine is one of the sulfur-bearing amino acids, and sulfur-bearing amino acids are abundant in keratin — the structural protein of hair and nails. That is a fact about the protein, and we are careful to leave it as one.
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- NOT YET CONFIRMED, and we would rather say so than let you assume. Most food-grade L-cystine is made by hydrolyzing keratin, and the usual feedstocks are poultry feathers, hog hair or human hair. We have asked our manufacturer for the origin in writing, on the specification sheet, and we want the fermentation-derived material.
- Studied dose
- Unknown — and that is the honest answer. The trial published a list of ingredient names with no quantities anywhere in it.
- What was measured
- Hair density, counted per square centimetre, in 80 patients at a dermatology clinic over six months. Density rose by 9.9 hairs/cm² at three months and 12.3 at six, against placebo.
- Our dose against it
- We cannot compare them, because the paper printed no doses. Any brand telling you it matches that formula is matching something the authors never published.
Why we claim nothing for it
That trial is the reason this category sells L-cystine, and it does not support Roots.
It tested ten ingredients; we use four. One of our four is a different preparation — the trial used pumpkin seed oil, we use the milled seed. It published no doses, so the formula cannot be matched even in principle. And its participants were people who had walked into a clinic with diagnosed hair loss, not people reading a website.
We cite it because it is the real evidence in this category and you should be able to read it. We do not stand on it.
Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) SeedMilled pumpkin seed — not the oil400 mg per serving of 2 capsules
The whole seed, milled. A food, eaten as one for a very long time.
The distinction between the seed and the oil is not pedantry and it is the single most important thing on this card. The trial usually cited for pumpkin seed in hair supplements used pumpkin seed OIL. We use the milled seed. Those are different materials with different compositions, and we will not let the one borrow credit from the other.
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- Cucurbita pepo seed, milled. A whole-food ingredient, not an extract and not standardized.
Why we claim nothing for it
We claim nothing for it, and the preparation is a large part of why. We are not the material that was tested.
It is in Roots because it is a recognized food with a sulfur-rich protein content and it belongs in a capsule built out of foods. That is the whole of our reasoning, and you now have all of it.
Millet (Panicum miliaceum) Seed FlourProso millet · common millet200 mg per serving of 2 capsules
A cereal grain, milled to flour. Proso millet is a staple food across much of Asia and Africa and has been for thousands of years — it is one of the oldest cultivated grains there is.
In a hair supplement it is usually there as millet seed oil or an extract. Ours is the milled grain.
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- Panicum miliaceum seed, milled to flour. A whole-food ingredient, not an extract and not standardized.
Why we claim nothing for it
No human trial that we have read and verified tests millet for hair. Not one.
So this is a food in a capsule of foods, and nothing more than that is claimed for it. We would rather tell you that plainly than dress up a laboratory paper as evidence about a person.
BiotinVitamin B7 · vitamin H300 mcg per serving of 2 capsules — 1,000% of the Daily Value
A water-soluble B vitamin. It is a cofactor for a small number of enzymes involved in fat and amino-acid metabolism, and outright biotin deficiency is rare in people eating ordinary food.
A safety fact that belongs on this card rather than in small print: biotin interferes with a wide range of laboratory blood tests, including cardiac troponin, and can produce wrong results that nobody spots. FDA has issued a safety communication about it. Tell your doctor and the laboratory staff that you take a supplement containing biotin. That warning is on the Roots label for the same reason.
- Studied dose
- 1.25 to 10 mg a day by mouth, across the ten studies reviewed — plus 5 mg intramuscular and topical preparations
- What was measured
- Hair growth in people with alopecia, across mixed populations: telogen effluvium, androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata in children, healthy men, and patients on isotretinoin.
- Our dose against it
- 300 mcg. The reviewed range starts at 1.25 mg — four times our amount — and runs to 10 mg, which is more than thirty times it. We are an order of magnitude below the low end, so those studies are not even testing our dose.
Why we claim nothing for it
Biotin is the ingredient this whole industry is built on, and we claim nothing for it.
The 2026 systematic review concludes, in the authors' own words, that current evidence does not support routine biotin supplementation for alopecia in the absence of documented deficiency. The review most often waved at as proof biotin helps hair found eighteen reported cases — and in every one, the person had an underlying pathology causing the problem. Read properly it says close to the opposite of what it is used to say.
We put biotin in Roots because it is a B vitamin that belongs in a hair capsule the way it belongs in a multivitamin, and because leaving it out would have been its own kind of statement. We did not put it in so that we could tell you it works. It is there, the label says how much, and that is the end of it.
EvidenceMoltó-Balado 2026·Patel 2017·FDA 2017, biotin and lab testsAll of it, in full
Pantothenic Acid (as calcium pantothenate)Vitamin B592 mg per serving of 2 capsules — 1,840% of the Daily Value
A water-soluble B vitamin, supplied as calcium pantothenate, the stable salt used in essentially every supplement that contains it.
Two numbers on the panel are worth explaining. We put 100 mg of calcium pantothenate into the capsules, and the panel declares 92 mg — because the rule is to declare the vitamin itself, not the salt carrying it, and the calcium accounts for the difference. And 1,840% of the Daily Value is a large multiple of a very small requirement: the DV is 5 mg.
Why we claim nothing for it
We have no verified study on file for pantothenic acid and hair, so we make no claim for it.
It is a conventional inclusion in a hair capsule at a conventional amount. When we have read a paper worth citing, it will be linked from this card. If we never find one, this card will keep saying this.
Copper (as copper gluconate)0.9 mg per serving of 2 capsules — 100% of the Daily Value
An essential trace mineral, supplied as copper gluconate. The requirement is small and the window is narrow, which is why this is exactly 100% of the Daily Value and not a multiple of it.
Copper and zinc compete for the same absorption route in the gut, and a standing surplus of one pushes the other down over time. It is the reason the zinc in Oratide Daily is set at 8 mg rather than the full 11 mg — so that taking Roots and Daily together does not quietly work against itself.
Why we claim nothing for it
No claim. Copper is here because a formula containing this much zinc across the range ought to contain copper, and because the Daily Value exists and we can meet it exactly.
Note that this is copper as a dietary mineral. The copper in Oratide Scalp is copper tripeptide-1, a different thing entirely, applied to the scalp rather than swallowed, and nothing on one card carries over to the other.
Hypromellose (capsule)HPMC · the capsule shell itself
Provisional — this is our formulation, not yet confirmed in writing by our manufacturer. What is still open is written below.
The capsule, not something inside it. Hypromellose is made from plant cellulose, and it is the reason Roots is a vegetarian capsule rather than a gelatin one.
Gelatin is cheaper — two to three times cheaper per capsule — and at sixty capsules a bottle that difference is cents. Everything in the fill is an amino acid, two milled seeds, two vitamins and a mineral. A gelatin shell would have been the only animal-derived thing in the bottle.
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- Plant cellulose.
Why we claim nothing for it
It is a container. The only thing worth saying about it is what it is made of, which is above.
Rice Hull ConcentrateThe flow agent — not magnesium stearate
Provisional — this is our formulation, not yet confirmed in writing by our manufacturer. What is still open is written below.
A flow agent. Capsule fill has to move through a machine without sticking, and something has to make it slide. The industry default is magnesium stearate; we specified rice hull concentrate instead.
We will be straight with you about why. Inside an opaque capsule nobody sees or tastes either one, and magnesium stearate at one percent is not a quality problem. This is a decision about what we are willing to have on the ingredient list, not a decision about what works better. We think that is still a legitimate reason, and you should know it is the reason.
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- Rice hulls.
Why we claim nothing for it
None whatsoever. It helps powder move through a machine.
Questions
Before you buy this one
How long until I see results?
We don't know, everyone is different, and we'd rather say so than pick a number that sounds good to everyone.
The ingredient research that informed our doses ran anywhere from four weeks to six months depending on what was being measured.
Can I take this alongside prescription medication?
Ask your doctor or pharmacist.
We haven't tested any Oratide product alongside prescription medication of any kind.
Is there anything I should tell my doctor?
Yes. Oratide Roots contains biotin — 300 mcg per serving. Tell your doctor and laboratory staff that you take a supplement containing biotin.
What if it doesn't work for me?
Contact support@oratide.com within 60 days of your billing date and we'll send you a Return Merchandise Number (RMA).
Post the empty or unused product back to us with the RMA marked on the parcel, and we'll refund the product price.
We'd rather you told us why, though. It's more useful to us than the money.