Amberen and One A Day Menopause are two of the most well known menopause supplements on the market, and unfortunately neither of these products are particularly great they just have large marketing budgets.
Amberen is a bit of a hodgepodge of vitamins and minerals in negligible doses, but using the fanciest names possible, and One A Day Menopause is an OK women's multivitamin but neither of them contain ANY of the herbal extracts or ingredients that have been shown to improve menopause symptoms.
You'd ultimately be better with a good women's multivitamin and certain far better off with a menopause supplement that's properly designed as such rather than a vitamin pill with menopause slapped on the label.
If I had to pick one, I'd say one a day is the better option, but if you want something actually tailored towards menopause, and not just a cheap marketing hook, I have a breakdown of the best menopause supplements here.
Amberen
Amberen Menopause Relief is an over-the-counter dietary supplement that claims to alleviate common menopausal symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, low energy, and irritability. It won't do any of these things of course, unless the core source of mood and low energy was a vitamin deficiency, but it's quite unlikely unless you really weren't getting enough zinc, then and only then, would this really help.
Amberen contains a proprietary blend of ingredients, which is not an ideal way of promoting a product when hiding the exact qualities of each ingredient. After all, if one ingredient is slightly more expensive one month it is easy to reduce the amount of this ingredient and substitute this for a cheaper alternative.
- Primary Purpose: Advanced Multi-Symptom Menopausal Relief
- Key Ingredients: ammonium succinate, calcium disuccinate, magnesium disuccinate, zinc difumarate, glycine, and vitamin E.
- Potential benefits: Almost none unless you're zinc deficient as there isn't mathematically enough space in the capsule to have effective doses of magnesium or calcium. (Zinc you only need 5-15mg to make a difference, the others you need grams, and one capsule holds a little under a gram).
- Format: Capsule.
- Target Audience: Women suffering with Menopausal symptoms
One A Day Menopause
One A Day is the much better option of the two. It's still a bit misleading in how effective it's going to be for menopause specifically, but at least it's a reasonable option.
One a Day Menopause does not hide behind a preparatory blend which Amberen unfortunately does, however when you compare this supplement to the number one menopausal supplement, you can see that this really is a multi-vitamin pill that's been tailored a little bit more towards deficiencies common for women in this age bracket. One A Day has decent dosages of vitamins and minerals but again it lacks any of the menopause specific ingredients we're looking for in something that is supposed to be for menopause relief, such as Rhubarb extract, Ginsing, Ashwagandha etc.
- Primary Purpose: Multi-Vitamin Menopausal Relief supplement
- Key Ingredients: Vitamins and minerals
- Potential benefits: Minor sleep impovements, minor mood improvements
- Format: Tablet.
- Target Audience: Women suffering with Menopausal symptoms
One a day is a decent multivitamin that can help with a few issues if you're deficient, but again, it's nothing special.
Amberen vs One A Day Price Comparison
Amberen is more expensive and a worse product, meaning one a day is by far the better value option:
- Amberen: Priced around $25 for 30 days serving pack, which comes out to approximately $.88 per serving.
- One A Day Generally priced around $20 for a 30-serving container, which is roughly $0.67 per serving.
Amberen vs One A Day Menopause Conclusion
Whichever you choose, there are better options, but if you really want to go with one of these, then it's One A Day, it's cheaper and offers better vitamin coverage. That said, if we compare it to something like EstroCare (read our review here or just take a look at the ingredients labels, the difference is night and day), or their women's multivitamin, both are FAR better. Now, you'll pay a little bit more, but you get more than 4 times the active ingredients, ones actually tailored towards menopause and a money back guarantee. Meaning that realistically we can't recommend Amberen or One A Day, when there's far better options on the market.