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Inside the capsule

Proprietary Herbal Boost

The functional herbal base that carries the active — fruit enzymes, warming botanicals and whole-food powders where the industry uses inert fillers like magnesium stearate or rice flour.

Why not just fill the capsule?

A capsule holds around 500 mg, and many actives are effective at far less than that. Something has to carry them. The industry default is inert bulking agents — magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, silicon dioxide — chosen because they are cheap and invisible. We chose a different answer: carry the active in a base of food. Every gram in the capsule is something we would be happy to name.

What's actually in it

Fruit enzymes (papain from papaya, bromelain from pineapple), warming botanicals (turmeric root, ginger root, black pepper), whole-food powders (beetroot, apple cider vinegar), food-form minerals (magnesium and zinc bound to citrate, a fruit acid), a coconut-derived fat carrier, and a plant-source vitamin D3 from lichen. The exact milligrams differ per product — a product whose active needs little space carries more of the base — and every product page lists its own amounts.

On your bottle

The blend appears on the Supplement Facts panel as its own line, and the capsule shell is listed separately under Other Ingredients: vegan HPMC capsules. What you read here is the same recipe, spelled out.

The honest position

These are carrier-level amounts, not therapeutic doses — we make no health claims for the base itself. The fair comparison is not against a turmeric supplement; it is against the spoonful of magnesium stearate you would otherwise be swallowing. Between wood-pulp filler and food, we picked food.

Every ingredient, named

The exact milligrams differ per product — each product page lists its own amounts under Formula details.

  • Turmeric root extract (Curcuma longa)Warming botanical, paired with black pepper
  • Ginger root (Zingiber officinale)Warming digestive botanical
  • Magnesium (citrate, fruit-acid form)Food-form mineral
  • Papaya fruit enzyme (papain)Protein-digesting fruit enzyme
  • Pineapple stem enzyme (bromelain)Protein-digesting fruit enzyme
  • Whole beetroot powderWhole-food powder
  • Apple cider vinegar powderWhole-food powder
  • MCT from coconutCoconut-derived fat carrier
  • Zinc (citrate, fruit-acid form)Food-form mineral
  • Lichen Concentrated Extract – D3 Calciferol (20k IU/g)Plant-source vitamin D3
  • Black pepper (Piper nigrum)Traditional companion to turmeric

Finding it on your bottle

On the Supplement Facts panel it appears as Proprietary Herbal Boost. The capsule shell is listed separately — Other Ingredients: Vegan HPMC Capsules — plant-derived, with no gelatin.

Contains turmeric: consult a registered health care practitioner before use if you are pregnant, taking blood-thinning or antiplatelet medication, have gallstones or a bile duct obstruction, or have stomach ulcers or excess stomach acid.

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