Life, Joy, Health

For years I knew what belonged in the bottle. I just didn’t get to decide.

I’m Chris. I spent years helping formulate skincare for other brands, reading the same studies the marketing copy was borrowing from.

Life, Joy, Health is the bottle I’d have made if the call had been mine. One capsule a day, for skin health, from the inside. It isn’t for sale yet — the waitlist is how you hear first.

What the years taught me

Everyone is chasing skin from the outside. Serums, creams, ten-step routines. I worked on those, and I have nothing bad to say about a good moisturiser.

But I was also in the rooms where the amounts got settled, and the amount was rarely the thing the study had used. It was the thing that survived the cost sheet. Meanwhile the research I kept reading pointed somewhere else entirely — inward, to what you swallow rather than what you spread.

One trial in particular stayed with me: trans-resveratrol in women over forty, measuring visible signs of skin ageing. I could tell you what it found. What mattered more was that the amount it used was never going to make it onto a label I was working on.

So this formula runs the other way round. It starts from what the research actually used, and the label follows.

What I won’t tell you

Fisetin and quercetin sit at the centre of the cellular senescence research, and that is genuinely why they’re in here. But the high-dose intermittent protocols you’ll read about online are a different thing from a daily capsule, and I’m not going to blur the two to make this sound bigger.

There’s a version of this page that promises you a decade back. I’d rather make one claim I can stand behind than ten I’d spend the next year defending.

What’s in the capsule

Seven compounds, every amount printed. No proprietary blend hiding the numbers.

  • trans-Resveratrol 150 mg

    The anchor of the formula, at the amount used in the skin-ageing trial.

  • Pterostilbene isolate 50 mg

    A close structural relative of resveratrol, studied for better oral availability.

  • Quercetin phytosome 100 mg

    Partly for its own sake, partly for the rest of the formula: it competes for the same liver pathway that clears resveratrol before it circulates.

  • Fisetin isolate 50 mg

    The other half of the senescence pairing described above.

  • Curcumin phytosome 100 mg

    Phytosome form specifically, because plain curcumin is absorbed poorly enough to be close to decorative.

  • Astaxanthin beadlets 45 mg, for 4.5 mg astaxanthin

    The carotenoid pigment that makes salmon and krill pink.

  • AstraGin® 50 mg

    An absorption aid, so the amounts above have a better chance of behaving like amounts.

Be there for the first run

The first production run is small, and I’m not taking money for it yet. The waitlist is how you get told first, including what it costs, the moment I know myself.