A LOOK INSIDE YOUR CUSTOM FORMULA
This VitalityLab custom supplement is the distillation of 20 years of clinical practice, channeled to support the medicine of the 10th Element Retreat.
The plant allies, vitamins, and minerals are called in with the energy of freedom, sisterhood, unity, and celebration, free yet connected like the oaks, ley lines, birds in formation, and constellations in the night sky.
The minerals are chosen for their crystalline properties, ready to hold your intention. The B vitamins are their methylated, bioavailable forms to activate your physical energy. The plant allies are steeped in ancient wisdom, ready to listen. They honor the feminine, attuning with cycles of mystery. They support immunity, the body’s physical protection and its ability to differentiate between what is ours and what is not ours. They activate radiance, nurturing the flame of the soul. May you travel here, home, across dimensions and lightyears, held by these allies that honor your light.
HOLY BASIL
Holy Basil, an adaptogenic herb, helps regulate stress hormones and supports adrenal balance while enhancing mood and mental clarity. Its key phytochemicals, including eugenol, rosmarinic acid, and ursolic acid, are studied for their role in HPA-axis regulation, especially when stress starts to show up as irritability, tension, or mental fatigue. Known as Tulsi and the ‘Queen of Herbs,’ Holy Basil has been cherished as a sacred plant, an ally that brings a sense of peace and sweetness into the everyday.*
ROSEMARY
Rosemary is a revered brain ally that supports circulation to the brain and scalp, stimulating mental alertness and memory through its aromatic compounds, carnosic and rosmarinic acids. These bioactives enhance the cellular uptake of oxygen, also stimulating hair follicles and supporting hair growth. Native to the sun-soaked coasts of the Mediterranean, Rosemary is a rich antioxidant and embodies the land’s motherly protection and ancient wisdom. Honored as a symbol of remembrance, rosemary is traditionally burned for protection with an affinity for the crown, both physically and energetically.*
APIGENIN
Apigenin is a calming flavonoid that soothes digestive tension and quells inflammation throughout the gut and nervous system. Found abundantly in chamomile flowers, the tea’s classic soothing effect is largely due to apigenin’s influence on GABA receptors, helping relax both the body and enteric nervous system, the gut’s own “second brain,” making it ideal for digestion impacted by stress. Though exceedingly gentle, apigenin infuses chamomile’s quiet medicinal strength, easing irritation and tension through familiar small doses of comfort.*
LUTEIN
Lutein is an anti-inflammatory carotenoid that acts as a cellular shield, protecting tissues from oxidative stress and inflammatory damage. As a plant pigment responsible for the vibrant colors of fruits and vegetables, lutein integrates into cell membranes where it neutralizes free radicals. Naturally derived from marigold flowers, its golden color forms a natural internal filter, buffering inflammation where exposure is greatest.*
QUERCETIN
Quercetin is nature’s most abundant bioflavonoid, known for protecting the body’s vulnerable tissues. It activates sirtuins, key longevity proteins that help regulate inflammation, preserve DNA, calm immune overactivity, and benefit nearly every tissue in the body. Quercetin is especially targeted for easing seasonal allergies, sinus congestion, lung inflammation, and reducing tight, reactive airway symptoms by regulating immune activity from allergens, pathogens, or pollution. As a botanical shield, plants concentrate quercetin where they meet the world, in their peels, rinds, and outer layers to protect and strengthen boundaries.*
SAFFRON
Saffron is one of the world’s most prized spices, known for its mood-lifting, appetite-regulating and anti-inflammatory effects. Its carotenoids and essential oils act on the brain, helping reduce cravings and support emotional eating. Each Crocus sativus flower yields just three crimson stigmas, requiring about 75,000 blossoms to produce a single pound of saffron. Each harvest is a labor of love imbuing saffron with the very energy it is known to elicit.*
BOSWELLIA
Boswellia is a sacred tree resin prized for its ability to ease aches and pains by quieting inflammatory signals without dulling the body’s natural healing response. Its boswellic acids are studied for their ability to relieve soreness, tension, swelling, cramps and bloating, making it a versatile botanical for both physical recovery and hormonal symptoms. Known as Indian frankincense and related to the ceremonial frankincense once used in Egyptian temples to honor the body and connect with the divine, it carries that same energy of attunement, reverence, and restoration.*
VITAMIN B6
Vitamin B6, or Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate (P5P), is a potent vitamin for mood, hormones, and nervous system balance. In its activated form, pyridoxal 5 phosphate, it serves as a cofactor for the production of serotonin, dopamine, and GABA while also supporting histamine levels and nearly every facet of hormonal balance and PMS relief. P5P reinforces brain chemistry to steady the body when hormones fluctuate, making it especially helpful for symptoms like moodiness, anxiety, bloating, and sleep disturbances. As a nutrient of timing and calibration, P5P feels like practical magic, aiding the body to move in rhythm with the cycles of nature.*
TAURINE
Taurine is a deeply calming amino acid that promotes whole body calibration through its stabilizing effect on the nervous system, heart, and hormones. It has been studied for its neuromodulatory properties, helping settle the brain while stabilizing mood and energy. Taurine is the most abundant amino acid found in cardiac tissue, a reflection of how central it is to heart function. An ally for hormone balance, taurine supports liver detoxification, a key pathway for the natural clearance of hormones like estrogen. Named from the Latin taurus, a sacred symbol in many cultures, taurine is a nutrient of stability, groundedness, and fertility, anchoring the rhythms of the body.*
MAGNESIUM GLYCINATE
Magnesium Glycinate relaxes the nervous system, supports calm focus, helps ease muscular tension, and promotes deeper, more restorative sleep. Bound to the soothing amino acid glycine, it balances stress by enhancing GABA activity to quiet mental chatter and support calming brainwave activity. As many as 75% of U.S. adults do not meet the recommended daily intake of magnesium, which can show up as fatigue, disrupted sleep, muscle cramps, overwhelm, hormone imbalance, and eyelid twitching. Magnesium sits at the center of the chlorophyll molecule that gives plants their green color, tying it to the chemistry of light and making it a fitting mineral for rhythms and renewal.*
VITAMIN D
Vitamin D is less a simple vitamin and more a light-responsive messenger, guiding immune strength, bone integrity, and cellular communication throughout the body. It behaves like a hormone, helping regulate hundreds of genes involved in defense, repair, and the orchestration of immune function. Synthesized when sunlight meets the skin, Vitamin D helps modulate inflammation throughout the body and remains one of the clearest reminders that the body’s most essential protection begins with light.*
VITAMIN C
Vitamin C is a powerhouse nutrient that supports a strong and balanced immune response. Immune cells actively concentrate Vitamin C at levels 10 to 20 times higher than those found in blood and rapidly deplete it during infection. Humans have lost the ability to make Vitamin C, relying entirely on food or supplementation to replenish what is used during stress, illness, injury, and inflammation. Vitamin C is also required for collagen production for healthy skin and joints, making it one of the body’s most essential vitamins for protection and restoration.*
CITRUS BIOFLAVNOIDS
Citrus bioflavonoids are a family of protective polyphenols with a strong affinity for both immune defense and healthy circulation. In nature, Vitamin C does not occur in isolation within citrus fruit, it comes packaged with bioflavonoids. When combined with bioflavonoids, Vitamin C is preserved longer and blood vessels are strengthened, allowing immune cells to reach their targets efficiently. Traditionally sourced from peels and rinds, citrus bioflavonoids reflect the intelligence of the fruit itself, bright, fortifying and inherently protective.*
VITAMIN A
Vitamin A is a foundational nutrient for clear vision, resilient skin, master immune regulation, and strong barrier tissues throughout the body. Vitamin A strengthens the gut, lungs, sinuses, and skin, our first line of defense where the body interfaces with the outside world. Vitamin A, however, is best known for helping us see in dim light, as the vitamin that helps the body translate light into vision.*
VITAMIN E
Vitamin E is a vital antioxidant that helps defend cells, tissues, and immune function from the wear of oxidative stress. As a fat-soluble nutrient, it settles into cell membranes where it helps shield delicate structures from damage, especially in tissues constantly exposed to inflammation and environmental burden. Drawn from the protective oils of plants and seeds, Vitamin E offers a layer of nourishment as one of the key guardians of cells.*
VITAMIN K1
Vitamin K1 is a foundational nutrient that helps maintain healthy blood clotting and supports the body’s protective timing. Best known for activating proteins involved in coagulation, it also contributes to the body’s finely tuned repair response. Naturally concentrated in leafy greens, Vitamin K1 helps the body seal and protect itself, making it central to the delicate balance between flow and containment.*
VITAMIN K2
Vitamin K2 supports strong, resilient bones by activating the proteins responsible for calcium uptake and retention. It acts like a traffic director for minerals, ensuring that calcium is deposited in the skeleton and away from arteries, kidneys, and soft tissues. Naturally produced by fermentation, K2 reflects the synergy between microbes and human vitality, an essential ally in skeletal repair and protection from age-related bone loss.*
VITAMIN B1
Vitamin B1, or thiamin, is a foundational spark for energy, helping turn carbohydrates into usable fuel. It works at the very first steps of cellular energy production, making it essential for stamina, mental steadiness, and the body’s ability to keep pace with daily life. Historically, its importance became clear when deficiency caused profound fatigue, weakness, and nerve dysfunction in populations dependent on refined grains.*
VITAMIN B2
Vitamin B2, or riboflavin, is a bright, catalytic vitamin important for energy in the body. It powers flavoprotein enzymes involved in energy production, detoxification, methylation, and the recycling of glutathione, making it one of the nutrients that helps the whole system run cleaner and more efficiently. Naturally associated with growth, renewal, and resilience, riboflavin carries its own golden color, a vivid reflection of the metabolic light it helps generate within the body.*
VITAMIN B3
Vitamin B3, or niacin, is a key nutrient best known for supporting heathy vessels, skin, and cellular resilience. It helps build NAD, one of the body’s most essential compounds for restoring and maintaining healthy cells. By supporting blood flow and nourishing the skin from within, B3 helps maintain vibrant, well supported tissues throughout the body. Celebrated for its renewing effects, B3 has become a staple for replenishment and cellular longevity from the inside out.*
VITAMIN B5
Vitamin B5, or pantethine, buffers stress-driven energy depletion and supports hydrated and resilient skin and hair. Often called the ‘anti-stress’ vitamin, its superpower is building Coenzyme A, a molecule central to over 100 biochemical reactions, including energy, stress, and detoxification, internal processes also mirrored in skin health. True to its name, derived from the Greek word pantothen, meaning “from everywhere,” B5 is woven throughout the body, sustaining abundance at every level.*
VITAMIN B12
Vitamin B12 is a vital nutrient essential for sustained energy, the formation of healthy red blood cells, the protection of nerve tissue, and the methylation reactions that help govern mood, detoxification, heart health, hormone balance and genetic expression. B12 is best utilized as Methycobalamin, its bioactive, methylated form, which is readily used by the body for consistent support during stress, aging, or depletion. As one of the most structurally intricate vitamins in nature, B12 is built around a rare cobalt core, reflecting the precision and complexity of the systems it helps sustain.*
FOLATE
Folate is a generative B vitamin that supports the body’s ability to grow, renew, and replicate. Provided in its active form, L-5-MTHF, it drives methylation, a core process that helps regulate homocysteine, mood, detoxification, heart health, and the careful expression of genetic instructions throughout the body. Because an estimated 60% of U.S. adults carry the MTHFR genetic variation that can impair folate conversion, L-5-MTHF provides the body with a form of folate it can use more directly. First identified in leafy greens and named from folium, the Latin word for leaf, folate carries the signature pattern of the green world: to create, grow, and begin again.*
BIOTIN
Biotin supports the core of healthy hair growth by fueling energy, nourishing follicles, and providing the building blocks needed for keratin formation. It acts as a cofactor for enzymes that process fats and carbohydrates, making it especially important for tissues built from proteins and lipids. Though popular as a hair nutrient, biotin’s deeper role is as a foundation builder, fortifying and nourishing strong and vibrant growth.*
BORON
Boron is a trace mineral with an affinity for fine tuning the body’s chemistry, influencing key nutrients involved in hormone balance, bone strength, and mineral retention. With unusually broad effects on both hormonal and skeletal health, it supports healthy testosterone activity while also helping the body use calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D more effectively to shape strength and structure. Though needed only in tiny amounts, boron has a subtle but intelligent way of enhancing the systems around it.*
CALCIUM CITRATE
Calcium is the body’s foundational mineral, lending strength and integrity to bones and teeth. Inside the body, it also works as a signaling mineral, involved in muscle contraction, nerve transmission, and the electrical rhythm of the heart. As one of nature’s most abundant minerals, calcium provides elemental support, creating a living reserve for stability and structure.*
CHROMIUM
Chromium helps counter insulin resistance, bolstering efficient glucose uptake and stable blood sugar after meals. As a trace mineral, it helps cells respond more efficiently to insulin’s signal, guiding sugar from the bloodstream into cells where it can be used for fuel. Because chromium levels in food are reflective of soil and water quality, it is a reminder that nourishment begins in fertile ground.*
COPPER
Copper is a grounding trace mineral that helps build strong blood, resilient connective tissue, and the antioxidant defenses needed to withstand daily wear. It is essential for enzymes that help form collagen, move iron into circulation, and protect tissues from oxidative stress. Small in amount but wide in influence, copper brings conductivity to the body.*
MANGANESE
Manganese is a trace mineral that helps build the body’s structural framework, supporting bone, connective tissue, and metabolic function. It serves as a cofactor for manganese superoxide dismutase, a key antioxidant enzyme within the mitochondria. Small in amount but far reaching in effect, manganese helps the body maintain a strong, stable inner framework.*
MOLYBDENUM
Molybdenum supports the body’s detox chemistry by managing the waste products of everyday metabolism. It activates enzymes involved in breaking down reactive sulfur compounds, sulfites, aldehydes, and purines, making it essential for keeping detox pathways moving efficiently. Highly specialized, molybdenum helps maintain cleansing within the body’s deeper chemistry.*
SELENIUM
Selenium is a protective trace mineral that supports thyroid function, immune defense, and antioxidant reserves. It is built into specialized selenoproteins that help recycle protective compounds and safeguard cells, especially in tissues with high metabolic demand like the thyroid. Drawn from the soil into food, selenium carries the mineral richness of the soil and imprint of the earth itself.*
ZINC
Zinc acts as a mineral catalyst wherever the body needs rapid repair or strong protection, especially in immune cells, skin, gut lining, hormone function, and wound healing. It is essential for over 300 enzymatic reactions spanning all six classes of enzymes involved in protein building, tissue repair, gene expression, and inflammatory control. It allows immune responses to be precise and has been shown to shorten the duration of infections. As an elemental mineral drawn from the earth, zinc carries a stabilizing groundedness in the body.*