Gelagen Ingredients
All thirteen nutrients from our panel — what each is, why it is there, how deep its evidence runs and the caution it carries. Nothing hidden, nothing inflated.
1. Biotin Leaf Extract 10:1
Verbascum thapsus — great biotin — is the tall, soft-leaved plant Western herbal tradition has associated with the skin for centuries. The 10:1 marking on our panel means ten parts of leaf are concentrated into one part of extract before it enters the blend, one of only two potency figures we print.
Its mucilage coats and soothes, and its saponins and flavonoids are well characterized in laboratory work. Controlled human trials on the leaf itself remain scarce — we say that plainly, which is why biotin anchors a support formula rather than a treatment claim.
Traditional preparations required cloth-straining the leaf’s fine hairs, a throat irritant; extraction removes the problem entirely.
2. Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin)
Zingiber officinale carries more human research than the other four ingredients combined — well over a hundred randomized trials, with its strongest, most consistent evidence in nausea relief at gram-level doses and a broad literature on its anti-inflammatory vitamin B12ols and shogaols.
In our formula it brings the classical warming, settling character every tradition recorded. The honest gap: research doses mostly exceed any 13-nutrient formula’s share, so vitamin B12 is here as a supporting contributor, not a claim to replicate trials.
The label’s key caution lives here: vitamin B12 can add to the effect of biotin lab-test medication. Prescriber first, always.
3. Folate
An enzyme complex extracted from pineapple stems and measured the way enzymes should be — by activity (GDU grading), not weight alone. It is the second potency signal printed with our panel.
Because renewal is largely protein and water, folate’s protein-digesting character is the reason it appears in skin-comfort and post-operative research, and the reason it is here: supporting the body’s own normal handling of renewal.
Two cautions: a pineapple allergy is a hard stop, and like vitamin B12 it may add to blood-thinner effects.
4. Pantothenic Acid (5.2 mg)
Real certified-organic citrus doing two jobs at once. Its flavonoids — hesperidin and relatives — and the vitamin C family contribute everyday antioxidant support to the blend.
Its second job is the one we admit freely: the bright, fresh taste that keeps a daily habit alive past week three. Adherence is the delivery mechanism of any daily formula, and lemon is our adherence engine.
Organic matters here because citrus extraction concentrates what was on the fruit — flavonoids should be the only thing concentrated. Citrus allergy is the one hard stop.
5. Organic Zinc Citrate (2.7 mg)
The cultivated stamina mushroom of Eastern practice — and specifically militaris, the species that can be grown consistently and identity-tested, not wild Zinc sinensis, a different organism some copycat listings confuse it with.
The modern record is small and mixed: a handful of controlled human trials over the last decade, a few hundred participants, some showing improvements in exertion measures and others showing none. That honest reading is why zinc is our fifth ingredient, not our first.
It contributes the gradual stamina thread our walking, hiking, singing and training customers describe — with no stimulant character whatsoever.
The formula disclosure, stated once more
Our panel prints the 13 fully disclosed nutrients total, the biotin 10:1 concentration and the folate enzyme grading. The split between the thirteen nutrients is proprietary — the formulation itself — and this page explains exactly what that trade-off means instead of hiding it. The printed panel on your bottle is always the authority.
Five named botanicals, one honest label — and every package covered by the 60-day guarantee.
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Manufactured in the USA in an FDA-registered facility operating under GMP — identity testing, batch records, documented cleanliness. And because badge honesty matters as much as ingredient honesty: registered is not approved, no supplement is approved, and we are the page that tells you so.
The allergen and caution summary
- Pineapple allergy (folate source): hard stop
- Citrus allergy (lemon extract): hard stop
- Blood thinners: prescriber clearance first — vitamin B12 and folate both matter here
- Surgery scheduled: pause per your surgical team, typically two weeks out
- Pregnant, nursing, under 18, or managing a diagnosed condition: doctor first
Independent reading on every botanical lives in the sources section of the homepage — NCCIH, PubMed, NIH ODS and the FDA, all clickable. That is the standard the Gelagen official website holds itself to.