Health decisions involve a kind of economics that most people haven’t explicitly thought through. Short-term fixes have immediate, visible payoffs. Take a pain reliever and the pain stops. Take a sleep aid and you sleep. Take an energy supplement and you feel more alert. These interventions are easy to justify because the benefit is immediate … Read more
The word “supplement” covers an enormous range of things. Vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, enzymes, hormones, probiotics — they’re all called supplements, but they work through fundamentally different mechanisms and serve fundamentally different purposes. Understanding those differences helps you make better decisions about what you actually need. Most supplements work by providing raw materials or … Read more
People ask me regularly what I do to maintain my health. I’m 61, I do demanding physical work, I recover quickly, and I don’t carry the signs of aging that many people my age do. So the question is understandable. I try to be honest and specific rather than giving a list of things that … Read more
There’s a tendency in health culture to pursue intensity. Extreme diets. Intense detoxes. Aggressive supplementation protocols. The assumption is that more dramatic intervention produces more dramatic results. At the cellular level, the opposite is often true. Your cells operate on rhythms. Repair processes happen continuously, not in bursts. Antioxidant systems are always running, not activated … Read more
The skincare industry is enormous, and most of it operates at the surface. Moisturizers hydrate the outer layers of skin. Retinoids stimulate collagen production and accelerate cell turnover. Antioxidant serums neutralize free radicals at the skin’s surface. Sunscreens prevent UV damage. All of these have value. But they all operate on the skin from the … Read more
One of the most important questions you can ask about any health product is: who tested it, and what did they find? For ASEA, the answer to that question involves the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — one of the United States Department of Energy’s national laboratories, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute. This is not a … Read more
I want to spend some time on the specific research behind ASEA — not the marketing claims, but what the actual science shows and how to evaluate it. The starting point is the science of redox signaling itself, which exists entirely independently of ASEA. Decades of peer-reviewed research published in journals including Antioxidants & Redox … Read more
I’ve spent most of this blog talking about the science and the personal health side of redox signaling. Today I want to be transparent about something else — because some of you have been wondering. Yes, there’s a business opportunity associated with ASEA. I’m a brand partner, which means I earn income when people I … Read more
You’ve seen it. Two people the same age — one looks and functions a decade younger than the other. One is energetic, recovering quickly, rarely ill. The other is managing a growing list of health issues, running low on energy, feeling the weight of their years. The conventional explanation is genetics. Some people are just … Read more
I’m careful about personal testimonials. I’ve been in the supplement industry for over 30 years and I know how easy it is to mistake coincidence for causation, or to notice only the changes you want to see. So I want to be precise about what I observed and how I evaluated it. When I first … Read more
