For Pets
Filter
A gentle, food-grade daily botanical blend for dogs and cats.
Filter is built around one simple aim: keep the fluid that moves through your animal moving freely, and keep what the body sets aside to release moving cleanly out. Every day, a dog or cat takes in water, minerals, and the ordinary byproducts of a busy metabolism, and every day the body has to sort, balance, and pass them along. Filter is a hot-water extract — dandelion, goji, and eucommia — chosen to stand alongside that natural rhythm and help it run smoothly.
Reach for it when you want quiet, structural maintenance rather than a reaction to a crisis: the older cat you'd like to keep comfortable and steadily drinking, the dog whose water and mineral balance you want to keep even, the companion whose general brightness, coat, and easy movement you want to protect over the long arc of a life. This is a tonic in the oldest sense — something you give consistently so the body's own clearing pathways stay well-tended.
The blend leans on traditions that, across continents, all noticed the same thing. The Western herbalists Culpeper among them prized dandelion as a herb of free flow; the Greek-Galenic physicians kept their own gentle diuretic roots; classical East Asian practice treasured eucommia and goji as nourishing tonics for the deep reserve the body draws on for fluid balance and steady vigor. Filter is those convergent insights, gathered into one cup.
It is a maintenance companion, not a rescue. Filter supports the normal structure and function of your animal's urinary and fluid-handling system; it is food-grade botanical nourishment, scaled to the animal in front of you and meant to be woven into ordinary daily feeding.
The characterized botanicals inside
Whole botanicals with compounds characterized in the scientific literature, used across centuries of traditional practice. We share the chemistry and the tradition — food and lineage, never a claim to treat any condition.
For Pets
Small-batch. Dual-extracted where it matters. Made by hand.
How to take it
A small amount of the dilute hot-water extract or powder stirred into food, scaled to body weight. Start low and build gradually over days.
Whole plant, never isolated
Concentrated extracts of the whole botanical — the way the body recognizes it.
Cited to measured biology
Every action we describe traces to the compound and its measured target.
Structure & function
We describe what an herb nourishes — never a claim to treat disease.
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What you get
What this formula gives you
A gentle daily blend, easy to scale to your animal's size
Made from mineral-rich roots and herbs long kept in the companion-animal kitchen
A quiet, everyday companion blend taken with food
Built on deep tonic roots long honored in the herbal tradition
A gentle hot-water extract that sits easily and is simple to give in food
Gentle and species-safe for both dogs and cats, scaled to the individual animal
How it works
The science of Filter
Not buzzwords — the actual chemistry of the plants in this formula: their characterized compounds and the proteins those compounds are measured to engage, every one cited.
Each herb here carries well-characterized plant compounds, and they were chosen because their actions converge on the same outcome: smooth fluid handling and clean clearing. Dandelion contributes luteolin and taraxasterol; goji brings zeaxanthin, betaine, and kukoamine A; eucommia adds chlorogenic acid, aucubin, and pinoresinol diglucoside. These are not exotic additives — they are the leaf, root, and berry constituents the plants make on their own.
Dandelion is the herb of free flow. In the herbal tradition it has always been the gentle 'pass-it-along' plant, encouraging the body to keep fluid and the ordinary minerals it carries in steady, easy movement rather than letting them sit and stagnate. Goji and eucommia are the deep nourishers: goji's betaine acts as a natural methyl donor and its carotenoids feed the tissues, while eucommia has been the classic deep-root structural botanical for centuries, supporting the reserve and resilience the fluid system relies on.
Filter is offered as a gentle, food-grade daily blend for healthy companion animals. We describe what these plants nourish and how they have been used — food-grade botanical support, not a remedy for any condition. As with any concentrated botanical, Filter is meant for measured daily use at the animal's scale, not heavy or unsupervised dosing.
The molecules, measured
A formula is a community of compounds. Below are active molecules from the herbs in this blend and the proteins each is measured to engage — the precise points where the plants meet biology. So you see not just that it works, but how.
Taraxacum officinale
Luteolin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A receptor that helps guide immune cell development and daily metabolic rhythms.
A major liver enzyme that processes and clears a large share of dietary and plant compounds.
An enzyme that breaks down purines, producing uric acid as a byproduct.
Apigenin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A major liver enzyme that processes and clears a large share of dietary and plant compounds.
The enzyme that converts androgens into estrogens, balancing the body's hormones.
An enzyme that breaks down serotonin and other mood-related brain messengers.
Lycium barbarum
Betaine
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that recycles the amino acid homocysteine back into methionine using betaine.
Scopoletin
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds tightly to Carbonic anhydrase 9 · Ki 960 nM
Measured to act on
An enzyme that helps cells balance acidity by managing carbon dioxide.
Eucommia ulmoides
Chlorogenic acid
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 1 · IC50 100 nM
Measured to act on
A viral enzyme HIV uses to insert its genetic material into a host cell's DNA.
An enzyme that dials down insulin and growth signaling by removing phosphate tags.
An enzyme that converts glucose into sorbitol as part of cellular sugar handling.
Quercetin
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] A · IC50 10 nM
Measured to act on
A structural protein that stabilizes the internal scaffolding of nerve cells.
An enzyme that converts excess glucose into sorbitol, part of how cells handle sugar.
A liver-type enzyme that processes hormones and environmental compounds.
Cited science · not claims
Everything we publish about these plants traces to a primary source — the compounds to PubChem, ChEMBL, and BindingDB, the traditional uses to named, dated herbals. We describe what a plant is and what it is understood to nourish — the body’s own systems, structure and function only. We do not claim it treats, cures, or prevents any disease, and nothing here is a substitute for professional care. See our method & sources →
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Why these herbs together
The shared mechanism
More than one botanical in this blend is measured to engage the same molecular targets. We share the convergent chemistry — characterized and cited, never a claim.
Dandelion · Goji Berry · Eucommia
Dandelion · Goji Berry
Dandelion · Goji Berry
Dandelion · Eucommia
Goji Berry · Eucommia
Each convergence is a gene whose protein two or more of this formula’s herbs are measured to engage (PubChem BioAssay & ChEMBL). It describes characterized molecular activity and the protein’s normal role — structure and function only, never a claim to treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
In practice
Who it’s for, and how to use it
Who it’s for
For dogs and cats whose people want quiet, a quiet daily food, scaled to the animal — especially older or steadily-drinking companions you'd like to keep bright, even, and comfortable over the long haul. A maintenance tonic for healthy animals, not a response to acute distress; if your animal is genuinely unwell or behaving unusually around drinking or passing water, that warrants a hands-on professional look, with Filter as ongoing background nourishment.
How to use it
Stir a small amount of the dilute hot-water extract or powder into food, scaled to your animal's body weight. Start low — a pinch for a cat or small dog, a little more for a large dog — and build gradually over several days so the body eases into it. Best given consistently as part of daily feeding rather than in occasional large doses; because it is a concentrated extract, keep to the measured amount and let steadiness, not strength, do the work.
Measure · A small amount of the dilute hot-water extract or powder stirred into food, scaled to body weight. Start low and build gradually over days.
What’s inside
Filter is built with quiet restraint, and that is on purpose. Each herb with a clear job, each one a plant a careful herbalist anywhere in the world would have recognized: the one that keeps things flowing and the two that nourish the deep reserve. We kept it small so it could be given every day for a lifetime — because the waterworks that quietly carry your companion through each day deserve quiet, faithful tending. Thank you for trusting us to help you keep that animal bright.
Structure-and-function support for animal nutrition and vitality. Introduce gradually and watch how your companion responds. Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If your animal is pregnant, nursing, or on medication, consult your veterinarian first.
Pairs well with
Formulas that share Filter's botanicals
Built from overlapping herbs, these reinforce Filteralong the same lines — the shared-botanical kinship our genome engine maps.