For People
Immune
Defense and resilience — because hard training breaks the body down, and staying in the game is the whole point.
The fittest athlete is not the one who trains hardest; it is the one who trains most consistently. And the thing that most often breaks consistency is not injury — it is getting sick in week six of a block, losing ten days, and starting again from lower down.
Hard training is controlled immune stress. Long efforts, short sleep, travel, and the accumulated load of a serious block all draw on the same defensive reserve. This formula is built to keep that reserve supplied. It is the classical wei-qi composition — the protective layer of the old framework — in the form an athlete actually needs it: daily, steady, and heaviest through the hardest stretches and the travel around them.
It is a tonic in the oldest sense. You take it before you need it, across seasons, so that resilience is something cultivated rather than scrambled for.
What it supports in the body
The body systems the herbs in this formula are traditionally understood to nourish — resolved through our knowledge graph, where the classical record and modern biology are read together. Structure and function, never a claim of treatment.
Where measure & tradition agree
Systems this blend’s herbs are measured to engage in human binding data — and traditionally named for, independently. The number is how many herbs in the blend converge there. Two evidence systems arriving at the same place, separately, is our highest standard. See the research →
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Small-batch. Dual-extracted where it matters. Made by hand.
How to take it
1/4 tsp (up to 1 tsp) of extract powder in hot water, tea, coffee, a smoothie, or food, once daily. Begin with light doses — our extracts are very potent.
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
Supports the body's own defensive reserve through hard training blocks
Nourishes the classical wei-qi layer of the tonic tradition
Supports the inflammatory balance that heavy load perturbs
Built for daily use, and for travel — the conditions that break consistency
How it works
The science of Immune
Not buzzwords — the actual biology of the plants in this formula: their compounds, the targets those compounds are measured to engage, and the systems they nourish.
Astragalus membranaceus is the foundation, carrying astragaloside IV, cycloastragenol and formononetin — the saponin and isoflavone chemistry of the root that the tonic tradition treats as the guardian of the body's outer defensive layer. Ganoderma lucidum contributes the ganoderic acid family, the triterpenoids that distinguish a dual-extracted reishi from a merely powdered one, and that underlie its standing as the great immune-modulating mushroom of the pharmacopoeia.
Cordyceps militaris adds cordycepin and adenosine, the energy-and-oxygen layer, since a defensive system is metabolically expensive and runs on the same reserve the training does. Schisandra chinensis brings the schisandrin lignans and its liver mapping — the clearing organ that a heavy block keeps busy. Across the four, our data records three shared measured targets: AKR1B1, TDP1, and TNF. TNF is the one worth naming, because it sits at the center of how the body sets and resolves an inflammatory response, which is exactly the balance a training block is constantly perturbing.
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.
Astragalus membranaceus
Formononetin
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Apoptosis regulator Bcl-2 · Ki 10 nM
Measured to act on
A liver enzyme that breaks down many compounds the body takes in.
An enzyme that edits proteins to manage cellular cleanup and the cell internal scaffolding.
Calycosin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A protein that helps organize DNA and acts as an alarm signal during tissue stress.
Ganoderma lucidum
Ganoderic acid A
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that locally regenerates active cortisol, shaping how tissues respond to the body's stress hormone.
An enzyme that quiets cortisol inside kidney and salt-handling tissues, helping govern fluid and mineral balance.
An enzyme that converts glucose into sorbitol, part of how cells handle sugar.
Ganoderic acid B
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
The enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine, resetting nerve and muscle signals between pulses.
A blood enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine and helps clear certain compounds from circulation.
An enzyme that converts glucose into sorbitol, part of how cells handle sugar.
Cordyceps militaris
Cordycepin (3'-deoxyadenosine)
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds to Adenosine receptor A1 · Ki 7.12 µM
Measured to act on
A receptor for adenosine that helps calm cellular activity and signaling.
A repair enzyme that clears certain damage points so DNA can be mended.
Pentostatin (2'-deoxycoformycin)
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Adenosine deaminase · Ki 1 nM
Measured to act on
An enzyme that breaks down adenosine, part of how cells recycle their building blocks.
Schisandra chinensis
Schisandrin B (Wuweizisu B)
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Multidrug resistance-associated protein 1 · IC50 1.25 nM
Measured to act on
A guardian enzyme that senses DNA stress and helps coordinate repair.
A sentinel enzyme that detects DNA breaks and signals the cell to mend them.
An enzyme that helps stitch broken DNA strands back together.
Schisandrin C (= Wuweizisu C)
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
The enzyme that drives the body's inflammatory response.
The liver's busiest enzyme for breaking down compounds the body takes in.
A liver enzyme that helps metabolize and clear many compounds from the body.
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
A formula is not a pile of herbs — it is herbs whose actions meet. Below are the molecular targets that more than one plant in this blend is measured to engage. Where they converge is the blend's reason to exist.
Astragalus · Reishi
Astragalus · Reishi
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 the athlete in a serious block, and anyone whose training is interrupted more often by illness than by injury — especially through travel, cold seasons, and stretches of short sleep.
How to use it
1/4 tsp (up to 1 tsp) in hot water, tea, coffee, a smoothie, or food, once daily; steady through hard blocks and travel. Begin with light doses — our extracts are very potent.
Measure · 1/4 tsp (up to 1 tsp) of extract powder in hot water, tea, coffee, a smoothie, or food, once daily. Begin with light doses — our extracts are very potent.
What’s inside
Astragalus, Reishi, Cordyceps and Schizandra — whole-plant extracts in equal parts, the mushrooms dual-extracted.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Introduce one formula at a time and notice how the body responds; if you are pregnant, nursing, or on a prescription, know the interaction before you begin.
Pairs well with
Formulas that share Immune's botanicals
Built from overlapping herbs, these reinforce Immune along the same lines — the shared-botanical kinship our genome engine maps.