For People
Lift
For an even, brighter emotional baseline — steadiness you can carry through a long, demanding day.
Lift is for the days when your mood sits lower and flatter than it should — when nothing is wrong, exactly, but the brightness has gone out of things and small tasks feel heavier than they are. It is built to support an even, lifted emotional baseline: not a jolt, not a high, but the quiet return of steadiness and a little more light in how you meet the day.
Across every herbal tradition, the plants chosen to settle a restless heart and ease a constricted chest were treated as one shared family of work. The Greek-Galenic line and Culpeper's English herbals spoke of plants that "make the heart merry" and lighten a heavy disposition; the Chinese materia medica calls albizia the "tree of collective happiness" and pairs it with longan flesh to nourish the heart and quiet brooding; Ayurveda framed the same goal as supporting ojas and a calm, contented mind; and African plant traditions kept their own bark-and-berry tonics for a settled spirit. Lift carries that one lineage forward in four convergent botanicals — albizia, polygala, longan berry, and goji.
The intent is composure with warmth. Albizia and polygala work toward an unclenched, settled feeling under pressure, so stress lands more softly and your emotional footing holds. Longan berry and goji nourish from underneath — the traditional sense of "building the blood" and replenishing what long output and worry draw down. Together they support feeling resourced rather than running on empty, which is what an even mood actually rests on.
Use Lift as a daily companion through a stretch that asks a lot of you emotionally — a heavy season at work, caretaking, grief's slow tail, or simply a long winter. It is gentle enough for steady use and made to be felt as a gradual brightening, not a switch.
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.
For People
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.
What you get
What this formula gives you
Supports an even, brighter emotional baseline through demanding stretches
Helps you stay composed and unclenched when stress turns up
Nourishes the body's reserves so an upbeat mood has something to rest on
Supplies food-form antioxidant flavonoids and carotenoids the body recognizes
Gentle and warming — built for steady daily use, felt as a gradual lift
A grounded, four-botanical blend with nothing extraneous
How it works
The science of Lift
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.
Lift is grounded in what its four plants actually carry. Albizia, longan berry, and goji are rich in flavonoid polyphenols — quercetin, kaempferol, and rutin — a class of plant antioxidants the body recognizes and uses. Polygala root contributes a distinct set of triterpenoid saponins (tenuifolin, tenuigenin, the onjisaponins) along with 3,4,5-trimethoxycinnamic acid, the compounds the root-bark tradition leaned on for a clear, settled head. These are the molecules behind the way this blend is meant to feel: steadying rather than stimulating.
The nourishing half of the formula is just as concrete. Longan berry brings polyphenols and tannins — gallic acid, ellagic acid, corilagin, epicatechin — plus naturally occurring adenosine, while goji supplies the carotenoid pigments zeaxanthin and beta-carotene alongside betaine and kukoamine A. In the traditional reading these are "building" botanicals: foods for the body's reserves that support warmth and replenishment after the kind of sustained emotional output that leaves a person depleted.
Read this the way we read every formula: as structure and function. These compounds describe how Lift supports the body's own systems — its antioxidant defenses, its capacity to stay composed under load, its reserves. Lift is food-form botanical nourishment, not a remedy for any condition. The body does the work; the plants are food and information it already knows how to use.
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.
Albizia julibrissin
Quercetin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A protein that stabilizes the internal tracks neurons use to transport materials along their length.
An enzyme that converts excess glucose into sorbitol, part of normal sugar metabolism.
A liver-family enzyme that helps the body break down compounds, including hormones and environmental substances.
Kaempferol
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that cleaves sialic acid sugars, involved in how cells and viruses interact at their surfaces.
A major liver enzyme that processes a wide range of compounds the body takes in.
A liver enzyme that helps break down and process many compounds and natural substances.
Polygala tenuifolia
3,4,5-Trimethoxycinnamic acid
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A serotonin receptor involved in mood, calm, and nervous-system signaling.
A serotonin receptor in the brain involved in mood, perception, and signaling.
A serotonin receptor that helps govern appetite, mood, and emotional balance.
Dimocarpus longan
Gallic acid
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A mitochondrial enzyme involved in breaking down fatty acids and balancing steroid hormones.
An enzyme that adds sugar tags to cells, helping immune cells find their way through tissue.
An enzyme that edits chemical tags on DNA-packaging proteins to regulate genes.
Ellagic acid
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A protein that repairs damaged DNA and helps balance the cell's oxidative state.
A constantly active signaling enzyme involved in cell growth and stress responses.
An enzyme in the liver and red blood cells that helps turn sugar into usable energy.
Lycium barbarum
Betaine
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that recycles the amino acid homocysteine back into methionine using betaine.
Scopoletin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that helps cells balance acidity by managing carbon dioxide.
Measured molecular activities drawn from public scientific databases (PubChem, ChEMBL), shown as the characterized chemistry of the plants in this formula — every edge traced to its source record. This describes the molecules, not the product. Structure and function only; these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
In practice
Who it’s for, and how to use it
Who it’s for
For anyone moving through an emotionally heavy season — a punishing work stretch, caretaking, the long tail of loss, or a gray winter — who wants steadier footing and a little more brightness without a stimulant. Built for calm daily use by adults; as with any herb, those pregnant, nursing, or taking prescribed medications should consult their own practitioner first.
How to use it
Stir 1/4 teaspoon (working up to 1 teaspoon) of the extract powder into hot water, tea, coffee, a smoothie, or food, once daily. Begin with light doses — these extracts are very potent — and let it build over several days; Lift is meant to be felt as a gradual, settling brightness rather than a sudden shift. One jar is 1 oz / 12 g.
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
Inside this jar: albizia, polygala, longan berry, and goji — four plants the old herbals gathered under one idea, the lightening of a heavy heart. We make these extracts strong and keep them simple, because the tradition was never about more ingredients. It was about the right ones, prepared with care. Begin gently, stay with it, and let the brightness return on its own terms.
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.