For People
Mood
Lift Formula
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 East Asian 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 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.
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 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, convergent blend for a settled, lifted spirit
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 in the lab: binds very tightly to Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] A · IC50 10 nM
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 in the lab: binds very tightly to Carbonic anhydrase 7 · Ki 25 nM
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.
Dimocarpus longan
Gallic acid
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Amyloid-beta precursor protein · EC50 1.7 nM
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 in the lab: binds very tightly to Amyloid-beta precursor protein · EC50 1.7 nM
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.
Polygala tenuifolia
3,4,5-Trimethoxycinnamic acid
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds to 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2C · IC50 2.5 µM
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.
Nardostachys jatamansi
Valerenic acid (CAUTION: established Valeriana marker, NOT a confirmed major Nardostachys constituent; included for the verified GABA-A target but flagged as cross-genus)
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds to Retinoic acid receptor RXR-beta · EC50 5 µM
Measured to act on
A receptor that carries the brain's main calming signal, quieting nerve activity.
A receptor that carries the brain's main calming signal, easing nerve excitability.
A gated channel that lets calming signals flow into nerve cells, settling their activity.
Rhodiola rosea
Salidroside
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds tightly to Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] B · IC50 810 nM
Measured to act on
An enzyme that breaks down messenger chemicals like dopamine in the nervous system.
An enzyme that makes prostaglandins for everyday upkeep like protecting the stomach lining.
An enzyme that cuts RNA when it is paired with DNA, part of normal genetic housekeeping.
Tyrosol (p-Tyrosol)
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds tightly to Beta-carbonic anhydrase 1 · Ki 850 nM
Measured to act on
An enzyme that balances carbon dioxide and acidity, abundant in red blood cells.
A fast enzyme that balances carbon dioxide and acidity throughout the body.
A receptor that receives growth signals guiding cell movement, repair, and renewal.
Ziziphus jujuba
Betulinic acid
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds tightly to Albumin · Kd 593 nM
Measured to act on
A receptor that senses bile acids and helps govern metabolism and energy balance.
An enzyme that dials down insulin and growth signaling by removing phosphate tags.
Rutin
PubChem ↗Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Tyrosinase · IC50 0.856 nM
Measured to act on
An enzyme that cuts proteins at the cell surface, part of normal protein turnover.
The enzyme that switches off the nerve messenger acetylcholine after a signal.
A protein that helps organize DNA and acts as an alarm signal during tissue stress.
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.
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.
Albizia · Longan Berry · Jujube · Goji Berry
Albizia · Rhodiola · Jujube · Goji Berry
Albizia · Jujube · Goji Berry
Albizia · Jujube · Goji Berry
Albizia · Longan Berry · Jujube
Longan Berry · Jujube · Goji Berry
Albizia · Longan Berry
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 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.
Pairs well with
Formulas that share Lift's botanicals
Built from overlapping herbs, these reinforce Liftalong the same lines — the shared-botanical kinship our genome engine maps.