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Renew

A phase-by-phase clearing arc — so the body's own renewal can run clean.

Renew is built around one quiet truth: the body is always cleaning house. Every day the liver sorts, transforms, and ushers out what it has finished with, the blood carries it, the lymph drains it, and the skin and channels of elimination move it on. When that arc runs smoothly, you feel light, clear, and steady. When it backs up, everything feels a little heavy — the skin dulls, mornings feel thick, the system runs sluggish. Renew is a four-herb arc designed to support that natural clearing and renewal at each stage, so the body's own housekeeping can do what it already knows how to do.

We call it an arc because that is how the four herbs work — in sequence, not in isolation. Schizandra and dandelion support the liver's two phases of clearing and the steady flow of bile. Burdock works downstream, supporting the blood, the lymph, and the skin as the body moves what the liver has processed. Reishi sits underneath the whole thing, the grounding adaptogen that helps the system stay calm and resourced while it does the work. Together they read less like a stack of single herbs and more like a complete cycle, phase by phase.

Reach for Renew when you want to support a clean reset — after a heavy stretch, a rich season, a long winter indoors, or simply as a steady rhythm you return to. This is structure-and-function nourishment: it feeds the organs and systems that handle the body's natural renewal. It is not a punishing cleanse — it is the original kind of support, feeding the body so the body can keep itself clean. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

A little goes a long way. These are very potent extracts, and Renew is meant to be lived with daily rather than taken in heroic doses. The aim is a quiet, consistent current of support — the kind you notice not as a jolt, but as a baseline that slowly feels clearer and lighter the longer you keep it.

What it supports in the body

LiverDigestiveImmuneBlood/CirculatoryLymphaticSkin

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

$20.00/ 1 oz / 12 g

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.

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What you get

What this formula gives you

Supports the liver's natural two-phase clearing and the steady flow of bile

Feeds the blood, lymph, and skin as the body moves what it has processed downstream

Encourages that clean, light, clear-headed feeling that comes when the system isn't backed up

Built as a complete arc — upstream clearing, downstream drainage, and grounded resilience underneath

A grounding adaptogenic base that keeps you steady and resourced through the work

Gentle prebiotic fiber that nourishes the gut terrain the liver depends on

How it works

The science of Renew

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.

The liver is the central organ of the body's natural clearing, and it does its work in stages — first transforming compounds, then conjugating them for elimination, then moving them out through bile. Renew is composed to support that whole arc. Schizandra has been a first-rank liver tonic in the Chinese materia medica for centuries, prized as a 'five-flavor' fruit; its lignans — the schisandrins and wuweizisu compounds measured in our molecular layer — are among the most-studied constituents in any liver-supporting plant. Dandelion, the bitter green that Culpeper and the Greek-Galenic tradition both leaned on for the liver and the flow of bile, contributes taraxasterol, the sesquiterpene bitters, and the flavone luteolin. Bitterness is not a flaw here — it is the mechanism. Bitter principles are the classical signal for digestive and biliary flow across Western, Ayurvedic, and Chinese practice alike.

Where schizandra and dandelion support the upstream clearing, burdock works the downstream half of the arc — what the blood and lymph carry away. Burdock root is the great 'blood-mover' and skin herb of nearly every herbal lineage on earth: the alterative of the Eclectic and Thomsonian Americans, the depurative of Galenic Europe, a clearing root in both African and East-Asian folk practice. Its arctiin and arctigenin lignans, along with chlorogenic and caffeic acids documented in our data, sit behind its long traditional use for the blood, the lymphatic channels, and the skin — the body's outer mirror of inner clearing. Inulin, burdock's gentle prebiotic fiber, also feeds the gut terrain that the liver depends on.

Beneath all of it is reishi — lingzhi, the 'mushroom of immortality' of the Daoist canon — the adaptogen that keeps the work grounded. Its ganoderic-acid triterpenes and beta-glucan polysaccharides are the measured constituents behind its reputation as a tonic for the body's resilience and immune balance. Clearing is metabolically demanding work; reishi's role in Renew is to help the system stay calm, resourced, and steady while it carries it out. Four herbs, one continuous cycle: transform, move, drain, and stay grounded — each phase supported by plants trusted for it across every culture, and described here only in terms of the systems they nourish.

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.

Schizandra

Schisandra chinensis

Schisandrin B (Wuweizisu B)

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Measured to act on

Serine/threonine-protein kinase ATR

A guardian enzyme that senses DNA stress and helps coordinate repair.

Serine-protein kinase ATM

A sentinel enzyme that detects DNA breaks and signals the cell to mend them.

DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit

An enzyme that helps stitch broken DNA strands back together.

Schisandrin C (= Wuweizisu C)

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Measured to act on

Prostaglandin G/H synthase 2

The enzyme that drives the body's inflammatory response.

Cytochrome P450 3A4

The liver's busiest enzyme for breaking down compounds the body takes in.

Cytochrome P450 3A5

A liver enzyme that helps metabolize and clear many compounds from the body.

Dandelion

Taraxacum officinale

Luteolin

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Measured to act on

Nuclear receptor ROR-gamma

A receptor that helps guide immune cell development and daily metabolic rhythms.

Cytochrome P450 3A4

A major liver enzyme that processes and clears a large share of dietary and plant compounds.

Xanthine dehydrogenase/oxidase

An enzyme that breaks down purines, producing uric acid as a byproduct.

Apigenin

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Measured to act on

Cytochrome P450 3A4

A major liver enzyme that processes and clears a large share of dietary and plant compounds.

Aromatase

The enzyme that converts androgens into estrogens, balancing the body's hormones.

Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] A

An enzyme that breaks down serotonin and other mood-related brain messengers.

Reishi

Ganoderma lucidum

Ganoderic acid A

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Measured to act on

11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1

An enzyme that locally regenerates active cortisol, shaping how tissues respond to the body's stress hormone.

11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2

An enzyme that quiets cortisol inside kidney and salt-handling tissues, helping govern fluid and mineral balance.

Aldo-keto reductase family 1 member B1

An enzyme that converts glucose into sorbitol, part of how cells handle sugar.

Ganoderic acid B

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Measured to act on

Acetylcholinesterase

The enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine, resetting nerve and muscle signals between pulses.

Cholinesterase

A blood enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine and helps clear certain compounds from circulation.

Aldo-keto reductase family 1 member B1

An enzyme that converts glucose into sorbitol, part of how cells handle sugar.

Burdock

Arctium lappa

Arctigenin

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Measured to act on

Dual specificity mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1

A signaling enzyme that passes growth messages along a relay chain inside the cell.

Cytochrome P450 2C19

A liver enzyme involved in processing a variety of compounds the body encounters.

Nuclear receptor ROR-gamma

A receptor that switches certain genes on, helping guide immune-cell development.

Chlorogenic acid

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Measured to act on

Tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 1

An enzyme that removes phosphate tags from proteins, helping regulate insulin and metabolic signaling.

Aldo-keto reductase family 1 member B1

An enzyme that converts excess glucose into sorbitol, part of normal sugar metabolism.

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 who wants to support their body's own renewal as a steady rhythm rather than a crash cleanse — useful after a heavy or rich stretch, at the turn of a season, or simply as a daily current of support for clear skin, light mornings, and a system that isn't running sluggish. Best for those who appreciate bitter, grounding, earthy tonics and prefer to be fed rather than flushed.

How to use it

Start with 1/4 teaspoon of the extract powder stirred into hot water, tea, coffee, a smoothie, or a little food, once daily. You can build up toward 1 teaspoon as you find your level, but begin light — these are very potent extracts and a small amount carries the full arc. Renew rewards consistency: a quiet daily dose over weeks does far more than a large occasional one. The taste is frankly bitter and earthy, which is the dandelion and burdock doing exactly what bitter herbs are meant to do — lean into it, or soften it with something warm.

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: schizandra berry, dandelion, reishi, and burdock root — four equal parts, nothing else. A liver-and-clearing arc built from plants every major herbal tradition has trusted, prepared as concentrated full-spectrum extracts. We keep the blend deliberately simple so each herb can do its part of the cycle clearly. The most pristine herbs on earth.

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.