Nutritional supplements are many things, but beautiful isn't one of them. They are also tricky to navigate, even for those dedicated to their health. Enter Dr. Kavita Desai, a Doctor of Pharmacy with a multidisciplinary career (which included starting her own cardiovascular risk factor prevention clinic.) Desai has simplified the process of taking dietary supplements with Essentials by Revivele, a comprehensive kit of 48 research-backed functional herbs, mushrooms, vitamins, and minerals.
Essentials by Revivele retails for a hefty $399, but it is an extremely complete offering. It also comes in a beautiful box with five refillable glass jars with rose gold lids, worthy of your counter space. These include "Inhale" for energetics, "Flow" for adaptogens and blood sugar, "Enhance" for Omega-3 fatty acids, "Flourish" for probiotics, "Exhale" for sleep, and one foil container of "Bloom" gummies containing a heady mix of functional mushrooms.
In terms of efficiency, Essentials is a triumph, packing 60 capsules worth of supplements into 14 capsules. If that sounds like a lot, consider that biohackers like Bryan Johnson take over 100 pills a day!
Even though the ingredients in Essentials benefit both sexes, Desai formulated the supplements with women's specific needs in mind. "I wanted women to feel that there was something special for them," says Dr. Desai in an interview with Goldilocks Wellness. "A lot of people don't know where to start and this makes it easy for them."
The ingredients are high quality. Take, for example, the "Flourish" probiotic. It has Lactobacillus planterum 299v, and four other strains of lactobacillus. "I wanted to have enough variations of the lactobacillus strain as it does wonders for vaginal health and digestion of carbohydrates." The "Bloom" gummies are sweetened with monk fruit and malitol and use only purple carrot juice for color. Best of all, they are delicious and boast SEVEN functional mushrooms in one bite.
While items are available individually, Desai recommends buying the complete Essentials kit. "You can not truly reduce your risk factors for disease if you are only taking one or two symptom-relieving products," she explains. "That's just not how long-term health works!"
Desai had reasons, both personal and professional for creating the line. "I became interested in women's health and the disease states that predominantly affect women. Around the same time, my mom was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's in her early fifties." This changed the trajectory of her career and is the reason why so many of the compounds in Essentials optimize brain health.
Desai's mother disease came on during perimenopause, a time when hormonal changes begin to wreak havoc on multiple systems in a woman's body. "For the most part, doctors don't care about what is going on with individual women's hormones unless they are trying to conceive," says Desai. "They just don't consider imbalanced hormones risk factors for chronic disease."
Taking the array of compounds found in Essentials is one step towards staving off chronic diseases. Essentials includes: vitamin C, B-Complex, choline, inositol, berberine, Co-Q-10, whole coffee fruit extract, ashwaganda, alpha lipoid acid, vitamin D3, vitamin K2-MK7, Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, vitamin E, zinc, celon cinnamon, tulsi, turmeric, piperine, rhodiola, probiotics, magnesium glycinate, l-theanine, melatonin, maitake, cordyceps, lion's mane, reishi, wild chaga, tremella, turkey tail mushrooms, selenium, chromium and more.
Best for:
A neatnick supplement taker
Someone who does not have an extensive supplement collection
An extravagant gift of health to someone you love
Not recommended for:
Someone with extensive food sensitivities
Someone who already has a formidable collection of supplements
Those who need to take compounds individually
Why get it? Essentials by Revivele has every vitamin in one beautiful box.