There’s nothing more predictable than when a fitness influencer gets “sponsored” by a supplement company, or places their endorsement behind one.
It’s an inevitable rite of passage for anyone with a decent following in this industry… the only question is whether you take the route of profitability or the route of purity.
I AM here to tell you I chose the latter by putting my support behind BioStack Labs, a brand new Golden-Age supplement company quickly rising as the most cutting-edge formulator in the longevity space.
Co-founded by Adam Gethin, they’ve disrupted the status quo through an extreme emphasis on two main focuses:
A customer-centric approach through convenience, and uncompromised purity through the cleanest ingredients available on Planet Earth.
Having spent the last six weeks using their line of anti-aging supplements, I am beyond impressed with the level of quality and attention to detail they’ve injected into every formulation.
Adam was able to sit down with me for a detailed discussion of his revolutionary approach to the supplement industry, along with the exhaustive science backing up each individual ingredient and their synergy.
Keep reading to discover why I AM absolutely in LOVE with BioStacks Labs and the promise they hold for the future in an industry riddled with predatory scammers and garbage products.
The BioStack Labs Genesis Story: How Burning Out Led To A Desperately Desired Solution
Q: Walk me through the genesis story of BioStack Labs. Was it always your intention to start and grow your own supplement company?
A: I have spent 2 decades of my life in the fitness industry, starting as a teenager and arriving to the present day at 34 years old.
I have always been a healthy guy who trained hard and followed the lifestyle habits necessary to stay in shape year-round.
But I’m also a serial entrepreneur in the health & fitness industry, currently running 5 companies at once.
I’ve also had the privilege of publishing books in the space, being featured in men’s fitness magazines, worked with some of the most recognized names in the space — world-famous athletes, entrepreneurs, entertainers, fitness professionals — you name it and I’ve already done it multiple times over.
But as I would eventually learn in most recent times, there is a larger difference than most people imagine between fitness and health optimization.
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, I was 30 years old and about to become a father of a second kid (now there are three of them at the ages of 5, 3 and 1).
Dan, a practitioner friend of mine, had the idea to put me under a series of biohacking tests, seeing as I was stressed to the gills.
The results were eye-opening: While the majority of my biomarkers were very good, I was hammering my body to its limits.
My heart rate variability (HRV), which measures the variance in the time intervals between each heartbeat, was much lower than I thought at a disappointing 28/100.
(NOTE: For context, an HRV score below 50 is a strong indicator of high risk for severe illness and early death because it indicates a poor ability to handle stress and anxiety)
But that wasn’t the worst result… my restorative sleep score out of 100 was a measly 8, and that was on a GOOD night.
I had fallen prey to the non-stop entrepreneurial grind where I had all of the drive to overachieve and work endless hours, yet as Dan correctly observed I felt like I was dead on the inside.
Sleep was always my major Achilles’ heel as I’m in the sales game and a regular part of my routine was continually checking my numbers in the late hours of the night.
Add on children to being a hyper-driven individual who works late, and the lack of quality of sleep just kept on hitting me harder and harder with each passing day.
Q: I can’t even imagine what that’s like, as I AM always educating my audience about the importance of getting your 6-8 hours of undisturbed sleep every single night. So how did this revelation lead to the idea of BioStack Labs?
A: Well, as a father at the time who had just turned 30, it was a wake-up call for me to start taking biohacking more seriously.
I always ate well, trained hard, never drank alcohol, but as I suggested earlier I was more of an athlete than somebody who optimized his health for longevity.
So the results weren’t just about me because now I have little ones and a family to think of.
But I was very fortunate to have Kris Gethin as a cousin, who at the age of 49 had a biological age of 26 as proven with GlycanAge testing.
Kris has always talked to me about biohacking and I was aware of it, but hadn’t taken much notice of it until I realized I was setting myself up for an eventual physical breakdown.
So even though I eventually had the idea to start yet another company, what I was actually creating was something that targeted me and solved my own problems…
Someone who eats well and trains hard, yet isn’t exactly health-conscious and is degrading their body day-in and day-out from being busy 24/7 and overstressed all the time.
What I learned about biohacking in the context of anti-aging and longevity is that we are ultimately optimizing our bodies to perform at a higher level and be more resilient so we can pursue life on our own terms.
And to do just that there are multiple areas of health you must focus on at the same time.
Q: Could you dive deeper into the last thing you just said, and what that looks like in the context of launching a supplement company?
A: Sure.
By far, the #1 factor ultimately driving me to create a biohacking “stack” (hence the name of the company, BioStack) was convenience.
Look, we can put in as many strategies, habits, tactics, tips and tricks as we can reasonably handle for living a fully optimized life.
But let’s face the facts:
- As a part of 1st-world Westernized society, we live in a very unnatural environment where we are constantly plugged in 24/7 and always in the presence of harmful EMFs
- We are eating and drinking more ultra-processed foodstuffs than ever
- We go to work in a closed-off office cubicle for 8 hours, sitting down and exposing ourselves to incandescent light.
- Getting high-quality food from the supermarket proves increasingly difficult due to all the antibiotics, pesticides and GMOs laced within even the fresh meat and produce
There’s simply no way a normal human being today can avoid the contamination fields.
And even though you and I promote a lifestyle of hormonal optimization, insulin-controlled living, proper sleep hygiene and improving mitochondrial health…
… you can only do so much through those means.
Therefore, the best solution we have at our disposal is to build products and services that mitigate this inescapable environment and help “cover the gaps” in the most impactful way possible.
Especially since we aren’t going to be isolating ourselves in a cave and doing away with our daily responsibilities anytime soon.
So that’s what was the North Star for me in creating BioStack Labs: Convenience in combination with the absolute best and highest quality formulations.
The Biostack Labs Philosophy: Highest Quality & Unmatchable Convenience
Q: I have an awful lot to say about the current health supplement landscape, having built my own companies and even sold one for a mid 7-figure sum.
It’s an extremely difficult business to maneuver because there are so many scammers and inferior products being shoved in your face.
I can’t even think of a worse thing these so-called biohacking influencers shill more than supplements.
Not only do they put in unhealthy things that I won’t even name, but they purposefully go out of their way to put in as little of the active ingredient(s) as possible just to save a few bucks.
Personally, I AM of the opinion you don’t want to be in the supplement space unless you can guarantee the quality of the ingredients is the best it can possibly be.
What are you guys doing to separate yourself in an industry full of people who will take advantage of others?
A: It’s rather unfortunate people will decide to choose profit over performance and quality when they get introduced to this industry, so from Day 1 it’s imperative to take a stand.
I’ll also say most consumers are becoming more educated today but not to the point where they can keep themselves immune from scams.
Because even though most people are aware of the usual trick of watering down the efficacy and dose of key ingredients, they still don’t understand the synergy of all the ingredients.
Like yourself, I know the game and how it works inside and out.
But going back to your question I would say BioStack Labs is distinct from the competition due to our three core values…
VALUE #1: Nothing Less Than The Absolute Best Quality & Purity
This is my ground rule when it comes to purity standards…
I will only sell products that I would be personally comfortable giving to my wife and kids to use every single day.
One of the ways we uphold this value is by constantly sifting through clinical research and using licensed ingredients.
By “licensed”, I mean the ingredient is not generic and it has actual scientific evidence backing its efficacy.
We’re so obsessed with using world-class ingredients that we often tell people we are picking the absolute Rolls-Royce of ingredients.
One person I recently talked to even came up with the interesting tagline of “prescription-level strength without the prescription”.
Our company goes as far as to voluntarily 3rd-party test ALL our products to prove every ingredient is in our supplements at the promised doses and purity… we don’t have to and we can certainly save money by not doing so, but it’s the commitment we make to our customers.
VALUE #2: Cost Is NEVER Considered In The Formulation Of Any Product
If you’re looking for cheap products, we are not the company for you.
We are extremely unapologetic about this: While we don’t go out of our way to be extortionally expensive, we are as expensive as we need to be to make things financially viable.
This is the polar opposite approach taken by most supplement owners, who you’ll quickly realize aren’t into health but really into business.
Lots of companies don’t do what we do because it is costly and the margins are lower:
- Going with generic ingredients instead of the licensed ingredients we use would lead to a 3x increase in profit for us
- Per unit, our average formulation costs 6-7x more than what a lot of other brands use when you match every ingredient and their dose
We focus on Value #1 and give people the highest-quality ingredients the world has to offer right now… which is exactly what people should be having from Day 1.
My team and I refuse to listen to the accountants who keep hammering us about how much bigger we could be if only we removed certain ingredients and reduced the dosages of other ingredients within our formulations.
Not once have we ever had a conversation about cutting corners or reducing the cost of a formula when we got it to our liking after extensive R&D and testing.
Just like Mercedes did in the 1990s with their vehicles before they sadly changed how they approached their pricing.
Our supplements are an investment into your long-term health and we are NOT in the game of selling you something cheap.
You should people’s eyes leave their sockets when they see what we pay to make each product!
VALUE #3: Convenience Is King
I would technically call this our second value, and the previous one an extension of the first one.
Once we have those two things in place, then comes the final piece of the puzzle:
Building a stack that provides ultra convenience but gives you a blend of ingredients that overlap across the day so you have multi-faceted control over optimizing your health while supporting your body in a high-stress environment.
There wouldn’t be any point in being a premium brand if you had to take 14 different products at different times of the day.
And as the tagline on the front page of our website goes:
“Replace dozens of ineffective single-ingredient capsules with just a few expertly formulated products”
Like I said at the start of the interview, I live this health optimization lifestyle and so does my entire in-house team.
BioStack Labs isn’t just a money-making opportunity or a mere supplement brand, but something we are producing for ourselves.
For people who want to take care of their longevity yet have other life demands to the point where convenience MUST be a factor.
Q: Obviously, your company has a very heavy customer-centric approach. But what would you say to the veterans of the supplement industry who will inevitably try to scare you into beLIEving your operations won’t be sustainable long-term? And that eventually you’ll have to “play the game” like everybody else?
A: For those of you in your audience who don’t know, BioStack Labs only launched just last year and it’s already blown up into a respectably sized behemoth in the biohacking supplement space.
Not only do we have people like Ben Greenfield who have been using it for a year and loves it, but we have a lot of high-level returning customers whose names we can’t publicly disclose.
But you’d easily recognize them — A-list celebrities, magazine cover athletes, musicians, and other people in the fitness space who don’t need any introduction.
I think all of this has happened so quickly because people are recognizing we truly do deliver something different and the quality of our supplements is simply unrivaled to the point where our competition doesn’t exist.
I’ll say this as well without revealing too much… the lifetime value of our average customer once they make their very first purchase is insane.
Once people experience the impact of our supplements in combination with our customer support and access to a community where high-level people are answering pressing questions, they stick with us for a very long time.
I’ve come to believe there are enough people in the world who will see the level the effort we’re putting into creating each product and the cost that goes into them.
In turn, they will recognize the value we have to offer and will pay good money for a genuinely high-quality product we can prove with open labels and full transparency.
The BioStack Products: A Tiny Lineup Producing Extraordinary Health Optimization Outcomes
Q: I’ve noticed that you only have a total of 4 products in your lineup right now. Do you plan to offer anything else in the future, or is this all people are going to get for now?
A: We could certainly do what any typical supplement company would do and try to engage everyone for everything, but that’s not our mission.
Every formula has to be truly unique and it’s four of the absolute best products in the marketplace for where we stand for overall cellular benefit.
For our customers, it’s all about living the longest and strongest without putting health in jeopardy.
Q: What would you say is one unique factor that all of them have in common, even if they do serve different purposes in the context of health optimization?
A: I’m glad you asked because we do something that no other company in the world is doing right now (and caused a great deal of trouble for our manufacturing partner).
You will not find any magnesium stearate or silicon dioxide fillers in our products.
Although people will debate us heavily on this decision, we are of the stance that not only are magnesium stearate and silicon dioxide possibly unsafe to consume, they just simply don’t add any real value.
Q: One final thing I want to bring up before we get into your offerings…
There’s an interesting paradox I’ve noticed in the biohacking space when it comes to supplements.
The more optimized you are, the “less” you will feel from an impact standpoint of supplementation.
It’s not that you don’t benefit from it, but I feel as if when most people buy products they want to FEEL something and notice an effect almost immediately.
What is your response to people when they tell you they take your supplements but “don’t feel much”?
A: Oh, I have a lot to say about this. I’ll use pre-workouts as a perfect example to illustrate my point.
When I was 18 years old, my buddies and I used to take the NOX Pump formulated by 6-time Olympia winner Dorian Yates.
That stuff would literally take your head off, especially as a young guy who would take 2 servings.
And then there was also Jack3d from USP Labs — good times!
From a perspective of marketing psychology, the advertisers have more-or-less figured out that the better you can make a pre-workout blow someone’s head off (or at least convince them it will), the better it’s going to sell.
It gets even more problematic when you have guys like me who have been through the journey of sports nutrition because we have been conditioned to take something and BOOM.
You have to adopt a very different set of expectations when you start taking health optimization supplements since you’re not going to feel them in the same way you feel the effects of a caffeinated energy drink.
For instance, if someone naturally has a high rate of ATP regeneration, creatine supplementation will have less of an effect on performance.
Don’t get me wrong, creatine is doing its thing and it still works phenomenally… yet the effect won’t be as pronounced relative to if a training newbie uses it.
All of this is my way of saying what you’re saying — the more optimized you are, the more you have to trust the health optimization supplement in question is conferring its benefits in the background.
That’s on top of some of them taking anywhere from 2-3 months or more before the effects become noticeably apparent.
Q: All right, I think that’s enough from me. Let’s talk about the four world-class supplements you have to offer to the world!
NAD REGEN
Ingredients:
- 125 mg Niacinamide – The raw material the body requires to produce NAD+
- 311 mg NAD3® (Wasabi Extract, Theacrine, Cuprous Niacin) – A proprietary mix of 3 ingredients that improve NAD+ status by inhibiting its degradation while activating the pathways responsible for longevity extension
- 200 mg Resveratrol 50% (Polygonum cuspidatum) – Assists in the production and recycling of NAD+
- 5 mg Spermidine HCl (as Yüth™) – Eliminates “zombie” cells and allows NAD3 to do what it does more efficiently
How Jay Takes It:
- 2 capsules immediately upon awakening on an empty stomach along with my other supplements, at least one hour before fasted cardio
Adam’s Comments:
If there was only one supplement I would want people to take from BioStack Labs, this would unquestionably be the one.
In fact, tapping into nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) supplementation to increase cellular energy levels and optimize mitochondrial function was my very first venture into taking biohacking more seriously.
(NOTE: I already wrote a deep-dive article on NAD+ and recently did a podcast with Dr. Jin-Xiong She about NAD+ if you want to get caught up to why this compound is worth your attention)
Many of the solutions available to me at the time were inconvenient… you either had to go with generic precursors to NAD+, or visit a clinic to get IV therapy.
What led to our breakthrough moment was when we discovered the ingredient NAD3.
Ben Greenfield and Nutraceuticals USA did some amazing writeups on why NAD3 is so critical, but here’s the basics of what you have to know:
- Unlike other NAD+ precursors such as nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) or nicotinamide riboside (NR), NAD3 does not affect methylation pathways in individuals who would otherwise experience higher inflammation levels due to elevated homocysteine levels
- Instead, it addresses the root cause of NAD+ decline, which is when the NAMPT enzyme in the NAD+ production and recycling system (i.e. the salvage pathway) fails to work efficiently… a crucial factor when you consider both NAMPT and NAD+ production decline with age
- On top of limiting NAD+ degradation in the body via inhibition of other proteins responsible for the consumption and depletion of NAD+, NAD3 also supports its synthesis to boost the body’s NAD+ production at the same time through upregulation of the NAMPT enzyme
Keep in mind it is VERY difficult to get a license to sell NAD3, and we are in fact one of three companies in the entire world that is able to legally sell it as part of our formulation.
Combined with the other ingredients listed (which we are the first ones to do) and the removal of all fillers, you have the purest and most convenient formulation for NAD+ synthesis available on the market in just 2 capsules taken daily.
The biggest benefit we’ve seen consistently report from our thousands of customers is a natural gentle elevation of energy levels throughout the day.
Especially in our female customers who are over the age of 40 and in the perimenopausal stage of life (who typically experience a massive dropoff in NAD+ production)
Many users find themselves recovering much quicker from their workouts, being able to push workouts for longer periods of time at a higher intensity, clearing up brain fog, and restoring sleep circadian rhythms back to normal.
A few have even gone out of their way to say NAD REGEN is comparable to traditional IV therapy!
However, I do have to put in one small caveat: Even though an energy boost can be experienced within the first 2-3 weeks of using NAD REGEN, I strongly recommend a minimum of 3 months of daily use to really notice the increase in energy levels.
GLYNAC+
Ingredients:
- 3000 mgL-Glycine
- 1200 mg N-Acetyl Cysteine
- 300 mg Calcium Alpha Ketoglutarate
- 25 mcg Selenium
- 50 mcg Molybdenum
How Jay Takes It:
- 6 capsules immediately upon awakening (except for Saturdays and Sundays) along with all the other supplements listed previously depending on whether it’s an eating/training or fasting day
Adam’s Comments:
Although this is a brand new release for BioStack Labs, GLYNAC (glycine + N-Acetyl Cysteine) has been long known as an anti-aging stack in the biohacking community.
The two ingredients alone help kill multiple birds with one stone:
Muscle health, exercise performance recovery, whole body detoxification, antioxidant support, collagen production, liver and joint support, and a hell of a lot more.
The clinical evidence is robust for this two-punch combination, as seen in human studies such as this one that actually replicated what was observed in mice:
“…older humans taking GlyNAC for 16-weeks improved many characteristic defects of aging.
This includes oxidative stress, glutathione deficiency and multiple aging hallmarks affecting mitochondrial dysfunction, mitophagy, inflammation, insulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction, genomic damage, stem cell fatigue and cellular senescence.
These were associated with improvements in muscle strength, gait speed, exercise capacity, waist circumference and blood pressure.”
So then you start to wonder what the other three active ingredients are added for:
- Selenium and molybdenum were added to help further address the lack of glutathione production
- Calcium Alpha-Ketoglutarate was added due to its ability to further lower one’s biological age significantly
In short, all three ingredients elevate the impact of GLYNAC+ that much further and work synergistically to create the ultimate inflammation control formulation.
If you can manage inflammation more successfully, you have a much higher chance of improving overall health.
CELL SHIELD
Ingredients:
- L-Glutathione reduced as Setria® (500 mg)
- Curcumin C3® Complex (500 mg)
- CellG8® Liposomal Vitamin C (322 mg)
- AstraGin® Astragalus membranaceus and Panax notoginseng (50 mg)
How Jay Takes It:
- 3 capsules immediately upon awakening along with all the other supplements listed previously depending on whether it’s an eating/training or fasting day
Adam’s Comments:
This is what we would consider to be our “master antioxidant formulation” to protect your cells from free radical damage that arises from poor dietary choices, chronic stress, and environmental pollution.
The patented forms of L-Glutathione and Liposomal Vitamin C are added for further cellular support (via free radical scavenging) and supercharged immunity, two things any highly stressed and under-recovered individual is in desperate need of.
Think of it like an extra layer of armor for your body to help your immune system when it is under attack due to poor sleep and being in a constant “fight-or-flight” state throughout the day.
And the curcumin, as Jay has written about before, possesses very potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties… we used the patented version as it is far more absorbable by the gastrointestinal tract compared to generic curcumin.
GDAid
Ingredients:
- 200 mcg Chromium (as Chromax® Chromium Picolinate) – Proven to reduce fat mass and help the body optimize glucose metabolism
- 100 mg Dihydroberberine (as GlucoVantage®) – 5x more bioavailable than Berberine, making it the next best choice to having pharma-grade Metformin
- 250 mg InnoSlim® (Astragalus membranaceus Root Extract & Panax notoginseng Root Extract) – Helps with the regulation of lipid metabolism
- 40 mg CaloriBurn GP® (Afromomum melegueta Seed Extract12.5% 6-Paradol) – Increases thermogenesis (i.e. whole-body energy expenditure) and helps with the reduction of visceral fat
How Jay Takes It:
- 4-6 capsules taken before or during carb-heavy meals on eating days, effectively acting as my “Glucose Disposal Ninja supplement”
Adam’s Comments:
Before I get into this supplement, I just want to provide a brief commentary on why I disagree with how the If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) movement is misconstrued, leading people into poor eating choices.
A lot of people swear up and down that calories-in-calories-out is all that matters, and it’s ok to give yourself a few free slices of cake for dinner at 11pm because you have the leftover calories.
Contextually, if 90% of your calories are healthy and you are lean, fiber content is taken care of and you’re active, there is some room for flexibility… But, I don’t want people to forget that highly processed foods do usually impact inflammation, negatively!
Just go and eat a 500-calorie hamburger at McDonald’s and tell me how you feel afterwards.
Hardcore IIFYM proponents don’t realize they’re creating untold levels of inflammation in their body (as if it’s normal to feel that way) by eating all this crap.
Look, I’m not some purist Spartan who will say you can’t have some flexibility in your life.
But if your North Star of nutrition is “how can I fit this crap into my life on a daily basis”, you WILL pay the price sooner or later.
Going back to GDAid: It’s incredibly potent for improving blood sugar regulation, which has a myriad of health benefits for us, and it also means getting lean easier too!
It’s especially useful before eating any sugary or dessert-type food (or immediately at the same time) to blunt insulin while helping with glucose absorption and glycogen repletion.
When it comes to the management and regulation of blood sugar, insulin sensitivity is a huge factor in keeping your body primed for longevity because you can properly dispose of glucose and not suffer from massive “carbohydrate comas”.
And like I’m sure you’ve told your audience on numerous occasions, defeating insulin resistance leads to several positive downstream effects on all other areas of your health.
GlucoVantage is a patented version of Dihydroberberine that is regarded as the “Rolls Royce” of Berberine, as evidenced by clinical studies shared with me by Shawn Wells (who owns the license to GlcoVantage and produces it).
It’s the next best thing to having pharma-grade Metformin for blood sugar regulation.
As you can see in the ingredients list, we have three other patented and licensed ingredients to assist in tackling every single element of blood sugar management alongside improved liver support and fat burning.
How To Buy BioStack Labs’ Supplements Online
Q: Awesome rundown of your entire lineup, Adam. Any other future releases you can tease to my readers?
A: This one is still in the works, but we have a hydration formula we’re currently developing.
It tastes phenomenal, it’s sucralose-free AND it’s sugar-free.
We’ll be including a patented all-natural sweetener extracted from a sugar plant, along with another patented ingredient to help manage blood sugar regulation.
Q: So where can we buy these products and get started? I have to say the convenience alone stops me from taking NMN, Spermidine, NAC, and a bunch of other glucose disposal supplements I was previously taking.
Everything I require for health optimization is now available to me 2-3 bottles max instead of 10-12, each of them containing the world’s cleanest ingredients.
A: Just simply visit our website and you’ll be able to add everything to your cart. Simple as that.
CLICK HERE to pick up BioStack Labs’ incredible products and use code Jay10 to save 10% OFF your purchase!
Q: Any last words for the people out there who want to use your products in conjunction with a fully optimized lifestyle?
A: For our customers-only BioStack community, we want to provide people with support for their lifestyle choices instead of just selling them supplements.
While many of them do a good job at making improvements, there are still significant steps for them to take in their health optimization journey.
The most important thing we do is provide them with the tools to mitigate imperfect situations in imperfect situations so there’s always a way for them to do better than the day before.
A lot of people in this space are guilty of having this defeatist mindset where they say “If I can’t do that, then I guess I can’t do anything”.
Instead, we promote the mindset of “I will do what I can and improve and get better with slow improvements”.
If we can empower people to get started and to learn to control their environment when circumstances aren’t perfect, they can consistently make better decisions and that really makes a difference over 1-5 years.
As always…
Raise Your Vibration To Optimize Your Love Creation!
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