The Science

Biology is the first principle.

Vivien BioTherapy is built around a thesis: the supplement industry is crowded with products that don't work for reasons that are well understood and almost entirely avoidable. Here is the formulation logic, and the standards, we hold ourselves to.

“Most supplements work in the literature and fail in the bottle.”

The reasons for that failure are not mysterious. Doses are too low. Forms are poorly chosen. Active ingredients are diluted into proprietary blends that exist to obscure the chemistry. Manufacturing standards are uneven. And most companies are formulating for a marketing aesthetic, not a biological aim.

Vivien BioTherapy was built to do the opposite. Every protocol begins with a defined biological question — what is the system we're trying to support, and what does the peer-reviewed literature actually say about how to support it? — and the formulation follows from that question, not from a category brief.

The six principles below are the formulation rules we hold ourselves to.

The Formulation Rules

Six principles we don't bend on.

01

Clinical-dose, or not at all.

Most supplements work in the lab and fail in the bottle — because the dose inside is a fraction of what the research used. Vivien formulates at the dose the literature actually supports.
02

No proprietary blends.

Proprietary blends are a marketing instrument. Vivien lists every ingredient at its exact dose, on the label, on the website, in the dossier. No exceptions.
03

Bioavailability decides everything.

A capsule that doesn't cross the membrane is theatre. We choose forms that the body recognises — methylated B-vitamins, triglyceride omega-3s, chelated minerals.
04

Stacking is sequencing.

The Vivien stack is sequenced to circadian biology — foundational nutrients with breakfast, cellular signalling through the day, recovery before sleep. Time-of-day is dose.
05

Third-party verified, every batch.

Every production lot is independently tested for purity, potency, heavy metals, and microbial safety. The certificate of analysis is public.
06

Manufacturing standards above the floor.

cGMP compliance is the legal minimum, not the goal. We manufacture in NSF-registered facilities, with traceability from raw material to bottle.
Manufacturing

The standard, not the floor.

NSF & cGMP-certified

All Vivien products are produced in facilities certified to the highest US and EU good-manufacturing-practice standards.

Independent third-party testing

Every batch is tested by a contracted lab independent of our facility, for purity, potency, and contamination.

Full traceability

Each bottle carries a batch code that maps to the raw material lot, the manufacturing run, and the analysis certificate.

Heavy-metal and microbial screening

No exceptions. Standards are tighter than the regulatory minimum.

Read the protocols

See the formulations in detail.

Every Vivien protocol is published with its full ingredient list, dose-by-dose, and a research dossier.

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