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Natural Elixir
Ten plants, a few thousand years of use, and the research that has caught up with some of it. Rome paid part of a ransom in peppercorns. Roman soldiers drank vinegar every day on purpose. Your mother was right about cold weather, and it took science until 2022 to admit it. And here is what the evidence really says about stiff joints and tired mornings. Start anywhere.
Common ailments
Confucius ate ginger with every meal. Ayurveda calls it the universal medicine, and means it as a digestive. Four thousand years on, the trials on ginger and a slow stomach are the best evidence behind any plant we use. Here is what they…
What the evidence says about common complaints, and what it does not.
Common ailments
Tiredness is the symptom people put up with longest and investigate least. The four usual causes, the four blood tests worth asking for by name, and…
Common ailments
Joint pain is the most common reason people come looking for something like ours. Here is what actually causes it, what the evidence says helps most…
Brett Austin, how the brand began, and where it is going.
Our story
Brett took Natural Elixir to the KwaZulu-Natal Investment Conference at the Durban ICC, and sat down for an interview about the nightclub years, the…
Our story
In 2010 a doctor told me to get my affairs in order. I was thirty-three, I weighed 157 kilograms, and I had about six weeks. This is what happened…
Food, gut health, fasting, movement and rest.
Natural health
Natural health is not a philosophy, it is a set of habits. Here is what the term actually means, why the gut is the sensible place to begin, and two…
Natural health
Ten plants, and nothing else in the bottle. Here is what each one is, why turmeric and black pepper are never separated, what the tonic deliberately…
Where the old stories about herbal remedies came from, and what is actually true.
Popular myths
Everybody's mother said it and everybody's biology teacher corrected her. As it turns out they were both partly right, and the explanation only…
Individual experiences, in the words of the people who had them.
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