Radiance Defense Boost

• Your body has a repair system that slows down in perimenopause. This wakes it back up.
  Your body was built to protect itself every day. By your mid-40s, the internal process that handles that gets sluggish, and you feel it - in your skin, your energy, and the way your body responds to stress. Radiance Defense Boost contains glucoraphanin from broccoli seed extract, a compound that activates your body's own cellular defense and detox pathways from the inside, not just for a few hours but on an ongoing basis.*
• Supports healthy estrogen metabolism so your hormones move through, not pile up.*
  When estrogen isn't processed efficiently, it recirculates. That recirculating estrogen shows up as bloating, breast tenderness, mood swings, and skin that looks congested and tired no matter what you put on it. This formula supports the detox pathways your body uses to clear excess estrogen, so your hormones move through your body the way they're supposed to.*
• Skin that looks clearer because something is actually different inside.
  Dull, tired-looking skin in midlife is not just aging. It is your body's daily burden showing up on your face. By supporting the internal cleanup your cells do every day, Radiance Defense Boost contributes to skin that looks less inflamed and more even, because what changed is underneath - not on the surface.
• Daily support for the cellular wear that comes from living - stress, toxins, hormonal shifts, and everything in between.*
  Stress. Environmental toxins. Food. Hormonal fluctuations. They all create cellular wear your body has to manage, every single day. Radiance Defense Boost delivers activated folate (5-MTHF at 1,700 mcg DFE, 425% DV) and Vitamin C to support DNA repair, collagen production, and immune resilience. The quiet maintenance your body is doing whether you feel it or not.*

Want to understand how skin and hormones connect? Dr. Anna walks through it on the podcast - Clean Skin From Within with Dr. Trevor Cates - and in the blog Essential Nutrients for Glowing Skin.

*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.

Each capsule contains:

• Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid): 100 mg | 111% DV
• Folate (as (6S)-5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid): 1,700 mcg DFE | 425% DV
• Glucoraphanin (from broccoli seed extract, Brassica oleracea italica): 30 mg
• Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana, high in myrosinase): 18.75 mg
• Other Ingredients: HPMC (vegetarian capsule), Microcrystalline cellulose, Ascorbyl palmitate.

Gluten-free. Non-GMO. Vegan. 30 capsules per bottle. Take 1 capsule daily, with or without food.

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Why these four ingredients, and not a longer list:

Most antioxidant formulas stack dozens of ingredients. I kept this formula tight on purpose. Every ingredient in Radiance Defense Boost has a specific job, and they work as a system. The glucoraphanin and horseradish work together - one supplies the raw material, the other supplies the enzyme that activates it. Folate at 425% DV in its active form (5-MTHF) supports the detox and DNA repair pathways that become less efficient in perimenopause. Vitamin C supports collagen and immune resilience. Nothing in here is decorative.

Most antioxidant supplements give you a single dose of protection that your body burns through in a few hours. Radiance Defense Boost is built on a different idea.

The key ingredient is glucoraphanin from broccoli seed extract. On its own, glucoraphanin does nothing. It is a precursor. It needs to be converted.

That conversion happens because of the second ingredient: horseradish. Horseradish is naturally rich in the enzyme myrosinase, and myrosinase is what converts glucoraphanin into sulforaphane right inside your body. This is the step most broccoli supplements miss - they deliver glucoraphanin without the enzyme, so most of it passes through unused.

Once sulforaphane is produced, it activates Nrf2, your body's master protective switch. Nrf2 triggers your own long-lasting antioxidant enzymes - not a borrowed dose from a capsule, but your body's own production, running for hours.

The folate in this formula is 5-MTHF, the activated form. Standard folic acid requires a conversion step that many women over 40 do less efficiently. By using 5-MTHF at 1,700 mcg DFE (425% DV), this formula bypasses that step entirely and delivers folate your body can use immediately for DNA repair and detox support.

Vitamin C at 111% DV provides the foundational antioxidant support that collagen synthesis and immune resilience depend on.

One capsule. Four ingredients. A system that runs on your biology, not despite it.

I talked about why broccoli alone isn't enough and how the Nrf2 pathway works in everyday life on this episode of the podcast: Food as Medicine for Healthy and Radiant Skin.

*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.