These people don’t need a blend. They need a doctor.
For about a decade, I ran the IV Healing Spa in Los Angeles. People came to us to feel younger — energy, skin, recovery, longevity — and we delivered it with precision infusions and carefully sourced compounds. I’m an anesthesiologist by training, which means my entire profession is pharmacology under pressure: exact molecules, exact doses, measured responses. That’s the lens I brought to wellness, and it’s the lens that eventually made the supplement industry impossible for me to ignore.
Because here is what I kept seeing.
Patients would arrive with shopping bags of bottles. Testosterone “boosters” with herbs at doses no study ever used. “Proprietary blends” — which is a legal phrase meaning we won’t tell you how much of anything is in here. NAD+ capsules that largely don’t survive digestion. Hair gummies. Forty-dollar creams with a fairy dusting of an active ingredient and a label designed by a marketing team that never met a pharmacologist.
The supplement aisle isn’t regulated like medicine because it isn’t medicine. It’s guessing — expensive, well-packaged guessing. And the people doing the guessing are often the ones who can least afford to waste years on it: the 45-year-old whose energy is genuinely declining, the woman watching her hair thin, the man whose testosterone is 280 and falling.
So I built the alternative
Every product on this site exists because I got tired of telling patients “what you actually want exists — but not on a shelf.”
Want to raise your testosterone? Enclomiphene stimulates your body’s own production — a prescription molecule with real research behind it, not fenugreek. Want to slow skin aging at the cellular level? Topical rapamycin targets the senescent cells that drive it — and I’ll tell you plainly that this is an off-label use, what the evidence shows, and what it doesn’t. Losing hair but unwilling to risk finasteride’s side effects? We built FollicaRx without it. Every formulation on this site follows the same logic: the prescription-grade answer to a problem the supplement aisle pretends to solve.
And every one is made the way medicine is supposed to be made — compounded to order by Novel, a licensed U.S. pharmacy, with Certificates of Analysis available for key ingredients. Not a warehouse. Not a white-label dropshipper. A pharmacy, with paperwork.
The part that makes us slower — on purpose
Here’s where we lose the people who just want one-click checkout, and I’m at peace with that.
When you order from this site, you complete a health questionnaire, and I review it. Personally. If the product fits your physiology and history, your prescription goes to the pharmacy and ships within about a business day. If it doesn’t fit — a medication conflict, a condition that changes the math, a better option for your actual goal — I’ll tell you. Sometimes the right answer is a different formulation. Occasionally the right answer is don’t buy anything from me.
No supplement bottle has ever told anyone that.
What I’m actually selling
Not youth. Not miracles. I’m selling the version of wellness I practiced on patients for a decade, made shippable: real molecules, honest evidence, physician oversight, and the humility to tell you when something isn’t right for you.
If you want a blend and a promise, the aisle is full of them.
If you want it engineered — start with the goal quiz. It takes thirty seconds, and it ends with a doctor, not a cart.
— Dr. David
Dr. David Mahjoubi, MD is a board-certified anesthesiologist, UCLA and USC trained, a multiple-time “Top Doctor” in Los Angeles Magazine, founder of the IV Healing Spa, and President of the American Board of Ketamine Physicians.
Products on this site are compounded prescription medications requiring physician evaluation; compounded formulations are not FDA-approved as finished products. This page is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Individual results vary.
