Los Gatos couple goes with their gut to launch nutrition supplement company – The Mercury News

A brand new, native dietary complement firm is seeking to “shake up the complement trade.”

Los Gatos residents Danielle and David Stanton launched Fuel 4 Ever, an organization that focuses on intestine well being and a wholesome life-style and makes dietary dietary supplements with out fillers, dyes or different components.

“We wish to supply individuals dietary supplements that we’d wish to take ourselves, be comfy with our children taking. Things with nothing synthetic in them,” mentioned David Stanton, a registered gastrointestinal nurse.

The couple was impressed to create Fuel 4 Ever after Danielle’s well being points have been resolved with pure meals and dietary supplements.

Danielle had suffered from despair, power irritable bowel syndrome and insomnia for years, all of which she handled with prescription medicine.

“I went down this rabbit gap of pharmaceutical medicines, prescription medicines. After one would repair one factor, I’d have extra signs, and it result in extra medicines,” Danielle mentioned. “I checked out my husband, who’s an RN. … I mentioned, ‘I would like extra from my life than this street of medicines. I wish to heal; I wish to discover the basis trigger.’”

After treating the basis trigger with pure meals and dietary supplements, Danielle mentioned she and David began speaking about how they might assist different individuals in her state of affairs get higher.

Research reveals that intestine well being is instantly tied to psychological well being, and that 95% of the serotonin the physique produces comes from the intestine, in response to the American Psychological Association.

Gut well being connects to happiness, temper, thought processes, reminiscence and cognition, David mentioned. Supplements with elements that don’t agitate the intestine can have substantial well being impacts.

“It’s not that we put elements in our dietary supplements that show you how to suppose higher or make your intestine completely happy, however we take out the issues that aren’t essentially good on your intestine like sucralose, which is a man-made sweetener, aspartame, acisoletame… all these synthetic fillers and all these items that your intestine doesn’t essentially know what to do with and your physique doesn’t know how you can metabolize.”

The firm’s two flagship merchandise, FAST and SLEEP, have been set to launch Aug. 1 on-line on their web site and Amazon.

FAST was created to gas an intermittent quick with out breaking it. The complement is designed to offer vitality and a lift by important amino acids, electrolytes, inexperienced tea extract and creatine, which permit your physique to remain in a fasted state.

Danielle mentioned she had been on Ambien for a few years, and when it stopped working, she realized she wanted to handle the basis reason behind her insomnia. She discovered she had a magnesium deficiency that made it troublesome for her to go to sleep on her personal.

Their non-addictive sleeping complement, SLEEP, is designed to be protected to take every day. It’s made with magnesium, lemon balm, chlorella and cilantro to create pure calming results.

The Fuel 4 Ever dietary supplements can be found for $44.95 on Fuel4Ever.com or Amazon. The Stantons are set to launch protein bars later this yr. The protein bars are all-natural and made with out chemical compounds.