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Anti-inflammatory & recovery

Five ingredients meant for the days after hard training or a minor injury, when your resting heart rate stays up. It runs as a course of up to 14 days, not as something you stay on. And none of its five ingredients has an authorised EU claim for inflammation: we would rather tell you that than let the name promise it.

WHENNight, with your dinner
WITH FOODYes, preferably. With your dinner
DOSE VOLUME2.4 ml, in twelve 0.2 ml pulses
INGREDIENTS5 active, 0 fillers
CARTRIDGE45 ml · up to 18 nights
SLOT1 of the 6 in your device
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WHAT IS IN IT

Five actives. Nothing else.

These are the reference doses of the formula. Your device pours them in steps of 0.2 ml, so what you actually take on a given night can sit below the reference when your data does not call for the full dose.

INGREDIENTFORMPER DOSE% NRVWHAT IT IS THERE FOR
CurcuminCurcumin extract, ≥95% curcuminoids, with piperine500 mg—No authorised claim. The EMA recognises turmeric for mild digestive complaints only, not for inflammation
PiperineBlack pepper extract, ≥95% piperine5 mg—No authorised claim. Botanical claims like this one sit on hold in the EU register. It is here to raise how much of the curcumin you absorb
EPA + DHAMarine oil, re-esterified triglyceride or phospholipid2,000 mg—Normal function of the heart, from 250 mg a day. No claim covers inflammation
Vitamin CL-ascorbic acid or magnesium ascorbate200 mg250%Normal function of the immune system during and after intense exercise, at 200 mg a day
BoswelliaGum resin extract, 65% boswellic acids, AKBA ≥30%300 mg—No authorised claim. Botanical claims like this one sit on hold in the EU register
Total volume2.4 mlTwelve pulses of 0.2 ml, the smallest step the device can serve
CurcuminCurcumin extract, ≥95% curcuminoids, with piperine500 mg—

No authorised claim. The EMA recognises turmeric for mild digestive complaints only, not for inflammation

PiperineBlack pepper extract, ≥95% piperine5 mg—

No authorised claim. Botanical claims like this one sit on hold in the EU register. It is here to raise how much of the curcumin you absorb

EPA + DHAMarine oil, re-esterified triglyceride or phospholipid2,000 mg—

Normal function of the heart, from 250 mg a day. No claim covers inflammation

Vitamin CL-ascorbic acid or magnesium ascorbate200 mg250% NRV

Normal function of the immune system during and after intense exercise, at 200 mg a day

BoswelliaGum resin extract, 65% boswellic acids, AKBA ≥30%300 mg—

No authorised claim. Botanical claims like this one sit on hold in the EU register

Total volume 2.4 ml 

Twelve pulses of 0.2 ml, the smallest step the device can serve

No proprietary blends, no "complex" hiding the amounts, no bulking agents. If an ingredient is in the bottle it is in this table, with its form and its dose.

No proprietary blends, no bulking agents. If an ingredient is in the bottle it is in this table, with its form and its dose.

THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT

Two of these five have an authorised claim. Neither is about inflammation.

In the EU, only a short list of health claims is authorised, and the rest of the register sits on hold. The name of this formula says what it is built for, not what it is allowed to promise. We would rather show you which of our ingredients are on that list, and what the list actually says, than write a sentence that sounds the same for all five.

Curcumin

ON HOLD IN THE EU REGISTER

WHAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO SAY

Nothing yet. Botanical claims have been on hold in the EU since 2010, pending review.

The EMA monograph recognises turmeric for traditional use in mild digestive complaints, such as fullness, slow digestion and flatulence, for up to two weeks. It does not cover inflammation, so the use in this formula sits outside it. The curcumin is paired with piperine to raise absorption, and that is where the caution comes from: cases of liver injury have been reported with highly absorbable curcumin extracts, and the French agency ANSES advises staying under 153 mg of curcumin a day. Our own internal maximum is 200 mg a day for enhanced-absorption curcumin, close to the provisional EFSA/JECFA acceptable daily intake of 3 mg per kg of body weight, about 210 mg for a 70 kg adult. This formula carries 500 mg, above all three figures. We would rather show you that gap than hide it, and it is part of what clinical validation has to settle.

EMA/HMPC/329755/2017 · 7 sources on file · 1 with a PMID · claim on hold

Piperine

ON HOLD IN THE EU REGISTER

WHAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO SAY

Nothing yet. Like the other botanicals here, its claims sit on hold in the EU register — and it is not here for an effect of its own.

Piperine, from black pepper, slows the breakdown of curcumin in your gut and liver, which our library puts at around twenty times more curcumin reaching your blood. That is the only pair inside this formula that is documented, and it is documented as a pairing to keep. The same effect reaches many medicines too, which is why piperine sits behind several of the warnings further down this page.

Planta Medica 1998 (Shoba et al.) · 5 sources on file · 1 with a PMID · claim on hold

EPA + DHA

AUTHORISED CLAIM

WHAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO SAY

“EPA and DHA contribute to the normal function of the heart (with a daily intake of 250 mg).”

Regulation (EU) 432/2012, for a daily intake of 250 mg. This formula carries 2,000 mg, in triglyceride or phospholipid form rather than ethyl ester. It is the only authorised claim we can point to for the omega-3s here, and it is about your heart, not about inflammation or recovery. It comes from fish.

Reg. 432/2012 · 250 mg a day minimum · 2 sources on file · 2 with a PMID

Vitamin C

AUTHORISED CLAIM

WHAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO SAY

“Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system during and after intense physical exercise.”

Regulation (EU) 432/2012, and only for a product that provides 200 mg of vitamin C a day, with the benefit coming from 200 mg a day on top of your recommended intake. The full dose here is exactly 200 mg, 250% of the NRV. A partial pour is less than that, and on those nights the claim does not apply. Of the five ingredients, it is the only one with an authorised claim that mentions exercise.

Reg. 432/2012 · EFSA Journal 2009;7(9):1226 · 11 sources on file

Boswellia

ON HOLD IN THE EU REGISTER

WHAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO SAY

Nothing yet. Botanical claims are suspended pending review.

In our library it sits under joints and muscles, and it acts on a different pathway from curcumin. What we cannot tell you yet is its standing with the EMA: one entry in our file points to an EMA/HMPC monograph on Boswellia serrata gum resin for mild to moderate joint pain, while other notes in the same library say no EU monograph exists. Until that is settled, we do not lean on either. No EFSA upper limit has been set for it.

1 source on file · no PMID · claim on hold

HOW IT IS POURED

Twelve pulses. Not always twelve.

The full dose of this formula is 2.4 ml, which the device serves as twelve pulses of 0.2 ml. On a night your band says you need less, it pours less and tells you why. One thing changes when it does: below the full dose the vitamin C drops under 200 mg, and its exercise claim no longer applies to that night. The EPA + DHA stays above its 250 mg minimum from the second pulse up.

TONIGHT'S POUR

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1.8 ml of 2.4 mlyour resting heart rate came back into band

NIGHT, WITH YOUR DINNER

Why then

The curcumin, the omega-3s and the boswellia all dissolve in fat and are better taken up with a meal. Taking the curcumin with dinner also cuts down the stomach discomfort it can cause. On a day you train in the evening, it lands just after your session.

AWAY FROM IRON

Why not with iron

Curcumin binds iron and cuts how much of it you absorb, so our library keeps the two at least two hours apart. The Iron formula goes out in the morning and this one at night, so they never meet.

45 ML CARTRIDGE

How long it lasts

At the full 2.4 ml it is 18 nights, which covers one full 14-day course. At a partial pour it lasts longer, so the app works out what is left from what you actually took.

HOW IT ENTERS YOUR PLAN

A BOOST formula is not assigned. It is suggested.

BOOST is the part of your plan that moves. It does not come out of your questionnaire but out of your wearable, when your numbers leave your band for long enough to be more than one hard session, and it runs as a short course rather than indefinitely.

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    It is suggested when your resting heart rate stays up

    One signal can bring it in: a resting heart rate above 75 beats per minute on a seven-day average. One high morning is not enough. There is no blood marker tied to this formula, so whether it helps is judged by how you feel.

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    Your profile is checked first

    Before it is ever offered, your answers are checked against its exclusions. If you take an anticoagulant, including warfarin or acenocoumarol, have liver disease, or are pregnant or breastfeeding, it is not suggested at all.

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    It runs as a course of up to 14 days

    Two weeks is the limit the EMA monograph sets for turmeric, the ingredient that caps the course. Once the cartridge is in, it stays at least 7 days, so there is time to tell whether it is doing anything. Inside that time only the amount moves, night by night, in 0.2 ml steps. The recipe itself does not change.

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    At two weeks, it stops and is reviewed

    If your symptoms continue past two weeks, or get worse, the advice on file is to see a doctor, and we pass it on: something that needs its own treatment may be behind them. A course can be repeated later. No official source sets a break between courses or a yearly limit. Our own clinical notes suggest no more than four courses a year, for the sake of your liver, and that is VION's consensus, not a rule.

SAFETY AND INTERACTIONS

What it never shares a night with.

Every pair of ingredients in our library is checked against the others before a plan is built. Inside this formula, one of its ten pairs is documented: curcumin with piperine, a pairing our library wants kept together. The other nine are not documented yet. This is what the check rules out.

BLEEDING RISK FLAGGED

Cognitive & focus

That formula carries 120 mg of ginkgo. Ginkgo and curcumin both slow your platelets down, and our library only pairs them below 120 mg of ginkgo and 100 mg of curcumin, which these doses are not. Any plan with two such ingredients is flagged for bleeding risk, and blocked if you are on anticoagulants. The resveratrol in Systemic inflammation and Oxidative cardiovascular counts too.

OVERLAP TO WATCH

Systemic inflammation · Cardiovascular

Systemic inflammation carries the same 500 mg of curcumin, 5 mg of piperine and 2,000 mg of EPA + DHA. Our internal maximum for enhanced-absorption curcumin is 200 mg a day, in line with the provisional EFSA/JECFA acceptable daily intake of 3 mg per kg of body weight, about 210 mg for a 70 kg adult. The 500 mg in this formula is already above it; running both curcumin formulas takes you to 1,000 mg, five times that maximum. Your EPA + DHA would reach 4,000 mg, and the 1,500 mg in Cardiovascular on top of that makes 5,500 mg, past the 5,000 mg upper limit. That arithmetic is information. The accumulation rule on file names seven vitamins and minerals; what it does with curcumin or EPA + DHA is not written down yet, and that is one of the things clinical validation has to settle.

TALK TO A DOCTOR FIRST

Not for everyone

Not for you if you take an anticoagulant, including warfarin, acenocoumarol, apixaban or dabigatran; if you take several medicines at once; if you are having chemotherapy; if you have liver disease; if you have a stomach ulcer or reflux; if you have a blocked bile duct or gallstones that cause symptoms; if you are pregnant or breastfeeding; if you are under 18; or if you are allergic to fish. The piperine is the reason for three of those: our library blocks it outright for polypharmacy and for chemotherapy, and says to avoid it with an ulcer or reflux. Do not combine this formula with anticoagulants or with aspirin without a healthcare professional: that warning sits on the boswellia label. Ask a doctor first if you take antiplatelets such as clopidogrel, diabetes or blood pressure medication, statins, ciclosporin, tacrolimus or other immunosuppressants, digoxin, talinolol or other P-gp substrate medicines, phenytoin, carbamazepine, theophylline, propranolol, rifampicin, lithium, SSRIs or SNRIs, tamoxifen, amlodipine, antiretrovirals, the contraceptive pill or other oestrogens, aluminium antacids, proton pump inhibitors or deferoxamine; or if you are in cancer treatment other than chemotherapy. Piperine changes how your body handles many medicines, so bring the full list. Ask first too if you have a bleeding disorder, kidney disease or kidney stones, haemochromatosis, thalassaemia or another iron overload, iron-deficiency anaemia, G6PD deficiency, or histamine intolerance. Stop it at least two weeks before planned surgery. Stop it and see a doctor if you notice yellowing skin or eyes, unusual tiredness, abdominal pain or dark urine, and see one too if your symptoms last more than two weeks. It contains fish and is not suitable for vegans or vegetarians. Do not exceed the dose, do not use it in place of a varied and balanced diet, and keep it out of reach of young children. The app asks before it ever suggests this one.

WHERE THIS COMES FROM

Regulation (EU) 432/2012 on permitted health claims · EFSA Journal 2009;7(9):1226 on vitamin C and the immune system · EMA/HMPC/329755/2017 monograph on Curcuma longa L., rhizoma · the 5,000 mg daily upper limit for EPA + DHA. Every line on this page is tied to one of the 810 sources on file, and 443 of the 9,730 possible ingredient pairs in our library are documented so far.

WHERE IT COMES FROM

You can check every line of this page.

Seven sources hold up this formula: the regulation that lets us make the claims, the EFSA opinion behind the vitamin C dose, the EMA monograph that caps the course at two weeks, the French alert on curcumin, the study behind the piperine, the reference values for the NRV column, and the upper limits we count against.

REGULATIONRegulation (EU) 432/2012 — list of permitted health claims made on foodsclaims for EPA + DHA and vitamin C
EFSAEFSA (2009) — Vitamin C and protection of cells from oxidative stress, normal collagen formation, immune system (EFSA-Q-2008-3206, DOI 10.2903/j.efsa.2009.983)behind the vitamin C claim and its 200 mg condition
EMAEMA/HMPC/329755/2017 — European Union herbal monograph on Curcuma longa L., rhizoma (Revision 1), 2018digestive use only, two weeks at most
ANSESANSES (France) — opinion on curcumin safety, anses.frliver alert, under 153 mg of curcumin a day
STUDYShoba G. et al., Planta Medica 1998 — Influence of piperine on the pharmacokinetics of curcumin in animals and human volunteerswhy the piperine is there
NRVRegulation (EU) 1169/2011, Annex XIII Part A — nutrient reference valuesvitamin C: 80 mg
UPPER LIMITSEPA + DHA 5,000 mg a day · curcumin: VION internal maximum 200 mg a day, EFSA/JECFA provisional ADI 3 mg/kg (about 210 mg at 70 kg)we serve 2,000 mg and 500 mg, so the curcumin is over its maximum

Reviewed by VION nutrition team · last reviewed 16 September 2026

WHAT IS NOT PROVEN YET

This formula has not completed clinical validation. Its five ingredients rest on published work, an EMA monograph and, in two cases, an authorised EU claim, but neither claim is about inflammation, the EMA does not recognise turmeric for it, and the combination itself has not been tested by us in a trial. There is no blood marker tied to it yet: for now, whether it helps is judged by how you feel. When the trial is done, the result goes on this page, whatever it says.

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