GEM Reviews

GEM was designed under a food-first philosophy, simply because it results in the most effective nutritional practices for our body. The human body was designed to eat a colorful array of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes—not a megadose of synthetic or isolated ingredients. By eating real food, you’re increasing nutrient bioavailability (the proportion of a nutrient that is absorbed and utilized by the body) and getting a perfectly packaged array of nutrients, cofactors, co-nutrients, and other phytonutrient essentials that work synergistically to do so much for your body. GEM delivers your daily nutrient essentials straight from the source: real food. We believe in nourishing our body with only the best, which is why you’ll find no artificial fillers, binders, or other unnecessary ingredients in GEM. But just because something comes from food doesn’t mean our body always agrees with it. We addressed the top allergens and diet preferences to ensure there is no added sugar, soy, gluten, dairy, or animal products in any of our bites. Reductionism has its time and place, but not when it comes to whole-body health. We believe in a holistic approach to nutrition—one that views the human body as a complex network of interconnected systems, and food as its dynamic counterpart. We’re here to connect the pieces of the puzzle and deliver nutrition in its most comprehensive form.

GEM was created to fill in the gaps in our diets and offer ingredients that aren't typically found in our diet, like ashwagandha to help relieve stress, astaxanthin to offer powerful antioxidants, beta-glucan to prime our immune system, or pre + probiotics to support our gut health. Additionally, we don't believe in mega-dosing. Many of us are used to seeing values of vitamins in the 200% and 300% range (and sometimes even higher). But megadoses can do more harm than good. Fat-soluble vitamins will be stored in our adipose tissue (fat cells), which can lead to toxic levels over time. As for water-soluble vitamins, our bodies physically can't absorb and overdose and we pee most of them out. The nutrient amounts in GEM were carefully crafted to fill in the gaps and work synergistically with the foods and nutrients already in your diet. Turns out our bodies prefer food, not capsules, meaning we absorb nutrients from food best. GEM’s real-food bites metabolize more naturally and effectively, leading to optimized absorption.

GEM was created to fill in the gaps of what we may be missing from our day-to-day diet and help diversify our nutrition through plants we don't typically get in a normal day (ashwagandha, green and red algaes, and more!). GEM supports your everyday health (on top of a balanced diet) because these nutritional dense plants pack quite the punch! Additionally, our soils are unfortunately not as nutritionally dense as they were a few decades ago. For example, you'd have to eat 7-8 oranges to get the same amount of Vitamin C from 1 orange 50 so years ago. GEM swoops in to fill in those gaps to combat our foods that are not as nutritionally dense as they used to be!

We use real food ingredients only. Our products contain a kaleidoscopic blend of supernutrients, algae, herbs, and adaptogens.

GEM is completely non-GMO and we source organic whenever possible-- the large majority of our ingredients are organic and marked with an asterisk on our nutrition label!

GEM provides a fantastic nutritional boost for both men and women, and is not designed as a prenatal (or anything of the sort), so there should be no concern there. For the most part, the modern issues that plague women are similar to those that plague men (i.e. brain fog, stress, hair loss/skin issues, and fatigue), and therefore men may have similar average deficiencies, such as b-complex, vitamin D, and so on.

We have COA's (certificates of analysis) on all of our raw ingredients that show exactly what's in them via testing. We closely vet each of our suppliers to ensure that the product you're getting is of the highest quality.

Only the 30 bite pouches have mushrooms. The mushrooms in GEM are dried and ground Agaricus bisporous, a common white mushroom.

Your monthly refill order contains 4 packs of 7 bites each - You can select to receive all the same flavor or you can mix and match Daily Essentials - Citrus Ginger, Cacao, Lemon Raspberry, or Peppermint. If you want to swap for Sleep Essentials instead, you can add a new product to your account.