Hi, I’m Sarah.
My son Liam was diagnosed at five. Four years of medication adjustments, therapy and elimination diets. Four years of school calls and evenings that fell apart. Every doctor said the same thing: it is the ADHD.
What I could never find was something to give him that was built on actual research instead of a nice label. I read the studies myself, at night, after he was asleep. Then I went looking for something that used what those studies measured, at the amounts they measured it at. It did not exist.
So I started Nutriveen with clinical herbalists and functional medicine pediatricians, on one rule I have never let go of: nothing goes into a formula unless there is research behind it. If you are reading this, you already know what this life looks like. I just hope it gives your child what it gave mine.
Sarah Mom of Liam, 9, and founder of Nutriveen
Any Last Questions?
Behaviour sits downstream of three chemicals. Staying with a task runs on dopamine. Coming back down from a spike runs on serotonin. The gap between the impulse and the hand is GABA.
Almost every formula on that shelf moves one of the three, which is why one gummy leaves a child foggy and the next leaves him wired. Mind Balance works on all three, in an order: calm first, so the nervous system settles, then mood, so a spike can come back down, and only then does attention have something to hold on to.
Parents write it as one sentence, over and over: “calmer, focused, tasks completed.” That order is the whole design.
Most parents come to us with the same short list, in roughly this order: a child who cannot stay with anything long enough to finish it, homework that ends in tears, a small frustration that costs an hour to recover from, the explosion the moment he walks in from school, and a child who has started saying things about himself you cannot unhear.
Those are the ones parents describe changing first. Sleep usually settles too, but it is rarely the reason they came.
Because of the amounts. Most saffron gummies put the right names on the panel and then a decorative milligram behind each one: the best-selling one in this category declares 20 mg of passion flower and 1 mg of GABA per serving.
Mind Balance has 250 mg and 15 mg. Twelve and fifteen times. Same two ingredients, and you can check both panels in about a minute — ours is printed on this page.
Plenty of parents arrive here hoping it will be, and plenty of them end up somewhere they are happy with. What we can tell you is what each one does.
A stimulant pushes the chemistry your child already has, harder, for the hours it is active — and then it wears off, every day, because nothing was ever added to the supply. This works on the supply side, and on the brake a stimulant never touches. That is why parents tell us the hours the prescription doesn’t cover are the ones that change first.
Most families run both to begin with. If you eventually want to look at the prescription, bring your pediatrician what you have seen — that conversation goes far better with two months of evidence behind it.
Yes, and it is how most parents start. A large share of the children taking this are on a prescription, and nothing has to change to begin.
One thing we always recommend: mention it at the next appointment. The formula contains St. John’s Wort — 9 mg of extract, printed on the panel, far below the amounts used in the adult studies — and your pediatrician should know what your child takes. Most parents have that two-minute conversation and carry straight on.
Yes. This works at the level of the chemistry, not the label on a report.
Any child who struggles to settle, to come back down from a small thing, or to stay with a task is working with the same three chemicals. A diagnosis is not what makes a nervous system hard to settle.
Children 4 and up. Ages 4 to 13 take two gummies daily; 14 and up can take up to four. Not for children under 4 — chewable gummies are a choking hazard at that age and the formula was not built for them.
Two gummies, chewed, in the morning with breakfast. No water, nothing to mix, nothing to swallow.
Breakfast matters a little: the vitamin D3 in it is fat-soluble, so it is better absorbed with food than on an empty stomach at the front door. It is natural berry, and the thing parents write to us about most is that their children ask for them.
Nothing happens. Pick it up again the next morning, and do not double up to catch up. It is nutritional support that builds with consistency, not a dose to keep level.
With a multivitamin, an omega-3 or a probiotic, yes — nothing in the formula works against them.
The one thing to raise with your pediatrician is anything prescribed, because of the St. John’s Wort. That answer is a few questions up, and it is the one we would rather you did not skim.
You get your money back. Full refund within 30 days, no questions and no hoops, and an empty bag is fine.
Cancelling a subscription is one click from your account before the next charge — no phone call and no form. We are not interested in keeping money from a parent it did not help.
We ship within 24 to 48 hours from warehouses in the United States, Europe and Asia, and your order leaves from the one closest to you. If something is out of stock locally it ships from another warehouse rather than sitting and waiting.