Tom BergenFounder · 61 · still ridingOur story
We didn't start a supplement company. We started a search.
For supplements you could actually take every day, for years. It began with one bad bottle of cinnamon. It became a standard we now hold every product to.
3:00 p.m.Fit, 58, and asleep on the couch by 3 p.m.
Tom rode 120 miles a week. He ate well, slept well, and was fitter than most people half his age. And yet every single afternoon, like clockwork, his energy hit a wall.
- Heavy legs after lunch
- A foggy head by mid-afternoon
- Reaching for something sweet
- Telling yourself it's just your age
He assumed that was simply what 58 feels like. His doctor didn't. She looked at how his body handled a meal, and mentioned, almost in passing, that cinnamon had decent research behind it.
"I wasn't getting old. I was getting spiked and dropped twice a day and calling it age."Tom Bergen, founder
The first bottle he bought told him not to take it every day.
It said "cinnamon" in big letters on the front. On the back, in small print, it said something else. Tom went home and read for a week.
Cinnamon bark powder (Cinnamomum cassia) 500 mg. Take 2 capsules daily with food. Not intended for long-term use. Consult your physician if pregnant, nursing or taking medication.
The bottle was cassia, the cheap cinnamon in nearly every supplement on the shelf, and high in coumarin. The cinnamon in the studies was often a different plant entirely: true Ceylon, from Sri Lanka.
- 1The cheapest form of the ingredient
- 2A dose too weak to matter
- 3No outside testing, ever
One family. Four generations. The same hills since 1912.
In the hills around Kandy, true Ceylon is still harvested by hand, the way it has been for centuries. It takes years to learn, and a good peeler's hands are the difference between top grade and garbage.
Our cinnamon comes from one place only: the Wickramasinghe family, who have grown it near Kandy since 1912. Because "true Ceylon" only means something if you know exactly where it comes from.
- CutYoung shoots, harvested after the rains, when the bark peels best
- PeelThe thin inner bark, sliced free with a small brass knife
- RollLayer by layer into long, paper-thin quills
- DrySlowly, in the shade, never in harsh sun
Then two years of saying no to the easy version.
Ground bark in a capsule would have been cheap and fast. We wanted a 12:1 concentrated extract instead: twelve kilos of bark for one kilo of extract, in MCT oil from coconut, so every softgel delivers the same amount, every time.
We set the rules before we set the price. Not the other way around. And those rules became the standard for everything we make, from the first softgel of Ceylance to every product after it.
Once the standard existed, we couldn't stop at cinnamon.
If cinnamon was sold the cheap way, what else was? So we started looking at the ingredients people over 50 actually reach for, and asked the same questions we asked about cassia.
- ✓Something people over 50 genuinely care about
- ✓Real research behind it, not hype
- ✓A better form that most brands skip
- ✓Passes testing by an outside lab, every batch
- ✓Works in one small softgel a day
The first ingredient to pass all five was Astaxanthin, for skin, eyes and a natural glow.
61, and still riding. His afternoons belong to him again.
What we believe
Fifty isn't the beginning of the end. It's the start of the years you actually get to use.
Few things, done properly.
No 40-product catalog, no "stack" to sell you. We only add a supplement when it passes the same five checks as the first one.
For you: No upsells. Just what works.We talk to you like adults.
No miracle claims, no fake countdown timers. What the research says, and what it doesn't, in plain English.
For you: Honest labels you can check.We make what we'd take.
If we wouldn't take it every day ourselves, we don't sell it. That's the whole test.
For you: The same pouch we'd give our own family.Your risk is our problem.
Try it for 60 days. If it isn't for you, we refund your first order in full. Nothing to send back, no forms.
For you: You can only win.
A note from Tom
"I'm 61 now, and my afternoons belong to me again. I still ride. I stay awake through dinner. None of that is a miracle. It's honest ingredients, taken every day, from people who actually care whether they work."
If it doesn't make a difference for you within 60 days, we refund your first order in full. That's not a marketing line. It's the reason we exist.
P.S. Questions before you start? Email us at support@vitalyearsplus.com. A real person answers within one business day.
Now it's your turn
One softgel with breakfast. 60 days to decide.
Start with the one that fits your goal, or take both. Every cent of your first order back if we're wrong.
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The only risk is waiting. Try it for 60 days. Not for you? We refund your first order in full.