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The €267/month that piled up on my kitchen counter
By Marcus Chen | 6 min read
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Every once in a while, my partner sends me a photo of our kitchen counter.
"Are you still taking these??"
"Yes I already told you" I replied this time. Quickly. Defensively.
The truth is, I feel guilty every time I walk past that counter. I know exactly how they make the kitchen look.
In the past I tried hiding them away in a cabinet but then I’d forget to take them for days, sometimes even weeks. Or I couldn't be bothered to fish them all out.
So there they stay, out in the open, collecting dust and judgment.
"a few of these look expired".
I told myself I'd check them all this weekend.
Nineteen bottles. The magnesium, the creatine, the CoQ10, the NR, the glycine and more - lined up like a pharmacy display next to the kettle.
Four were expired.
Maybe I could still take them, I thought. I hate throwing things away and wasting money.
I knew that past the expiration date they probably weren't working properly anymore.
But truth be told, I couldn't tell you if a single one was making a difference anyway.
So I did what I probably should've done months earlier: I sat down with a spreadsheet.
€3,204 Per Year
It was hard to believe at first. The most expensive bottle on my counter - the NR - was €65. The creatine was €24. Most of them were under €20 each.
Nothing felt expensive on its own.
But so many different products, seven different brands, reordering every month?
I guess it adds up in a way I didn't notice until I sat down and actually totalled it.
I Went Looking For One Thing That Could Replace Most Of It
The obvious first stop was AG1. I mean - AG1 is everywhere. Every podcast, every Instagram morning routine, every creator mixing that green powder into a glass of water. I'd seen it a thousand times. I sort of wanted it to be the answer because it would've made things simple.
So I looked at the label properly.
AG1 has 75+ ingredients in a 12-gram serving. That sounds like a lot. But I started doing the maths and it gets a bit weird. 75 ingredients in 12 grams means each one averages around 160 milligrams. Some get more, some get less - but there's only so much physical space in a single scoop.
I checked for the specific things I'd been taking. NR? Not listed. Creatine at a clinical dose? Not listed. CoQ10? Not listed. Ca-AKG? Not listed.
What AG1 does have is probiotics, some B-vitamins, and a range of plant extracts.
At €87 a month, it's a solid option if you want a daily greens drink with some nutritional coverage. But that wasn't my situation.
My situation was that I cared too much and ended up with nineteen bottles because of it. AG1 just wasn't designed to solve that problem.
Then I looked at IM8. The David Beckham one.
IM8 is actually impressive. I don't say that about many supplements.
They have two products - Daily Ultimate Essentials (core nutrition, vitamins, greens, probiotics, CoQ10) and Daily Ultimate Longevity (the longevity compounds - NMN, a triple senolytic blend of resveratrol, quercetin, and fisetin, 3 grams of glycine, 2 grams of taurine). To get full coverage, you need both.
Whoever formulated the longevity product clearly reads the studies.
But a few things gave me pause.
One - the combined cost. Essentials plus Longevity comes to around €200 a month on subscription. I was trying to spend less, not replace nineteen bottles with two expensive powders. Over a year that's roughly €2,400.
Two - the Longevity formula lists a "NAD3 Complex" at 312mg total, but the individual ingredient amounts within that blend aren't broken down on the label. It might be perfectly balanced. I just couldn't verify it from the information available.
Three - even across both products, no Calcium Alpha-Ketoglutarate - one of the most discussed compounds in longevity research right now, with published lifespan data in mice. No creatine either. No Lion's Mane.
The senolytic complex is genuinely strong - probably one of the best available for that specific purpose, and worth a look if that's your priority.
But at that combined price, with those gaps in what I was looking for, I kept looking.
The Thing That Changed How I Was Thinking About All Of This
While I was comparing products, something clicked that I probably should have realised earlier.
Most of what I'd been taking - the NR, the CoQ10, the magnesium, the B-vitamins, the creatine - none of it was random. I'd bought them separately, at different times, based on different podcasts and different Reddit threads. But when I actually looked at what they do, they're all connected.
They all feed into how my cells produce energy.
Mitochondria need NAD+ to function. NAD+ levels drop by roughly half between age 30 and 60. NR boosts NAD+. But it needs B-vitamins as cofactors. Magnesium supports hundreds of enzymatic reactions including energy metabolism. CoQ10 is part of the energy production chain inside mitochondria. Creatine provides a rapid energy buffer.
I'd been buying all of these pieces separately - from different brands, at different doses, showing up on different delivery days - without realising they were all supporting the same system from different angles.
Nineteen bottles. One pathway. And nobody told me that because every brand just sells their own piece.
I didn't need nineteen bottles. I needed one formula that covered the whole thing properly.
How I Found What I Actually Switched To
I found it on Reddit, which is probably the least glamorous discovery story a product can have.
Someone on r/Longevity had posted a spreadsheet comparing every all-in-one longevity formula on the EU market. Ingredient by ingredient. Dose by dose. Price per day.
One product kept coming up that I'd never heard of. Longevity Complete, from a company called The Longevity Store.
No celebrity behind it. No podcast ads that I'd ever heard. I almost scrolled past it.
But I opened the ingredient list and I ended up pulling my old spreadsheet back up and just going through it line by line.
24 ingredients. Every dose printed on the label. No proprietary blends.
The NR I'd been buying separately for €65 a month - 300mg, included. Same dose.
Creatine at 3,000mg - included. I'd been buying that for €24 a month.
CoQ10 at 100mg - included.
Calcium Alpha-Ketoglutarate at 1,140mg - included. One of the highest doses I'd seen in any commercial formula. The compound that AG1 doesn't carry and IM8 leaves out even across both products.
Glycine at 2,000mg. Lion's Mane at 250mg. Quercetin at 190mg.
Magnesium in two forms - malate and taurate - not the cheap oxide that most brands seem to use.
One detail stuck with me. They included TMG - betaine - at 1,000mg. I had to look up why. It turns out NR supplementation increases the body's demand for methyl groups. TMG provides those methyl groups. It's a small thing, but it told me whoever put this together was thinking about how the ingredients interact with each other. Not just listing impressive things on a label.
I went through every line.
It replaced the sixteen bottles I'd been using for mitochondrial support, electrolytes, and amino acids - basically everything except my fish oil and ashwagandha. And even the fish oil gap was covered - the 3-month subscription includes omega-3 as a free gift, which I didn't know when I first ordered but was a nice surprise.
I Checked Who Made It
I always do this. It's the part where most products fall apart for me.
The formula was developed with Dr. Robert Lufkin - a physician and medical professor at UCLA and USC, published researcher in metabolic health. Not an influencer. Not someone lending their name.
Manufactured in the Netherlands in an IFS-certified facility. Third-party tested by Eurofins. Every ingredient, every dose, right there on the label.
No proprietary blends. After spending a year trying to compare products where I couldn't always see what I was getting, that was a relief honestly.
"What attracted me to The Longevity Store® was their integrity in this approach. Learn first, then optimize. They share the same belief that education precedes supplementation. As a scientific advisor, I appreciate their commitment to science-based principles and transparency in ingredient selection."
Dr. Robert Lufkin
Head of Scientific Advisory Board
Three Months In
I've been taking it daily for just over 90 days. I want to be straight about what I noticed and what I didn't. These are just my personal observations, everyone's experience is going to be different.
The afternoon energy dip I used to get is mostly gone. I didn't wake up one morning feeling amazing - it was more like, after a few weeks, I realised I wasn't reaching for that afternoon coffee anymore.
I can't prove it's the supplement. I'm just telling you what happened.
I feel more rested in the mornings. My sleep tracking scores are generally higher. My guess is that it's the glycine and magnesium taurate but I honestly couldn't tell you for sure.
Recovery after training is noticeably faster. I lift three times a week. Leg day used to wreck me for four days. Now it's more like 48 hours. That one I'm fairly confident about - the creatine and CoQ10 have solid research behind them for recovery.
And the thing I didn't expect: I actually take it every day now. One scoop, water, shake, done. Thirty seconds while I make breakfast.
With nineteen bottles I was maybe 60% consistent on a good week. Most weeks worse. With one scoop I haven't missed a day in three months. I think the best supplement protocol is probably just the one you actually stick to.
What I can't tell you is whether my NAD+ levels went up or my cells got healthier or my biological age reversed by anything. I didn't do bloodwork - I probably should and I'm planning to at the six-month mark. The longevity stuff is a long game. I'm playing it.
The Maths
Before: ~€267/month. 19 bottles. 12-15 pills every morning. 11 reorder reminders snoozed on my phone.
After: €49/month on subscription. 1 canister. 1 scoop. Ships automatically every 90 days — one of the things I actually like about the subscription is that I don't think about reordering anymore. It just arrives.
That's over €2,600 a year I'm not spending anymore.
I'm not taking less. If anything the coverage is better - clinical doses, formulated to work together. I'm just not managing a small pharmacy on my kitchen counter.
Who This Is For
If I'm honest, I think there's probably three types of people still reading this.
You're me six months ago. Too many bottles, too much money, half of them expired, and you feel a bit guilty about the whole situation but you don't know what to do about it.
Or you've been looking at AG1 and something felt off. Maybe the ingredients didn't match what you were actually looking for. Maybe €87 a month for a greens powder seemed steep for what it is. Or you looked at IM8 and the €200/month for two products was hard to justify long-term.
Or you care about the actual science - NAD+, mitochondrial function, cellular health - and you want proper doses formulated by someone with real research credentials. Not marketing doses from someone with a ring light.
Longevity Complete is €49/month on subscription - less than €1.70 a day. Ships every 90 days. 30-day money-back guarantee. Mango flavour. Mixes fine in a shaker.
If you're the person with the cluttered counter and the partner who's stopped asking about it - this is what fixed it for me.
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