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Education · Digestive Balance Formula
Acid Defense+
Soothe your everyday.
A ten-ingredient formula designed around the digestive environment — botanicals with centuries of traditional use, modern mineral complexes, and a probiotic strain, unified by liposomal delivery.
Pillar Overview
Systemic Balance
The Longevity Code
Systemic balance encompasses the whole.
The Longevity Code is built on four pillars. Pillar 04 — Systemic Balance — reflects the broad and interconnected nature of the body's regulatory systems: the processes that maintain equilibrium across multiple physiological environments and functions simultaneously.
Acid Defense+ is Codeage's answer to what targeted digestive support looks like when built with intention — a formula that brings together traditional botanical wisdom and modern nutritional science in a single daily serving with liposomal delivery.
The Formula's Design Logic
Four dimensions of one digestive formula.
What defines this formula isn't any single botanical — it's the layered thinking behind the combination. Four distinct dimensions, each addressing a different aspect of what comprehensive digestive support can mean.
Dimension One
A botanical foundation with deep roots.
Marshmallow root, DGL licorice, aloe vera, and okra fruit — each with a long history of traditional use in digestive support across different healing traditions. This formula doesn't treat historical botanical knowledge as a footnote. It treats it as a foundation.
Dimension Two
Targeted mineral complexes.
Zinc-L-Carnosine and Calcium Glycerophosphate are included as mineral complexes — not as filler minerals, but as compounds studied specifically in the context of the digestive environment. The form of a mineral matters as much as its presence, and both choices here reflect that principle.
Dimension Three
The probiotic layer.
Bacillus coagulans at 100 billion CFU per serving. A spore-forming probiotic strain — selected for its resilience across the GI environment. The gut microbiome is increasingly recognized as central to systemic balance, and its inclusion here reflects that broader view of digestive health.
Dimension Four
Delivery designed for the gut.
Liposomal delivery using phospholipids from non-GMO sunflower lecithin. For a formula designed around the digestive environment, how ingredients survive and are absorbed through it is not a secondary consideration — it is a primary one. The delivery system is part of the formula's logic.
On Ingredient Selection
Ten ingredients. Each earning its place.
Digestive formulas often default to one or two headline ingredients. The reasoning behind Acid Defense+ reflects a different philosophy: that the digestive environment is complex enough to deserve a multi-layered response. The question behind every inclusion was not just what the ingredient is — but what role it plays in the overall composition.
Single-Focus Approach
Formulas relying primarily on calcium carbonate or magnesium hydroxide to buffer acidity — without addressing the broader digestive environment or mucosal context.
Single-herb extracts without the supporting cast of complementary plants that traditional herbalism has historically combined for digestive use.
Zinc oxide or gluconate — common forms not specifically studied in the context of the digestive mucosal environment the way zinc-L-carnosine has been.
Active ingredients delivered without a dedicated system to navigate the digestive environment they're intended to support.
This Formula
Sodium alginate from brown seaweed — a structurally active compound — paired with calcium glycerophosphate as a buffering mineral complex, not a generic calcium source.
DGL licorice, marshmallow root, aloe vera, mastic gum, and okra fruit — a soothing blend representing complementary traditions of botanical digestive support.
A chelated compound of zinc and L-carnosine studied specifically for its behavior in the gastric environment — a targeted formulation choice, not a generic mineral inclusion.
Phospholipids from non-GMO sunflower lecithin forming a delivery structure designed to navigate the very environment this formula is intended to support.
Formula Architecture
Four layers. One digestive formula.
The formula operates across four functional layers — each serving a distinct role in the overall nutritional architecture for digestive and systemic balance.
Ingredient Spotlight
The decisions within the formula.
Ten ingredients. Each represents a deliberate formulation choice — not just what to include, but in what form and in what combination. Seven of those choices are highlighted here.
Barrier Support
Alginic Acid
Derived from Phaeophyceae brown seaweed, alginic acid is a naturally occurring polysaccharide studied for its physical behavior in the gastric environment. Its inclusion as the formula's lead compound reflects a thoughtful approach to digestive support.
Botanical Classic
DGL Licorice Root
De-glycyrrhizinated licorice — a processed form of licorice root extract in which glycyrrhizin is removed, making it suitable for longer-term use. One of the most studied herbs in the context of digestive mucosal support, it is the formula's leading botanical inclusion.
Traditional Herb
Marshmallow Root
Althaea officinalis — a mucilaginous herb with a long history of use in traditional European herbalism for soothing the digestive tract. It represents the formula's commitment to botanicals with documented traditional use alongside modern research relevance.
Resin Extract
Mastic Gum
A resin from the Pistacia lentiscus tree — used in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern traditional herbalism for centuries in connection with digestive comfort. Its inclusion reflects the formula's breadth of botanical sourcing and respect for cross-cultural herbal traditions.
Mineral Complex
Zinc-L-Carnosine
A chelated compound in which zinc is bound to the dipeptide L-carnosine. This specific combination — not zinc alone — has been studied for its behavior in the gastric environment. It is one of the formula's most targeted ingredient choices, selected for its specificity to the digestive context.
Probiotic Strain
Bacillus coagulans
A spore-forming probiotic strain selected in part for its resilience through the digestive environment that many conventional probiotic strains struggle to survive. Its inclusion acknowledges the role the gut microbiome plays in systemic balance more broadly.
If you experience acid reflux, heartburn, or GERD-related symptoms, it's important to speak with your healthcare provider before taking any supplement or making changes to your routine. The foods you eat and your diet may also play a role in how your body manages acidity and digestion. This formula is designed to complement — not replace — professional medical guidance.
On the Research
What the literature has explored.
The formulation decisions in this product have parallels in published scientific research. Two references are shared here as educational context — not as claims about this product's intended effects.
Published Research Reference · Zinc-L-Carnosine
"Research into zinc-L-carnosine has examined this chelated compound's behavior in the gastric mucosal environment, with studies exploring its potential to support the integrity of the gastric lining through mechanisms distinct from zinc or carnosine delivered independently."
For reference: Hiraishi, H., et al. (1999). Zinc L-Carnosine Protects Gastric Mucosal Cells from Noxious Agents. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 44(12), 2513–2521 →
Published Research Reference · Mastic Gum & Digestive Environment
"Studies of Pistacia lentiscus resin (mastic gum) have explored its composition and activity in the gastric environment, with researchers examining its traditional reputation in Mediterranean medicine alongside its studied behavior in modern digestive research contexts."
For reference: Triantafyllou, A., et al. (2007). Mastic Gum — A Review of its Biological Activities. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 14(10), 1215–1229 →
References are provided for educational context only and do not represent claims about this product's intended health effects. The studies cited are independent scientific publications and have no association with Codeage or its products. Codeage does not claim any relationship between these studies and the formulas it offers.
The Longevity Code · Architecture
Systemic balance.
A broad and considered view.
Pillar 04 of The Longevity Code addresses systemic balance in the fullest sense — a recognition that the body's regulatory systems are interconnected, and that nutritional support can play a role within that broader picture.
