Asking the questions that guide us home.
An apothecary and a research wing. We make spagyric herbal extractions, carry pharmaceutical-grade supplements, and stock eyewear for the light after dark — while running an ethics-approved study into microdosing and veteran trauma recovery.
Two arms of one inquiry.
Current research.
Foundation Labs keeps a research wing and an apothecary. The research sells nothing. The apothecary claims nothing it cannot support. They are kept apart on purpose.
Microdosing Vets
Our own ethics-approved investigation into microdosing protocols as adjunct support for trauma recovery in veterans — conducted at the California Institute of Integral Studies by Foundation Labs founder Patrick Nienaber.
Read the studyPsychedelic Vets
A veteran-led directory of every lawful psychedelic study now recruiting U.S. veterans, alongside integration resources and community. Microdosing Vets is one listing among many.
Find a studyTwo ways of making medicine.
Herbal Formulations
Small-batch spagyric extractions, made in-house. The plant is separated into its essential oil, its water, and its mineral salt — each purified alone, then recombined. Weeks of maceration, repeated firings, nothing discarded.
Enter the apothecarySupplements
Pharmaceutical-grade formulations from Ecological Formulas, refining practitioner-trusted supplements since 1981. Hypoallergenic, precisely dosed, and sourced for effect rather than for claim.
Enter the dispensaryThree principles guide the work.
Rigor in inquiry.
The research is conducted under formal ethics oversight, with methodology and findings held to academic standards. We publish what we find, including when it is inconvenient.
Integrity in formulation.
Every offering is sourced for what it does, not for what it can be claimed to do. If we cannot say plainly why something is here, it does not belong here.
Reverence for the body.
The body is the foundation of everything that follows — every practice, every insight, every ambition. The work is in service of stewarding it well.
We are not arrived. We are in process, like you — and we would rather walk beside you than lead from the front.
Fifty-two letters. One year. No promises.
The Foundation Pathway is a year-long inquiry into caring for the self — beginning with what is quietly burdening us, moving through what has to be restored, and ending in purpose and presence.
It is not a program with a finish line and a transformation to sell you. It is fifty-two areas of attention, researched and cited, offered so you can go as deep as you choose.
- Fifty-two letters, one a week, across four movements: Remove, Replenish, Optimize, Awaken.
- Every claim cited. Every source named. Nothing asked to be taken on trust.
- Not open yet. We are writing it now, and we would rather be late than thin.
Six letters written. Fifty-two planned. Free when it opens, always.