Pure NCT: A New Foundation for Metabolic Health

The global wellness market continues to grow, yet outcomes remain inconsistent. Most metabolic supplements focus on downstream effects — appetite, hormones, or short-term signaling — while ignoring the underlying decline in cellular energy efficiency that drives metabolic dysfunction in the first place.

N-trans-caffeoyltyramine (NCT) represents a fundamentally different intervention point. NCT activates HNF4α, a master transcriptional regulator that governs mitochondrial function and fat metabolism across liver, muscle, and adipose tissue. By engaging this central control node, NCT addresses metabolic health at its root: how efficiently cells generate and utilize energy.

Why NCT was Unavailable

Why NCT Was Structurally Unavailable

Although NCT has been known in the scientific literature for years, it was never a viable commercial ingredient. In nature, NCT exists only in trace quantities — primarily in peppercorns — and always as part of complex mixtures containing less potent analogs. Extracting meaningful volumes is environmentally destructive, supply-limited, and economically prohibitive.

Traditional chemical synthesis offers no scalable alternative. Multi-step routes are costly, energy-intensive, and poorly suited to producing a single, high-purity compound. As a result, the biological potential of NCT remained locked behind manufacturing constraints.

Turning a Rare Molecule into Infrastructure

The eXoZymes platform removes this constraint entirely. Using AI-enhanced enzymes – exozymes - and a cell-free production platform, we have designed an exozyme cascade that convert simple feedstocks directly into NCT with engineering-level control.

Within months, NCT moved from concept to gram-scale production, achieving high conversion efficiency and consistent, pharma-grade purity. The process yields a single molecular species, avoiding the by-products and variability that complicate regulatory review and industrial scale-up.

Creating a New Category in Wellness

Pure, scalable NCT enables a new category of metabolic health products grounded in cellular performance rather than symptomatic relief. This is not an incremental supplement improvement — it is category creation enabled by manufacturability.

Commercialization follows a deliberately capital-light model, combining direct-to-consumer branded products, ingredient supply to established wellness brands, and selective white-label partnerships. This structure accelerates revenue generation while preserving long-term platform value and pharmaceutical optionality.