We built one formula, properly, instead of a shelf full of half-measures.

My name is Nimon Davey. A few years ago, I watched my mother go through the parts of ageing nobody really warns you about — dry skin that no cream seemed to touch, a tiredness that didn't lift with sleep, joints that ached and stiffened in ways they hadn't before. She was already taking a well-known collagen brand, genuinely trying to do something about it. And underneath all of it, she was starting to lose her confidence.

So I did what I do when something doesn't sit right: I pulled apart the label. I went through her existing collagen brand's ingredient list line by line — and what I found surprised me. Ingredients I'd have expected to see were either missing entirely, or dosed so low they were barely worth including.

That sent me further down the rabbit hole than I expected. I read into the difference between marine and bovine collagen — why they're not interchangeable, why blending both gives broader coverage than either alone. I read every clinical study on collagen I could get my hands on. I'll be honest: I became a bit obsessed.

At the same time, I was already deep into my own routine on the other side of this. I'm a gym-goer, health-conscious, and I'd been taking creatine consistently for years alongside resistance and strength training — for lean muscle, faster recovery, and the cognitive benefits I'd read about. I was already taking vitamin D3 for bone and muscle health, and B12 to support my energy. The one thing I wasn't taking was collagen. In my head, collagen was something women took — I genuinely believed that. I was wrong. Men lose collagen with age too; the decline doesn't check your gender first.

That's when the real challenge set in: how do I build a formula that actually helps my Mum, and the many women facing the same ageing challenges she was — without building something that only made sense for her? I wanted a formula men could benefit from too, built on what I already knew worked for me.

So I brought the two threads together. With a team of nutritional and biological scientists, we developed a blended formula built to work both ways — the collagen research I'd spent months buried in, paired with the creatine, D3 and B12 I already knew and trusted from my own routine. See our Creatine page for the actual studies behind that side of the formula — I'm summarising here, not making the case in full.

That's the moment the idea properly formed. Collagen brands stayed in their lane. Creatine stayed in gym culture. Nobody was combining the two, dosed properly, with everything disclosed. So Restore & Grow became the formula I wished my mother had been taking from the start — and the one I'd have wanted for myself too.

"My mother's story is what started this. But I didn't want to build something only for her exact situation. What I learned applies far beyond one life stage or one gender — which is why Restore & Grow is built for anyone who wants to stay strong and capable, not a narrow slice of the people who might benefit from it."

That research obsession didn't stay in my head — it turned into a specific standard every formulation, every claim, and every piece of copy on this site gets checked against before it's allowed to exist.

Restore & Grow pairs 10g of dual-source collagen — 5g bovine, 5g marine, chosen for broader collagen-type coverage rather than cost-saving — with 3g of creatine monohydrate, the exact amount specified in creatine's one authorised UK health claim. B12, D3, vitamin C and CocoVital® electrolytes round it out, each included because it directly supports one of the two headline actives, not because it looks good on a label.

We built it for people who think in terms of staying capable, not people chasing a single before-and-after photo — which is also why you won't find fear-based ageing language anywhere on this site. We say "support," "preserve," and "maintain," because that's what the evidence actually supports us saying.

This is the part of my research that changed the formula most. I'll lay it out the same way the rest of this site does — plainly, and clear about what's an approved claim versus what's current research.