It is a nervous system recovery project. Built on millennia of olive cultivation, oxymiel infusions, wild flowers, peer-reviewed science, and lived experience.
We call what we do re-terroiring — giving people the biotechnic tools they need to reclaim their sovereign biology. Their sense of autonomy over their lives, bodies, and minds.
We are working class. When we think of olives, olive farmers, and the land, we think of hard, unforgiving conditions and work. It speaks to us of millennia of resistance and toil. That is why we intend to make olive oil accessible — first in our own community, and then nationally and internationally.
Para la gente.
Three years ago, I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. I turned to alcohol. I lost jobs, relationships, any sense of a future. I also have combined ADHD, PTSD, and Borderline Personality Disorder.
One year ago, I stopped drinking. That decision saved my life.
In the quiet months that followed, I started using high-polyphenol olive oil. Not as a cure. As an experiment. Something shifted. The noise in my head quietened. I could sit still. I could breathe. I could sleep.
I learned that polyphenols — specifically secoiridoids — act directly on inflammation and the nervous system. They do not cure anything. They create the conditions for recovery.
That is what we do. We create the conditions.
We do not sell wellness products. We sell tools for sovereignty.
We are not here to make you feel better. We are here to give you the tools to reclaim yourself.
Every tin and every bottle carries the intelligence of ancient trees, the resilience of fungal networks, and the intention of a nervous system re-terroiring itself.
Our products are supported by peer-reviewed research.
Activates TRPV1 receptors on the vagus nerve, suppressing systemic inflammation via the vagal–adrenal axis.
Binds directly to TRPV3 receptors in the nodose ganglion of the vagus nerve, alleviating stress-related anxiety by modulating heart rate and respiration.
Inhibit serotonin-evoked responses in visceral vagal afferent neurons, acting as non-competitive antagonists at 5-HT3 receptors.
This is not pseudoscience. This is the mechanism.
These mechanisms are load-bearing, not decorative. They sit on a broader record — neuroprotection, cardiometabolic outcomes, clinical trials, and the gut–brain axis — that we refuse to summarise in a sentence.
Read the evidence → ResearchThe olive tree has been cultivated for 7,000 years. It has outlasted empires. It grows slow. It grows stubborn. It grows where nothing else will.
That is the tree we follow. That is the business we build.
We source from small family producers in Andalusia who publish NMR reports on their websites. We work with producers who have won gold medals at the Japan Olive Oil Prize and the New York International Olive Oil Competition. We import oil that is lab-tested, terroir-driven, and accessible to all.
Two groves. Two countries. One shared discipline — pressing early and publishing the numbers.
We did not find suppliers. We found teachers — and we are still learning.
We honour our partnerships. The producers are not suppliers — they are collaborators.
We have worked with Onsuri since last November. They have been influential in shaping our understanding of high-polyphenol, early-harvest extra virgin olive oil.
The Levant is the birthplace of the olive. It is where the story begins — and where I began mine. The olive was first cultivated in these hills, and the trees there still carry the memory of that first pressing.
Onsuri works with Arbequina — a variety usually very low in polyphenols. Yet their early-harvest, single-estate oil consistently produces numbers that sit far above the international average. 1,504 mg/kg. That is not accident. That is craft, terroir, and the discipline of pressing early.
We did not find a producer. We found a teacher.
Some partnerships begin in a single telephone call — and end in a delivery that crosses a continent.
I found Tropicual the way I find most things that matter — by reading. Their NMR report was published openly on their website, and the numbers held. Early-harvest. Lab-tested. Terroir-driven. The kind of transparency that does not need a marketing department.
I picked up the phone and called. Lucía answered. We talked about polyphenols, about the grove, about the work. I did not know it then, but Lucía owns the company. She spoke the way a grower speaks — with the patience of someone who has waited on trees.
After that call I could not reach them again. Weeks passed. I told myself the conversation had been a small, private gift — enough on its own. Then, back in the UK, on something close to a whim, I dialled Tropicual's number one more time.
They answered. And now we are building a partnership that will last for years. My first delivery is being finalised.
In honour of Lucía and Albert
Lucía and Albert opened their grove and their numbers to a stranger on the other end of a line. That kind of openness is rare, and it is the whole basis of what we do: producers who publish their science, and a community that reads it.
Tropicual runs an Adopt a Tree programme. You choose a tree in their Andalusian grove, follow its harvest, and receive the oil it bears. It is re-terroiring made literal — a relationship with a single tree, its soil, and the people who tend it. We are proud to share it.
The kindness of a grower on the phone is how a grove reaches a kitchen in another country.
Some partnerships begin with persistence — and a phone number you will not stop dialling, even when the rest of the country is on holiday.
In the weeks before Christmas, I called Willy's. I called again. I called again after that. I left messages. I sent emails. It did not occur to me — not once — that the people I was calling might be on holiday. That offices close. That normal human beings take time off for Christmas and parties and the small, ordinary business of having a life. I am, it turns out, gloriously oblivious to such things. I was, by any reasonable measure, relentless. All I wanted was to place an order — to get their products into the hands of the people I was building this for.
Early in January, the team picked up. I told them the whole story — the calls, the waiting, the complete failure to register that an entire country had closed for the holidays. They laughed. They were warm and open and generous, the way people are when someone clearly has no idea how Christmas works but means every word of it.
I am probably more annoying than funny by now — the person who keeps dialling through December as if the world does not stop, as if offices are not full of people with plans and families and parties to attend. But that is usually what happens when you find something worth believing in. You forget that other people have lives. You become the person who keeps calling.
Willy's Anxious Drinker and Eureka are fantastic products. We love everything they do — and we are grateful they picked up the phone, eventually, and did not block the number.
The best partnerships are not found. They are insisted upon — dialled through every holiday — and then returned with kindness.
The Radical Apothecary is an independent mycelial network of countless hyphal nodes. Every bottle sold is a node. Every customer is a node. Every conversation is a node.
The network is growing, one drop at a time, and you are its living node.
The next step is simply to continue — to infuse, to share, to document, to connect. Because what we are building is not just a product line or a business. It is a paradigm. And paradigms do not shift through argument; they shift through demonstration.
We are demonstrating it, with every bottle, every conversation, every table outside a pop-up shop.
The mycelium is fruiting. The spores are releasing. The future is being fermented — and we are holding the jar.
To make functional, nutritious food accessible to all — not just the wealthy. To give people the biotechnic tools they need to reclaim their sovereign biology. To build a nervous system recovery project that reaches beyond supplements and into the fabric of everyday life.
We are not a wellness company. We are a nervous system recovery project.
Built on millennia of olive cultivation, oxymiel infusions, wild flowers, peer-reviewed science, and lived experience.