Company: HYEX
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001096906-25-000553
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Company: HEALTHY EXTRACTS INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: 10-K/A
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 nutraceuticals is the focus on prevention and the body’s ability to use natural rather than artificially derived substances to treat disease or dysfunction — or as the Greek physician and father of modern medicine Hippocrates famously espoused, “Let food be your Medicine.” Today, the role of nutraceuticals in human health and wellbeing has become one of the most active and important areas of scientific investigation, with the latest findings presenting wide-ranging implications for consumers, health care providers, regulators, nutritional supplement producers and distributors. Our mission is to acquire or create products with health and performance benefits that have mass consumer appeal. Guided by this mission, our first two acquisitions(in 2019 and 2020, respectively) formed our current operating subsidiaries, Bergamet NA, LLC (“Bergamet”), which offers nutraceutical heart and immune health products, and Ultimate Brain Nutrients, LLC (“UBN”), which offers nutraceutical products for brain health. 1 Based on published research from third-party sources, we believe our Bergamet products have been shown to support heart health, support immune response, and address metabolic syndrome. Our UBN brain health formulations have been in development for more than 20 years, over which time its effects have been supported by third-party research studies. Our Markets The overall nutraceutical market is growing at a 7.8% compounded annual growth rate (“CAGR”) and is expected to reach $441 billion by 2026, according to ReportLinker. Driving this growth are multiple factors, including changing lifestyles, growing consumer desire to move away from expensive prescription medicine and undesirable side effects, aging population and increased life expectancy. Our current principal geographic markets are customers in the United States looking for nutraceutical products focused on their own heart and brain health and immune support. A growing self-care trend is also driving strong demand for nutraceuticals. Given increasingly hectic lifestyles, and the lack of time for preparing and consuming the required nutrients through a regular diet, the desire to replenish or augment essential nutrients with nutraceuticals is also increasing. Our BergaMet all-natural Citrus Bergamot SuperFruit TM formulations address an expanding global heart-health ingredients market that is projected to grow at a 4.6% CAGR to reach $55.3 billion by 2027, according to ResearchAndMarkets. This growth is largely being driven by concerns about cardiovascular disease, which remains the leading cause of premature death globally according to the World Health Organization. Our UBN products tap the