Our Very First Product Has A Story Most People Don't Know
By Dr. Martin, Martin Clinic
Last reviewed March 2026, by Dr. Martin
Navitol has been part of the Martin Clinic for over 30 years. It was our first product. And it exists because of something that happened to my wife.
Hey, it's Dr. Martin here…
I want to tell you something about Navitol.
Something most people don't know.
Because when people see a supplement on a shelf — or on a website — they don't usually think
about where it came from.
They don't think about the story behind it.
Navitol has a story.
And I think it's worth telling.
Before There Was A Product
The Martin Clinic has been in my family since 1911.
My grandfather David started it.
My father carried it on.
And I have spent my entire career continuing what they started.
We have always believed the same thing.
Don't treat symptoms.
Find the cause.
But in 1993 — something happened that changed everything.
My wife Rosie got sick.
My Wife Was Disappearing
Rosie had always been the most energetic person I knew.
She was running three to five miles every day.
Cross-country skiing in the winter.
An energetic mother of four young children.
Then one summer — she started to disappear. It started slowly.
Allergies. Then trouble breathing. Then exhaustion that sleep couldn't fix.
By October she was rushed to the hospital.
Her oxygen levels had dropped so low they put her on straight oxygen.
And the tests?
Normal.
Everything came back normal.
The Moment That Changed My Career
I was her husband.
I was also a doctor.
And I had no answers.
That is not a comfortable feeling for a man who has spent his life helping people find answers.
We saw specialist after specialist.
Every test came back the same.
Normal.
Fine.
Nothing wrong.
But Rosie was not fine.
She had a cloud over her brain that lasted two and a half years.
She couldn't sleep.
She couldn't think clearly.
She ached everywhere.
She went from running every day to barely getting off the couch.
And one specialist — after every test imaginable — looked at her and said:
"Maybe if you come back in ten years, we might know what to do for you."
I walked out of that office and made a decision.
I was going to find the answer myself.
What I Found
I dove into research the way I never had before.
Not as a clinician.
As a husband.
And what I kept finding — over and over — pointed to the same thing.
Blood flow.
When circulation is restricted — even slightly — the body suffers everywhere.
The brain doesn't get enough oxygen.
The cells don't get enough nutrients.
Energy disappears.
The fog never lifts.
And none of it shows up in standard bloodwork.
That's why these women kept being told they were fine.
They weren't fine.
Their circulation was robbing them.
The Discovery
Once I understood the mechanism — I started looking for a solution.
I had been studying a nutrient called pine bark extract.
The research on it was remarkable.
It improved circulation. It crossed the blood-brain barrier.
It was the most powerful antioxidant I had ever come across.
I put Rosie on it.
She started taking it on a Thursday.
By Sunday morning she woke up and said something felt different.
The cloud over her brain was starting to lift.
We gave it a few more days.
Then a few weeks.
Her energy came back.
Her fog cleared.
Her aches quieted.
She felt like herself for the first time in years.
I remember her saying —
"It gave me back my life. It gave my children back their mother."
Why I Made It Into A Product
When I saw what pine bark extract did for Rosie…
I knew I had to make it available to everyone.
But I had a problem.
Most pine bark extracts on the market were poor quality.
Wrong source.
Wrong dosage.
Wrong everything.
I spent a long time finding the right one.
Sustainably sourced.
100% natural.
From a specific pine tree that gets over 300 days of sunlight a year.
Then I figured out the dosage.
Then I cut out every middleman and went directly to the manufacturer myself.
Not because it was easy.
Because it was the only way to keep the quality where it needed to be — and the price where people could actually afford it.
That product became Navitol.
Our very first supplement.
And 30 years later — it's still the one I'm most proud of.
What Navitol Has Done Since
Since Rosie first took it in 1993…
Navitol has helped over 100,000 people.
I hear from them regularly.
Women who were exhausted for years and finally feel like themselves again.
Men who couldn't get through the afternoon without crashing.
People who were told by their doctors that everything was fine — but knew something wasn't right.
They all found the same thing Rosie found.
Not a drug.
Not a stimulant.
Just their body finally getting what it needed.
One Last Thing
Every time someone asks me which Martin Clinic supplement they should start with…
I always say the same thing.
Start with Navitol.
It was our first product for a reason.
It works on the thing that underlies almost everything else — Blood flow.
Circulation.
The delivery system that your entire body depends on.
Get that right…
And everything else works better.
Try it for five days.
See how you feel.
If you don't notice a difference — we'll refund every penny.
No questions asked.
Talk soon,
Dr. Martin