Gexox® HALO

HALO accelerates muscle and joint recovery while reducing exercise-induced inflammation and muscle soreness, and reduces down-time following overuse injuries. HALO provides comfort to muscles and joints that are sore and aching so nothing derails your training and racing program.
✓ Increases joint health & comfort
✓ Reduces exercise-induced inflammation
✓ Accelerates joint & muscle repair

For best results, take 2 capsules daily. Consider a second dose following extreme exercise.

While some people find HALO starts working almost immediately, you should start experiencing the benefits in 2-3 weeks. Long-term benefits are best achieved with regular daily supplementation.

HALO is a patented formulation that naturally reduces exercise-induced inflammation and joint stiffness and stimulates repair in connective tissue to elicit a lasting healing effect.

When inflammation is out of balance, your body feels achy and sluggish. HALO delivers a precise combination of curcuminoids (a more accurate descriptor for supplementary curcumin), and Superba2® (a proprietary krill oil formulation rich in omega-3s) to address the imbalance quickly and effectively.

HALO affects your body’s signaling to regulate exercise-induced inflammation or soft-tissue and overuse injuries, expediting recovery and limiting downtime. Human studies on each of the two major components of HALO (curcuminoids and omega-3s) show benefits for speeding recovery from delayed-onset muscle soreness, exercise-induced muscle damage, soft-tissue injuries from falls, and lingering pain from chronic issues.

We recommend taking HALO with a meal as this maximizes absorption and digestion.

We’re well aware of the claims made about CBD’s benefits, and – if those claims were supported by research evidence – then we’d absolutely incorporate it in the First Endurance system. The evidence doesn’t support the claims about CBD, but it does support curcuminoids and omega-3s for the same effect.

In designing HALO, we simply followed where the science led, and it led us to the conclusion that the patent-pending blend of curcuminoids and omega-3s actually does what CBD is supposed to do.

If you have a shellfish allergy, you should not take HALO.

Filling hard capsules with an oily liquid that has phospholipids (a universal solvent and lubricating agent) requires leaving some space in the capsule in order to prevent leakage.

HALO contains 500 mg of Superba® Krill, a clinically effective daily dose, with a minimum of 110 gm omega-3 fatty acids per serving (2 capsules), and is 2/3 EPA and 1/3 DHA.

Krill oil is significantly more efficient and effective than fish oil. It targets cell membranes and needs no digestion, only diffusion and blood circulation, to reach all cells and their membranes. Also, because krill oil is a soluble phospholipid, it doesn't have the GI issues that fish oils have.

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The groundbreaking technology that makes HALO special wasn’t available, so we had to develop it over a decade researching and conducting human studies on curcuminoids, focusing specifically on why the data looked so good in the lab (with artificial conditions or in animals) but could never be replicated in humans.

That research period produced five papers on human curcumin bioavailability (three literature reviews and two human studies). HALO’s delivery mechanism is special – so special that it’s the first unique technology that we’ve applied for a patent on. The proprietary phospholipid formula protects and stabilizes the curcuminoids so they can be delivered – fully active – to cell membranes and actually produce those anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects everyone is looking for.

We’ve gotten this question from more than one of you, so we’ll address it with a high-level answer here. HALO doesn’t negatively impact recovery for endurance athletes; in fact, it supports and enhances the recovery work that inflammation does. That’s the short answer.

…And here’s the slightly longer (but still not comprehensive) answer. Inflammation is absolutely normal and desirable – especially for strenuous exercise – but not always to the extent that our bodies naturally produce.

Inflammation occurs when tissues are damaged and signals are sent to the immune system to respond with oxidative methods to remove potential sources of additional damage. After that, the same signaling mechanisms initiate a switch from inflammatory immune defense to repair.

HALO promotes a more effective balance between those two phases by moderating the inflammatory phase while introducing repair-signaling molecules to kickstart the recovery phase, helping to ensure the two phases complement rather than impede each other. A more efficient inflammation period, a more efficient repair period, and a more efficient transition between the two – HALO rebalances the whole process, nudging it towards resolution.

That’s a radically simplified version of a much (much!) longer and more complex response, but we’ll dive into the biological and chemical processes at play in much greater depth in a later blog post.