CATEGORY
WELLNESS PATCHES
Wellness patch is the loosest label in this whole market, and it is the one that carries the most unsupported marketing. It gets applied to everything from vitamin patches to sleep patches to products making claims that would not survive a regulator reading them.
VYROTECH's position is deliberately narrow. We make performance-oriented patches. We do not make patches positioned around sleep, immunity, detox, weight loss outcomes or any health condition, and we do not describe our products as treating, preventing or improving anything.
If you are shopping this category generally, the most useful thing we can offer is not a product — it is a filter. Vitamin and mineral patches in particular are often sold on the premise that nutrients cross intact skin readily. That premise is not well supported, and molecular size alone rules out several popular ingredients as plausible candidates. Vitamin B12, for instance, is a very large molecule.
A wellness patch is a convenience format. Judge it as one.
THE RANGE
VYRO HYDRATE+
A sugar-free electrolyte patch for long sessions and hot days.
- Magnesium Chloride 150 mg
- Sodium Citrate 150 mg
- Potassium Citrate 100 mg
- Taurine 150 mg
A$39.95
VYRO DRIVE
Performance and focus across long working or training windows.
- Caffeine 125 mg
- L-Theanine 150 mg
- L-Tyrosine 150 mg
- Taurine 150 mg
A$49.95
VYRO CREATINE+
A daily strength-training patch built around creatine monohydrate.
- Creatine Monohydrate 500 mg
- Betaine (TBD)
- Magnesium Chloride 75 mg
- Taurine 100 mg
A$44.95
WHAT TO LOOK FOR
No condition or symptom language
Treatment, prevention, cure, immunity, detox and disease language on a supplement patch is a regulatory problem, not a feature.
Full ingredient disclosure
Wellness patches are among the worst offenders for proprietary blends. You should see every dose.
Realistic claims about nutrients and skin
A vitamin patch that promises to meet a daily intake through the skin is making a claim it cannot support.
Clear regulatory status
In Australia, check whether a product is listed with the Therapeutic Goods Administration and what that listing actually covers.
COMMON QUESTIONS
- Do vitamin patches work?
- It depends entirely on the vitamin, and the honest answer for many is that the evidence is not there. Vitamin B12 in particular is a very large molecule, and molecular size is one of the strongest predictors of how hard it is for anything to cross the outer skin layer.
- Does VYROTECH make sleep or immunity patches?
- No. VYROTECH makes performance-oriented patches only and does not make products positioned around sleep, immunity, detox or any health condition.
- Are wellness patches regulated in Australia?
- It depends on the claims a product makes. VYROTECH patches are prototype products and are not listed with the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
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Five formulas. Every active layer published in full.
VYROTECH patches are prototype products and are not listed with the Therapeutic Goods Administration. They are supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Ingredient amounts shown describe the quantity contained in each patch, not an absorbed or delivered dose.