The technology
One thin film.
A different way in.
Every Dr.Strips+ product starts with the same delivery format: a fast-dissolving oral strip built to work with your body's own chemistry, not around it.
The floor of your mouth is one of the most permeable surfaces in the body. Unlike skin, the oral mucosa has no thick outer barrier — it's thin enough for small molecules to pass straight through.
Just beneath it sits a dense bed of capillaries that drain into the jugular vein — a direct line into circulation that never touches the stomach or the liver.
A swallowed dose takes the longer route. Everything absorbed in the gut passes through the liver first, where enzymes break down a variable share of it before it reaches the bloodstream — oral melatonin is a well-documented example of just how variable that loss can be.
An oral strip is built to dissolve on the tongue in about 60 seconds, releasing its dose straight onto the mucosa — skipping that route, and that variability, entirely.
Reaches your bloodstream in minutes — not after digestion.
Blood concentration over time: an oral strip vs. a typical swallowed dose.
Curve shapes are illustrative — drawn from published onset-time ranges for sublingual vs. swallowed dosing, not lab-measured on any specific product. Sources: J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 1985 · N Engl J Med, 1997.
The science
≤90%
Bioavailability ceiling
Same actives.
Different arrival.
A capsule, a gummy and a film can carry an identical ingredient panel. Two of them take the route through the gut and the liver. The third skips it entirely.
The lower bars carry no percentage on purpose. Published bioavailability for swallowed compounds varies too much by molecule, meal and person to state as one tidy number — the same reasoning already published on the Dr.Strips+ Science page. Ours is stated as a ceiling, with an asterisk, for the same reason.
Speed
60s
Time to dissolve
Gone before you'd notice it was there.
Place it on your tongue and go about your day. No water, no chewing, nothing left behind.