There’s a saying that goes, ‘The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy’. This is so true when you follow an active lifestyle, and it’s no different in the Breytenbach household! We have always enjoyed participating in sport – I completed a full Iron Man a while back, and between my husband and I, we’ve got several Comrades Marathons under the belt.

This active lifestyle is in our children’s genes, and our youngest son, Ruan, showed his gift for swimming at a young age. We also regularly used approved nutritional sports products, advertised as being safe for people of all ages to use, so you can imagine my horror when one of the top ten Comrades runners tested positive for a banned substance in the support products he used … the same as the brand we were using, and had given to Ruan to use!

The last thing in the world I wanted, was for Ruan ever to test positive for a banned substance at a sporting event! Surely there had to be a nutritional range made for young athletes? I scoured the internet. Nothing, locally available. Overseas? Surely there had to be something? My search yielded nothing. I stumbled upon serendipity one day at a school sports event. Chatting to another sportsmom who was also frustrated by this lack of a youth product, she put me in touch with a pharmaceutical company who referred me to Dr van Rooyen, a renowned Biochemist and doctor.