“Forty formulas — how on earth do they know which one is mine?” It is a fair question, and it is the one I get most often once someone has got past the idea that personalised means needles and lab reports. Forty sounds like a lot until you think about how differently two people can live. A shift worker who trains four times a week and a desk-based parent who sleeps badly are not going to need the same thing from a daily supplement, and a single one-size tub quietly assumes they do. So here is what actually sits behind the number, and what the matching process looks like from the inside.
Why forty rather than one
A standard multivitamin is designed for the average of everybody, which in practice means it is aimed at nobody in particular. Bioniq GO takes the opposite approach: rather than one blend stretched to cover every situation, there is a library of forty, each weighted differently, and your answers decide which one lands on your doorstep. Up to 23 science-backed nutrients can go into a single daily dose, but the point is not the headline count — it is that the balance between them shifts depending on who is taking it.
What the assessment is actually reading
The free online Wellness Assessment takes a few minutes and asks about four broad areas. None of them require you to know anything technical about nutrition:
- How you eat. Not a food diary — just the honest shape of a normal week. Whether breakfast happens, how often you cook, whether you eat fish, whether you are vegan or vegetarian.
- How you move. Training days, the kind of activity, and how physically demanding your job is. An active lifestyle changes what your body draws on day to day.
- How you sleep and recover. Hours, quality, and whether you tend to run out of steam in the afternoon.
- What you are aiming for. Everyday energy and focus, normal skin, hair and nails, support around training, or simply wellbeing over the long run.
Those four inputs together are what narrows forty down to one. If you want the mechanics in more detail, I have written separately on how the Bioniq Wellness Assessment builds your formula.
Three things worth knowing before you answer
- Answer for your real week, not your intended one. If you manage two gym sessions rather than the five in your head, say two. Rounding yourself up produces a blend built for someone you are not yet.
- Pick the goal that is nagging you now. People often want to tick every box. One clear priority gives you a more usefully weighted formula than four vague ones.
- It is not fixed forever. Retake the assessment when things change — a new job, a training block, a different season — and the match moves with you.
What arrives, and how it fits a normal morning
Your matched formula comes as premium Swiss granules rather than pills: one spoonful a day, vegan-friendly, taken however suits you. In my experience that is the detail that decides whether a routine survives past week three. A four-pot morning line-up is easy to buy and easy to abandon; one spoon is not. If you would like to see where your own answers land, you can take the free Wellness Assessment without committing to anything — there is no blood test and nothing to post.
None of this replaces the basics, and it is not meant to. Food supplements are not a substitute for a varied, balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. If you prefer to build your own stack by goal instead, our Targeted Nutrition range is there for exactly that — the difference is simply who does the matching, you or the assessment.
So which of the forty is yours?
I genuinely cannot tell you from behind the counter, and neither can anyone else guessing at it. The only way to find out is the few minutes it takes to answer honestly. If that sounds like a reasonable trade, build your personalised formula here and see what comes back for you.