High-Phenolic Botanicals & the Science of Healthy Aging
High-phenolic botanicals are plants rich in polyphenols—antioxidant compounds that fight oxidative stress, inflammation, and free-radical cellular damage.
Research Areas
Applied Botanical Chemistry
Plant-derived chemical systems can replace toxic industrial reagents and enable sustainable extraction processes.
Botanical Formulation Science
High-phenolic botanicals contain chemical compounds linked to metabolic resilience and healthy aging.
Environmental Applications
Plant-based lixiviants (gold leaching agent) can replace mercury and synthetic cyanide salts used to recover gold from ore by artisanal miners in mineral processing systems.
Applied Botanical Chemistry
Exploring the chemistry of high-phenolic botanicals and translating plant science into evidence-driven formulations for healthy aging and metabolic resilience.
Botanical formulations translate plant chemistry into practical health applications. High-phenolic botanicals and functional plant compounds are increasingly studied for their roles in metabolic resilience, inflammation modulation, and healthy aging. By examining botanical chemistry through a systems-science framework, it becomes possible to design structured nutritional formulations that leverage nature’s chemical diversity to support human health.
Environmental Applications
Manipueira Gold Recovery Technology demonstrates how plant-based lixiviants can replace mercury & synthetic cyanide salts in artisanal small-scale mining operations.
Manipueira Gold Recovery Technology pioneered a four-stage ESG-aligned transformative plant-based strategy designed to provide an alternative lixiviant to mercury and synthetic cyanide salts in artisanal mining systems. The innovation applies validated solution chemistry to botanical extraction principles for safer, sustainable mineral processing to recover more gold.
Cosgrove, B.A. & Jose Moreno-Chavez (January, 2025). An Examination, Solution, and Transformative Strategy to Replace Mercury and Cyanide Salts in Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (ASM): Southern Ecuador.(Environmental Chemistry eJournal - Research Paper). View Publication → DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5049829
Research & Insights
From Bruce A. Cosgrove, BSc MSc — scientist, author, and formulator exploring plant-derived chemical systems and their role in human health.
BACosgrove Scientific Researcher, Inc.
Translating the chemistry of high-phenolic botanicals and plant science into evidence-driven formulations for healthy aging and metabolic resilience.
Bruce graduated from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada with both a BSc - 1977 & MSc (Solution Chemistry) - 1980 and completed the Canadian Securities Course (CSC) in 1990.
Bruce is the founder of BACosgrove Scientific Researcher, Inc., a company specializing in evidence-based high-phenolic plant-based botanical juices and soups formulations in support of healthy aging and in my case, metabolic resilience (de-aging).
Research Contributions
Bruce, a former lithium battery pioneer – 1986 Canada Awards for Excellence recipient with Moli Energy Ltd., (now E-One MOLICEL) Category - Invention has authored eight scientific manuscripts including six published in peer-reviewed journals and two preprints posted on Research Gate → Botanical Alternatives: Toward Safer, Evidence-Based Gold Recovery - February 2026, Veiw Publication → DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19442.77769 and Ecuador Four-Stage Action Plan Presentation - January 2026, Veiw Publication → DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.10793.66400
Collaboration
Research & Collaboration
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