664. Hypochlorous Acid: The Non-Toxic Healing Breakthrough Big Pharma Ignored W/ Justin Gardner

The Life Stylist

Luke Storey

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Your body already makes one of the most powerful antimicrobials on Earth, and almost nobody knows about it.

Hypochlorous acid lives inside your white blood cells. When you get cut, burned, or scraped, your immune system sends it to the injury site to kill bacteria, calm inflammation, and support healing. Scientists have known how to replicate it for over a century, but until recently, it couldn’t stay stable long enough outside a hospital to be bottled.

Justin Gardner spent 20 years launching regenerative medical products, including skin grafts and advanced wound care technologies. When he came across hypochlorous acid, he saw something different: a non-toxic antimicrobial that works fast and aligns with how the body already heals. He licensed the technology and built Active Skin Repair to bring it to consumers.

In this conversation, we get into how it compares to things like colloidal silver and manuka honey, why most products labeled “hypochlorous acid” don’t actually work, and how it’s being used for everything from post-surgery recovery to everyday skin issues.

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You'll learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[02:52] Bioengineered skin grafts and the regenerative medicine backstory

[04:36] How white blood cells produce hypochlorous acid to fight infection and heal skin

[09:13] How hypochlorous acid compares to colloidal silver, manuka honey, and Neosporin

[23:04] The greenwashing problem with cosmetic-grade hypochlorous products

[40:50] Pet-safe, baby-safe, and TSA-friendly applications most people miss

[53:44] Why faster healing means less scarring, and what that means post-surgery

Resources Mentioned:

Colloidal silver | Wikipedia

Mānuka honey | Wikipedia

Alitura Natural Body Care | Website

Young Goose Biohacking Skincare | Website

Environmental Working Group | Website

MitoLife Panacea Shilajit Tablets | Website

Hyaluronic acid | Wikipedia

BEAM Minerals Advanced Electrolyte & Micronutrients | Website

Simply O3 Ozone Generator Kit | Website

Stoicism | Wikipedia

Full show notes at https://lukestorey.com/skincare

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Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, how does a guy like you get into discovering this incredible molecule, hypochloric acid?
0:15.9	I love when someone niches down on something so specific, which is why I like having conversations about things like this.
0:21.9	Sure. We're going to get niche. My background was in helping launch products into a hospital space.
0:29.4	So specifically, worked a lot in regenerative medicine and wound care. And we would launch a bunch of really kind of expensive skin graphs, bioengineered skin substitutes.
0:42.3	And while I was doing that, I got approached by a medical device company, and they introduced me to
0:48.0	hyperchloric acid and said, we want to bring this into the hospital setting.
0:51.9	And so I was doing all my research, reading all the clinical articles,
0:55.2	and just became enamored with the molecule on how simple but powerful it was, that it had no toxicity
1:02.8	to it, and all these things that I really valued and what I would be using. And long story short,
1:09.1	they were, the medical device company was really focused in the hospital
1:12.5	side, but they had FDA clearance for over the counter. And they said, we're not really going to
1:17.6	focus on that. And so I was able to license that technology that we launched into the hospital
1:23.4	and bring it over the counter as active skin repair. How'd you come up with the name?
1:29.2	Well, the name is a funny story, actually. The company's name was BLDG active because the agency I own
1:36.6	before was BLDG health, but that turned out to not really be a great name. And when you're talking
1:43.5	about the product, everything is around
1:46.4	the active ingredient, hyperchloris. But at the time when I launched the product 10 years ago,
1:51.3	we were also doing a lot in the active outdoor sports space. So it just kind of all fell together
1:57.8	and it, you know, it's a skin repair product, so put active and then put
2:01.4	skin repair, and that's kind of the origins of it. Tell me about the biologics you mentioned
2:07.0	before skin grafts and things like this. This is kind of off topic in a sense, but are there
2:12.7	are there like artificial skins and things like that that people use when they're having certain procedures, plastic surgery, or recovering from burns and injuries and things like that?
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