Open the Nutrition Conversation
at Your Pharmacy Counter.
Prysm iO is a non-invasive wellness insight tool that estimates skin carotenoid levels with light, to start a conversation about nutrition and lifestyle. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or screen for any condition. A scan takes about 15 seconds. It runs entirely apart from dispensing and from any advice about medicines: an optional wellness extra for customers who enjoy talking about food and everyday habits.
- One fingertip scan gives each customer a personal wellness score they can follow on their phone
- A friendly opener for the vitamin and healthy-eating questions your team hears every day
- Use it as a small wellness service in store, or take it along to community health days and local events
No obligation. Start with a short conversation, and check what your regulator and employer allow before you decide anything.
Customers Ask About Vitamins. Few Have a Way to Follow Their Own Habits.
Between prescriptions and everything else, pharmacy teams field questions about vitamins, supplements and healthy eating all day long. Prysm iO adds one small, optional thing to that exchange: a quick fingertip scan that turns the amount of colorful produce someone eats into a score they can follow over time. It is a wellness conversation piece, nothing more. It says nothing about anyone's medicines or health conditions.
1 scan
A personal starting point for each customer, so their food and lifestyle choices can be revisited on a later visit
15 sec
From first touch to a personal wellness score - short enough for a quiet moment at the counter
$200B+
Global dietary supplements market: plenty of choice on the shelf, and plenty of questions that land on pharmacy teams
A Wellness Conversation, Not a Medicines Conversation
Your professional judgment is the most valuable thing you bring to the counter, and nothing here asks you to change it. People trust a pharmacy because its advice is careful and impartial, so the sensible way to use Prysm iO is as a clearly separate, optional service with its limits stated up front.
Supplements are not medicines
Prysm iO and the Pharmanex range sit in the nutrition and lifestyle space. Keep that talk visibly apart from your medicines advice, and never suggest a supplement can replace, adjust or interact with anything prescribed. If a customer takes medication or has a health condition, that question belongs with you or their prescriber, exactly as it does for any other product you stock.
A personal starting point
The scan gives each customer their own carotenoid-based score instead of a population average. It is a prompt to chat about colorful fruit and vegetables and everyday routines, and a number they can come back to later.
Open about your interest
If you could earn from something you mention, say so plainly each time and leave the choice with the customer. Look up what your regulator and your employer allow before you begin - the FAQ below points the way.
One more thing to talk about, with a number to follow - and your professional judgment left exactly where it was.
What Sits Behind the Number
People often ask the pharmacy what to look for on the supplement shelf. The Pharmanex range is built around carotenoids and other everyday nutrients, so a customer can follow their own score while making their own food and supplement choices. These are nutritional products, not medicines.
Lutein and other carotenoids
Several products in the range contain lutein alongside other carotenoids. Carotenoids are the pigments the scanner reads in the skin.
Omega-3: EPA and DHA
Marine Omega is an omega-3 supplement supplying EPA and DHA, the fatty acids found in oily fish, to complement a varied, balanced diet.
Vitamins and minerals
LifePak is a multi-nutrient daily supplement providing a range of vitamins and minerals to complement a varied, balanced diet. Permitted product statements differ by country, so please read the label for your market.
A fruit-and-vegetable beverage
JVi is a fruit-and-vegetable beverage that provides vitamin C and also contains carotenoids, a convenient choice for customers whose meals leave gaps.
How the Products Are Made and Backed
Each Pharmanex formula goes through the company's 6S Quality Process: selection, sourcing, structure, standardization, safety and substantiation. Substantiation means the company documents the support for its product claims.
Pharmanex Certified products carry a Nu Skin money-back guarantee if the Prysm score has not improved after 90-100 days on a certified, Prysm-eligible product, subject to Nu Skin's Terms and Conditions.
Record a Starting Point, Then Scan Again
A customer who already takes a supplement can be scanned first to note a baseline and scanned again a few weeks later. The scan reads skin carotenoid levels only. It cannot show that one product beats another, so never present it as a verdict on the products your pharmacy already carries.
A supplement recommended by a customer's physician, prescriber or other health professional should only be changed with that professional's agreement. The score is a wellness reading and never replaces a conversation with a pharmacist, physician or other qualified health professional.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Dietary supplements do not replace a varied, balanced diet. Prysm iO is a wellness insight tool and is not a medical device. Please read each product's label for its exact ingredients and amounts.
You Already Look After Their Medicines.
This Adds a Nutrition Talking Point.
Prysm iO is not a pharmacy service in the regulated sense and it does not alter how you dispense, counsel or advise. It is a small piece of wellness technology that can sit in a quiet corner of the store: a 15-second scan that gives a customer a personal, trackable look at one nutrition-related marker.
For customers it is something to chat about and come back to. For the pharmacy it is an optional extra that rests on a separate wellness footing, which is why working out the rules that apply to you comes first.
Friendlier Wellness Chats
A personal score gives a customer something concrete to talk about besides a prescription or a symptom. It makes the food-and-lifestyle side of a chat easier to start, and easier to pick up again next time.
A Reason to Drop In Again
A follow-up scan is a relaxed, low-pressure reason for someone to pop back in, whether or not they have anything to collect. People like seeing their own number move.
An Optional Paid Service
Some pharmacies offer a scan as a paid wellness session, fold it into an existing private service, or run it at outreach events. A team member runs the device, so dispensing time is left alone. Whether you may charge for it, and sell related products at all, depends on your regulator, your employer and local law.
A non-invasive scan, from fingertip to finished result
Hyperspectral light measurements taken in each reading
One clear number that is easy to explain across a counter
“People trust the pharmacy for the questions that matter. A friendly nutrition chat can sit beside that trust, as long as it stays clearly separate.”
Making Nutrition Visible
Prysm iO relies on optical scanning to deliver a personal nutritional wellness score in roughly 15 seconds. There is no blood draw, no lab appointment and no complicated testing process.
The result is simple and trackable, and customers can understand it and use it as a prompt for their own food and lifestyle choices.
Each reading comes from the same place - a fingertip on the same hand every time - so results stay consistent from scan to scan. That consistency is what makes the trend line believable, instead of a single figure that might change with how the device was held. The scanner pairs with the Prysm iO app on an iOS or Android phone or tablet. Setting up the app and learning your way around takes a little time, and after that it fits easily into a quiet moment at the counter.
Prysm iO is a wellness insight tool and is not a medical device. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or mitigate any disease or medical condition, and it does not replace advice from a pharmacist, physician or other qualified health professional.
A Scan in 15 Seconds
Quick, non-invasive and easy to run in a quiet corner of the store, a consultation room or a community-event table. No preparation, no blood draw and no lab visit.
Hyperspectral Measurement
Prysm iO uses hyperspectral absorption to capture more than 700,000 individual light measurements per scan, reading skin carotenoid levels from a simple fingertip placement.
One Score That Makes Sense
The measurements become a single Prysm Score from 100 to 1000, produced by an AI algorithm that references Raman spectroscopy, so customers get a clear, plain-language result within seconds.
Progress in an App
A companion app lets customers follow their own score between visits, which keeps their food and lifestyle choices in view and gives your team an easy, friendly thing to ask about next time.
Years of Research Behind It
Prysm iO draws on more than 20 years of Pharmanex (a division of Nu Skin) research and development, including 110 studies, 180 white papers and 18 global patents.
For Pharmacy Teams Who Enjoy the Nutrition Questions
Prysm iO suits pharmacy professionals who are happy to talk about food, vitamins and everyday habits and who would like something tangible to anchor those chats. It is a comfortable match for people who keep a clear line between wellness topics and medicines advice, and who are glad to be open about any commercial interest.
Independent Pharmacy Owners
Owners set the policy for their own premises, so they can decide what sits alongside the dispensary and which team member runs scan sessions. That also means the disclosure side is the owner's to get right.
Chains, Groups and Franchises
Branch pharmacists usually work to head-office policy on outside services and anything they might earn from. Consider this only where your employer permits it in writing and you are comfortable declaring it.
Pharmacy Technicians and Counter Teams
Where local rules and the pharmacy's policy allow, a technician or counter colleague can run short scan sessions in a quiet corner, leaving pharmacist time and dispensing untouched. Present it as a wellness extra that has nothing to do with anyone's medicines.
Pharmacists With Private Services
Vaccination, weight-management, health-check and other private consultation services already bring in people who want a fuller talk about lifestyle. Whether a scan fits depends on the service and on the owner's policy.
Locum, Hospital and Clinic Pharmacists
Locums, hospital pharmacists and those embedded in medical practices usually answer to an employer's or host pharmacy's rules, and sometimes to their contract. Use it only where they allow it, ideally away from your own patient contact.
Community-Minded Pharmacists
Pharmacists who take part in health days, school and workplace talks, or neighborhood events, and would like a friendly, hands-on way to start a nutrition chat with the people they meet.
Sound like your pharmacy?
If any of these sounds like you, the next step is a brief, no-obligation conversation to find out whether Prysm iO fits.
A long research lineage, described plainly and with its limits stated.
Prysm iO grows out of two decades of Pharmanex research, part of Nu Skin Enterprises, and picked up recognition in 2025 from the Titan Awards, Globee Business Awards, Good Design Award and Big Innovation Awards. Awards speak to design and innovation; they say nothing about medicines or health outcomes.
A Yale Review of the Skin Carotenoid Approach
The skin-scanning approach Prysm iO builds on was examined in a 2013 review from the Yale School of Public Health, which called skin carotenoid status a promising biomarker for use in human research. The same authors were open that diet explains only part of the variation people show, and that larger studies were still needed.
Prysm iO is a wellness insight tool, not a medical device. Research on skin carotenoids does not make it a tool for diagnosing, treating or screening for anything.
Read the research summary20+ yrs
Of research and development, from the Pharmanex BioPhotonic Scanner to Prysm iO
110
Studies behind the technology
18
Global patents covering the scanning method
25M+
Scans already performed worldwide on earlier-generation devices
Take the Conversation to Community Events
Prysm iO is not tied to the shop floor. Taken to a health day, a school evening or a company wellness morning, it draws a crowd: a gadget people want to try and a free scan worth queuing for. Each scan is a friendly introduction to the pharmacy and the people in it.
Attract
A sleek scanner with a glowing light ring draws people to your table at community health days, local fairs and workplace wellness events far better than a leaflet can.
Offer
Invite visitors to try a free 15-second scan. It is quick and non-invasive, and it gives each person something to take away for a minute of their time.
Talk
The score opens a relaxed chat about food, everyday habits and what your pharmacy offers. Keep it to wellness topics and point anyone with a health question to a proper consultation.
Follow up
With the visitor's clear consent and within local privacy rules, offer a follow-up scan or an invitation to the pharmacy's wellness service. Check first what your regulator allows when promoting services away from the premises.
Have an event coming up?
Let's talk through how Prysm iO could work at your table.
Four Easy Steps
From first inquiry to first demo, each step is built to help you judge whether Prysm iO is right for your pharmacy - without pressure or obligation.
Submit Your Details
Fill in the short inquiry form with your name, pharmacy name and contact information. It takes under two minutes.
We Take a Look
Someone on our team reads your details within 1-2 business days to understand your pharmacy and where Prysm iO could fit.
We Reach Out
We contact you to set up a short, no-obligation demo call at a time that works around your schedule.
Skip straight to a call
Pick a 30-minute demo slot that suits you - there is no need to wait for us to reply.
See It Working
We go through the device, the research behind it, how pharmacy teams use it in store and at events, and the questions to settle with your regulator and employer first, so you can decide with confidence.
Choose Your Package
Start with the device and a daily nutritional foundation, or take the full business starter bundle. Secure checkout, straight from this page.
Prysm Business Starter Bundle
Prysm iO device with Beauty Focus Collagen+ Peach, ageLOC Meta, Pharmanex LifePak Tablets, Pharmanex Nu Biome Watermelon Raspberry Lemon and Pharmanex ageLOC Youth.
- 1x Prysm iO Device
- 1x Beauty Focus Collagen+ Peach
- 1x ageLOC Meta
- 1x Pharmanex LifePak Tablets
- 1x Pharmanex Nu Biome Watermelon Raspberry Lemon
- 1x Pharmanex ageLOC Youth
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Prysm iO + LifePak Elements
Prysm iO device with 5x LifePak Elements, a simple daily nutritional foundation.
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- 5x LifePak Elements
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US orders ship within the United States. Prices are in US dollars. Prysm iO is a wellness insight tool and is not a medical device. Check what your state board of pharmacy and employer allow before offering wellness products or services.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers to what pharmacists usually want to know before they decide on a next step - including the professional-conduct questions.
See If Prysm iO Is a Fit for Your Pharmacy
Complete the short form and we will review your inquiry before getting in touch within 1-2 business days - or, just click to book a call at a time that works for you. The aim of the first conversation is simply to understand your pharmacy, answer your questions, and see whether there is a good fit.
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