Mapping The Nutraceuticals World Nutraceuticals World

With rising interest in healthy aging, more people are looking for clinical research that supports products designed to help them live healthier for longer. The coenzyme NAD+ is essential to the body's metabolic processes, but it declines with age, so supplements that boost NAD+ have garnered considerable attention in the scientific community. ChromaDex, which is publicly traded on the Nasdaq, offers the consumer product brand Tru Niagen. This patented form of nicotinamide riboside (NR) is a ...

Loren Israelsen from the United Natural Products Alliance shares insight on how agency priorities might change and how businesses can prepare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is in process of a massive reorganization designed to streamline operations within a unified Human Foods Program (HFP) to largely replace the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).What does this mean for the dietary supplement industry? In the proposal, now under review at Health and Human Services (...

One of the biggest challenges for dietary supplements has been proving that products actually work. The traditional model for clinical research is expensive, slow, and not representative of diverse populations. As its name suggests, the company Radicle Science aims to address those concerns with a much different approach, leveraging new tools and technology. For this podcast we talked with founders Pelin Thorogood, executive chairwoman, and Dr. Jeff Chen, CEO, to learn ...

Born as a DTC multivitamin brand with strong focus on transparency, Ritual entered retail stores for the first time in 2022 with Whole Foods, and expanded in 2023 with Target and Amazon. Now an omnichannel brand and a Certified B Corp, Ritual has expanded its menu of products to include a Synbiotic for gut health, as well as a Skin Hydration supplement called HyaCera. The company just launched its BioSeries extended release melatonin for sleep. Ritual has set some big goals as...

Women In Nutraceuticals (WIN) is a nonprofit group established in 2022 with a mission to “empower women to unlock their personal and professional potential,” ultimately looking to “achieve economic and societal equity to change the global industry.” WIN recently conducted an industry Leadership Survey to get a global benchmark of where the industry is today in terms of gender equity. Results confirmed that women are underrepresented in senior leadership and executive boards. &...

Mushrooms seem to be everywhere, and in everything. Reishi, Shitake, Cordyceps, Lion’s Mane, Turkey Tail, Chaga, and others are all finding their way into dietary supplements and other nutritional products.The closer you look at the Kingdom of Fungi, which is separate from plants, the more fascinating it seems to become.To better understand the complexities of medicinal mushrooms, where this market is headed, and where it needs to go, I talked with Bill Chioffi, Chief Strategy and Innovation ...