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Start-up explores chitin-glucan synergies for gut health solutions

29-Feb-2024 By Nikki Hancocks

Belgian gut health ingredient startup BioKuris is on the search for commercial partners to expand the reach and potential of its innovative chitin-glucan based products.

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Q&A: One Bio CEO on going back to nature to pioneer next-generation nutrients

13-Nov-2023 By Asia Sherman

One Bio entered the market last month on a mission to end inflammatory disease and decimate food waste by making odorless, colorless and tasteless fiber from salvaged agricultural byproducts.

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Q&A: Alkaline Labs on prioritizing results over profit in a daily scoop

06-Nov-2023 By Asia Sherman

Scarlett Knight, an Australian nutritionist in training and holistic health coach, says that it was the lack of transparency and quality in the supplement industry that motivated her to launch Alkaline Labs.

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Q&A: Tally Health CEO on slowing down the epigenetic clock

16-Oct-2023 By Asia Sherman

Co-founded by longevity expert and Harvard genetics professor Dr. David Sinclair and serial entrepreneur Whitney Casey, Tally Health entered the market earlier this year as a health ally for anyone looking to improve healthspan and increase longevity.

Q&A: Liquid Fuel on finding its own sweet spot in the evolving sports hydration category

02-Oct-2023 By Asia Sherman

Liquid Fuel, a collaboration between veteran sports dietitian Tavis Piattoly and professional chef Kyle Coleman, is looking to update the booming sports and hydration beverage category by removing the blood sugar spikes from the formula.

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Q&A: ResBiotic talks ‘scientifying’ the supplement industry starting with the gut-lung axis

11-Sep-2023 By Asia Sherman

Birmingham, Alabama-based biotech startup ResBiotic is on a mission to restore global health and breathe scientific rigor into the dietary supplement industry. In late 2021, the company launched its first consumer health product – a novel blend of probiotics...

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Registration tool aims to revolutionise nutraceutical global compliance

07-Jul-2023 By Nikki Hancocks

Regulatory experts have launched new registration technology to "revolutionise" the time and energy-intensive global compliance process for supplement brands.

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Q&A: JOYÀ founder talks fresh take on ‘bitter tinctures and powders and hard-to-swallow pills’

08-May-2023 By Asia Sherman

Toronto-based functional wellness brand JOYÀ presents its adaptogenic superblends and functional chocolates as daily wellness reimagined – a response to trendy health fads, cure-all claims and hard-to-adhere-to routines dominating what it calls a noisy...

Advanced Biotics partners shift work expert to optimise health and safety through microbiome modulation

13-Mar-2023 By Nikki Hancocks

A gut health supplement startup has partnered a shift work expert in the Netherlands to illuminate the extensive health benefits of microbiome modulation in night workers.

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CBD entrepreneur responds to mind health trend with new adaptogenic brand

20-Dec-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

The founder of a CBD e-commerce startup is launching his second brand of supplements, this time tapping into adaptogens for mind health.

Nootropics startup ramps up scientific backing with new funds

24-Aug-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

A nootropics supplements startup company is looking to ramp up production and increase its scientific backing after closing a second successful funding round.

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A new kind of remedy: Rapper launches supplements startup

24-May-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

A British rapper and mental health advocate known as Professor Green, has co-founded a supplements brand after suffering gut health issues which impacted him physically and psychologically.

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Startup wows dragons and sees sales soar overnight

26-Apr-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

A ‘superfoods’ supplement startup is on track to rack-up half a million pounds worth of sales this month after a heroic appearance on the popular investment programme 'Dragon's Den'.

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Rugby warriors tackle cannabinoid concerns with CBD startup

12-Apr-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

Two professional rugby players have created a startup selling third-party tested CBD supplements that give elite athletes and everyday consumers peace of mind over cannabinoid content

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Immunity on-trend: Selenium and zinc’s time to shine

15-Feb-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

Vitamin D is enjoying its well-deserved moment in the spotlight but the next trending ingredients in immune health will be selenium and zinc, according to a supplement entrepreneur.

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Startup introduces CBD to mainstream sports nutrition audience

08-Feb-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

A UK startup says 2021 will be the year CBD goes mainstream after launching a vegan, all-natural CBD sports nutrition brand to cater to the masses.

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Personalised nutrition startup offers microbiome insights and customised probiotics

25-Jan-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

A Berlin-based startup launched in 2017 is offering a gut health testing and personalised nutrition service with the addition of customised probiotic supplements.

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Energy strip startup on a mission to dissolve 'exhaustion epidemic'

11-Jan-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

An Australian startup says the 'exhaustion epidemic' caused by lockdown 3.0 will further boost interest in its energy strips after entering the UK market in 2020 and growing online sales by over 100%.

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Launching a startup within a startup: Digital health entrepreneur expands from Europe to Asia

09-Nov-2020 By Nikki Hancocks

A London-based personalised nutrition startup founder explains the huge challenges and opportunities in expanding into Japan - a largely untapped market primed for personalised and preventative health tech.

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Gut health experts bypass microbiome modulation with redesigned supplements

17-Aug-2020 By Nikki Hancocks

Two prominent microbiome researchers have created their own supplements company which extracts and redesigns specific bacteria thereby affecting a huge range of health conditions without the need to modulate the microbiome.

Building an industry heavyweight: Startup fighting for global expansion

22-Jun-2020 By Nikki Hancocks

An entrepreneur with a passion for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has proven the power of a fighting attitude after taking his startup from a bedroom NPD factory to global expansion within three years.

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Personal trainer turns his hand to fermented foods after catching the bug for gut-health

07-Oct-2019 By Nikki Hancocks

A personal trainer has founded a fermented food and drink brand after he undertook a radical 30-day elimination diet which ignited a passion for nutrition and gut health.

Finding stevia 'polarizing', beverage brand Petal switches up its sweetener ahead of national retail launch this summer

27-Mar-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Sparkling botanical beverage brand Petal has had a busy first year as the company doubled its product line with three new flavors, underwent a reformulation (swapping out stevia and erythritol for organic agave), and is now primed for national distribution...

As protein category crowds, start-up Vade Nutrition shakes things up with dissolvable scoop ‘pods’

12-Sep-2018 By Adi Menayang

A Michigan-based, family-owned start-up wants to shake-up protein shakes with dissolvable protein scoops.

The Vitamin Shoppe introduces vendor incubation program called Launchpad

31-Jul-2018 By Adi Menayang

Nutritional product retailer The Vitamin Shoppe announced the launch of a new incubation program called Launchpad. It is currently accepting submissions.

Meet Liveli, a brain-health supplement start-up founded by two doctors

04-Jun-2018 By Adi Menayang

A California-based husband and wife doctor duo wants more people to maintain their brain health, so they launched their own cognitive-care supplement company.