The vertically integrated supplier offers a range of standardized extracts derived from plants indigenous to the Mediterranean basin. In this podcast, Violetta Insolia, Business Development Manager at Bionap, discussed scientif...

The company’s enfinity paraxanthine and PEAK ATP are stirring up the market for cognitive health enhancement. Nootropics have continued to gain in popularity. In this episode, learn what nootropics are, why there’s so much attentio...

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 declin...

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 desi...

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 n...

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 ...

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 indus...

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

There are all sorts of legal and regulatory issues affecting the dietary supplements market today. FDA restructuring, drug preclusion, facility inspections, FTC’s new Health Products Compliance Guidance, and updated Green Guides for environment...

This November marks 25 years since the debut issue of Nutraceuticals World (NW), which launched 4 years after passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA).NW Found...

Caitlyn Vanderhaeghe is the President and CEO of KidStar Nutrients, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, which aims to deliver the highest quality nutritional supplements for kids. She co-founded K...

Dietary supplement issues discussed include:The drug exclusion rule in DSHEA and the impact on CBD, NAC, NMN, and other ingredients; FDA restructuring of the Human Foods Program and industry’s relationship w...

Mark Blumenthal is the Founder & Executive Director of the American Botanical Council, an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to providing accurate and rel...

Diverse minds in the board room, and science lab, are healthy for business. In this episode I talked  Karen Howard, CEO and Executive Director of the Organic & Natural Health Association...

Sustainability is a broad term that gets tossed around a lot these days in different contexts, to the point where it's not always clear what it means. A report released this year from Nielsen IQ and McKinsey showed that

Food scientist and CEO of Icon Foods discusses evolution of clean label sweetening systems in foods, beverages, and gummies. In this episode we talked with Thom King, the founder and CEO of Icon Foods, which is one of the large...

At Expo West 2023 in Anaheim, CA, we sat down with Erin Stokes a naturopathic doctor, educator, and mom who lives with her family in Boulder CO. Stokes is the medical director for MegaFood, the Certified B Corporation that’s...

In this podcast I talked to Michael McGuffin, president of the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) about the

Royal DSM, a global science-based company in nutrition, health and sustainable living, recently launched a new brand campaign for the human nutrition and health markets.  The concept reflects DSM’s evolved strategic dire...

It’s a tall order to manage teams through a crisis like COVID-19. The magnitude and scale of disruption have presented challenges from every angle and at every turn.  For Pharmavite, keeping its roughly 1,100 frontline work...

The American Herbal Products Association will be presenting its inaugural Sports Nutrition Congress on Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 8 am to 4:30 pm PT.  The virtual event will cover market trends and dynamics, innovation and...

Brand development and sound marketing strategies are essential components to success in a competitive landscape like the nutritional products marketplace. Sheldon Baker, senior member of Baker Dillon Group, LLC, has more than 30 yea...

The United States faces a national reckoning on racial injustice, as people of color demand change and recognition that Black Lives Matter.With companies and brands being held to account for their actions, it’s important for executives ...

Traditionally, consumers and marketers have focused on cognitive health at either end of the life span—brain development in the pre-natal and early childhood stages, and then maintaining mental sharpness and memory in the senior years. But supp...