Innovative ingredients, Part 2
Iovate's Raza Bashir (left) commented on the potential for probiotics that do things outside of gut health and immunity that are specifically targeted for various conditions.
"There are the new psychobiotics that have to do with the gut-brain axis," he said. Immunity is something that is obviously naturally in the wheelhouse of the microbiome.
"Having these kinds of options within our traditional categories of sports nutrition are really compelling in trying to imagine a world in where you are going to buy a BCAA product, there are going to be probiotics in there that has something to do with increasing your amino acid utilization, having more of these synbiotic-kind of products that in a sense if that microbe wants to colonize your gut, your going to be benefitting from that pretty for the rest of your days or until you get a cold and have to take a whole bunch of antibiotics."
Tym's Dr. Rob Wildman added: "Lactoferrin, which is in what I consider to be mother nature's most potent, perfect food—milk. Lactoferrin can be partially digested down to peptides that then interact with the microbiome. I mean this is just incredible stuff, it's just expanding out, and we're in a great spot to fully embrace peptides as we're looking at all of these other areas as well."
