gut health
Sponsored Video: Pre-, Pro- and Post-biotics: What’s the Difference?
Postbiotics are gaining awareness with consumers and within the industry. So, what exactly are postbiotics and how are they different from pre- and pro-biotics? Watch our video to learn those differences and the benefits of postbiotics. As the leading postbiotic brand, EpiCor® can help you expand your immune and gut health offerings. Go ...
Sponsored Video: What are postbiotics and how are they different from pre- and pro-biotics?
Check out EpiCor’s video which makes it easy to understand what postbiotics are, their immune and gut health benefits and how they’re different from pre- and pro-biotics. Find products powered by EpiCor at epicorhealth.com. *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, ...
Follow Your Gut
Delayed release & digestive health product growth The expression “follow your gut” is derived from a feeling a person experiences in the stomach area. Similar to the brain in terms of nerves, scientists refer to it as the “little brain” or the enteric nervous system (ENS), but little it is not. Comprised of two thin ...
Demand for Digestive Health Solutions Continues to Rise
The defining nutrition trend of 2020 has probably (and unsurprisingly) been the growing interest in immune health. However, the pandemic has also made consumers more aware of their wellness generally, and more determined to protect it. In particular, the pandemic appears to have increased interest in digestive health, of which 13 percent of consumers worldwide ...
Probiotics Market To Surpass $ 80 Billion By 2027
The global probiotics market is expected to value more than $ 80 billion (U.S.) by 2027 end and is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 6.8 percent during the forecast period of 2020 to 2027 as highlighted in a report published by Coherent Market Insights. Growing awareness regarding the importance of maintaining gut health is primarily fueling the market growth of ...
Gut Check
Digestive health can be considered an underserved market of the dietary supplement industry with enormous growth opportunity. According to the 2019 HealthFocus U.S. Trend Study, gastrointestinal/gut health is one of the largest growing health concern categories. Probiotics are still the market leader in digestive health space when it comes to supplements, with a predicted compound ...
What Does Gut Health Really Mean?
At first, it seems like an obvious question. When most people think of gut health, they think of freedom from traditional stomach issues—bloating, cramping and discomfort, for example. What many of us don’t realize is that gut health encompasses more—way more—than all of that. In fact, when it comes to gut health, the digestive organs ...
The Quest for Optimal Gut Health
Driven by consumer demand, the landscape for digestive health ingredients is being transformed. The digestive system holds the key to one’s overall health, and it ought to be treated as so. Digestive diseases affect approximately 60 to 70 million Americans annually according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, while 36.6 ...
Study Advocates for Risky FMT Procedure Over Probiotic Supplements
A new study published in the medical journal Cell encourages patients to avoid probiotics in favor of a medical procedure that is known to cause adverse events in more than 25 percent of patients. The Natural Products Association (NPA) pointed out the near universal medical consensus that probiotics are safe and effective and questioned why ...
Gut on a Chip
Microchips lined by human intestinal cells revolutionizes microbiome analyses. A human gut-on-a-chip micro-device was used to co-culture multiple commensal microbes in contact with living human intestinal epithelial cells for more than a week in vitro and to analyze how gut microbiome, inflammatory cells, and peristalsis-associated mechanical deformations independently contribute to intestinal bacterial overgrowth and inflammation. ...
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