NutraIngredients NutraCast

NutraIngredients NutraCast

Break the news on Supplements & Nutrition with NutraCast Podcast. A podcast brought to you by the team behind NutraIngredients.com.

Episodes

NutraCast: Is fiber the new protein?

January 9, 2026 • 30 mins
A new trend report examines why consumers are tapping into functional foods over supplements for fiber, how GLP-1 users are driving prebiotic adoption and why diverse fiber formulations outperform single-prebiotic strategies.
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NutraCast: The hidden epidemic of unapproved research peptides

December 19, 2025 • 47 mins
Banned Substances Control Group’s Oliver Catlin recently partnered with the Associated Press to expose something shocking: research peptides marketed as “laboratory chemicals” are flooding mainstream platforms like Amazon and Alibaba.
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NutraCast: The emotional toll of GLP-1 meds

December 12, 2025 • 25 mins
New research from Chemi Nutra highlights how GLP-1 users want to maintain the benefits of the medication while feeling like their former selves, revealing a significant gap in addressing the broader physiological and psychological impacts of weight loss meds.
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NutraCast: How US trade policy is disrupting the supplement supply chain, threatening quality

December 5, 2025 • 21 mins
Tariffs meant to boost U.S. manufacturing might actually be pushing companies away from American investment. Chase Johnston, vice president of operations at Arjuna Natural, breaks down how rapidly shifting tariff rates are creating chaos for the India-based botanical manufacturer.
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Nutracast: The push for nutrition education in medical school

October 31, 2025 • 23 mins
Despite nutrition playing a critical role in preventing chronic diseases, the subject is not sufficiently incorporated into medical education. However, a movement is underway to change that.
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NutraCast: Is the mycobiome the key to healthy aging?

October 23, 2025 • 23 mins
While bacteria often dominates microbiome discussions, the mycobiome—the fungal community within our bodies—plays an equally crucial role in health, particularly as we age.
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NutraCast: How modern freeze-drying tech is reshaping nutraceuticals

October 17, 2025 • 23 mins
Walt Pebley, chief scientific officer at OFD Life Sciences, gives listeners a guided tour of the evolution of freeze-drying. The lyophilization vet has spent more than four decades pushing the boundaries of freeze-drying—transforming it from a preservation method into a platform for scientific and nutritional innovation.
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NutraCast: Bevi wants to solve America’s focus crisis, starting at the water cooler

October 10, 2025 • 16 mins
The company behind Smart Water Coolers just launched Focus Blend, a functional enhancement that combines caffeine, L-theanine, magnesium and B vitamins for sharper focus. The offering was inspired by the growing focus crisis.
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NutraCast: The Vitamin Angels push to close maternal nutrition gaps

October 3, 2025 • 17 mins
Nutritional maternal health in the U.S. has high rates of nutrient deficiencies, leading to risks like anemia, preeclampsia, low birth weight and significantly higher maternal mortality rates.
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NutraCast: Well-intentioned regulations that could backfire

September 26, 2025 • 17 mins
The Council for Responsible Nutrition is ringing the alarm on two bills, one impacting pregnant women in California, the other, minors in New York.
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NutraCast: Why GLP‑1s, sustainability and TikTok are the next frontier of wellness

September 18, 2025 • 34 mins
Nielsen IQ recently released its The Next Frontier of Wellness Report. The leading global consumer intelligence company identified several trends shaping the industry.
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NutraCast: Nutrabolt on the ‘Energy Drink 2.0′ revolution

September 12, 2025 • 23 mins
Once dominated by a few established brands that relied on high-sugar, high-caffeine formulas for an energy boost, today’s energy drink market is larger, more fragmented and healthier than that of the early 2000s.
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NutraCast: Herbalife on its ‘new generation’ approach to weight management

September 5, 2025 • 21 mins
Demand for weight management supplements is on the rise, with the global market size estimated at over 33 billion currently and projected to reach over 71 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research. The demand for natural and clinically-backed weight management supplements is largely driven by increasing obesity rates, growing health and wellness awareness and the demand for effective solutions.
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NutraCast: Beyond prenatals: Folate’s crucial role in methylation, women’s health and more

August 29, 2025 • 16 mins
Folate, also known as vitamin B9, is a vital nutrient that plays a pivotal role in cell growth and development. The CDC recommends all women capable of becoming pregnant take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily to prevent neural tube defects in a baby’s developing brain and spine. But what is folate’s role outside of pregnancy?
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NutraCast: Tapping into the estrobolome

August 22, 2025 • 24 mins
As awareness of gut health grows, so do more specific areas of the microbiome, such as gut-brain axis, the gut-skin axis and the gut-hormone axis. For women, this hormonal link is the estrobolome, which encompasses the bidirectional communication system between the gut and the endocrine system.
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NutraCast: The market, regulatory landscape and opportunity for peptides and bioregulators

August 15, 2025 • 34 mins
BioLongevity Labs is a health optimization company that focuses on peptides, bioregulators and small molecules. While much of the biohacking community knows about these compounds, general awareness is low, with only 3% of Americans familiar with therapeutic peptides, according to BioLongevity Labs Cofounder Hunter Williams.
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NutraCast: Ritual’s defining prenatal health research

August 7, 2025 • 22 mins
Although a large majority of pregnant women in the United States use prenatal vitamins, not all are created equal—and most have not been studied in their final, finished form. In fact, women of ‘childbearing potential’ were banned from U.S. clinical studies until 1993.
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NutraCast: How ancestral pressures are shaping modern health behaviors

August 1, 2025 • 25 mins
Trends are always a hot topic, but what about reasoning behind those trends? What motivations, social dynamics and experiences shape our decisions when we purchase products like creatine or ashwagandha, for example?
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NutraCast: How to win in the MLM marketplace

July 25, 2025 • 19 mins
It’s no secret that direct sellers and multi-level marketers have suffered in recent years with the rise of social media. Last year Rodan + Fields announced plans to move away from its multi-level direct selling model and earlier this year many were shocked to hear that Modere would shut down after 23 years in business.
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NutraCast: Christina Rahm on forging a new standard for clean manufacturing

July 18, 2025 • 44 mins
Xoted Biotechnology Labs is putting science and sustainability at the forefront by launching a new R&D facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
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