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Science-Backed Ingredient Innovations for Healthy Ageing
Ingredients
INTRODUCTION
As innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty, dsm-firmenich reinvents, manufactures, and combines vital nutrients, flavors, and fragrances for the world’s growing population to thrive. Its Healthy Longevity platform is deeply invested in addressing key biological processes that contribute to aging. The company aims to enhance healthspan – the period of life spent in good health – through innovative nutritional solutions.
Background
Healthy ageing is an increasingly important priority globally, as consumers seek solutions that not only support better living as they age but also target the biological processes that drive ageing.
Through innovative nutritional strategies, we aim to extend health span – the period of life spent in good health – by developing solutions that promote healthier ageing at the cellular level. Specifically:
- Chronic Inflammation (Inflammaging): Targeting nutritional interventions that can mitigate oxidative stress and cellular damage associated with chronic inflammation
- Gut Dysbiosis: Addressing age-related imbalances in the gut microbiota contribute to inflammation, immune dysregulation, and metabolic dysfunctions
- Cellular Senescence: Implementing nutritional interventions that can delay cellular ageing and reduce the accumulation of senescent cells
- Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Mitigating age-associated cellular decline by enhancing mitochondrial function, improving energy production, and reducing the impact of mitochondrial dysfunction on cellular health
We are seeking science-backed ingredient innovations that can be incorporated into nutrition, food, and health applications to deliver targeted benefits for active ageing and slowing biological ageing. Solutions may involve novel raw materials, proprietary ingredient technologies, or emerging scientific evidence that impacts these key biological pathways.
How might we deliver science-backed ingredient innovations for nutrition, food and health applications that support active ageing and slowing the biological ageing process?
requirements and considerations
Proposed solutions should also meet these considerations:
- Stability standards of the relevant industry category
- Food or dietary supplement industry safety standards appropriate to the target market
- Ideally nano-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, GMO-free, Halal, and with potential for broader regulatory approval
- Cost to be benchmarked against existing commercial offerings for consumers, or demonstrate a justified premium based on enhanced functionality