Labcoats and Lullabies, Episode 2, Part 3: Science in the Spotlight

Labcoats and Lullabies is a special video interview series under the Nourish and Navigate banner dedicated to working moms in science. Hosted by Kriti Chaudhary, associate director of partnerships and strategy for Vedic Lifesciences, the series tells authentic stories of women who balance the rigor of sciences with the realities of motherhood.

Here, Kriti Chaudhary, associate director of partnerships and strategy for Vedic Lifesciences, is joined by Julia Weibe, PhD, Director, Scientific Affairs & Marketing, MartinBauer Nutraceuticals and Anina Krey, Global Director, Nutraceutical Unit, MartinBauer Nutraceuticals.

The third and final part of this episode explores work-life balance, plus innovations from MartinBauer Nutraceuticals in women's wellness health to gut health and hair health.

Partial transcript:

Kriti Chaudhary: So what are your main ingredients at MartinBauer?

Anina Krey: Botanicals. From powder to extract, everything that has to do with the plant. And we, every, every sort of botanical you can think of, we are sourcing, we are supplying. We are on a lot of things vertically integrated. We have a very, very nice green footprint already. And so, and, we need to we need to tell that to customer because this industry is valuing it. And so far we just specified on one or two industries.

And, so, and then Finzelberg had all these science backed materials that were also very nice for this industry, but we were not targeting this industry properly with these things. So now we have a combined portfolio from Finzelberg and MartinBauer in one business unit that we can offer dedicated to this market. And then for the launch, I will pass it to my colleague.

Chaudhary: And also congratulations on winning the Vitafoods Europe Award. Maybe something on that as well.

Julie Weibe: Yes. So that was great, of course, that we won that. It’s a great ingredient. It's not the one we launched. I gave you some information about both because I'm really proud of these 2 ingredients. So the one we won the award for is 360GUT. It's a Thymus serpyllum extract from wild thyme. So not the kitchen thyme. And what we have shown, which is outstanding, is that we tackle the brain axis;nobody has shown something similar yet. We show that it improves, it reduces stress, and improves emotional resilience by improving gut health, so think constipation, diarrhea, reflux, pain.

It does that by changing the microbiome towards more beneficial bacteria like Akkermansia by reducing inflammation in the gut, so it's less leaky, and by also improving the production of serotonin, because we always forget that most of serotonin comes from the gut. That's the neurotransmitter for mood and well-being.

For me, I think what convinced also the judges is that we have done a lot of studies. Industry has done a lot of studies looking at gut bacteria, and you have more of this or less of that. But what does this actually mean for the consumer? This is what were able to do.

So many people suffer from stress due to bad digestion and the bad nutrition. it's caused. It comes from the gut because 80% of the information that goes through the vagus nerve from the brain is traveling upwards, not downwards.

In the past, we treated gut and brain separately. I now think this paradigm shift is ongoing, and that it’s important to look at it at a holistically. That's why the product is 360GUT. The gut is actually the governor of health, while this brain access is key. I'm very proud that we were able to show that in 2 clinical trials. The judges obviously, also saw that. I'm glad because I presented it and got the message across.