Meeting the Demand for Cleaner, Easier Sports Nutrition: The Case for Next-Gen Beta-Alanine
Webinar Date/Time: Thu, Oct 22, 2026 11:00 AM EDT
Mark LeDoux, CEO and chairman of NAI, discusses common barriers to formulating with beta-alanine and how microencapsulation approaches are opening up new format and formulation possibilities for sports nutrition brands.
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Event Overview:
Beta-alanine is a well-established sports nutrition ingredient, but formulating with it comes with practical challenges, including dose size and the tingling sensation known as paresthesia. In this session, Mark LeDoux, CEO and chairman of NAI, will review these challenges and explain how microencapsulation technology, including CarnoSyn® 4X, is being applied to address them. He will also discuss how these developments are shaping beta-alanine formats and formulations.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Common barriers to formulating with beta-alanine
- How microencapsulation approaches address those barriers
- Emerging beta-alanine formats and formulation possibilities
Who Should Attend:
- Supplement brands and Co-manufacturers
- Marketing and Sales
- R&D
- Procurement
- Management
- C-suite
Speaker:
Mark LeDoux
CEO and Chairman
Natural Alternatives International, Inc.
Mark LeDoux founded NAI in 1980 and has spent over 40 years as one of the most respected and longest-serving executives in the nutritional supplements industry. As chairman emeritus of the Natural Products Association, founding chairman of CRN International, and a recognized NGO representative of the WHO/FAO Codex Alimentarius Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, LeDoux has been a driving force in supplement industry regulation for decades.
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