Joint & Bone Health

NattoPharma's crystals find their way into a medical food.

Can Osteum foster healthy bone construction in children?

Tom McMahon will help companies learn how to incorporate the product into foods and beverages.

In a new human study, collagen reduces pain for joint sufferers of all ages.

A former USP director joins ESM Technologies, a manufacturer of eggshell ingredients for joint health.

Mintel reports that vitamin K2 launches have doubled in the past five years.

Research-supported AppleActiv delivers the healthy nutrients of apples in a convenient, neutral tasting powder.

The venture comes on the heels of a new study confirming OptiMSM’s recovery benefits.

Can sulforaphane slow cartilage breakdown?

UC-II collagen soft chew a product of Nutravail and InterHealth Nutraceuticals partnership.

Coral mineral-based formula is also excipient-free.

Why vitamin K2 could be the missing link for bone health strategies.

Vermeer is a longtime research partner of dietary supplements ingredients supplier NattoPharma, which supplies its MenaQ7 brand of vitamin K2.

The companies are working together again on MenaQ7 vitamin K2, after a four-year break.

The ingredient makes inclusion in aqueous products easier, without requiring extra processing steps such as microencapsulation or emulsification.

Nexira's Simag ingredient can be formulated into foods, beverages, and dietary supplements.

The firm says Osteum contains native micellar calcium derived from fresh milk.

Japanese and Taiwan manufacturers now have access to water-soluble egg membrane ingredients.

Biova LLC specializes in water-soluble egg membrane ingredients such as BiovaFlex for joint health, BiovaDerm for skin care, and BiovaPlex for animal health.

A new proprietary probiotic strain of Lactobacillus lactis helps the body naturally produce a higher level of vitamin K2.

At SupplySide Marketplace, InterHealth will talk about its recently completed, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled research on its joint-health ingredient UC-II in healthy, exercising adults.

The company says the benefit of its compound is its lack of side effects.

The supplement is undergoing a nationwide mass-market Walgreens rollout.

Results of a three-year trial on bone health in 244 postmenopausal women.

According to researchers, early results indicate that KoACT shifts the balance in favor of bone formation over bone resorption.

Lyc-O-Fem should answer concerns about fast-metabolizing genistein.

KollaGen II-xs is a chicken sternum collagen type II powder hydrolysate; KollaGen I,V,X is the company’s eggshell membrane powder; and TendoGuard is a mixture of collagen type II and eggshell membrane powder.

The joint-health ingredient is produced using the company’s patented Hydro5 technology.

The Council for Responsible Nutrition has responded to two February-published research studies questioning the safety of supplemental calcium nutrition.

Subjects were first evaluated to confirm that they did not meet the American College of Rheumatology criteria for osteoarthritis.