Rising Star: C-Biogenics Nutrition – Food & Drink Business

Clinical nutritionists Hayley Robinson and Lynsey Koch are captivated with serving to folks heal. Their start-up C-Biogenics Nutrition is permitting them to take action at scale. Kim Berry writes.

Lynsey Koch’s curiosity in meals as medication started together with her first job working within the native well being meals retailer. It turned her focus when a life-threatening accident at age 18 had her in hospital for what was anticipated to be a minimum of three months.

Every day, her mum, a “hippie at coronary heart”, introduced all of Koch’s meals to the hospital together with “inexperienced sludgy drinks and natural meals”. Koch was discharged after three weeks.

“At that time my life principally made my profession choice. I had simply began an undergraduate diploma in organic sciences, so I swapped to dietary medication and have become a scientific nutritionist,” Koch says.

Clinical diet and dietary medication look at the therapeutic and biochemical facets of meals and the way they work together with the physique.

Meanwhile, Hayley Robinson was ending her dietary medication diploma when she met Koch whereas finishing her clinic hours at Koch’s apply.

“I at all times needed to supply my very own dietary supplements and have my very own complement firm.

“Working with Lynsey I witnessed her information and understanding of biochemistry, and we aligned on our compassion and look after folks, however I knew scientific apply wasn’t for me,” Robinson says.

The timing was excellent. Robinson with hearth in her stomach to construct a enterprise and Koch, after 15-plus years of scientific apply, needing a brand new mission, the pair based C-Biogenics Nutrition.

Koch says, “As a practitioner, you may burn out. You can’t change off, eager about your shoppers in any respect hours of the evening. Starting C-Biogenics has been a blessing, I’ve stepped again so much from the scientific aspect and regained stability.”

“We have an innate drive to assist folks heal and C-Biogenics permits us to do this on a scale not doable in a scientific setting. This manner we will help 1000’s, and dealing in the direction of a whole bunch of 1000’s, of individuals,” Robinson says.

Food for the intestine

The firm launched with Gut Food, a prebiotic and postbiotic method developed to assist soothe, restore, and nourish the intestine whereas feeding the microbiome.

Koch developed the useful powder through the years for her shoppers, utilizing it for well being situations from pre-diabetes, hormone points, and ldl cholesterol issues.

“We thought, why don’t we take that recipe, and high quality tune it with extra vitamins for therapeutic the epithelial cells of the intestine. That was the delivery of Gut Food,” Koch says.

Epithelial cells cowl the entire physique, line physique cavities and organs, and kind the primary tissue in glands. They carry out a spread of protecting, filtration, absorption and sensory receptor capabilities.

Robinson provides, “From Lynsey’s basis, we added in an entire vary of different components after which labored on dosages, style, and texture. To assist with the epithelial tissue, we added slippery elm and marshmallow, and made positive they had been on the proper therapeutic dosages.”

For Robinson and Koch, their driving motivation is that each product they develop has a profound and noticeable impact. For that to happen, every advisable serve wants the suitable mix of components for optimum efficacy. 

“There are loads of merchandise on the market that look wonderful and have a tonne of components in them, however none at a therapeutic dose to make a distinction.

“Our prime precedence is for each one among our formulation to fulfill the standards it must be efficient,” Koch says.

Soothing the mind

The adaptogenic and neurologic wholefood method Calm Food, was developed to assist the physique construct resilience to emphasize and restore a way of calm.

“You can’t repair somebody’s intestine if anxiousness is a key issue as a result of it impacts your nervous system, which then impacts digestion. The purpose we needed to launch Calm Food and Gut Food is as a result of the intestine and the mind are a duo. If you solely deal with one part, you solely get midway there. To get huge shifts in well being, you may’t ignore both one,” Koch says.

Developing Calm Food had particular relevance for Robinson who suffers from anxiousness.

“I’ve tried numerous dietary supplements, and nothing was ever as efficient as I wanted it to be. I realised there was no complete meals method in the marketplace, so we set to work,” Robinson says.

Koch explains, “With Calm Food we knew we needed a stress and anxiousness method. Coming from that scientific diet background we additionally knew there have been so many variables at play in relation to anxiousness.

“We’re speaking about genetics, intestine well being, sleep; all of the facets that encompass somebody’s bodily well being with stress and anxiousness. That’s the place we began. Then it was a strategy of, okay, these are the therapeutics, these are the natural medicines, that is the plant, that is the meals, and these are the vitamins.”

Into the combo

“We begin product testing by trialling it on ourselves for 3 months, then now we have a small trial group do the identical and maintain refining it till we finalise the recipe. With every new iteration we undergo that course of once more. For Gut Food it took round twelve batches, Calm Food took much more,” Robinson recollects.

“We are a rogue within the meals manufacturing trade due to our therapeutic standpoint. We received’t use any emulsifiers, components, flavourings, or colourings, however then the fear creeps in across the product’s palatability and mixability. Consumers have been conditioned to anticipate a useful powder to dissolve or mix immediately and even style a specific manner,” Koch says.

But the pair determined to “personal it”, selecting to not compromise on the components’ efficacy whereas additionally making certain the merchandise style scrumptious.

“We are always engaged on the merchandise, educating our clients that the explanation it wants twenty seconds to combine is due to its authenticity and lack of components, and that it’s a useful meals,” Robinson says.

Koch and Robinson are at present manufacturing the merchandise in-house, a acutely aware selection to keep up excessive and tight quality control.

“We are utilizing the best high quality components we are able to supply to create a premium efficient well being product.

“By making it ourselves we all know every thing has been saved and blended appropriately. That mentioned, our tempo of progress means we’re having to revisit that, it’s getting very busy! It is a pleasant downside to have,” Robinson says.

They additionally attempt to supply native components the place doable.

“We make each effort to supply from our area right here on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

“If we are able to’t do this then we’ll supply the best, highest quality Australian product. We additionally use an area firm for freeze drying our components,” Robinson says.

While their focus could also be native for components, the pair are centered on rising distribution nationwide. Currently stocked in well being meals shops in Queensland, and out there on the C-Biogenics web site, Koch and Robinson are actively in search of broader distribution channels and companions.

With their third product set for launch early subsequent 12 months and about eight extra within the pipeline, C-Biogenics is on the rise.

This story first appeared in our July issue of Food & Drink Business journal.