Anti-aging ingredients power extended health spans

What’s next to stave off the hereafter? It started 20 years ago with resveratrol, the red-wine molecule shown to extend life span. Today's hot ingredients include NAD+ and NMN. But that's not all.

Todd Runestad, Content Director, NaturalProductsInsider.com

January 9, 2023

Mitochondria are kings of healthy aging processes, but they’re not the only pieces on the chessboard. The last 20 years of aging research has shown the world a growing number of ingredients and mechanisms for healthy aging. From resveratrol to pterostilbene, NAD+ to NMN and niacin, Chris Shade, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Quicksilver Scientific sits down with NPI’s content director, Todd Runestad, to go down what’s current—and what’s next—in the innovative (if still expensive) world of natural healthy aging ingredients.

About the Author(s)

Todd Runestad

Todd Runestad

Content Director, NaturalProductsInsider.com, Natural Products Insider

Todd Runestad has been writing on nutrition science news since 1997. He is content director for NaturalProductsInsider.com and Natural Products Insider digital magazines. Other incarnations: supplements editor for NewHope.com, Delicious Living!, and Natural Foods Merchandiser. Former editor-in-chief of Functional Ingredients magazine and still covers raw material innovations and ingredient science.

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Specialty

Todd writes about nutrition science news such as this story on mitochondrial nutrients, innovative ingredients such as this story about 12 trendy new ingredient launches from SupplySide West 2023, and is a judge for the NEXTY awards honoring innovation, integrity and inspiration in natural products including his specialty — dietary supplements. He extensively covered the rise and rise and rise and fall of cannabis hemp CBD. He helps produce in-person events at SupplySide West and SupplySide East trade shows and conferences, including the wildly popular Ingredient Idol game show, as well as Natural Products Expo West and Natural Products Expo East and the NBJ Summit. He was a board member for the Hemp Industries Association.

Education / Past Lives

In previous lives Todd was on the other side of nature from natural products — natural history — as managing editor at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He's sojourned to Burning Man and Mount Everest. He graduated many moons ago from the State University of New York College at Oneonta.

Quotes

"There is not a colds-and-flu season. There is a vitamin D-deficiency season."

"There is no such thing as inclement weather. Only improper attire."

Link answers question, "When taking magnesium, should you also take vitamin D3 2,000 IU?"

"Cannabis is nature's most nearly perfect plant."

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