We started Aqabela during the Covid crisis after seeing the social consequences of a public health strategy that focused on patient treatment instead of remembering that prevention is the best medicine. Today the buzzword is 'Healthspan' - it means finding ways of helping people stay healthier for longer. Investors call this the larges
We started Aqabela during the Covid crisis after seeing the social consequences of a public health strategy that focused on patient treatment instead of remembering that prevention is the best medicine. Today the buzzword is 'Healthspan' - it means finding ways of helping people stay healthier for longer. Investors call this the largest total addressable market in history. Just looking at the USA, one estimate puts it at $38Trillion for every year increase in healthy living (Scott et al., Nature Aging (2021) 1: 616-623).
We asked ourselves, "What could work as another layer of health protection that could significantly impact healthspan? " We thought nutrition was the answer. Much of the activity around this area is in the pharmaceutical space. The biggest concern with this is safety - every drug has toxicity and some of the protocols being proposed i
We asked ourselves, "What could work as another layer of health protection that could significantly impact healthspan? " We thought nutrition was the answer. Much of the activity around this area is in the pharmaceutical space. The biggest concern with this is safety - every drug has toxicity and some of the protocols being proposed include the use of multiple pharmaceutical products compounding the safety concerns. We have found functional ingredients in food that work better than pharmaceutical products without safety concerns.
Using our know-how we identify functional ingredients with hidden health functions. We develop intellectual property around these functional ingredients and partner with food ingredient companies and food producers to bring consumers health-impacting products and empower them to make independent and informed healthy food choices.