Func Med Nation - A podcast for Functional and Integrative Medicine practitioners. · Dr. Steven Noseworthy

025 | Spotlight Series: Dennis Schoen - CEO/Founder of Researched Nutritionals

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1. Func Med Nation spotlights Dennis Schoen, CEO and founder of Research Nutritionals, on how a supplement company chooses products, research, and manufacturing standards. 2. Dennis Schoen speaks as the founder and CEO of Research Nutritionals, and Dr. Steve Noseworthy interviews him as a functional medicine clinician who uses supplement formulas in practice. 3. The episode asks how a supplement company can build products around science, peer review, and real clinical problems instead of marketing trends. 4. Dennis says he spent 20-plus years in the supplement industry, including 10 years at a manufacturer that worked to pharmaceutical standards before CGMPs were common. 5. He says he ran two other companies after that first manufacturer, and those years shaped his focus on quality manufacturing and product research. 6. Dennis says he wanted to start Research Nutritionals because he disliked the “wild claims” in the supplement industry and wanted to “raise the bar” with science. 7. He says Research Nutritionals usually starts with a clinical problem, not a fad ingredient, and he uses fatigue as the example. 8. He argues that CoQ10, lipoic acid, or vitamins E and C may matter for the Krebs cycle, but they do not solve fatigue if inflammation and oxidative stress are damaging mitochondria. 9. He explains that inflammation and oxidative stress damage mitochondrial membranes, which interferes with the electron transfer chain and ATP production. 10. He says Research Nutritionals developed a product to repair mitochondrial membranes and reduce inflammation inside the mitochondria. 11. Dennis says the company rarely develops single-ingredient formulas because “the body’s a whole lot more complicated than that.” 12. He says the company goes to universities and major research institutes, including Penn State University and Northwestern University, because those teams can design the studies properly. 13. He says Trifortify glutathione was built around the goal of proving intracellular absorption, not just measuring plasma levels. 14. He says a 2014 glutathione study showed a product did not statistically increase intracellular glutathione, which reinforced his skepticism about relying on plasma results. 15. He says Penn State researchers told his team to measure intracellular glutathione, oxidative stress, and natural killer cell function, not just serum or plasma markers. 16. He says the company spent two years iterating Trifortify, and one internal test found that competing liposomal products did not meet label claims. 17. He says Trifortify now has a two-year room-temperature shelf life, exceeds its 450 milligram label claim, and remained stable in 104 degrees and 75 percent humidity for six months. 18. The interview stays technical and practical, with Steve Noseworthy pressing for product details, testing methods, and manufacturing realities. 19. Practitioners who want research-backed supplements for mitochondrial support, glutathione, or immune modulation would fit this episode. 20. Listeners who want lifestyle advice without formulation or lab details may skip it.

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A clear look at how supplement quality is built, tested, and defended.

This episode centers on the manufacturing discipline behind supplement claims, with Dennis laying out quality, stability, and delivery in liposomal glutathione.

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