Gut Health
For a Thriving Microbiome and a Strong Healthy Gut Barrier
Everyone is talking about the microbiome
Consumer awareness of gut health is skyrocketing, particularly amongst wellness seekers.
Lactoferrin helps to optimize the balance of the microbiome and strengthen the gut wall.
But until now, it’s been too cost prohibitive for brands to use lactoferrin for gut health. Vivitein™ LF changes that.
A game-changing combination of gut health benefits
Vivitein™ LF supports the natural equilibirum of the microbiome, making it ideal as a key ingredient in probiotic, synbiotic, and gut barrier repair formulations.
By binding iron in the gut, lactoferrin limits the growth of undesirable bacteria while creating conditions that favor beneficial probiotic strains.
It also strengthens the gut wall and prevents inflammation, both of which are critical to sustained gut health.
Making lactoferrin a commercial reality
There’s a reason why lactoferrin is called Pink Gold. When produced traditionally, it’s hard to extract, rare and expensive.
Because it’s created through the process of precision fermentation, Vivitein™ LF can be reliably produced in commercial quantities that used to be prohibitively difficult to achieve.
That’s why Vivitein™ LF makes lactoferrin accessible to health and wellness brands like never before.
The time for lactoferrin has come. So, power your product innovation and unlock untapped commercial potential with Vivitein™ LF.
Making lactoferrin a commercial reality
There’s a reason why lactoferrin is called Pink Gold. When produced traditionally, it’s hard to extract, rare and expensive.
Because it’s created through the process of precision fermentation, Vivitein™ LF can be reliably produced in commercial quantities that used to be prohibitively difficult to achieve.
That’s why Vivitein™ LF makes lactoferrin accessible to health and wellness brands like never before.
The time for lactoferrin has come. So, power your product innovation and unlock untapped commercial potential with Vivitein™ LF.
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Vitality
Vitality
Millions of women suffer from fatigue. Vivitein™ LF is the key to offering them sustained vitality.
Vivitein™ LF helps the body to gently mobilize and utilize iron. This makes it an important complement to both dietary iron and iron supplements.
Find out Vivitein™ LF can help your products to help busy women experiencing fatigue.
Recovery
Recovery
As an ingredient in premium post-workout products, Vivitein™ LF addresses a critical barrier to performance recovery that other supplements miss.
By helping to manage the body’s inflammatory response, it lowers the risk of fatigue-related injury and speeds up return to activity.
Discover how Vivitein™ LF can add a new dimension to performance recovery products.
Unleash the commercial power of lactoferrin with Vivitein™ LF. To receive a sample and discover how Vivitein™ LF can turbocharge your product innovation. Simply fill in your details, along with the benefit area and application of interest.
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Insights
Lactoferrin vs ferrous sulfate: what the clinical record actually shows
The World Health Organization has described iron deficiency as the most common and widespread nutritional disorder worldwide (PubMed, Iron Deficiency Anaemia, 2021). For food and supplement companies in health and wellness, a market that size is worth serving well. Which iron ingredient you build a product around determines how well it works, how long people stay on it, and whether it delivers what the label promises.
What is Lactoferrin? Discover Vivitein™ LF for Your Next Innovation
For decades, lactoferrin has been studied for its role in human biology. Only recently has it become accessible for broader product innovation. Naturally present in milk and part of the body’s innate defense system, lactoferrin is a bioactive protein known for its ability to bind iron, help shape the balance of gut microbial populations, reinforce the gut barrier lining, and calm inflammation as part of modulating the body's immune responses. These functions underpin its potential across areas such as iron regulation, gut health, immune support, and active nutrition, categories where demand for targeted, evidence-based ingredients continues to grow. Despite this strong scientific foundation, lactoferrin has remained a niche ingredient. Limited availability, high cost, and reliance on dairy extraction have historically restricted its use to specialized applications such as infant nutrition. That constraint is now changing. Advances in precision fermentation are enabling the production of lactoferrin at scale, with consistent quality and price, and without dependence on traditional dairy supply chains. This shifts lactoferrin from a constrained bioactive to a viable ingredient for broader formulation. With Vivitein™ LF, Vivici introduces its precision fermentation-derived lactoferrin ingredient, available at scale for health and wellness brands for the first time.
