Complexity science is quietly changing the way we think about nutrition, health, and medicine, and botanicals are right at the center of that shift.
For decades, we tried to understand plants the same way we formulated feed or drugs: one molecule, one mechanism, one predictable outcome. But biology has been telling us a different story all along.
Living systems…whether it is a cow’s rumen, a human gut, or a single plant cell…behave less like simple machines and more like dynamic, adaptive networks.
➡️ This is exactly what complexity science and systems biology are helping us see: only complexity can solve complexity.
Leading up to the Fytovison event, I wanted to give a Brief History of Animal Nutrition to show how the science has evolved.
In animal nutrition, this new lens of complexity science is already reshaping how we work with botanicals: Moving from phytogenic narrow extracts toward the PhytoComplexes of Nutreco and Trouw Nutrition/ Trouw Nutrition LATAM that preserve the full architecture of plant metabolite networks.
As complexity science gives us language and tools to describe what makes botanicals so uniquely multi-dimensional, it unlocks a whole new world of possibilities for solving the complex problems facing both animal and human health.
Stay tuned for more on complexity science in the coming days…
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