Your body already has the blueprint, we're just upgrading the code.
FitBiomics began as a question: why do elite endurance athletes recover faster, sleep better, and perform longer? The answer was hiding in their gut.
The race ended.
The data began.
We weren't at the finish line to watch runners cross. We were there to collect samples. As postdoctoral researchers at Harvard Medical School's Wyss Institute, our team had a theory that the gut microbiomes of elite endurance athletes might hold something no one had identified before. We drove around Boston for 10 hours a day in a Zipcar, going door-to-door collecting poop samples from marathon finishers. It was unglamorous. It was also exactly what the science required.
After the race, our team sequenced the gut microbiomes of marathon finishers - before the race and after. What we found changed everything. One bacterial strain appeared in dramatically elevated levels post-race in the fastest runners: Veillonella atypica.
It wasn't random. It was converting lactic acid - the very compound that causes muscle fatigue - into propionate, a short-chain fatty acid the body uses as fuel. The athletes who finished fastest had the highest levels of it.
"What if the biology of the world's best athletes could be transferred to everyone to help them function better and move more?"
Turning science into something you can actually use.
The hardest part wasn't the discovery. It was proving that a capsule could reliably replicate what elite biology does naturally.
Our 2019 Nature Medicine paper demonstrated that Veillonella atypica supplementation increased VO₂ max by 13% in trained athletes. The world noticed. Science could do something performance athletes had never had access to before.
We founded FitBiomics with the mission of bringing peer-reviewed microbiome science to consumers. Our team ran IRB-approved, placebo-controlled randomized trials to prove the finished product - not just the raw strain - worked reliably.
After years of formulation, testing, and refinement, we launched Nella and V·Nella commercially. Two targeted probiotic formulas. Both backed by published research. Both designed for people who take their health seriously.
Dr. Jonathan Scheiman, PhD
Founder & CEO, FitBiomics
Big East Champion- Basketball, 2000
A scientist who balls.
A baller who does science.
Jon spent years at Harvard studying the biology of athletic performance. Prior to this, he competed himself — playing division one basketball for St. John's University, winning the Big East Championship in 2000 and the National Invitation Tournament in 2003. Fascinated by natural diversity and evolution, he went on to study biomedical sciences at NYU before landing at Harvard to change the concept of fatigue as we know it. When our team identified Veillonella atypica in the gut microbiomes of Boston Marathon finishers, we didn't just publish a paper and move on. We founded a company to make the science real for everyone.
FitBiomics isn't built on marketing promises. It's built on the same peer-reviewed standards for biotechnology. Every product claim is documented. Every efficacy data point is published.
"We made this because we wanted it ourselves. And then we wanted to know if it could help everyone else who trains as hard as we do."
That question became a company. That company became a movement. And the movement is only getting started.
Changing the world one gut at a time.
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Four peer-reviewed papers.
One clear conclusion.
The science behind FitBiomics is not proprietary, confidential, or anecdotal. It is published, peer-reviewed, and available to anyone.
Every formula backed by published, independently reviewed clinical evidence. We don't launch until the science is airtight.
We run placebo-controlled trials on the finished product, not just individual ingredients. Real formulas. Real people. Real results.
Every data point, every study, every result is public. Read it yourself. We have nothing to hide because we have nothing to hide behind.
The scientists who made the discovery.
"I've always been excited by bridging pop-culture with cutting edge bioscience — creating innovations both tangible and truly transformative for everyday people."
"The microbiome is the most under-leveraged lever in human health. The strains we decoded from elite athletes have the potential to transform everyday performance."
"The gut-muscle axis is one of the most consequential discoveries in modern biology. FitBiomics translates that frontier science into something anyone can use every day."
Your biology is capable of more than you think.
Nella and V·Nella aren't shortcuts. They're the result of understanding what elite athletes do at a cellular level — and making that available in a daily capsule.