Meet Beta Glucan:
The Multitasking
Powerhouse
Meet Beta Glucan: The Multitasking Powerhouse
Think of beta glucan as your gut’s secret weapon — a powerful, natural bioactive fiber that feeds your microbiome, supports smooth digestion, facilitates healthy weight loss, strengthens immunity, and promotes heart health. It even helps hydrate and protect your skin from within. Found in high concentrations in Avaia’s precision-fermented PichiaProtein+, beta glucan works in harmony with your body to help restore balance, energy, and overall vitality.
Elevate Your NutritionMeet Beta Glucan:
The Multitasking
Powerhouse
Meet Beta Glucan: The Multitasking Powerhouse
Think of beta glucan as your gut’s secret weapon — a powerful, natural bioactive fiber that feeds your microbiome, supports smooth digestion, facilitates healthy weight loss, strengthens immunity, and promotes heart health. It even helps hydrate and protect your skin from within. Found in high concentrations in Avaia’s precision-fermented PichiaProtein+, beta glucan works in harmony with your body to help restore balance, energy, and overall vitality.
Elevate Your NutritionAvaia is Real Science with Real Benefits
Gut health and Microbiome
Beta glucan functions as a prebiotic that supports the growth of diverse, beneficial gut bacteria—promoting improved digestion, nutrient absorption, and overall regularity. It can also help reduce constipation and lessen the frequency and severity of intestinal conditions such as IBD, colitis, and Crohn’s disease.
Weight and Fat Loss
In the gut, beta glucan is converted into butyric acid, which acts as a natural GLP-1 agonist to help regulate blood glucose levels. This process supports reduced food cravings, enhances feelings of fullness, and promotes a healthier metabolism that aids in weight and fat loss.
Energy and Mood
Studies show that beta glucan is metabolized into short-chain fatty acids that boost energy levels and help reduce fatigue. These compounds also help calm the body’s stress response by lowering inflammation, supporting the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, and helping regulate cortisol levels for better mood and balance.
Immune system & systemic inflammation support
Beta glucan supports immune health by promoting the maturation of dendritic cells, activating macrophages, and regulating adaptive immune responses. It enhances cytokine activity to coordinate immune defense, strengthens resistance to respiratory and other pathogens, and optimizes immune balance—all without triggering harmful inflammation.
Reduction of insulin resistance, obesity, and diabetes
Research indicates that beta glucan promotes a lasting feeling of fullness, slows gastric emptying, and increases appetite-suppressing gut hormones. It also helps regulate blood sugar levels and minimize insulin spikes, supporting healthy weight management and reducing the risk of metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
Skin hydration
Beta Glucan is known to be as effective as, or even better than, hyaluronic acid as a skin humectant for maintaining hydration. Some studies show that it helps prevent cell damage associated with aging and sun exposure, while also acting as a barrier against environmental stressors.
Anti-tumor properties
According to the NIH, beta glucan has shown potential to support the body’s natural defense mechanisms by enhancing immune system activity, including the function of key protective cells such as macrophages, neutrophils, and monocytes. Research also suggests that beta glucan may help the body defend against harmful toxins and carcinogenic compounds.
Rising To the Challenge: a broken food system
The way we feed the world is catching up with us. Modern food systems push for more protein at lower costs—but often at the expense of our health and our planet. Industrial farming practices demand enormous amounts of land and water, while relying heavily on fertilizers and pesticides. The result is nutrient-poor diets, stressed ecosystems, and a growing disconnect between what our bodies need and what’s on our plates.
To build a healthier future, we need smarter, more sustainable nutrition—solutions that protect both human health and the natural world we depend on. This is where ingredients like beta glucan come in: a natural, science-backed way to support immune health, heart wellness, and balance in the body—without compromising balance in the environment.
Avaia is Real Science with Real Benefits
The modern diet takes a toll—Avaia helps restore balance from within
Today’s fast-paced lifestyle and trend-following diets have left many of us battling fatigue, inflammation, and imbalance. Backed by research, Beta Glucan offers a natural way to strengthen your body’s defenses, support gut health, and promote energy and resilience from the inside out.
Gut health and Microbiome
Beta glucan functions as a prebiotic that supports the growth of diverse, beneficial gut bacteria—promoting improved digestion, nutrient absorption, and overall regularity. It can also help reduce constipation and lessen the frequency and severity of intestinal conditions such as IBD, colitis, and Crohn’s disease.
Weight and Fat Loss
In the gut, beta glucan is converted into butyric acid, which acts as a natural GLP-1 agonist to help regulate blood glucose levels. This process supports reduced food cravings, enhances feelings of fullness, and promotes a healthier metabolism that aids in weight and fat loss.
Energy and Mood
Studies show that beta glucan is metabolized into short-chain fatty acids that boost energy levels and help reduce fatigue. These compounds also help calm the body’s stress response by lowering inflammation, supporting the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, and helping regulate cortisol levels for better mood and balance.
Immune system & systemic inflammation support
Beta glucan supports immune health by promoting the maturation of dendritic cells, activating macrophages, and regulating adaptive immune responses. It enhances cytokine activity to coordinate immune defense, strengthens resistance to respiratory and other pathogens, and optimizes immune balance—all without triggering harmful inflammation.
Reduction of Obesity, Diabetes, and Insulin Resistance
Research indicates that beta glucan promotes a lasting feeling of fullness, slows gastric emptying, and increases appetite-suppressing gut hormones. It also helps regulate blood sugar levels and minimize insulin spikes, supporting healthy weight management and reducing the risk of metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
Skin Hydration
Beta Glucan is known to be as effective as, or even better than, hyaluronic acid as a skin humectant for maintaining hydration. Some studies show that it helps prevent cell damage associated with aging and sun exposure, while also acting as a barrier against environmental stressors.
Anti-tumor properties
According to the NIH, beta glucan has shown potential to support the body’s natural defense mechanisms by enhancing immune system activity, including the function of key protective cells such as macrophages, neutrophils, and monocytes. Research also suggests that beta glucan may help the body defend against harmful toxins and carcinogenic compounds.
Daily Fuel for a
Thriving Microbiome
Gut Support, Made Simple
Beta glucan is a unique form of soluble fiber naturally found in select yeasts, grains, and fungi. Unlike insoluble fibers that simply pass through the body, beta glucan absorbs water to form a soothing gel-like matrix within the intestines.
But its benefits go far beyond digestion — beta glucan actively nourishes your microbiome. As it moves through your gut, it becomes a food source for beneficial bacteria, helping maintain a balanced, thriving ecosystem. This process supports slower digestion and steady nutrient absorption, promoting balanced blood sugar, improved satiety, and healthy cholesterol levels.
A Heart-Smart Fiber That Works Overtime
Non-Allergenic
Non-Toxic
Non-Mutagenic
Non-Pathogenic