Welcome back to episode 43 with Fleur Cushman. Fleur is the founder of CurraNZ a multi award winning breakthrough supplement made from NZ blackcurrant bioactives. As you will learn, Fleur comes from a background in equine performance and sports journalism but has a real passion for physiology and performance nutrition which lead her to coming up with CurraNZ. Her father Michael was a pioneering pharmacist, formulator and natural health care icon in Australasia. He identified NZ blackcurrants for their considerable health and fitness potential and encouraged Fleur to pursue the opportunity. Fleur has since dedicated to the science and development of the blackcurrant extract ingredient and supplement which has led to a new appreciation of its application for sports and health consumers. We take a deep dive in this episode into some of the research and what it is telling us about these blackcurrants as well as some hot off the press research which you are the first to know about! I enjoyed speaking with Fleur and she managed to condense a massive amount of literature into some great key takeaways for us all. Linked below are some articles for reference and further reading and other links mentioned in this episode. We hope you enjoy! https://curranz.co.nz/  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267005/pdf/fnut-07-00074.pdfDOI 10.3389/fnut.2020.00074  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009509/pdf/fnut-09-864323.pdfDOI 10.3389/fnut.2022.864323 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/87559129.2022.2162076 https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijsnem/32/4/article-p265.xml https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijsnem/25/3/article-p225.xml https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/8/2875