India's Gut Health Revolution: The Gut Odos Story
Outlook Business
|November 2025
Where Indian sciences meet nanotech for preventive healthcare
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Gut health is rapidly moving from wellness trend to scientific frontier, and India may soon have a global contender leading this shift. The Gut Odos, a pre-launch nutraceutical venture founded by Shishira Bhowmik, an alumna of Imperial College London, is positioning itself as a science-first disruptor in preventive healthcare.
Bhowmik's journey began in the laboratories of Imperial College, where she worked on in vitro digestion models - systems that mimic the human digestive process outside the body. "It gave me a front-row seat to how nutrients are absorbed and how the gut silently governs health outcomes," she recalls. What she noticed, however, was a stark gap.
This story is from the November 2025 edition of Outlook Business.
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