The importance of probiotics to your body – and how to boost their numbers

Like so many things in life, maintaining the health of your intestinal system is all about balance. Too much stress, too many toxins, too many ‘bad bacteria’ and the balance in your gut (small intestine) can tip in the wrong direction. Unfortunately, it doesn’t make much to do that – it’s all too easy to encounter stress and toxins in everyday life – so how to turn the balance back in your favour? The answer is probiotics.

Derived from specific fermented foods and supplements, probiotics are adept at helping to detox the intestinal system, digest fibre, generate vitamins and balance the system – and, especially, balance the gut. In the gut then these living bacteria and yeast (which essentially exist in the body in a symbiotic relationship with it) promote a healthy microbiome full of ‘good bacteria’ – health-promoting micro-organisms – resulting in much improved digestion, immunity and mental and emotional wellbeing; when your body’s in better physical balance, so often tends to be your mind.

The benefits of probiotics

There are many and various advantages of populating your gut with probiotics; but some of the most important are that they can:

  • boost immune system response
  • cancel out the adverse effects of antibiotics (e.g. diarrhoea)
  • help improve food digestion and nutrient absorption
  • promote lactose tolerance
  • improve yeast balance in the gut
  • help the body to synthesise (produce) B vitamins and K vitamins.

Research findings

Furthermore, an increasing number of research studies are discovering more and more benefits of probiotics for the body. So, research suggests that by boosting your probiotic levels you might:

  • enhance the bioavailability of many nutrients in your body (B vitamins, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and zinc)
  • drastically reduce constipation, if you’re of advanced age
  • reduce the chance of developing upper respiratory tract infections
  • possibly boost production of the critical mood-affecting neurotransmitter serotonin, thanks to a healthy, probiotic-rich gut.

Highly recommended probiotics

All of which leads us to how to actually boost probiotic strains in your intestinal tract. Well, a quick, easy and effective way is to take acclaimed, thoroughly naturally-derived probiotic supplements. There are many supplement probiotics on the market, of course; but those that we – and our customers – highly recommend include:

Floratrex – contains live and active cultures from 23 probiotic strains, ensuring it’s one of the most complete, full-spectrum live probiotic formulas in the world.

Bio-Acidophilous Forte Plus – provides 75 billion ‘good bacteria’ per capsule; ensuring each capsule’s the most potent probiotic source of all supplements (backed by scientifically proven stability, safety and efficacy).

Alternatively, please take a look at the many and various products available in our probiotics supplement range.