Immunity Boosting Bacteria

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How strong is your Immune system?

Your immune system is you body's self defence and every day it has to combat illness and stress. Around 60% of your immune system is based in the gut and many factors can upset your natural gut balance. Maintaining a healthy gut depends on keeping a positive balance between the ‘good' and ‘bad' bacteria that live there. A negative balance may lead to gut health problems, however ‘good' bacteria, such as Bifidobacteria, actively support a healthy body by discouraging the growth of ‘bad' bacteria and boosting the natural immune system.

What can upset your natural gut balance?

Stress
Poor diet
Antibiotics and other medication
Infection
Changes to diet whilst abroad
Ageing

The Digestive System
The digestive system is a 30-foot tube that has been at the centre of intensive research for many years. Through this research, it has been proven that the health of the digestive system has a direct link to the body's immunity. Thus, a healthy digestive system can improve immunity and overall health.

The digestive ...
... system is often subjected to foods, stresses and other elements that aren't good for the body's overall health. The digestive system is responsible for delivering the components of what you eat into your body and it is critical that this tube is in good condition to deliver needed nutrients to their digestion and absorption points.

What are Prebiotics and how do they help?

Prebiotics are non-digestible foods that make their way through our digestive system and help good bacteria grow and flourish. Prebiotics feed the existing beneficial bacteria and keep them healthy, so that by increasing the number of beneficial bacteria in the colon the harmful ones are kept at bay, providing many benefits for the well-being of the body. Prebiotics are not destroyed, digested or absorbed in the upper GI tract and therefore reach the gut where our good bacteria reside and can contribute fully in promoting their effectiveness.

What are Probiotics?

Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that can be found in various foods and drinks. When you eat probiotics you will add these healthy bacteria to your intestinal tract. Probiotics some times be can be damaged in heat or in the digestive tract.

Recent research has found that by feeding and energising the existing 'good' bacteria already present in the gastro-intestinal tract with a prebiotic supplement, they grow and colonise at a much faster rate than the 'bad' bacteria, resulting in 'bad' bacteria being flushed from the digestive system for a much healthier bacterial balance.

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