There is a close relationship between your gut health and your overall health, so let’s focus on how to support your gut health naturally.
Focusing on supporting your gut health, even if you don’t have digestive symptoms, will have huge benefits! Our gut health is essential for supporting our overall wellness, not just by digesting our food, but more crucially absorbing nutrients which supports our energy production. Our gut also supports our immune system and can impact our hormones; the health of our microbiome is a crucial part of all of these.
The importance of the gut microbiome
A balanced gut microbiome (aka: our good gut bugs) is involved in numerous molecular mechanisms, such as the production of short chain fatty acids, which support the gut lining, a healthy metabolism, production of neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, which supports our mood, to name just a few of the many activities that occur continuously. Constant disruption to this balance can lead to states of disease.
The Pre, the Pro, and the Post advantage
You might be wondering what practical steps you can take to support your gut health? Well, by focusing on the triple action of Prebiotics, Probiotics and Postbiotics, you can support your gut health from all angles. Let’s dive in!
1. Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Postbiotics explained.
Think of your gut as a factory.
Probiotics (and the good gut bugs already in your gut) are like the factory workers — living microorganisms that perform essential tasks, like breaking down food and maintaining gut health.
Prebiotics are the raw materials they need to get their work done. In other words, types of fibre that you eat that feed the good gut bugs.
Postbiotics then, are the useful products created by the workers in the factory (eg: in the gut they are the by-products the good gut bugs make, such as vitamins, short-chain fatty acids, and other compounds) or they can be specialized products (commercial postbiotics) brought into support the factory. Unlike the factory workers (probiotics), these products (postbiotics) don’t need to be alive to be useful—they’re stable, ready to use, and just as important.
2. How to Incorporate Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Postbiotics in Your Diet
It’s important to support your gut health every day through a wholefood diet. Let’s see how you can incorporate these!
Prebiotics: Prebiotic foods are found within vegetables, fruits, and some whole grains, and so eat prebiotic foods daily such as onions, garlic, Jerusalem artichoke, asparagus, leeks, barley, oats, apples, and greenish bananas, as they feed the good gut bugs.
Probiotics: Since probiotics are live good bacteria, it makes sense that we can consume these through foods too: in the form of fermented foods! These are called “live cultures”. These are found in yogurts, but also sauerkraut, kimchi, tempeh, miso, kefir, and kombucha. Eating a variety of these foods supports the balance and diversity of your microbiome.
Postbiotics: These are more natural, inanimate substances or microorganisms found in the gut; they are beneficial waste products (metabolites) from gastrointestinal microbes that confer a health benefit. Or they can be found in a commercially prepared gut health product as in Good Health’s Probiotic Advanced. Learn more about Postbiotics; the old, new kids on the block
3. The Power of Postbiotics in Gut Health Supplements
The unique benefits of postbiotics in supplement form include being very safe and very stable. But even more than that they have health benefits for humans, and studies have shown this to be true. Postbiotics provide various mechanisms of action including:
- Supporting gut lining health, in particular the mucosal lining, which supports gut lining integrity.
- Postbiotics also support the gut microbiome balance which contributes to homeostasis (balance).
- Postbiotics also support via various mechanisms involving peptides, enzymes, short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), vitamins, teichoic acid, and plasmalogens.
- Immune support by supporting a balanced microbiome, as well as supporting the balance between lymphocytes, which is crucial for immune health.
Introducing Good Health’s Probiotic Advanced which utilises the postbiotic advantage!
4. Benefits of Good Health’s Probiotic Advanced
Good Health Probiotic Advanced is a scientifically researched triple action Pre, Pro, and Post-biotic in a vege capsule. It supports a healthy microbiome, healthy bowel function, calms bloating, and supports the immune system.
The Prebiotic supports growth of good gut bacteria in the microbiome.
The Probiotics support healthy digestion and bowel function through specific potent strains for gut health.
The Postbiotic is an advanced inert microorganism that supports gut lining integrity and healthy immune system.
This is an easy one-a-day vege capsule that is suitable for the whole family from 6 years old and over, even suitable during pregnancy and breastfeeding and for vegans.
The importance of a balanced gut microbiome, as I’m sure you can see now, is essential for healthy digestion, but also overall health and wellbeing. Ensure you are feeding your good gut bugs with lots of prebiotic foods, but also including fermented foods every day to incorporate probiotics, and complementing this with a postbiotic from Probiotic Advanced, which also includes prebiotic and probiotics. Time to take charge of your gut health naturally and experience the benefits firsthand!
Always read the label and follow the directions for use. Vitamin and mineral supplements should not replace a balanced diet. If symptoms persist see your healthcare professional. For more information contact our Naturopath on 0800 446 634 or visit www.goodhealth.co.nz Good Health, NZ, Auckland.
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