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Human gastro-intestinal microbiota, also known as gut flora or gut microbiota, are the microorganisms that live in the digestive tract of humans. A healthy gut flora = 80% good bacteria which is the key to good health. Probiotics help the body to balance this ratio of good and bad bacteria. Scientific studies have shown that poor intestinal health due to an imbalanced gut flora (usually dominated by pathogenic bad bacteria) is the main cause of many chronic health problems.
Examples of the problems associated with poor gut health
- Unhealthy weight - Obesity, Overweight
- Poor Immunity - Fall sick regularly
- Poor skin condition - Acne, Eczema, Skin flares
- Poor mental health - Lethargic, tired regularly, difficulty remembering
- Irregular Bowels - Difficulty moving bowels, Poor digestive health
- Stomach Discomfort - Pain in stomach
- Bad Breath - Especially in the mornings, built up of bad bacteria
Our Everyday Lifestyle can cause havoc to our health
- High sweet intake - Can cause bad bacteria to repopulate faster
- High alcohol consumption- High alcohol can destroy good bacteria and alter the microbial balance of bacteria.
- Lack of sleep, rest and increase stress - Affects microbial diversity
- Frequent use of antibiotics - Destroys all good and bad bacteria, affects the gut flora diversity greatly Pollution and tainted food sources - Alter the gut microbial diversity
- Unfiltered water with chemicals - Can affect microbial balance of bacteria
- Smoking - Causes lung and colon cancer
The type of probiotic strains selected and used in combination is important in improving digestive and immune health.
1. Lactobacillus La-14: is a lactic acid bacterium of human origin that has been documented in over 50 scientific studies, including 18 clinical trials. Preclinical studies have shown La-14® can impact both the innate and adaptive immune system. Has excellent properties in helping to relieve diarrhoea, IBS, constipation and promote better digestive health.
2. Lactobacillus plantarum R-1012 - Has excellent properties in helping prevent / relieve stomach problems. Relieve IBS, a study has shown when combined with L.acidophillus there is a 45% improvement in helping treat chronic and delibitating inflammatory diseases.
3. Bifidobacterium longum BI-05 - Helps prevent/relieve stomach problems - Bifidobacterium may play an important role in treating diarrhoea. Helps relieve IBS
Bifidobacterium longum has anti-inflammatory effects on intestinal diseases and building strong immune function. Bifidobacterium longum can effectively improve the symptoms of IBD. Promotes better gut health.
4. Enterococcus faecalis CEC-0411 - well-suited to the intestinal environment to help reduce inflammation. Helps prevent/relieve stomach problems, helps relieve IBS , helps relieve AAD, helps relieve Constipation. It is a safe and useful probiotic for the treatment of abdominal pain in patients with IBS.
5. Lactobacillus rhamnosus MG-316 - Promotes better gut health, showed high antioxidant activities ranging from 22.2% to 38.2% in DPPH free radical scavenging. It is resistant to simulated gastric (pH 3 and 4) and intestinal fluids (pH 7 and 8), and showed potential for the promotion of health based on hemolysis, auto-aggregation, antibiotic susceptibility, enzyme production, and biochemical profiles.
6. Latilactobacillus sakei K040706 - A single strain of probiotics isolated from soybean paste, a traditional Korean fermented food. This is strain of bacteria that has been shown to have immunostimulatory and anti-inflammatory properties. One of the best immunity probiotic strain in Korea.
How does probiotics help you to achieve a healthy gut flora?
Probiotics are friendly, good beneficial bacteria that provide health benefits to the host.
When consumed in adequate amounts, they can improve the health of your digestive tract, restore the good bacteria and repopulate more in your gut to replace the bad bacteria that live along your gastrointestinal walls.
Without good bacteria, bad bacteria will occupy the intestinal walls and colonise. Probiotics also help the body to absorb nutrients and vitamins better. It eliminates toxic compounds from the digestive tract. Replenishing the right and good type of probiotics is highly important to maintain a good gut flora.
Why is your gastrointestinal tract important?
Your gastrointestinal tract is inhabited by microbes collectively called the microbiome, which includes bacteria, fungi, and even viruses.
Gut bacteria perform many important functions in the body, including aiding the immune system, producing the feel-good brain chemical serotonin, making energy available to the body from the food we eat, and disposing of foreign substances and toxins
What happens when your gastrointestinal tract has too much bad bacteria?
Diarrhoea, constipation, bloating, nausea, and heartburn are classic symptoms of problems with gut health. Skin problems, increase in anxiety, weight increases, etc...sometimes it might lead to chronic diseases such as colon problems.
What is the job of probiotics to help prevent or improve our gastrointestinal condition?
Probiotics are made of good live bacteria that naturally live in your body. You constantly have both good and bad bacteria in your body. When you get an infection or fall sick, there’s more bad bacteria, knocking your system out of balance.
Good bacteria helps replace and eliminate extra bad bacteria, returning the GI balance. Probiotic-supplements are a way to add good bacteria to your body.
The main job of probiotics, or good bacteria, is to maintain a healthy balance in your body. Think of it as keeping your body in neutral. When you are sick, bad bacteria enters your body and increases in number. This knocks your body out of balance.
Good bacteria works to fight off the bad bacteria and restore the balance within your body, making you feel better. Good bacteria keeps you healthy by supporting your immune function and controlling inflammation. Good probiotics will target your gut problem, by helping to break down food faster and help the body absorb nutrients easier. Therefore improving your health.
See the Importance of maintaining 80% good bacteria balance in your body!
Promoting Better Digestive Health Let's be honest.
Digestive problems are no fooling around: occasional upset stomach, gas, bloating, or diarrhoea are uncomfortable and can worsen quality of life. Many of these digestive issues are mainly caused by an imbalance of good bacteria in the digestive tract.
Fortunately, the probiotics in Lactomin Advance + helps restore the natural balance of good bacteria in the intestines to help your digestive system work better and keep you feeling your best.
Why Lactomin advance+ Probiotics
Lactomin advance + probiotics comprises of 6 specific and unique strains which work together to help the host aid better digestion, immunity and help relieve stomach problems such as IBS, AAD, traveller's diarrhoea, diarrhoea, constipation and bloating.
At the center of good overall health, is good digestive health. And at the core of your body, is your digestive tract. It houses the core of your immune system and is where many vital functions occur, like breaking down food into essential nutrients and it houses the core of your immune system.
So, how can you help support these vital functions and boost overall digestion?
By taking daily probiotics like Lactomin. Lactomin probiotics consist of a special combination of good bacteria. Fact is, your body contains billions of bacteria, heavily concentrated in your digestive system.
Many of these bacteria live agreeably within your body. But when non-beneficial bacteria start to flourish, the friendly environment can be disrupted and wreak havoc on your gastrointestinal system. That’s when probiotic supplements can help.
Probiotics have been shown to help reduce occasional problems like gas, bloating, and diarrhoea by restoring the natural balance of good bacteria and non-beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract. And, since 70% of your immune system resides in your digestive tract, a balanced digestive system can also support a healthy immune system.
Taken regularly, a proven daily probiotic like Lactomin Advance +, can actually help your digestive system work better.
Lactomin Advance + is one of the very few probiotic products in the world with added Vitamins B and Vitamins D.
- Vitamins B1 and B2: Helps the body produce energy and affect enzymes that influence the muscles, nerves and heart.
- Vitamin B5: Helps to break down fats and carbs for energy. It promotes healthy skin with the ability to reduce signs of skin aging.
- Vitamin B6: Helps the body break down protein and helps maintain the health of red blood cells, the nervous system and parts of the immune system.
- Vitamin B9: Helps in production of red blood cells.
- Vitamin D3: Helps the body use calcium and phosphorus to make strong bones and teeth.
Probiotics in Singapore are gaining alot of popularity and in recent years, Singapore Probiotics have overtaken many other supplements, and is ranked the top searched health supplement in Singapore.
Every sachet delivers
Why each Lactomin sachet produces results?
70% of the body's immune system is managed in the gut. It supports your immunity by stimulating the body's natural defences in the gut.
It lines the intestines with a protective layer of beneficial bacteria. It maintains the balance between beneficial and harmful microorganisms found in our digestive tract. It is essential for a healthy functioning digestive system.
Lactomin Advance + is clinically proven with clinical studies. Lactomin Advance + is effective in relieving stomach upset and constipation. It also helps reduce gas and stomach bloating. It promotes better digestion and immunity.
Lactomin Advance + probiotics is specially for adults and older kids. It is 100% natural, GMP Certified by KFDA (Korea Food and Drug Administration). It is proudly made in Korea and trusted by millions worldwide.
Lactomin Advance + promotes better digestive health through its unique (US) patented combination of Lactobacillus acidophilus La-14, Bifidobacterium longum BI-05 and Streptococcus faecalis CEC-0411. With an addition of 3 more widely researched Lactobacillus rhamnosus MG-316, Lactobacillus plantarum R-1012 and Latilactobacillus sakei K040706. For added efficacy and health benefits. Lactomin also has vitamins B1, B2, B5, B6, B9 and D3 and prebiotics
It is proven Probiotics can influence immunity
The addition of the 6th strain (Latilactobacillus sakei K040706) have clinical studies supporting it as an immunity bacteria, stimulating immune cell production and improves intestinal inflammation.
Probiotic bacteria can interact and stimulate intestinal immune cells and commensal microflora to modulate specific immune functions and immune homeostasis. Growing evidence shows that probiotic bacteria present important health-promoting and immunomodulatory properties.
Thus, the use of probiotics might represent a promising approach for improving immune system activities. The intestine is considered the largest immunological organ as it contains approximately 70–80% of all IgA-producing B cells.
IgAs are proteolytic-resistant antibodies locally synthesized in effector tissues which, in turn, are particularly important in the mucosal membrane immune function. The mucosal immunological function of IgAs is to provide protection for mucosal surfaces, by binding to and neutralizing foreign antigens from pathogenic agents/toxins.
IgAs therefore inhibit microorganism adhesion to intestinal epithelial cells and subsequent penetration. However, recent evidence suggests that IgAs are emerging as inflammation players, both at mucosal and non-mucosal sites.
Two distinct immune responses, i.e., innate and adaptive immunities, synergistically work together in the gut to protect organisms against pathogens. Several beneficial effects of probiotics, on the intestinal homeostasis, have been reported, such as (i) amelioration of innate and adaptive immune responses and related anti-pathogenic/inflammatory activities, (ii) enhancement of bioavailability of certain natural or metabolic components and essential nutrients, and (iii) food intolerance decrease among susceptible subjects.
In other words, similar to gut commensal microbiota,
Consumed probiotics have been shown to positively affect the entire organism by improving digestion and immunity. Source: National Library of medicine PMCID: PMC9818925
The unique Lactomin (MCC) probiotic delivery process
Why survivability of probiotics are so important and why Lactomin's MCC is assures >90% of probiotic strains reaches the intestinal area?
The survival of probiotics in nature are highly vulnerable to many factors from temperature, humidity to stomach acids.
Little is communicated to consumers about survivability. Alot of communication is on which probiotic has more count in billions compared to another, and you will think more is better.
However think again. You can consume a 100 billion count probiotic and only absorb less than 2% of the 100 billion into your gut. Why? Simply the probiotics are non-protected and 98% of the strains would have never made it pass the stomach.
Other factors include temperature, quality of strains, storage and humidity. 59% of probiotic strains would have been killed in storage conditions, temperature fluctuations, humidity, etc... Even probiotics in capsules, are supposed to stay in their capsules.
However when capsules are opened to consume the contents, the moment the capsule is open, the lactic acid bacteria is exposed and immediately dies.
Did you know the intestinal tract is as long as a double decker bus! Can you imagine without protection, the probiotic strains will never have made it to the intestines or through the intestinal walls.
This double layer protects every single strain from temperature, humidity, to stomach acidic conditions. It can withstand storage temperatures of up to 35 Degrees. Wheras most probiotic brands have to be stored at or below 25 degrees.
In hot and humid Singapore, or South East Asia, it is almost impossible to store below 25 degrees, unless refrigerated or temperature controlled. With MCC Double coating, a uniquely safe and natural protective layer formed by organic properties only.
It acts as a physical barrier to protect the probiotic strains from harsh conditions of the body as well as environmental stress. Releasing the probiotic strains in the strategic areas of the intestines, assures optimal delivery of strains and increase the rate of intestinal colonisation and keeps the intestinal walls healthy.
It is found to be thriving especially from birth to young age, but it declines tremendously as we age further. It is paramount we replenish our bodies with adequate amount of bifidobacterium to reap the powerful benefits of bifidobacterium.
The intestinal microbiota has increasingly been shown to have a vital role in various aspects of human health. Among the vast gut bacterial community, Bifidobacterium is a genus which dominates the intestine of healthy breast-fed infants whereas in adulthood the levels are lower.
The presence of different species of bifidobacteria changes with age, from childhood to old age. Evidence is accumulating which shows beneficial effects of supplementation with bifidobacteria for the improvement of human health conditions ranging from protection against infection to different extra- and intra-intestinal positive effects.
Bifidobacterium has been shown to play an important role in the barrier effect, the stimulation of immune system, being associated with a range of beneficial health effects.
At birth levels of bifidobacteria are found to be at their highest. In cases of natural childbirth the numbers are highest at birth. In contrast, they are lower in C sectioned babies.
Various diseases such as obesity, diabetes and allergies have been associated with lower numbers of bifidobacteria at various stages of life. When weaned onto solid foods diet is more of an intervening factor and an adult-like (stable) microbiota develops.
In the figure the authors hypothesize with regard to the relative abundance of bifidobacteria present at each stage of the life cycle, based on the literature cited in the following review by Voreades et al. (2014).
Numerous health-promoting effects have been ascribed to strains of the Bifidobacterium genus based on their use as probiotics in intervention strategies to address many ill health conditions.
In that regard, the capability of bifidobacteria to stimulate the immune system seems to be species specific as shown in a particular study where the effect of infant derived bifidobacteria on the T-helper 1(TH1)/TH2 balance was examined.
Results published by Ménard et al. (2008) demonstrated that B. bifidum, B. dentium, and B. longum were capable of stimulating systemic and intestinal immunity. It is not surprising that bifidobacteria are so widely used as probiotics in the treatment and prevention of infant disease given their dominance in the infant gut.
This is also why Lactomin, Lactokids & Lactocran have bifidobacterium strains for its powerful probiotic benefit.
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