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Collectively called probiotics, about 35 of the 400 or so different bacteria species in our gut are “beneficial” in that they aid digestion, produce several vitamins, support healthy immune function, fight against infection, help protect and regenerate the intestinal tract and help keep the intestinal environment healthy. Babies are essentially born sterile, but within a few hours the flora obtained during a vaginal birth begin to colonise in the infant’s digestive tract. This is why it is so important for a pregnant woman to be thrush free and have a good balance of healthy bacteria when giving birth. It is also extremely beneficial for caesarean infants to have probiotic supplementation, otherwise an unhealthy flora balance may begin to cause digestive and health problems such as candidiasis, reflux, colic, allergies etc.

As we age, lifestyle and environmental factors such as intestinal infections, physical, emotional and immune stress, travelling, antibiotics, alcohol, poor diet and aging can greatly reduce the number of intestinal probiotics. This imbalance allows for overgrowth of harmful microbes which may cause symptoms including flatulence, constipation and/or diarrhoea. If the imbalance is allowed to continue it may lead to chronic gastrointestinal inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis and even colon cancer. Bacterial infections also pave the way for the release of toxins into the bloodstream contributing to allergies, skin conditions, nervous system disorders, arthritis and a variety of immune system disorders.

A great deal of research and clinical trials have been undertaken to help better understand probiotics and how they function. As such probiotic supplements have now been widely embraced and accepted as agents that can bring significant health benefits. Healthy intestinal probiotic balance aids digestion, bowel and immune function, disease prevention and tissue healing, whilst producing essential vitamins and helping with the neutralising and removal of toxins and infectious microbes.

Because of the essential nature of beneficial bacteria it is important that you and your family are using a probiotic supplement that is age specific, guaranteed to contain only beneficial human strains and has for those 6 years and older, capsules that are enteric coated to ensure survival into the intestine. One healthy bacterium, given the proper environment, can reproduce itself into a colony of more than 2 million in just seven hours. Taken orally, many unprotected probiotics will perish in the acidic environment of the stomach, and most non refrigerated probiotic products will contain mostly dead bacteria by the time the product gets to you. Dead bacteria cannot multiply or colonise; you may get some immune stimulation, but the probiotic imbalance will not be corrected.

This is why Nature’s Way^® Premium quality Primadophilus^® probiotics offer you the TRUE GUARANTEE:

• True Identity™
  “It Is What We Say It Is”— Each strain is identified and labelled correctly, as well as ensuring there are no harmful organisms.
• True Release™
  “Location, Location, Location” — Each Natures Way® capsule is enteric coated, ensuring the probiotics survive stomach acid and colonise in the gut.
• True Potency™
  “What You See Is What You Get” — Natures Way® probiotics are guaranteed until expiration; therefore the CFU amount claimed is what you will actually get, live and ready to colonise, when you take a Primadophilus probiotic product.





(Originally published in Health & Herbal News Magazine Volume 18, Issue 1)