Orange Naturals Presents:
Why Probiotics are Awesome!
These friendly and helpful bacteria, who live in your body, are called probiotics.
Many probiotic
bacteria live
inside you.
How many?
Trillions!
Trillions
of probiotic bacteria live inside you.
They live all over your body!
1. They turn food into nutrients
Probiotics in our gut break down hard-to-digest foods like fibre
and lactose. They turn them into useful nutrients like vitamins
and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs).
Probiotics in our gut break down hard-to-digest foods like fibre and lactose. They turn them into useful nutrients like vitamins and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs).
2. They produce neurotransmitters for our brains
Some of the nutrients our probiotics produce include neurotransmitters like serotonin, melatonin, GABA and histamine.
These neurotransmitters are passed to nerve cells lining the gut and make their way to our brain, affecting our mood and behaviour.
3. They keep us from getting sick
A flourishing and diverse probiotic colony on our mucosal lining leaves no room for harmful microorganisms like yeast or pathogenic bacteria to move in.
Some probiotics produce lactic acid, which inhibits the growth of pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella, E coli, and L. monocytogenes.
Some probiotics can even identify bad bacteria and other pathogens for our immune system!
3 They keep us from getting sick
Some probiotics can even identify bad bacteria and other pathogens for our immune system!
Too much sugar and not enough prebiotic fibre
Our probiotic friends feed on rich, complex compounds called prebiotics. Prebiotic fibres like beta glucans and inulin can be found in many legumes, whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
A modern diet of overprocessed foods can starve our microbiome of prebiotic fibres. Instead, it provides bad bacteria and yeast with their favourite food: refined sugar!
Taking antibiotics
Antibiotics are great for treating infections caused by bad bacteria. But many antibiotics are indiscriminate, wiping out our friendly strains along with the bad ones!
With prolonged antibiotic use, it can take months, even years, before our gut microbiome fully recovers.
Too much stress
It can be hard to manage stress these days! Too much chronic stress can disrupt our digestion by creating more stomach acid and damaging the delicate epithelial cells lining our gut.
This can lead to a “leaky” gut syndrome— disrupting our microbiome. This means that bacteria, good and bad can get into our bloodstream, unbalancing our gut bacteria colony.
Here is what we can do.
Eat more prebiotics.
Here’s a quick list to start you off!
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Garlic
- Bananas
- Watermelon
- Grapefruit
- Asparagus
- Green peas
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Garlic
- Bananas
Eat fermented foods that have living probiotics!
Eat more prebiotics.
- Yogurt
- Kefir
- Miso
- Kimchi
- Pickled Vegetables
- Sauerkraut
- Kombucha
Take a probiotic supplement.
The team at Orange Naturals realized that one formula wasn’t going to be enough for all the reasons you would want to take a probiotic supplement.
So we designed a few different formulations with different strains and doses.
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Different strains for different reasons.
Different strains for
different reasons.
Rapid Restore Probiotic
An extra strength 50 billion CFU dose of 14 strains to quickly replenish your microbiome.
Women’s Everyday Probiotic
Restores vaginal health and helps prevent UTIs with two vaginal-specific strains with an extra boost of cranberry.
Everyday Probiotic
A shelf-stable 5-strain formula perfect for maintaining a healthy, diverse gut microbiome.
And different strains for different ages.
And different strains for
different ages.
Baby Probiotics + D3 Drops
With clinically proven bifido and lacto strains that can help ease colic symptoms. Designed specifically for infants ages 0-3 months. With the addition of vitamin D3 to support newborn baby health.
Kids Probiotics
A shelf stable powder with 8 probiotic strains specially formulated for the growing needs of infants, children and adolescents. It has 3 specific strains found in infants and kids.
Kids Probiotics Chewables
This 2-strain formula with vitamins A, C and D3 is designed with immunity in mind. Helps to reduce flu-like symptoms like fevers, runny noses and coughs, so they won’t miss too many school days!
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