What are probiotic bacteria and why are they so important for health?
Your gut is home to hundreds of different types of bacteria, collectively known as gut flora, which make up about 3 pounds of an adult's body weight. Although most people associate bacteria primarily with disease, the majority of naturally occurring gut bacteria have positive effects on health. Among other things, they are essential for the proper functioning of the immune system and healthy digestive function.
In healthy people, the intestinal flora is made up of around 85% healthy intestinal bacteria and a maximum of 15% pathogenic bacteria (bacteria that are not beneficial to health). Due to environmental influences, an unhealthy diet, medication and numerous other factors, the healthy intestinal flora can become unbalanced, resulting in the amount of healthy intestinal bacteria decreasing and unhealthy bacteria gaining the upper hand. This scenario is unfortunately the rule rather than the exception due to our unhealthy lifestyles, increasing environmental pollution and, last but not least, animal foods contaminated with antibiotics.
Such an imbalance in the intestinal flora inevitably leads to impaired health and well-being, while at the same time increasing the risk of infection and disease by weakening the immune system. In addition, unhealthy gut flora often leads to a wide range of digestive problems including diarrhea, bloating, intestinal irritation, constipation and many more.
The good news is that you can bring your gut flora back into balance by supplementing your diet with healthy probiotic bacteria, which displace the excess unhealthy bacteria in the gut. In natural food, however, these bacteria are unfortunately almost only found in lactic acid fermented foods such as sauerkraut, which must be eaten raw, as the probiotic bacteria they contain are killed by heat. Yoghurt, the "traditional" source of healthy probiotic bacteria, is no longer recommended by many health experts due to the increasing use of antibiotics in cattle farming, as these antibiotics can also pass into milk and kill healthy intestinal bacteria.
To make your life a little easier in this regard, GN Laboratories has launched Probiotic Defense, a product that provides you with large amounts of the all-important healthy probiotic bacteria that will bring your intestinal flora back into a healthy balance. As you will see in the next paragraph, GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense goes far beyond what other probiotic products on the market can offer you.
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What makes GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense different from ordinary probiotic products? You will find a wide variety of different probiotic products on the market, but we know of no other product that is as comprehensive and effective as GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense. This starts with the probiotic bacteria it contains. Many products only contain a small number of different probiotic bacteria, which is why you should be careful with all products that only state the total amount of probiotic bacteria, but not their exact composition on the label.
We have nothing to hide in this respect. GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense contains a variety of different probiotic strains from the Lactobacillus family and several different probiotic strains from the Bifidobacterium family, all of which are listed on the label. So you know exactly what you're getting for your money!
If you already know GN Laboratories, then you probably already know that we have not stopped here, but have searched intensively for other effective and powerful ingredients that promote the growth and multiplication of the probiotics contained, support healthy digestion, stimulate the function of the immune system and bring numerous other health benefits.
These ingredients are also known as prebiotics. Prebiotics are dietary fibers (in this case indigestible carbohydrates) that the human body cannot utilize or use for energy. However, these prebiotics can be broken down by healthy intestinal bacteria, such as those contained in Probiotic Defense, and used as food.
This stimulates the growth and multiplication of the healthy gut bacteria, which in other words means that the prebiotics contained in Probiotic Defense significantly enhance the desirable probiotic effects.
In Probiotic Defense we have chosen the soluble fiber Fibersol 2, which is derived from corn. Fibersol is very soluble in liquid, so that it can be better utilized by the healthy intestinal bacteria. In addition, Fibersol 2 has a neutral taste and is highly resistant to cold and heat.
Benefit from the unique synergy of the ingredients of GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense! GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense - much more than just another probiotic supplement.
What other health benefits do the ingredients contained in GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense have?
Many people still believe that probiotic bacteria, which promote healthy intestinal flora, only have a positive effect on digestion and can alleviate digestive problems. However, as has already been described in detail, probiotic bacteria do indeed have very pronounced positive effects in this respect. However, modern science has shown that healthy probiotic gut bacteria have a variety of other health benefits and are crucial for many important bodily processes such as immune system function. To give you a rough idea of the many health benefits of GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense, we will briefly discuss the most important ones here, although of course this list can by no means reflect all the benefits of the active ingredients contained due to the great variety of health benefits.
Protecting the gut and promoting healthy digestion
In addition to the aforementioned positive effects that probiotic bacteria have on digestion and intestinal flora, they also have a whole range of other properties that promote digestion and intestinal health. Probiotics can be successfully used to treat intestinal ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and inflammatory bowel disease. In addition, probiotics can help to alleviate diarrhea and significantly shorten its duration.
Probiotic bacteria can also help to reduce the symptoms of food intolerances such as milk allergies or gluten intolerance. This effect is based on the fact that probiotics protect the intestinal mucosa from pathological permeability to larger protein components, which are often the cause of food intolerances.
Since a healthy balance of intestinal flora prevents harmful fungi from infecting the intestines and spreading throughout the body, taking GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense can also help protect against dangerous fungal infections.
Improving immune function
Most people do not realize that the gut plays an important role in the proper functioning of the immune system and the prevention of infectious diseases. Probiotic bacteria promote the absorption of vital nutrients and create an acidic environment in the gut that kills many pathogens. They also actively promote the formation of immune system defense cells that destroy pathogens.
Numerous studies have shown that a regular intake of probiotic bacteria can not only reduce the risk of infection, but can also significantly reduce the duration of infectious diseases. These properties are of particular interest to people with impaired immune function and athletes, whose immune system function may be temporarily reduced for several hours after intensive training sessions.
Anti-inflammatory effects
Scientific studies have shown that healthy probiotic bacteria, which include bacteria from the GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense formula, have pronounced anti-inflammatory properties. Inflammation promotes the development of numerous diseases, including heart disease, arthritis, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer.
The anti-inflammatory effects of probiotic bacteria are based on two independent factors: firstly, the metabolic products of certain probiotic bacteria have an anti-inflammatory effect and secondly, healthy probiotic bacteria displace unhealthy pathological intestinal bacteria that promote inflammation in the body.
Reducing the risk of cancer
Scientific studies have shown that probiotic bacteria can reduce the risk of numerous types of cancer, including colorectal cancer, cervical cancer, breast cancer and lymphoma. In addition to this, there is evidence that these bacteria may also slow down cancer growth in existing cancers.
Restoring the intestinal flora after taking antibiotics
Unfortunately, antibiotics cannot distinguish between the pathogenic bacteria they are supposed to fight and the healthy, vital intestinal bacteria. For this reason, treatment with antibiotics always leads to a more or less pronounced destruction of the healthy intestinal flora. If new bacteria colonize the intestines again after antibiotics have been discontinued, there is always a risk that more harmful bacteria and too few healthy, probiotic bacteria will colonize. This can severely disrupt the balance of the intestinal flora, which can lead to all the problems already described.
By taking GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense after antibiotic therapy, you can ensure that the right bacteria colonize your intestines and a healthy intestinal flora is restored.
Protecting the intestinal flora from antibiotic residues contained in food
Unfortunately, our food - and especially food of animal origin - increasingly contains antibiotics, which are used on a large scale in factory farming and can easily become a constant threat to the balance of the intestinal flora. A regular intake of GN Laboratories Probiotic Defense can also protect you from this very real danger.
The GN Laboratories quality guarantee
We use only the purest and highest quality ingredients on the market. In order to guarantee you the consistent, highest quality of all our products, each of our products is regularly tested in the laboratory for the purity and quality of all its ingredients.
