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How to regenerate and maintain a healthy gut?
Gut health is the foundation of overall health. Lactobact selects premium probiotics and natural plant ingredients, using a pure formula to effectively support intestinal mucosal function, helping you build a healthy defense from the inside out.
Our product range covers diverse health needs:
- Gut Health: Regulates microbial balance and strengthens the intestinal barrier function.
- Oral Health: Enhances natural resistance against viruses and pathogenic bacteria.
- Age-Specific Health: Builds an ideal intestinal flora foundation for all age groups, starting from early life.
- Overall Vitality: Comprehensively improves body function and daily vitality.
All Lactobact products use top-tier raw materials, possess independent intellectual property rights, and have passed rigorous certifications. Developed and produced in Germany and within the EU, quality is guaranteed.
Let the power of nature be your health's support, and experience Lactobact's meticulously crafted pure formulas.
Questions about Gut Health
What are probiotics?
Thousands of different bacteria reside in the human gut, where they aid in food digestion, synthesize vitamins and other health-promoting substances, and support the normal functioning of our immune system. These symbiotic microbial communities are an indispensable part of maintaining good health.
Probiotics are preparations containing active beneficial bacteria that can supplement and support the gut microbiota, helping them continue to perform crucial physiological functions and maintain a balanced and healthy intestinal environment.
How to identify quality probiotics?
While stomach acid helps with digestion and fends off pathogens, it also eliminates beneficial active bacteria. This is a primary reason many probiotic products fail to deliver their intended effects.
To ensure active bacteria successfully reach the intestines, high-quality probiotics utilize special protective technologies to resist stomach acid erosion. Common techniques include acid-resistant capsule shells (such as DRcaps®) and microencapsulation technology (such as INTELICAPS®), which effectively protect the bacterial strains and maintain their activity as they pass through the stomach.
Furthermore, the strains in high-quality probiotics should originate from the human body and be produced under strict quality standards. This ensures compatibility between the strains and the human intestinal environment, allowing them to adequately colonize the intestines and exert optimal efficacy.
Is it true that the more probiotics a product contains, the better?
The bacterial content of probiotic products on the market varies widely, ranging from hundreds of thousands to billions of colony-forming units (CFU). However, like many things in life, more is not always better.
Some manufacturers choose to add a large number of strains to their products, often because these strains lack sufficient protective mechanisms and cannot withstand the erosion of stomach acid and bile. Most strains lose their activity before reaching the intestines. Therefore, a high bacterial content is used to compensate for the large loss.
Strains that genuinely survive and reach the intestines will colonize the spaces in the intestinal mucosa. Once these spaces are filled, excess strains will be excreted with feces and cannot provide additional benefits.
Therefore, the amount of bacterial content is not the only criterion for evaluating the quality of probiotics. The activity of the strains, the completeness of the protective technology, and whether they are consumed with prebiotics (foods rich in dietary fiber) are the key factors in determining whether probiotics can effectively colonize and exert their full effects.
What are prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics?
Prebiotics
Prebiotics are substances that nourish beneficial bacteria in the gut, primarily sourced from dietary fiber. Since dietary fiber cannot be absorbed in the small intestine, it directly enters the large intestine where it is metabolized by gut bacteria. This process produces short-chain fatty acids, which then become an important nutrient source for intestinal cells.
Common prebiotics include:
- Inulin: Found in chicory, Jerusalem artichokes, garlic, and onions
- Fructooligosaccharides (FOS): Widely present in various fruits
- Resistant starch: Naturally forms when potatoes or pasta are cooked and then cooled
Some high-quality probiotic products directly add prebiotics to their capsules, ensuring that active strains receive sufficient nutrients before entering the gut.
Probiotics
Probiotics refer to preparations containing active bacterial strains that can colonize the human body. The market currently offers a diverse range of probiotic products, which can be categorized by their purpose, such as regulating gut microbiota (including older gut microbiota) or improving oral microbiota.
Probiotic preparations can be distinguished by the following:
- Live preparations: Contain active bacteria
- Non-live preparations: Contain non-active bacterial components, such as cell wall fragments
- Single-strain preparations: Contain only one type of bacterial species
- Multi-strain preparations: Contain multiple different bacterial species, providing a synergistic effect
Postbiotics
Postbiotics are substances produced by probiotics during metabolism, mainly including various short-chain fatty acids like acetic acid, propionic acid, and butyric acid (also known as lactic acid). These metabolic products play a crucial role in regulating gut health, and related preparations are currently used as adjuvant therapy for specific diseases.
Maintaining a balanced diet rich in dietary fiber, combined with appropriate probiotic supplementation, is the best way to promote the natural production of postbiotics and maintain intestinal ecological balance.