The Pros of Probiotics

Consistency is key. Many aspects of life benefit from a routine, and your overall health is at the top of the list. While there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution to health, adding a daily probiotic to your diet is a simple, effective, and delicious way to manage your gut, mental, and overall health.

What Are Probiotics?

Our bodies constantly have both good and bad bacteria in them—and a lot of them. Some studies estimate that there are anywhere from 39-300 trillion bacteria living inside of you.

Probiotics are the good, live bacteria and yeasts that naturally occur in our bodies. When we get sick or have an infection, it causes an increase in bad bacteria. Increasing our intake of probiotics can help raise the level of good bacteria, restoring balance to our system. While largely associated with gut health (found in the large intestine), probiotics are also found in the mouth, urinary tract, skin, and lungs.

What Are the Pros of Probiotics?

Good bacteria help keep you healthy by supporting your immune function and controlling inflammation. They can also help your body digest food, prevent bad bacteria from getting out of control and making you sick, create vitamins, support the cells that line your gut to prevent bad bacteria from leaking into your blood, and break down and absorb medications.

Balancing the bad bacteria with good bacteria (probiotics) helps your body maintain proper gut health. A healthy gut promotes good mental health, stabilizes energy levels, helps your immune system fight off infections, and supports a healthy nervous system.

While the science is still evolving, and everyone's natural makeup of good and bad bacteria is unique, increasing the number of probiotics in your body may also help treat the following conditions:

• Constipation

• Irritable bowel syndrome

• Yeast infections

• Diarrhea

• Inflammatory bowel disease

• Urinary tract infections

• Lactose intolerance

• Gum disease

• Eczema

• Sepsis

• Upper respiratory infections, including the common cold

How Can You Increase Your Intake of Probiotics?

You can increase your intake of probiotics through drinks and foods rich in probiotics, and by taking probiotic supplements.

Probiotic-rich foods are those prepared by bacterial fermentation, including yogurt, buttermilk, kefir, kombucha, tempeh, fermented pickles, kimchi, and sauerkraut, to name a few. While adding probiotic-rich foods to your diet isn't a bad idea, remember, balance is key!

Adding too much of just one food can prevent your body from enjoying the benefits of other foods.

Don't like fermented pickles or kimchi? No problem! Norm’s Farms Organic Elderberry Gummies with Probiotics are an easy and delicious way to get probiotics into your and your family’s diet. They’re filled with immune-boosting nutrients like elderberry and zinc while offering the good probiotics you need for optimal gut health.

You can find high-quality and delicious probiotic supplements to support your gut health and immune system from Norm’s Farms online or in a store near you. Our gummies have been reformulated with DE111 and the same gummy is fine for adults or children. One gummy for kids, two for adults, daily.  You can read more about DE111 here.

References:

1. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/14598-probiotics

   
   

2. https://normsfarms.com/blogs/elderberry-and-your-health/how-to-keep-your-gut-happy-for-the-holidays

   
   

3. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/probiotics-101

   
   

High in Nutrients:

Elderberries are a low calorie food packed with antioxidants.

One cup (145 grams) of fresh berries contain 106 calories, 26.7 grams of carbs, and less than 1 gram each of fat and protein

High in Vitamin C:

There are 52 mg of vitamin C per cup of fruit, which accounts for 57% of the daily value

High in Dietary Fiber:

Elderberries contain 10 grams of fiber per cup of fresh berries, about 36% of the daily value

Good Source of Phenolic Acids:

These compounds are potent antioxidants that can help reduce damage from oxidative stress in the body.

A Good Source of Flavonols:

Elderberry contains the antioxidant flavonols quercetin, kaempferol, and isorhamnetin.

Rich in Anthocyanins:

These compounds give the fruit its characteristic dark black-purple color and are a strong antioxidant with anti-inflammatory effects.

Citations: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/171727/nutrients

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464614002400

https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-facts-label/daily-value-nutrition-and-supplement-facts-labels

https://www.ijcea.org/papers/416-N0002.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22129334/