Beyond Biotics
4 Things We Need To Know About The Biotics (Pre, Pro, & Post)
Biotic - “relating to or resulting from living things.” Sounds important, doesn’t it?
A quick Google search yields the definition of the elusive adjective you’ve seen across health blogs, research articles, and even the front of Zesty’s latest beverage - Postbiotic Sodas. With the surge of interest in this subject over the last decade, there’s a lot of information to, ahem, digest….. for the purpose of our individual health each and every day. For the last three years we have been paying close attention to the latest research for two primary reasons: to produce the finest, best for you beverages possible, and, more importantly, we apply the information to our own diets every day!
1 - Your Gut Health Can Unlock the Secrets to a Lifetime of Well-Being
Your digestive health plays a much larger role in your overall health than you might think. We all know that eating nutritious food is important, but numerous studies have shown that the health of your microbiome has a direct correlation to your mental and physical well-being. Anxiety, Type-2 Diabetes, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and even Alzhiemer’s Disease have been linked to certain gut bacteria, or conversely their absence. Furthermore, your gut health is tied to your energy levels, immune system, anti-inflammatory response, and mood. It sure seems like an important thing to take care of.
2 - Your Daily Nutrition Directly Impacts Your Gut Health
We could write an entire blog just on this topic, and we probably will. We all know that nutrition is important, but there’s even more reason to prioritize your nutrition every day! Our nutrition not only fuels our body and mind, but it also directly impacts those little bugs in your gut! By consuming sources of fiber like green bananas, garlic, onions, avocados, and asparagus you can leverage fermentation in your intestine to your advantage, and most importantly, feed your microbiome what it needs to thrive. Eating dietary fiber in conjunction with postbiotics (like those found in our Zesty Pop) can also help expand the populations of bacteria that regulate metabolic disorders.
3 - More Probiotics Doesn’t Mean Better
With the “-biotic” craze as of late, probiotics are the most popular and well known. The perception often would be that probiotics in high quantities are good for your gut and digestive tract. However, recent research has begun to show that this might be the opposite. Studies have shown that taking probiotic supplements can overcrowd the wrong microbes and have varying impacts on each individual. Probiotics are important, but careful research and learning is essential to avoiding unwanted negative effects.
4 - Postbiotic Ingredients Help Drive Critical Health Processes
This is somewhat of a play off of No. 2, but we felt it deserved its own shoutout given our love of postbiotics. Nutrition is essential for your gut health, you know that, but still you can take it a step further. By incorporating specific postbiotics into your diet you can actually directly support critical health processes that are naturally caused by your microbiome. Our Zesty Pop Postbiotic Sodas provide you two easy (and tasty) sources to try: apple cider vinegar and gluconic acid.
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