Why to start supporting your gut with a prebiotic before a probiotic

Here I explain why prebiotics may be a crucial piece in the puzzle when it comes to success rates with probiotics.

What you need to know about probiotics ?✨ Are you getting max results from your probiotic? Is there something that can help? Have you ever considered taking a prebiotic alongside them? Probiotics are well known, but arguably prebiotics are even more crucial. Prebiotics can be taken alone as they can help to feed your natural balance of prebiotics, however, taking probiotics alone can be trickier – it’s like planting flowers in a mucky flower bed, the prep work can be really important for success… Prebiotics help to feed and support probiotics – the two can have a synergistic effect on each other and there’s lots of research to back this now. Probiotics naturally produce their own prebiotics when they’re happy (such as metabolites including L+ lactic acid), so why not help them along the way and add a little extra in, in our diets where we can? L+ lactic acid exists naturally in supplements such as Molkosan, or dietary fibres are other excellent prebiotic sources we can also add in, on a daily basis, by including lots of plant-based, wholefoods in our regimes ?????

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What you need to know about probiotics

Up to 15 million people in the UK take daily supplements including probiotics. But could you be getting better results? Is there a crucial step you’re missing?

Research shows that doing this ONE THING could allow you to get maximum benefits out of your probiotics. And that one thing? It's taking a PREbiotic.¹

What's the best approach to have better success rates with probiotics?

I often use this analogy when trying to explain to people the Would you plant flowers in a mucky flower bed, or would you tend to it first? Most people would say tend to the flower beds first – it’ll do your lovely new plants good to have lovely turned, moist soil, and to have any weeds removed first. Prebiotics can do exactly the same prep work for probiotics. And the research backs this idea.

Probiotics are arguably more well known and theres more research out there, but of the research out there, there is evidence to show that including a prebiotics can give a more sustainable result.¹

Conclusions from the research suggest that there may be a synergistic effect when combining pre and probiotics. This means that the end result is greater, than the positive results from the two separate components. Meaning, that prebiotics may heighten the beneficial effects of probiotics.¹

What’s a good prebiotic to include?

One of my personal favourite prebiotics is a source of L+ lactic acid. This works so well, because we have lactic acid producing bacteria in the gut, and in many supplements. When these bacteria are happy, they produce L+ lactic acid. So, if we can add in an extra source of this from our diet or with the help of supplements, then it makes sense that it can help our good gut bacteria to thrive. If you can help your own natural source of bacteria thrive first, your more likely to have success when introducing other foreign, albeit positive strains. A way to make your probiotic results really last!