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Energetic Lifestyle
Educational Audio Series
Topic: Digestive Health
with Nutritionist Janelle Deeds
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Probiotics are helpful bacteria that live in the intestinal tract, the stomach, and the mouth. Also known as "friendly flora," they can help support digestion and immunity. They also produce several "B" complex vitamins.
Probiotics help keep candida albicans and other pathogens from growing out of control. While probiotics are essential for good health, they are destroyed by antibiotics, birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, chlorinated water, etc. Because of this, using probiotic supplements is wise.
How Do I Choose A Probiotic Supplement?
There are several factors to consider when choosing a probiotic supplement.
- Which strains of probiotics to use
- How much to use
- The source, purity, and safety of strains used
- The delivery form of the supplement (tablet, capsule, etc.)
- How the product is packaged, stored, and shipped
Which Strains of Probiotics Do I Need?
Six years ago, Pure Essence developed a product called Candex, which provides enzymes that kill candida albicans with none of the die off reaction caused by traditional antifungals. It is, quite
simply, the most effective, natural candida solution ever offered.
Because probiotic supplements are vital for those with candida, health practitioners and health food retailers who have seen how wondrously Candex works have often asked Pure Essence Labs why they don’t make one. Their answer was that they would do so only when they could make one that they consider superior. Now, at last, they have.
Living Flora is a combination of six probiotic strains that in a single supplement can support the entire digestive tract. These strains are all native to human beings, have been proven safe by research, and are specially prepared to survive the acids they encounter on their trip through the stomach.
- Lactobacillus acidophilus: Inhabits small and large intestines. Suppresses hostile invaders, including candida albicans.
- Bifidobacterium bifidum: Helps keep pH of intestines at levels that discourage parasites and candida.
- Lactobacillus salivarius: Inhibits ulcer causing bacteria, like h. pylori.
- Lactobacillus lactis: Inhibits gram positive pathogens like listeria.
- Lactobacillus helveticus: Helps other species to grow, provides enzymes that help digest dairy products.
- Streptococcus thermophilus: Also helps digest dairy products.
How Much Total Probiotic Value Should I Use?
Probiotic potencies are expressed as cell forming units (CFU’s). Each CFU is an organism that can live and reproduce in the body. Research shows that one billion CFU’s per day maintain healthy probiotic populations.
While probiotic labels often claim that many billions of CFU’s are present, these claims express
the potency at the time the product was made. Because heat, air, moisture, and light kill probiotics, most companies start with huge amounts, knowing that few will survive through production, shipping, and storage. In a test conducted by an independent consumer group, one third of all products tested contained less than one per cent of the number of CFU’s claimed. We suggest using only products that guarantee potency at time of use. Living Flora makes that guarantee.
The Package is as Important as the Product
Most probiotics are packaged like vitamins: as loose tablets or capsules in glass or plastic bottles.
But, while vitamins are fairly stable, probiotics are not. They are quickly killed by air, moisture,
light, and heat. Loose tablets or capsules in bottles just cannot protect them against these
things. For these reasons, better packaging options are needed. Therefore, LivingFlora is made in a proprietary, cold-tableting process to guard against light, air and moisture. Each tablet is sealed in its own foil pouch.
The steps that Pure Essence has taken enables them to guarantee that each tablet of Living Flora will provide at least one billion CFU’s (live cell forming units) of probiotics—the amount that research shows is necessary to maintain healthy probiotic populations—at its date of expiration.
Should I Use Tablets, Capsules or Powders?
Everyone has heard stories about vitamin tablets that pass through the body without breaking
down. While this might happen with some rock-hard calcium products, it is unheard of in the
health food industry. All well made tablets are laboratory tested to make sure that they break
down efficiently. Pure Essence tablets, for example, are laboratory certified to break down in even
the weakest stomach acid within 60 minutes. This is well beneath the two hour threshhold
required for maximum nutrient absorption. Living Flora tablets break down even quicker.
Capsules are really just tiny, clear, highly porous “bottles” into which loose powders are
poured. Thus, they offer almost no protection from air, light or moisture (capsules themselves
contain about 18% moisture). Since tablets are highly compressed, only the outer surface is
exposed. The ingredients in capsules have ten thousand times more exposure to light, air, and
water than those in tablets. Despite this, probiotics are usually offered in capsules, because traditional tableting processes produce enough heat to kill them. Now, however, a new, patent pending, “cryo-tabletting” technology permits probiotics to be compressed into tablets without being exposed to heat. This type of tablet provides better protection than capsules.
Controlled Delivery Technology
As mentioned above, Living Flora contains various strains of probiotics so that it can protect the
entire gastrointestinal tract. However, these strains would be of no value if we could not control
when they are released in the body. If released too soon, some might be killed by stomach acids.
If released too late, others would have passed beyond the part of the tract they protect. Therefore, each strain is released at the appropriate time and place so they can do their jobs. For example, lactobacillus salivarius can protect the stomach against h. pylorii and other pathogens; lactobacilli acidophilus, lactis, helveticus, and thermophilus can protect the small intestine against listeria, salmonella, yeasts and other invaders; bifidobacterium bifidum protects the large intestine against problems it may encounter.
The ability to release various strains at various times comes courtesy of a patented process called Controlled Delivery Technology (CDT). CDT, however, is just the beginning of Living Flora's superiority. Probiotics are usually offered in capsules, because traditional tableting processes subject them to heat that can kill them. Another patent pending process, called “cryo-tableting,” permits us to tablet probiotics without them being exposed to heat, as mentioned above. This type of tablet provides the same protection that capsules do against heat, and superior protection against air, moisture and sunlight.
MiniCryoTabs release different strains at different times. Thus, the lactobacillus salivarius is
released in the stomach. The lactobacilli acidophilus, lactis and helveticus, along with the streptococcus thermophilus are released in the small intestine. The bifidiobacterium bifidum is released in the lower intestinal area.
This superb new technology combines with CryoTableting and the packaging advances already mentioned to provide the finest probiotic product ever offered.
Living Flora is a truly wondrous probiotic supplement. Try any other probiotic supplement you desire. Then try Living Flora. You'll see the difference in days.
Supplement Facts
Serving Size: 1 Mini CryoTab
Servings Per Container: 30
Suggested Use: One tablet daily, in the morning, at least one hour before breakfast, or at bedtime, at least two hours after eating.
Storage: While the probiotics in Living Flora are room temperature stable, we recommend refrigeration to best preserve their freshness and viability.
Note: This product is processed through the fermentation of milk. However, laboratory studies confirm that no mild proteins (<2ppm) are detectable. LivingFlora contains no artificial colorings or flavorings, GMO’s, refined sugars, soy, yeast, corn, gluten, wheat, MSG or other common allergens.
| Ingredient |
Amount per Serving |
% DV |
| Lactobacillus acidophilus |
800,000,000 CPU** |
* |
| Biflidobacterium bifidum |
800,000,000 CPU** |
* |
| Lactobacillus plantarum |
100,000,000 CPU** |
* |
| Lactobacillus helveticus |
100,000,000 CPU** |
* |
| Lactobacillus salivarius |
100,000,000 CPU** |
* |
| Streptococcus thermophilus |
100,000,000 CPU** |
* |
| * Daily value not established |
**Potency at time of manufacture |
Guaranteed to deliver at least 50% of listed potencies at time of expiration.
Other Ingredients: Microcrystalline Cellulose, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Pectin, Sodium Carbonate, Silica Dioxide, Stearic Acid, Tumeric.
Caution: Please keep all supplements out of children's reach. |
Manufactured by Pure Essence Labs.
