Growth and Survival in the Gut

Well-controlled, small-scale studies on diarrhea in both adults and infants have shown that probiotics are beneficial and that they survive in sufficient numbers to affect gut microbial metabolism. Survival rates have been estimated at 20-40% for selected strains, the main obstacles to survival being gastric acidity and the action of bile salts. - This is highly critical, and Lactomin does extremely well in protecting probiotic strains. We assure > 90% survive and reaches the gut optimally.

Most probiotics cannot achieve this effect. Although it is believed that the maximum probiotic effect can be achieved if the organisms adhere to intestinal mucosal cells, there is no evidence that exogenously administered probiotics do adhere to the mucosal cells. Instead, they seem to pass into the feces without having adhered or multiplied. Thus, to obtain a continuous exogenous probiotic effect, the probiotic culture must be ingested continually. - Powdered Lactomin Probiotics have this ability and achieves High Efficacy.

Certain exogenously administered substances enhance the action of both exogenous and endogenous probiotics. Beneficial effects may thus accrue from exogenously administered probiotics, often administered with prebiotics, or by endogenous bifidobacteria and lactobacilli, whose metabolic activity and growth may also be enhanced by the administration of prebiotics. - Lactomin has added FOS (Prebiotics) which aid the growth and populating of good beneficial bacteria.