The relationship between your gut microbiome and your immune system
With much of your immune system residing in your gut, nurturing your inner eco-system is one of the important factors for wellbeing during winter.
By now we all know that our gut is home to trillions of bacteria, that are a large part of your microbiome, and play a role in supporting our health and wellbeing.
What you may not know is that around 70 per cent of your immune cells1 also reside there.
This means your gut microbiota and your immune system have a mutually beneficial relationship2.
The link between gut microbes and our immune system
Our legion of friendly microbes plays a role3 in training and supporting our immune system, by interacting with immune cells in the gut and helping educate them on how to distinguish foreign microbes that might be harmful.
This training helps support the healthy functioning of our immune system, which we know can be front of mind in the colder weather.
As a result, the gut environment that our immune system helps to maintain, is one in which the gut microbes can thrive.
How probiotics can drive your gut game and immune health
Our gut microbes and the microbiome have the best chance to thrive, and in turn support our immune system function, when their host (that’s us, folks) have a healthy and balanced diet and lifestyle – and probiotics can be a good addition to help the cause.
Probiotics are live microbes that can offer health benefits to those who take them and can be balancers when it comes supporting and balancing the microorganisms residing in your gut, while also maintaining immune system health and function.
Life-Space’s multi-strain formulas
Appreciating this connection, Life-Space has leveraged its passion and expertise in the field of probiotics to create multi-strain probiotic products that support your microbiome, gut health and immune health.
Life-Space probiotic supplements have up to 15 different strains of bacteria, and each strain comes with its own characteristics.
Life-Space Immune Support Probiotic, Life-Space Children Immune Support Probiotic and Life-Space Double Strength Probiotic are all multi-strain formulas.
Life-Space Immune Support Probiotic contains five strains of beneficial bacteria, such as Bifidobacterium lactis Bl-04, which can help reduce the occurrence of symptoms4 of mild upper respiratory tract infections and also has other strains that can help to reduce duration and severity of symptoms of the common cold in healthy adults.
The product also contains zinc and vitamin C to help maintain healthy functioning of the immune system, in the form of an easy-to-take capsule.
Supporting kids immune health too
Life-Space’s easy-to-mix powder, Children immune support probiotic has three strains of beneficial bacteria as well as zinc, vitamin D and elderflower.
Importantly, it contains strains of beneficial bacteria that support immune system health in kids.
It also contains elderflower, which has been traditionally used in Western herbal medicine to relieve symptoms of the common cold in children.
And for a little extra support for you adults, Life-Space Double Strength Probiotic contains 15 strains of beneficial bacteria supporting your general health and wellbeing, digestive system health and immune system health.
Helping you navigate winter and spring into spring!
* This post is brought to you by Life-Space. Always read the label and follow the directions for use. Supplements should not replace a balanced diet.
1Wiertsema, van Bergenhenegouwen, Garssen, Knippels, 2021, The interplay between the gut microbiome and the immune system in the context of infectious diseases throughout life and the role of nutrition in optimising treatment strategies, Nutrients Mar 9;13(3):866, funded by Danone Nutrucia Research, retrieved June 2023, available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33803407/
2Belkaid and Hand, 2015, Role of the Microbiota in Immunity and inflammation, Cell, Volume 157, Issue 1, P121-141, retrieved June 2023 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056765/
3Belkaid and Hand, 2015, Role of the Microbiota in Immunity and inflammation, Cell, Volume 157, Issue 1, P121-141, retrieved June 2023 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056765/
4Turner et al, 2021, Effect of Bifidobacterium animalis spp. Lactic Bl-04 on Rhinovirus-Induced Colds: A randomized, placebo-controlled, single-centre, phase II trial in healthy volunteers, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 43, 101224, retrieved June 2023 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8649651/
