We wish you and your family a Happy New Year and a 2012 full of friendship, love and peace from Probiotics NZ .
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Shall we make 2012 a year of fully understanding probiotics? If you have a question about probiotics please contact me. If you are not sure what they really are or how they can help you, I can help you understand. You can email me or call me. If I am busy with a customer in my pharmacy I can call you back. When you take a probiotic supplement, it is bacteria, and it relies on food to live- the food that you eat becomes its food . When it eats your food, less of your food is then available for the bad bacteria that are living comfortably in your intestine to eat. So some of the bad bacteria will starve and die. You then have less bad bacteria. The bad bacteria cause disease. If you take a probiotic supplement (good bacteria) then this same process happens twice a day. Slowly your bad bacteria population is less. If your bad bacteria is less you become more well. Remember please that yoghurt (if you can find a REAL one) is a good pre-digested food but does not supply the strain of good bacteria that is your super human strain that will adhere to your intestinal wall. Natren Probiotics supplies this- that is the Natren difference. Natren are a valuable probiotic supplement that are very, very good quality. In addition, if you do not eat so much starch food then the supply of your food to your bad bacteria is less useful and less preferred (eat more protein, vegetables, fruits etc). Bad bacteria love it when you eat starch. They grow more and faster when you eat starch. Did you know that one single bacteria can produce 7 billion bacteria in 24 hours! If you want to lose weight try no starch or a low starch diet. It will work if the starch level consumed is low enough to starve the bad bacteria. Add a Natren Probiotic, choose either Superdophilus, or Bifidonate, or Bulgaricum and this will help weight loss even more by starving the bad bacteria.
It is good to hear that there is progression with having our food labelled with country of origin. So too should dietary supplements. "Made in NZ" with probiotics or vitamins or oils etc does not guarantee that the all the contents originate from NZ. Raw material e.g. powders or oils can be imported into NZ and then encapsulated or bottled here. Where does the powder, vitamin, oil or bacteria come from ? Natren Probiotics have the Certificate of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) Compliance of a Manufacturer to "Medicine Manufacture" level for the manufacturing type. This is a high level of compliance and is issued by the Department of Health and Ageing Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia. This is the valid certification for NZ. So Natren Probiotics are high quality that you can rely on to be effective.
Radio Interview. Listen to Nicola's latest radio interview- click on this homepage on the Right Hand Side. September 21st includes a discussion on eating yoghurt versus taking a probiotic supplement. I have recorded more interviews but we have not been able to add them to this website at present. They will be coming soon.
If you are a customer of the Christchurch store "The Herbal Dispensary Kilmore St", or any other health Store or Pharmacy in Christchurch, and have been purchasing Natren Probiotics from these stores please contact Nicola. We can send you your Natren probiotics on behalf of these stores to you directly. Please email nicola@probiotics.co.nz. to find out how.
Natren probiotics are considered one of the world's leading manufacturers of probiotics, so you can trust that they will perform well. If you want help with an alkaline forming diet, I recommend Green Magma- making a drink first thing in the morning. For extra energy and cleansing, another drink later in the day is useful.
When choosing a probiotic be wary; not all probiotics are created equal. Just how can you tell if a probiotic will beneficial to your health? First, you need to know if the strain is beneficial for you. Within each family, or genus, of bacteria, there are many species and each of those species has hundreds of strains. Lactobacillus is the family (genus), acidophilus is the species, and NAS or DDS-1 are strains.
Not all strains provide health benefits. This is why you must rely on a reputable probiotics manufacturer to research and formulate its probiotics with the best and most beneficial bacteria available.
The following tips are the most important things you need to look for when purchasing a probiotic supplement:
- Look for the International Good Manufacturing Practice certification (GMP), which will ensure that you are receiving the highest quality probiotic that meets unequalled standards. This also guarantees that the product has been tested for potency and safety in all stages from the culturing of the bacteria through the printed expiration date.
- You must also look for a potency guarantee for each strain listed on the bottle label through the printed expiration date. The listing must include the strain, not just the genus and species. Without the strain listed, you may be getting a worthless bacteria.
- Probiotics must be stored and shipped refrigerated for the bacteria to live. Several probiotic companies claim that they have shelf-stable products but these have never been proven effective.
- Purchase only a probiotic with its supernatant (culturing medium). This provides nourishment for the probiotic and has been found to increase the benefits of the probiotic by up to 50 percent.
- The packaging is an important way to keep the bacteria protected. Dark glass bottles and tin lids protect the probiotics from the damaging effects of light and moisture.
If you are having any pains, especially joint or muscle pain, or any of the following: backache, headaches, sinus, gut/stomach pain- try taking a break from your usual foods that you are comfortable with, and have a starch free and dairy free week - two weeks would be even better. If you combine this change of diet with taking a probiotic supplement - Natren's Trenev Trio or Natren's Superdophilus and Bifidonate capsules, the results will be positive. Add L-Glutamine powder also. If you are constipated add Solgar Psyllium powder. If you would like more details about a starch free diet please email me. The supplements mentioned above are all found in our category section of products on the left hand side of this page.
A healthy intestinal function is critically important to overall health. Growing numbers of people lack vitality and suffer from complaints like allergies, headaches, lack of energy, excessive fatigue, digestive disorders, along with a variety of emotional states ranging from mild depression to mood swings and anxiety.
Achieving this optimal intestinal health includes ensuring you have adequate levels of essential fatty acids and beneficial bacteria (probiotics). Beneficial bacteria thrive and work with your digestive tract and immune system, along with Essential Fatty Acids, to protect you against illness and disease.
Probiotic beneficial bacteria are involved in every aspect of your health. Though understanding their application requires a tremendous amount of research and explanation, we offer here our approach to selecting and supplementing the "right" bacteria (see Natren products) for you. Along with beneficial bacteria, we show how supplements such as Essential Fatty Acids (see Efamol products) and Greenfoods (see GreenFoods products) provide the foundation for good health. To discover even more, we recommend reading the simplified and easy-to-read guide to "proactive self-healing through probiotics" called "The Power of Probiotics: Secrets to Great Health" by Natasha Trenev. (in the Natren section under books)
We hope you find the information we have provided here helpful. The NEWS page is updated with recent reports, media news releases and research from around the world on what is happening in the world of probiotics so be sure to visit it. Please use our contact page to get in touch with us and for asking questions. We sell all our products, especially Natren probiotics and Green Magma, to New Zealand, Australia and worldwide. Check out our delivery page.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards
Nicola Johns
Pharmacist.
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