Gut Feed - Inulin and Fos Additional Information

Inulin and FOS are 2 prebiotic fibres that can support both gut and brain health.

They do this by feeding and encouraging the healthy bacteria in your gut.   

It is now becoming clearer that the health of your brain may be influenced by the levels and health of your gut microbiome – the healthy gut bacteria that resides in your gut.  

Using Inulin & FOS is a simple and cost effective way of keeping your all-important gut bacteria at healthy levels.

Any long term constipation or ‘loose’ bowels where stools are not formed properly can have adverse consequences for your healthy gut bacteria.  

This can mean that bad, unhealthy bacteria in the gut can become dominant and recent studies have shown that some of this, over time, can makes its way into your brain via the vagus nerve, potentially causing a build up of toxins. 

This relates to the gut-brain link which we are hearing more about. 

So if your gut has been unhealthy for many years this can, potentially, result in a decrease in cognitive function.  

Long term antibiotics and bad diets can exacerbate these problems by depleting the healthy bacteria in your gut, so keeping the all important bacteria in your gut healthy can have positive effects throughout your whole body.   

The great advantage of taking Inulin & FOS is that it supports many different strains of healthy gut bacteria and this gives it a very active but broad support for your gut and its environment.  

For this reason using prebiotics like Inulin & FOS is often more cost effective than using probiotics when supporting gut and brain health. 

General comments

It does now appear that many functions of the brain including the health of many neuro transmitters are dependent on healthy gut bacteria.  It is now estimated that more than 80% of your Serotonin levels are produced in your gut.  

Whereas much of this research is new, it is clear that looking after your brain health really does depend on you keeping your gut healthy and taking Inulin & FOS is one, cost effective tool you can use to support this.