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You probably have heard that you should be taking a probiotic for digestive health.
This advice is even more important for athletes. You wreak havoc on your gut with all the sugar from the gels and chews, bouts of dehydration, and not to mention the real gut-killer for most athletes is training in the heat.
The problem for many athletes, myself included, is that most of the probiotics I tried don’t seem to do anything beyond leaving me feeling gassy and bloated.
The problem with your probiotic
I dug deeper and very few athletes stick with taking traditional probiotics after a month or two.
So we have been on a quest to look into the science and found very little of the messaging about probiotics is based on actual science (It is mostly all marketing being passed off as science)
The main marketing story around probiotics has been:
1) Keep them in the fridge (so they stay alive), and
2) Take a massive dosage like 100 billion CFUs hoping that some of it will survive your stomach.
It turns out that the majority of probiotics are no longer living in the capsule, and 95% of them don’t survive the stomach anyway, despite all the marketing claims.
We found one that works.
In our research, we spoke with some doctors who suggested we check out a new kind of probiotic that uses Spores that are much more resilient and can survive digestion through the stomach.
These spores then reach the intestines and can recondition and re-seed the gut with good bacteria. We spoke to several actual users of the product, and it received rave reviews, so we gave it a try ourselves.
My experience
This is the first probiotic that I felt did something for me. I was pretty surprised and have continued taking it daily. The best part is I didn’t get all gassy and bloated like I do on other probiotics.
The product is called MegasporeBiotic from a company called Microbiome Labs. It is the first pharmaceutical-grade spore-based probiotic on the market.
P.S. Microbiome labs recommended that you combine the MegasporeBiotic in a protocol with their pre-biotic.
If you have current gut issues, try out the pre-biotic for four weeks, I don’t feel you need to take it forever, but it could be a good one-two punch to help get back to a normal steady state of good gut health.
P.S.S Here is a bit more of the science I learned.
The difference between traditional probiotics (lactic-acid producing) and spore-based probiotics is how resilient they are.
Spore-based probiotics have a bi-phasic lifecycle, meaning they can be in a very resilient state in their spore state for hundreds of years and then be converted to the vegetative state when exposed to the gut. In comparison, traditional probiotics are always alive and therefore get killed off in the stomach.
Spore-based probiotics recondition the gut by making over 180 different metabolites, which are used to kill off any pathogenic bacteria and feed beneficial bacteria.
Traditional lactic acid-producing probiotics cannot do this. Their primary mechanism of action is to introduce large quantities to push out pathogenic bacteria. They have no benefit on the commensal bacteria already in the gut and don’t have any killing ability.
Happy Gut, Happy Life
DRG
