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Introducing Lactobacillus gasseri: A Key Probiotic

If you are looking to lose weight and have not found success, it’s probably because you’re missing out on a key ingredient – one that is good for your intestinal flora!

It has been long thought that your intestinal flora essentially assured immune defences (as 80% of the immune system is provided by intestinal flora), however research has evolved and quite recently, scientists have discovered that the intestinal flora also plays a key role in weight control.

Lactobacillus gasseri, a little-known pro-biotic bacteria, is one of the most beneficial microorganisms that assist with digestive health and against harmful organisms. Researchers recently found that feeding your intestinal flora with Lactobacillus gasseri helps with weight loss!

Intestinal Flora, Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes

Researchers believe that implanting of good bacteria in your gut could be a key remedy in treating obesity.

Our digestive system is home to nearly 500 species of microorganisms involved in digestion and immunity. The population of each of these species is in the billions! This is an army of trillions of microorganisms that inhabit your gut which, night and day, protect, cleanse and prevent harmful bacteria and yeast to grow.

To give you a scale, these microorganisms are ten times more numerous than the cells of your body, or 100 trillion – 14 zeros. And it is this vast army that is called the ‘intestinal flora’.

You must maintain your intestinal flora by nourishing healthy food. Otherwise, it can become a refuge of pests that trigger constipation, bloating, diarrhoea, various inflammations, skin alterations, weight-gain and mood instability. But an unhealthy flora can even cause more serious illnesses, such as irritable bowel syndrome, bloody diarrhoea, colon cancer, type 2 diabetes or obesity.

It is estimated that an optimal intestinal flora contains 85% good bacteria to 15% bad bacteria.

The Problem with Gluten Meals

The fundamental problem of our basic modern diet is that it haywires our intestinal flora by reducing the variety of healthy bacteria and ultimately promoting more species of harmful bacteria. Antibiotics worsen these effects since they destroy good bacteria implanted since birth, allowing a proliferation of undesirable species.

Gluten, found in bread, pasta and pizza, is often poorly digested, and can lead to chronic inflammation of the intestine. This inflammation indicates a weakening of the intestinal flora.

The action of gluten is comparable to that of continuously scraping the inside walls of your bowel with sandpaper. It essentially destroys the protective lining of the intestinal wall, which is composed of billions of bacteria. Without such bacteria, the gut cannot be kept clean and healthy. Consequently, the lining of the intestine becomes porous and allows all sorts of harmful substances into the blood. These substances then cause a lot of damage, such an acceleration of fat storage!

All sugary foods or those that are rapidly converted into simple sugar also harm the intestinal flora. These include glucose potatoes, fructose fruit juices and lactose in milk products, which then leads to a proliferation of fungal flora that impairs immunity, induces the risk of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular events and all types of cancer.

An unbalanced intestinal flora can also cause weight gain and can even make weight loss difficult. Many studies have shown that the intestinal floras of obese individuals have a much different composition than those who are healthy.

Lactobacillus gasseri & Weight Loss

Japanese researchers conducted a study in order to examine the impact of probiotic Lactobacillus gasseri on obesity. The multi-centre clinical trial – double-blind, randomised and placebo-controlled – was conducted on 87 subjects with a significant surplus of abdominal fat. After 12 weeks, patients who were treated with L. gasseri lost an average abdominal fat of 4.6% and 3.3% of subcutaneous fat. Their weight decreased by 1.4% and their waist circumference of 1.8%.

L. gasseri thickens the mucosal barrier of the intestine, blocking harmful substances from entering freely into the blood. It can also change the chemical signals from the digestive system, thus changing the treatment of fat in the body. The study confirms the results of a previous trial that had demonstrated the effectiveness of L. gasseri in lowering fat levels in animals.

Clearly, L. gasseri is not the panacea for weight loss. The results are there, however they are far from breathtaking. So do not expect to melt overnight taking this pro-biotic! But as part of a healthy diet, adding the pro-biotic L. gasseri can make a difference. Certainly if you eating healthy and properly exercising, and still do not see any change, L. gasseri is likely to act as the trigger that will allow you to reach your desired results!

A healthy intestinal flora can help your digestion, bringing in the necessary nutrients and vitamins, improving your metabolism to store less fat, and protecting you from viruses, fungi, bad bacteria and diseases that threaten you. Poor intestinal flora will not only leave you defenceless to such external attacks, but will also complicate your digestion, with increased risk of constipation, diarrhoea, etc. But perhaps even more alarming, an unhealthy intestinal flora will allow bacteria, yeasts and opportunistic and pathogenic fungi such as Candida albican to proliferate in your gut. It is therefore imperative to cure your intestinal flora!

By ensuring that your gut is seeded with L. gasseri, you will help to rebalance your intestinal flora and improve your metabolism! As stated previously, L. gasseri will also help thicken your intestinal lining and change the chemical signal processing fat through your body, facilitating weight loss!

Pro-biotic Breast Milk

L. gasseri is known as a pro-biotic to strengthen the immune system. A double-blind randomised clinical trial that tested against placebo, was conducted on 44 children suffering from allergies and those who received probiotics saw an acceleration of their immune response to allergies and their health significantly improved.

L. gasseri, as one of the essential bacteria in your intestinal flora that ensures good health in general, originally derives breast milk. For those who have been breastfed, L. gasseri colonises your gut from a young age. Interestingly, we also know that children breastfed are less likely to be overweight.

For those who have not experienced this enjoyment, it is strongly recommended to make a good cure of L. gasseri pro-biotic to establish sustainably in your gut. If you applied, you can only benefit from the many positive effects of L. gasseri.

Today, between caesareans and bottles of pasteurised milk, seeding at birth is often provided less by the mother. During a cesarean, the step of seeding by the vaginal flora is skipped and if not breastfed, the child does not receive good maternal bacterium that colonises the intestine. It is then the ferocious bacteria at hospitals or the stale air of our cities that are responsible for seeding. We now understand this phenomenon better with the arrival of fragile generations of children who are allergic and asthmatic. So be sure to take L. gasseri, as this is a way to rebuild a healthy intestinal flora!

The Problem with Oral Pro-Biotics

By ingesting pro-biotics, one hopes that they pass through your digestive system in order grow in your gut. However in reality, a perilous road lies ahead.

Pro-biotic bacteria undergo acid attack by enzymes in your saliva and stomach. Most bacteria are then decimated and the survivors have no chance to settle in your gut once through the stomach barrier. It is therefore essential to select a pro-biotic bacterium that can withstand your digestive barrier. Otherwise, the treatment will have no chance to strengthen your intestinal flora.

To simulate acid attacks, researchers from Agroscope Berne placed a strain of L. gasseri in a bile salt solution at 0.3% for 3 hours. At the end of the experiment, L. gasseri survived. They also subjected the L. gasseri strain to a pH3 acid medium for 3 hours and found that the bacteria population had halved – a reasonable result.

The same researchers conducted a study on piglets to which they gave L. gasseri for a period of 2 weeks. As L. gasseri derives from breast milk – it was foreign to swine. By inspecting their stool after ingestion, researchers discovered many residues of L. gasseri strain, including a week after stopping treatment. This is another proof that the bacteria had survived well in digestion.

L. gasseri is therefore a pro-biotic that can strengthen your intestinal flora and immune system and also help to promote weight loss!