Our gut and how it works

The intestinal microflora is composed of more than 500 different bacterial species that live in a delicate balance among themselves and with the human body. The colon is the region of our gut where there is the highest concentration of bacteria, between 10 and 100 billion bacteria/ml of feces material considering an average total contents of 1500 ml of feces material.

The intestinal microflora is very important for our health because it is able to:

• fight against pathogenic bacteria through a mechanism of competition and the production of antibacterial substances (bacteriocine, H²O², lactic acid, etc,);
• produce short chain fatty acids, the most important nourishment for enteric cells;
• produce vitamins (K, B1, B6,B12, folic acid, pantotenic acid, etc,) which play an important role in different metabolic reactions;
• modulate the maturation of the host’s innate and adoptive immune responses (80% of the immune system is localized in the gut).

Streptococcus thermophilus DSM 24731

Bifidobacteria (B. breve DSM 24732, B. longum DSM 24736, B. infantis DSM 24737)

Lactobacilli (L. acidophilus DSM 24735, L. plantarum DSM 24730, L. paracasei DSM 24733, L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus DSM 24734).