LowTE Florida Probiotic

LowTE Florida Probiotic

Specially formulated LowTE Florida Probiotic, packed with three of best-studied probiotic strains proven to foster better gut health, is among the most effective supplements available for all-around wellness that we offer at our leading anti-aging LowTE Florida online store.

Here, we discuss:

  • What probiotics are and how they work
  • Why upgrading your gut microbiome is non-negotiable for increasing lifespan and quality of life
  • The profound documented health benefits of probiotics
  • How LowTE Florida Probiotic uniquely supercharges gut health

What are probiotics?

The term “probiotic” is a combination of two Latin-derived terms, pro” (meaning “beneficial for”) and “biotic” (meaning “having to do with living organisms”).

“Pro” and “biotic,” taken together, therefore, refer to helpful, beneficial bacteria species located in the human gut — specifically, in the small intestines and large intestines — that perform an array of critical functions.

Probiotics, even before they had a name, have a long history of human use; in fact, references to probiotics in the form of fermented foods date as far back as the ancient Greeks, including Biblical mentions.

While ancient cultures recognized the therapeutic value of probiotics, modern science has meticulously documented them down to the molecular level with an ever-greater understanding of human physiology.

The function of probiotics, beyond assisting in digestion for optimal nutrient absorption, include:

Why we prioritize healthy microbiomes at LowTE Florida

Until recently, the popular medical consensus was that the digestive system — which includes the gastrointestinal tract (GI tract), the pancreas, liver, and gallbladder — functioned separately and apart from the rest of the body.

In other words, researchers hadn’t yet linked gut health to nervous system health, cardiovascular health, or immune system health.

But that connection exists — and addressing it is crucial to achieve your best self.

We now know that, in fact, gut health is inextricably linked to overall health, exerting enormous influence over these systems of the body and dramatically impacting quality of life (QOL) and lifespan.

Numerous studies in roughly the past decade, like this one published in the medical journal Microbial Cell, have cited the life-extending and life-enhancing properties of probiotics through multiple mechanisms: “Probiotics are live microorganisms that have beneficial effects on host health, including extended lifespan, when they are administered or present in adequate quantities.”

And, since improving quality of life and lengthening lifespan to the maximum possible degree based on the latest biomedical knowledge is our overriding mission at LowTE Florida, it just makes sense that we prioritize gut health.

(Everything we discuss here related to the anti-aging health benefits of probiotics and more is available in my recently released work based on years of clinical practice and research, Are You Hormone Curious?: The Science of Hormone Therapy for Men and Women Explained. Grab your copy today!)

The many and profound probiotic health benefits

Due to gut health’s intimate relationship with — and influence on — every major system of the body, every year, researchers discover previously unknown health benefits of probiotic supplementation.

Here are just a few — not all — of the documented health benefits of probiotic supplementation that go way beyond just the gastrointestinal tract.

Probiotics reduce risk of high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease

According to the American Heart Association, an estimated 120 million-plus American adults suffer from high blood pressure, also called hypertension. That’s roughly half of the entire adult population.

There are numerous contributing factors to — and, conversely, treatments for — hypertension.

One of those, evidence shows, might be probiotic supplementation.

Let’s turn to an excellent clinical summary of probiotic health benefits from fermented foods, “Unraveling the Puzzle: Health Benefits of Probiotics—A Comprehensive Review,” courtesy of the Journal of Clinical Medicine (emphasis extra):

“Consumption of fermented dairy products (mainly yogurt and sour milk) was inversely associated with risk of cardiovascular disease… Consumption of miso, natto, and fermented soy products was also inversely associated with reduced risk of high blood pressure… Recent clinical trials have shown that fermented milk can lower blood pressure in adults with hypertension.”

Fortunately, with LowTE Florida Probiotic, you can reap the benefits of probiotics, including lower blood pressure, while avoiding fermented dairy or soy products and extra calories.

(LowTE Florida Probiotic is soy-free, dairy-free, and gluten-free — perfect for anyone with food allergies or just interested in avoiding common digestive irritants prevalent in the food supply.)

Probiotics improve blood sugar regulation and controls diabetes

According to CDC data, 38.4 million Americans (about 11 percent of the population) suffers from diabetes. Even more suffer from poor blood sugar control that doesn’t yet qualify as diabetes but is on the spectrum of metabolic dysfunction.

A wealth of research backs up the beneficial impacts of probiotic supplementation on blood sugar management.

This meta-analysis of 17 randomized control trials from PLoS One recorded marked improvements on three major metrics of metabolic function: fasting blood sugar, fasting insulin levels, and the HOMA-IR index (emphasis extra):

“Probiotic consumption, compared with placebo, significantly reduced fasting glucose (MD = -0.31 mmol/L; 95% CI 0.56, 0.06; p = 0.02), fasting plasma insulin (MD = -1.29 μU/mL; 95% CI -2.17, -0.41; p = 0.004), and HOMA-IR (MD = 0.48; 95% CI -0.83, -0.13; p = 0.007).”

Probiotics support healthy weight loss

In tandem with the beneficial impacts on blood sugar regulation, probiotic supplements are also shown to facilitate weight loss, improvements in body-mass index (BMI), and reductions in body fat percentage.

From Preventive Nutrition and Food Science (emphasis extra):

“Deconjugation of bile acids by SCFA may explain reductions in fat mass observed in individuals consuming probiotics, due to fermentation of non-digestible carbohydrates. These findings indicate probiotics are highly effective for improving BMI and body weight and for increasing fat loss, and suggest that altering the gut microbiome with probiotics is more predictable…

Adults who received probiotics had significant reductions in body weight, BMI, waist circumference, fat mass percentage compared with adults in the control group.”

Probiotics beneficially module immune system function

Through their interaction with immune system cells, particularly cytokines closely involved in inflammation — you might be familiar with the “cytokine storm” phenomenon seen in hospitalized COVID-19 patients — probiotic bacteria modulate the immune response, tamp down chronic inflammation, and optimize immune system function to keep you healthy and keep autoimmune disease at bay.

From medical journal Cells (emphasis extra):

“Growing evidence shows that probiotic bacteria present important health-promoting and immunomodulatory properties. Thus, the use of probiotics might represent a promising approach for improving immune system activities…

The specific interaction among intestinal immune, epithelial cells, and probiotic bacteria can promote a signaling cascade in terms of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines release, which can modulate the immune function.”

Probiotics for treating neurodegenerative conditions

What many people not up to date on the latest clinical research might not know is that the human gut houses over 500 million neurons, comprising what is called the enteric nervous system (ENS).

The strong and highly critical interactions between the ENS and central nervous system (CNS) is known as the “gut-brain axis.”

Accordingly, per Human Microbiome and Probiotics, modulating the ENS with targeted probiotic supplementation represents an exciting new frontier in potentially treating a wide array of neurological conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, chronic stress, and depression.

In fact, one of the more surprising and exciting recent research findings regarding probiotic supplementation is the therapeutic potential for improving even symptoms of highly complex and difficult-to-treat autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

From Frontier in Microbiology (emphasis extra):

“Probiotic administration to regulate the gut–brain axis might improve gastrointestinal symptoms, restore ASD-related behavioral symptoms, restore gut microbiota composition, reduce inflammation, and restore intestinal barrier function in human and animal models. This review suggests that targeting the microbiota through agents such as probiotics may represent an approach for treating subsets of individuals with ASD.”

LowTE Florida Probiotic blend: The optimal trifecta

Not all probiotics are created equal.

A lot can go wrong with commercial probiotic supplements.

In some cases, commercial probiotics are already dead by the time they get to the consumer.

In other cases, substandard formulas or manufacturing processes result in tainted or ineffective products. For example, in 2017, the FDA examined over 600 facilities producing commercial probiotic supplements and found that more than half had misrepresented their products’ strength, composition, or purity.

That’s why choosing a probiotic formulation from a vendor you trust using high-quality, active ingredients with live probiotics is so important.

In formulating LowTE Florida Probiotic, we extensively surveyed the clinical literature to identify the three most proven-beneficial probiotic species — the ones we ultimately included in the final product: Bifidobacterium Longum (B. longum), Lactobacillus Rhamnosus (L. rhamnosus), and Lactobacillus Acidophilus (L. acidophilus).

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