Immune System

 The Secret to an Intelligent Immune System

How probiotics teach precision immune responses

You depend on your immune system to protect you every day. And that protection starts before you’re even born... and lasts for your entire life.

When your immune system works the right way, you’ll hardly ever get sick. And when you do, you’ll recover quickly. Your wounds will heal. You won’t develop chronic health problems. You’ll spend most of your life enjoying vitality and wellness.

But for your immune system to perform perfectly, it needs the right training. More than 70% of your immune system is in your gut, and probiotics play a huge role in its development and function, starting in the womb. 

In fact, by training your immune system to respond properly, probiotics help protect you against infections and chronic illness in five very important ways.

Probiotics Regulate Your Immune Response

From the very beginning, probiotics help your immune system. That’s crucial because you want your immune system to make the right choices. 

Probiotics teach your immune system how to tell the difference between friends and enemies.

Probiotics also help your immune system keep the right balance in its responses.  You want an immune system that mounts an appropriate response whenever it’s necessary, but not when there’s no real threat in sight. What you don’t want:

• an immune system that under-reacts, leaving you suffering from infections all the time
• an immune system that overreacts and attacks you, which happens with allergies and autoimmune conditions

Probiotics help your immune system respond the right way and avoid both under- and overreactions.

And when your immune system has to handle an infection, probiotics direct it to increase antibody production.  Probiotics also help initiate and manage T-cells and B-cells, the strongest infection fighters on your immune system team. 

4 Ways Probiotics Tackle Viruses 

When it comes to fighting viruses, probiotic bacteria don’t mess around. They use every weapon and advantage available to wipe out invaders as soon as they show up. 

Here are 4 important ways that probiotics tackle viruses:

1.    Produce virus-killing compounds such as:

• Surfactants, which deactivate viruses
• Bacteriocins, which kill or disable viruses
• Acetic acid, which destroys the outer layer of viruses (the viral envelope),
• Hydrogen peroxide, which neutralizes viruses
• Lactic acid, which reduces viral replication

2.    Directly alter virus cells through interactions, such as binding with them so they can’t bind with your cells

3.    Increase interferons, special proteins that send immune cells to fight viruses

4.    Activate immune cells that block viral replication

And when it comes to protecting you against infectious invaders, probiotics take on more than viruses…

Interferons got their name because they literally interfere with viruses to make sure they don’t multiply.

Probiotics Block Pathogenic Bacteria

Your gut microbiome is like the Wild West, with trillions of bacteria fighting for territory, food, and resources. And you want the good guys—probiotic bacteria—to defeat the bad guys—pathogens. 

That’s why you need to send in fresh recruits every day... And to give the good guys a substantial edge, you need to supply the right probiotics. Because the right probiotics:

• Outcompete pathogens for nutrients and space
• Create a hostile environment for pathogens 
• Keep pathogens from growing and multiplying
• Produce pathogen-killing compounds 

And with infectious viruses and harmful pathogens taken care of, probiotics can turn their attention to other wellness activities.

Probiotics Regulate Inflammation 

Practically every disease involves inflammation.  From viral infections to autoimmune conditions to cancer, inflammation plays a part in almost everything that can go wrong health-wise. That can be especially problematic when inflammation overwhelms your lungs, making it feel impossible to breathe. And, once again, probiotics step in to save the day.

A huge stack of research shows that probiotics help control inflammation in a few different ways:

1.    Decreasing the pathogen in effect. Probiotics keep pathogen populations under control. That’s important here because pathogens produce inflammatory compounds and also trigger an inflammation response from your immune system. So fewer pathogens means less inflammation.

2.    Calming pro-inflammatory proteins.  Your immune system sends out pro-inflammatory proteins called cytokines as part of its protective reactions. But sometimes they go overboard and cause more harm than good. Probiotics tell those cytokines to stand down, which helps calm down excessive inflammation.

3. Producing anti-inflammatory compounds.  Probiotics produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), essential compounds that fight inflammation. Studies show that SCFAs can block inflammatory cytokines and prevent excess inflammation.

And when it comes to protecting your airways, probiotics really shine.  Clinical research shows that taking probiotics helps reduce airway inflammation and restore free breathing... even in severe lung conditions like asthma and COPD.

Probiotics Reduce the Number and Severity of Infections

Your immune system relies on probiotic bacteria for direction whenever it faces a threat. And probiotics really come through, as ongoing studies continue to prove. But you have to make sure you’re taking the right probiotic strains—the specific strains that have demonstrated clinically proven effectiveness.

Here’s just a small sample of the infections that can be improved using specific probiotic strains:

Colds and flu,,

• Lactobacillus acidophilus
• Lactobacillus rhamnosus
• Bifidobacterium lactis
• Streptococcus thermophiles
• Bifidobacterium longum

Pneumonia,

• Lactobacillus rhamnosus
• Streptococcus thermophiles
• Bifidobacterium longum

Diarrhoea

• Bifidobacterium lactis
• Lactobacillus acidophilus
• Lactobacillus rhamnosus
• Streptococcus thermophiles
• Lactobacillus casei

Rotavirus,

• Lactobacillus acidophilus
• Bifidobacterium longum
• Lactobacillus salivarius

The Best Probiotic Formula for Total Gut and Immune Support

When it comes to your immune system, you don’t want to mess around. You want to deliver the best possible probiotic support for healthy, intelligent immune responses. You want probiotics that help keep your immune system walking the fine line between fighting infections and causing autoimmune reactions. 

And to do that, you need an advanced formula that taps into the power of proven probiotics and gives them the support they need to survive and thrive. Your optimal immune-supportive probiotic formula will contain:

• Lactobacillus acidophilus
• Lactobacillus rhamnosus
• Bifidobacterium lactis
• Streptococcus thermophiles
• Bifidobacterium longum
• Lactobacillus salivarius
• Lactobacillus case

This ideal formula contains targeted prebiotics, such as Citrus pectin, that nourish probiotics and supply the raw materials to create SCFAs. The formula also includes beneficial herbs such as chamomile, ginger, and fennel to make your gut as probiotic-friendly as possible.

The list of infections that can be conquered by these proven probiotics would go on for pages—that’s how hard probiotics work to keep you safe and healthy. But to obtain these benefits, you must use the right probiotic formula with high bioavailability and bioactivity for optimal gut, immune, and total-body health.