Probiotics are living organisms that are mostly bacteria living in the digestive tract. Microorganisms are specific ones, good bacteria, beneficial to your pet’s immune system and overall pet health. There are at least 500 different species of microorganisms that have been identified in the normal microbiome in both dogs and cats.
About 80-90% of a pet’s immune system is in the gut and bacteria are essential to a pet’s health. Probiotics contain beneficial bacteria and crowd out bad bacteria that enter the gut. When bad bacteria and other toxins get into the blood stream this can create inflammation – allowing diseases like cancer to creep in.
What is Microbiome?
The term microbiome refers to the collection of all microbes in and on your pet. This includes bacteria, fungi, viruses, and genes that naturally live on, and inside, your pet’s body.
It’s important that the microbiome is kept balanced. When the microbiome is off balance, your pet can have health problems. Some healthy members of the microbiome are better than others in providing benefits to your pet these are called probiotics or the “good bacteria”.
Benefits of Probiotics
- Strengthens and regulates your pet’s immune system.
- Probiotics/digestive enzymes increase food absorption.
- Aids in digestion.
- Encourage the production of antibodies.
- Help to prevent leaky gut problems by ensuring proper digestion and nutrient absorption.
- Helps to improve seasonal allergy symptoms.
- Soothes symptoms from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
- Supports bowel regularity.
- Supports skin health.
- Helps to improve memory as your pet ages.
- Helps to manage digestive stress from stressful situations, travelling, kenneling, etc.
- Helps your pet to bolster their immune system and the formation of T-cells which are vital for pets with cancer or other diseases.
What are Prebiotics?
Prebiotics feed the good bacteria in your pet’s gut. More than 80% of your pet’s immune system lives in the gut. So, keeping it healthy means you must feed the good bacteria. And that’s where prebiotics come in.
Prebiotics help grow, restore, and maintain healthy gut flora – supporting your pet’s immune system.
Providing prebiotics, probiotics, and digestive enzymes daily is the best way to maintain the proper balance of the microbiome, enhancing the immune system, and assuring maximum digestion of the foods that you feed your pet!
