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Gut Health Supplements: Do They Really Work?

Article Summary:

  • Gut health supplements can be broadly categorized into probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics.
  • Gut health supplement formulations are a suitable alternative to a high fiber-rich diet, mainly when certain health conditions restrict such intake. 
  • Tesseract’s revolutionary CyLoc® – DexKey® nutrient delivery technology enables optimal absorption of active nutrients in gut health supplement formulations. 

The diversity of gut microbiota — the microorganisms that colonize our digestive tract – largely determines our gastrointestinal health. The gut microbiome has been closely associated with influencing the immune health and the nervous system and playing a critical role in metabolic function. While a balanced diet maintains the gut microbiota in optimal condition, gut health supplements can help fill any nutritional gaps. 

So, how do gut health supplements work, and are they worth including in your diet? Let’s look at the working mechanism of different gut health supplements and some innovative gut health supplement formulations developed by Tesseract Medical Research to promote your gastrointestinal health.*        

How Do Gut Health Supplements Work?

Gut health supplements can be broadly categorized into probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics. The following table highlights the supplements’ functions and working mechanisms and how they promote gastrointestinal health.

Gut Health Supplements: Working Mechanism

  • Probiotics: These are the good bacteria (such as lactobacillus and bifidobacterium) and yeast (Saccharomyces boulardii) that live in the gut. Food such as yogurt and fermented foods like kombucha and kimchi are rich sources of probiotics1. 
  • Working mechanism:

    1. Probiotic supplements add to the existing supply of beneficial microbes and crowd out the harmful ones. 
    2. Probiotic supplements help regulate immune responses through bacteria’s direct interaction with intestinal epithelial cells. 
  • Prebiotics: These are food sources,1 such as fibers and complex carbohydrates that probiotics feed on, but the body cannot digest. A fiber-rich diet containing whole grains, beans, fruits, vegetables, and nuts provides nutrients to the gut microbiome. 
  • Working mechanism:

    1. The beneficial intestinal microbes ferment the non-digestible carbohydrates, releasing byproducts, including short-chain fatty acids, that provide critical energy for the growth of probiotic microbes.  
  • Postbiotics: The bioactive compounds released by healthy bacteria while feeding on prebiotic food are called postbiotics. Postbiotics2 include short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), such as butyric acid, lactic acid, and propionic acid, peptides, enzymes, and others. 
  • Working mechanism:

    1. Butyrate or butyric acid stimulates the production of regulatory T cells in the intestine to enhance intestinal barrier function and mucosal immunity.*
    2. Butyrate plays a potential role in regulating the gut-brain axis and promoting neurological health.*

It is well-known that a diet rich in fiber and fermented milk products supports gastrointestinal function. However, certain health conditions can restrict the required intake of fiber or fermented products. Gut health supplements are a suitable alternative to maintain the diversity of the gut microbiome.   

It is worth noting, however, that commercially available gut health supplements work when they are formulated for optimal solubility and absorption.    

Tesseract’s Supplement Formulations For Optimal Gut Health  

The revolutionary CyLoc® – DexKey® nutrient delivery technology developed by Tesseract Medical Research enables enhanced bioavailability of plant-derived compounds conventionally known for poor absorption. The proprietary CyLoc® technology isolates each active nutrient molecule in a dextrin fiber matrix, creating nano-sized particles that are easily absorbed. The accompanying DexKey® technology releases active ingredient molecules at the desired point in the intestinal tract. 

The following table highlights Tesseract’s three gut health supplements containing the smart delivery system that enhances the active ingredients’ palatability, bioavailability, and absorption.

Supplement

Therapeutic Benefits

AuRx®

A gold-standard medical food developed to support the gut-brain axis in autistic children. The hypoallergenic formulation contains a stabilized butyric acid complex to address GI disturbances associated with behavioral problems in autistic children.    

BiomeAide SR®

A blend of plant isolate extracts, terpenes, and oils from ginger, cinnamon, citronella, orange, lavender, bitter orange, clove, oregano, thyme oil, and marjoram oil. This proprietary complex establishes a well-balanced microbiome and promotes healthy GI function.*

ProButyrate®

A natural butyric acid proprietary complex that stabilizes the gut microbiome, ensuring palatability and maximum absorption to exert positive health benefits.*

With the nanomolecular nutrient delivery technology, Tesseract’s gut health supplements enable individual nutrient molecules to become a bioavailable therapeutic reality. 

The power of Tesseract supplements lies in enhancing palatability, maximizing absorption and bioavailability, and nano-dosing multiple nutrients in a single, highly effective capsule. Shop products on our website and learn more about how they can help support gastrointestinal health.*

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Citations:

1Davani-Davari D, et al. Foods (Basel, Switzerland) vol. 8,3 92. 9 Mar. 2019, doi:10.3390/foods8030092

2Vinderola G, et al. Foods (Basel, Switzerland) vol. 11,8 1077. 8 Apr. 2022, doi:10.3390/foods11081077

Al Czap, Founder | Tesseract

Al Czap has more than four decades of professional experience in preventative medicine. He founded Thorne Research in 1984 (sold in 2010) and he published Alternative Medicine Review for 17 years beginning in 1996. AMR was a highly acclaimed, peer-reviewed, and indexed medical journal. Al was the first to recognize the need for hypoallergenic ingredients and to devise methods of manufacture for and delivery of hypoallergenic products to underserved patient populations. His work has greatly impacted those with impaired immune and digestive systems and compromised health due to environmental exposures.

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