Effects of Antibiotics on Gut Health
Micro Restore and Saccharomyces Boulardii are probiotics specifically formulated to maintain and restore gut health during and after the use of antibiotics. The research below demonstrates the science behind this knowledge.
Shifting the balance: antibiotic effects on host-microbiota mutualism
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro2536
Antibiotics have substantial direct and indirect effects on the intestinal microbiota; although some of the changes disappear soon after cessation of the antibiotic treatment, other changes remain indefinitely.
Antibiotics have been used to implicate the gastrointestinal microbiota in a number of systemic biological processes, including elements of systemic immunity and extra-intestinal disease susceptibility. Antibiotics have linked the intestinal microbiota to models of allergies, autism, metabolic syndrome and multiple sclerosis.
Antibiotics, microbiota, and immune defense
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3427468/pdf/nihms383426.pdf
Antibiotic administration can alter intestinal commensal bacterial populations and, as a consequence, modify immune defenses leading, in some cases, to detrimental effects on health. Viral and bacterial infections or allergies can be promoted by antibiotic-induced changes in the microbiota. Some of the alterations in the microbiota and immunity produced by antibiotic usage can be restored with the administration of probiotic bacteria or bacterial ligands of innate immune receptors.
Long term impacts of antibiotic exposure on the human intestinal microbiota
Although it is known that antibiotics have short-term impacts on the human microbiome, recent evidence demonstrates that the impacts of some antibiotics remain for extended periods of time.
It is generally acknowledged that the use of antibiotics causes selection for and enrichment of antimicrobial resistance, but it has also been believed until recently that the commensal microbiota is normalized a few weeks following withdrawal of the treatment. As discussed above, increasing evidence suggests that this is not the case and that specific members of the microbiota may be positively or negatively affected for extended periods of time.
Healthcare providers tend to prescribe antibiotics without a probiotic to accompany it. Research suggests however, the need for microbiome repair due to antibiotic usage.
Nova Rē’s Micro Restore and Saccharomyces Boulardii follow rigorous quality assurance standards including 3rd party testing of each batch in a GMP facility.
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