We are at your service for your questions and feedback.
Probiotic food cans full range and offer

What are probiotics and how do they increase our well-being?

The term “probiotic” derives from Latin and is composed of “pro”, meaning “for” and “bios”, meaning “life”. This implies that the purpose of probiotics is to promote health and maintain well-being.

What exactly are probiotics?

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines probiotics as “live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host”. Roughly speaking, probiotics are bacteria and fungi which do not harm the human body but have a positive effect on its metabolic processes. So, in the strict sense, probiotics are microscopically small living organisms, with the term frequently being applied to food supplements that contain the small organisms and are supposed to introduce them into our intestine so that they can colonize it.

A good probiotic contains bacteria which survive the stomach acid, as the microscopic rescue team cannot work in the stomach. In order to have a positive effect, they need to arrive in the intestine in sufficient quantities and multiply there. The right probiotics can restore an intestinal flora that has become imbalanced.

What is the difference between probiotics and prebiotics?

Prebiotics are, so to speak, the food of the good bacteria i.e. nutrients that serve as food for the probiotic microbes. These are substances that are indigestible to humans and therefore survive their passage through the stomach and small intestine to support the natural function of the large intestine. The great thing about prebiotics is that they only promote the desired bacteria but not the pathogens and unwanted bacteria.

Probiotics, on the other hand, are primarily taken as food supplements and are available in the form of liquid cures or capsules. Since there are hundreds of different bacterial strains, there is almost an infinite number of possibilities for combining probiotics. One thing is paramount: the bacteria must arrive in the intestine alive.

  Korb mit Obst und Gemüse gefüllt
 

PREBIOTICS

PROBIOTICS

What’s this?

Dietary fibers indigestible to humans

Living microorganisms

Effect

Stimulate the development of healthy bacteria

Lower the pH value in the intestine through the production of lactic acids

Advantages

Prevent the formation of harmful metabolic products

Stimulate the immune system

Effect on the microbiome

Support the growth of microorganisms

Promote the activity of microorganisms

Strengthen the body’s autologous intestinal flora

Establish new, healthy cultures in the intestine

Occurrence

Ingredients of the foodstuffs inulin and oligofructose

Occur naturally in bulbous plants, asparagus, rye, oats, bananas and garlic

Occur in fermented products e.g. natural yogurt, buttermilk and kefir

Particularly effective, optimized dosage in the probiotic food supplements from BIOM.uniq

Probiotic food supplements from BIOM.uniq

Our probiotic dietary supplements are particularly high quality and contain billions of natural, reproductive microbes and are carefully prepared and mixed by BIOMES scientists on the basis of the latest scientific findings.

The high-quality bacterial cultures are produced under the highest quality conditions in Germany. They can be purchased under the brand BIOM.uniq and are recommended on the basis of the analysis of the intestinal flora with the INTEST.pro self-test. There are compositions for the most different needs – because each bacterial strain has its own effect in our intestinal flora. If pre- and probiotics are combined, we speak of synbiotics.

  Probiotisches Nahrungs­ergänzungs­mittel Typ Alpha BIOMES
 

Conventional probiotic food supplements

Probiotic food supplements from BIOM.uniq

Recipe

Simple standard formulations

Lower dosage often causes cultures to grow too fast or too slowly

Based on the results of clinical studies

Optimal dosage enables the ideal growth of bacterial cultures

Dosage

A low number of different cultures have a limited effect

“Multi-species formulations” with many different cultures

Capsules

The coating can easily dissolve and does not protect the cultures from gastric acid

The hard cellulose coating protects the live cultures from gastric acid

Range of products

Smaller range

Optimized for various applications

Production

Unclear production conditions

Produced in a certified laboratory

Storage and delivery

Require uninterrupted cold chain

Storage without refrigerator

For vegetarians?

Often contain gelatin

Vegan, free of gluten and lactose

Additions

No additional strengthening

Contain additional important minerals and vitamins

https://biomes.world/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/paul-400x360.jpgasd
Dr. Paul Hammer
CEO & Founder
Dr Paul Hammer is the founder and CEO of BIOMES NGS GmbH. Paul received his PhD in systems biology and bioinformatics in 2012.
To the expert profile

You might also be interested in…

Darmentzündung und welche Ernährung empfehlenswert ist
Inflammation of the bowels: What diet is recommended?

What diet is recommended? The correct nutrition plan plays a decisive role in intestinal inflammation since it can relieve symptoms and promote [...]

Mikroskop
Inflammation of the bowel

People who frequently have problems with their stomach and intestines know that it is often difficult to find the exact [...]

E-coli-Bakterien - das machen sie im Darm
E. coli bacteria: That’s what they do in the intestines

What are E. coli bacteria? E. coli bacteria – or simply E. coli bacteria – are considered to be the [...]