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Why gut health is the new foundation of wellness

Probiflora gut health

ProbiFloraTM, a multistrain probiotic range,1 knows that gut health is the new foundation of wellness.2 Yet most of us only think about gut health when our tummies start causing trouble, whether it’s bloating after a mealor constipation. Paying attention to your gut health can help you support your gut before small discomforts become harder to manage.³

What is the gut flora?

Inside your digestive tract lives a vast community of microorganisms known as the gut microbiome. It includes bacteria, viruses, fungi and other tiny organisms, with bacteria making up the largest share.4

Around 70 to 80 percent of the body’s immune cells are found in the gut, where they help identify what is harmless, what poses a threat and which beneficial bacteria should be left alone.⁵ The gut also communicates with the brain through the gut-brain axis, a two-way messaging system linked to mood, sleep and stress.4

What can disrupt your microbiome?

Antibiotics are one of the biggest disruptors of gut health. A single course of broad-spectrum antibiotics may remove large numbers of helpful bacteria within days. Many recover over the following weeks or months, but some may not return to their previous levels.4

What you eat also shapes what is happening in your gut. Meals high in processed foods, sugar and saturated fat can reduce the variety of helpful bacteria and give fewer desirable microbes more room to grow.Stress, poor sleep, too much alcohol and very little movement can also affect the balance of your gut flora.4

With ProbiFloraTM your gut is good!

When your gut needs more than everyday support, ProbiFloraTM Adult Intensive Rescue,6 rebuilds balance fast after gut disruptions.

For daily support, ProbiFloraTM Adult Everyday Flora Balance,7 protects and restores gut flora and improves gut function, so you can feel light, balanced and ready for anything.

If comfort and regularity are your focus, ProbiFloraTM Adult Classic Bowel Support,8 with four active strains for bowel support provides relief from bowel discomfort and diarrhoea, while supporting immunity and gut balance.

Across the family range, daily use ProbiFloraTM Infant Drops9 offer a three-strain probiotic combination for immunity and gut support.

For older children, ProbiFloraTM Junior Everyday Flora Balance Chews10 bring 3 everyday strains tailored for juniors into an easy format because happy tummies mean happy, active kids.

Your gut works hard for you every day. Healthy habits can go a long way, but there are times when it may need extra support to get back into balance. That is where ProbiFlora™ can help, with targeted probiotic support designed to restore balance and give your gut exactly what it needs to feel good.

ProbiFloraTM’s range of products are available from leading pharmacies and retailers nationwide. For more information, visit https://probiflora.co.za/ and join the conversations on Instagram and Facebook.

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Actually, Home Food and Travel offers a lot more than just reviews of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities.  We also visit great destinations, receive advice from interior designers and stop to smell the roses and taste the coffee.

Our team of journalists are seasoned travels and love visiting the myriad of exciting places around South Africa.  Whether it is off the beaten track or in the heart of the top attractions of the country, we’ll be there,

Home Food and Travel advice on finding the right accommodation

So what is the right accommodation?  Well more often than not, it’s your travel budget that dictates the type of accommodation that you choose. 

Expensive is not always better.  Our team at Home Food and Travel will tell you that they have camped in areas with limited ablutions and had a wonderful holiday.  They have also spent a night in a five star hotel only to be disappointed because their expectations exceeded the experience.

The reason for your travels will also affect your choice.  A business trip requires different amenities to a beach holiday. 

Our articles, reviews and experiences can certainly help you make your decision.

Restaurants with a good mix of service, food and ambiance

To my mind a great restaurant offers three things – excellent service, great food and a wonderful ambiance.  Of these, service is the most important. 

No matter that the food is delicious and the setting delightful, poor service can ruin the occasion.  However, great service combined with mediocre meal and a plane jane restaurant can still be a pleasant night out.

We’ve eaten in restaurants that are really dirty but with incredible food and couldn’t help but give a rave review.  We’ve also hardly noticed what we ate because the setting was just amazing.

However, the best restaurants come with the best of service, food and ambiance.

Spas are the ultimate relaxation aid

How do you know when you have had a great spa experience?  The answer, of course, is when you doze off on the treatment table. 

Well that’s our theory anyway.  It also doesn’t take a grand location with enormous facilities for a spa to be really good

A small, personal spa that is owner run can result in the best massage you have ever experienced.  However, the grand spas in five star hotels offer unsurpassed facilities in an environment that just makes the stress in your shoulders and neck melt away before you even finish checking in.

Adventure!

You don’t have to be an adrenaline junky to enjoy an exciting experience.  In fact, what are commonly termed adventure activities usually have incredibly high safety standards and unblemished safety records.

Ziplining, bungy jumping and shark cage diving are all very safe.  It’s just that our mind tells us we are craaazzzzyyyy to be doing this.

On the road to great places of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities

If you’re driving, be safe and make use of all the wonderful farm stalls that populate South Africa’s open roads.

If you overhear somebody asking a lot of questions or see someone taking photos of empty bedrooms chances are it’s one of our Home Food and Travel team members.

We’re out looking or those great places of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities.

See you on the road!

 

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