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Probiotics and Travel: Your Gut’s Best Friend On the Go

Travelling is an exciting adventure, but it can sometimes throw your digestive system off balance. Multi-strain probiotics contain a variety of live micoorganisms that provide health benefits,including enhancinggut healthwhile on the move.

Benefits of Multi-Strain Probiotics

The human digestive system is filled with hundreds of different types of tiny organisms living together in balance with one another. Most of these tiny organisms are bacteria.

The types of bacteria in your gut can be influenced by various factors including what you eat.

Probiotic bacteria are like the good guys in this digestive ecosystem. They move in, take up residence, and help things run smoothly. They can help your digestive system work the way it’s supposed to.²

Probiotics can also lend a hand to your immune system,² helping immune cells do their job better.

Managing Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Unfamiliar foods, and stress can exacerbate IBS symptoms, which may include abdominal pain and bloating.³

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG may reduce the frequency and severity of abdominal pain in children,while probiotic strains like Bifidobacterium lactis and Lactobacillus casei Shirota may help regulate bowel movements and improve stool consistency.⁵

How Multi-Strain Probiotics Can Help Alleviate Discomfort During Travel

Consider adding a multi-strain probiotic supplement to your travel itinerary, such as ProbiFlora.ProbiFlora which contains multi-strains of well-studied probiotics proven to rebalance the GUT microflora.⁶

The ProbiFlora range includes ProbiFlora Adult Intensive Rescue – 9 Strain, ProbiFlora Adult Classic Bowel Support – 4 Strain, ProbiFlora Adult Everyday Flora Balance – 2 Strain, ProbiFlora Rx Intestinal Flora Care, ProbiFlora Junior Everyday Flora Balance, ProbiFlora Probiotic Infant Drops 3 strain-Regular drops, and ProbiFlora Junior Fit For School Chewable Tablets¹.

ProbiFlora – the PROs in probiotic health – to PROtect you and your family with PROven multi-strain benefits.

ProbiFlora’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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About us

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!