What if you took already excellent nutrients (high quality greens, B vitamins, mushrooms, etc.) and made them even MORE bioavailable? Welcome to fermentation! The process of fermentation breaks down plant compounds to release their full nutritional potency. The end result helps to ensure maximum absorption and digestion.
40 Trillion Microorganisms
Your gut is host to over 40 trillion microorganisms that should work in harmony with your entire body. This community of beneficial bacteria, referred to as the microbiome, is made up of more than 500 different species.
Fermentation begins when the microbes, also known as probiotics, living throughout your gastrointestinal tract work hard to “pre-digest” the food you eat. Your own personal microbiome helps transform the food you eat into hundreds of thousands of individual postbiotic metabolites that are more bioavailable.
What are Postbiotics?
“Postbiotics” is a term that refers to the vast array of metabolic byproducts produced from probiotic bacteria that have enormous biologic activity in the gut and thus, influence many of your body’s vital functions. These probiotic-produced postbiotic compounds play impressively important roles in regulating and maintaining the body’s healthy internal microbiome. Postbiotic metabolites are the biochemical flux that initiate thousands of chemical reactions in every one of your cells throughout the body.
What happens if you don’t use “pristine nutrients”?
Even those with poor digestion can benefit after consuming highly bioavailable, probiotic-fermented nutrients. Since the Standard American Diet and environmental stressors (such as exposure to pesticides, medications, chlorine in water, smoking, etc.) can negatively affect the health of your microbiome, careful attention to quality is the key to the fermentation process. Therefore, only “pristine ingredients” should be used for fermentation.
“Pristine nutrients” are defined as high quality nutrients that have been scientifically tested for purity, potency, identity, and phyto-forensically screened (for contaminants such as herbicides and pesticides) and more. If pristine nutrients are NOT used in the fermentation process, the probiotic colonies will not yield high quality substrates – in fact, you will have a compromised product.
The fermentation process must also be individually tailored to the plant material being fermented with the use of stringent product-specific temperature, timing, humidity and the use of a high quality probiotic culture in order to create exceptional nutrient quality and potency.