If you’ve ever had a “gut feeling,” you’re likely getting signals from an unexpected source: your second brain. Hidden in the walls of the digestive system, the “brain in your gut” is revolutionizing medicine’s understanding of the links between digestion, mood, immunity, health and even the way you think. Scientists call this the enteric nervous system and it contains more than 100 million nerves lining your gastrointestinal tract from esophagus to rectum.

No, your gut can’t do your algebra homework or map your route home. But it definitely communicates with the big brain in ways that are still being discovered. Researchers are finding evidence that irritation in the gastrointestinal system may send signals to the central nervous system that trigger mood changes, anxiety, depression and a range of mental health challenges. Researchers also suggest that up to 70% of the immune system is located in the gut. 

So keeping your gut in optimal health is not only good for digestion, its necessary for overall wellbeing.*

Your body is a complex machine that already contains trillions of enzymes and probiotics, each of which has a specific function. You produce a cornucopia of enzymes to control every kind of biological process from breathing to mental health to digestion. You are also host to trillions of microbes that keep the digestive environment healthy and produce compounds that affect overall well-being. These many enzymes and probiotics often complement each other, working synergistically to boost and support your body.

The intricate diversity of enzymes and probiotics in your body just cannot be simplified to a single-strain probiotic supplement claiming to cure all, like so many brands out there. You need a research-backed variety of digestive enzymes (to breakdown food and other remnants in your gastrointestinal system), probiotics (to supplement your natural protective layer of bacteria), prebiotics (as food for the probiotics), and systemic enzymes (to lend support to your body's biological processes).*