Postbiotic

They are going to be what feed them to help stay alive and active.

Postbiotics are what are made after your body and bacteria in the gut microbiome ferment on different types of fibers, and those postbiotics are very important as signalers.

I mentioned before butyrate being one of them.

I see this low, and actually if you look at the research, and I know I gotta keep this short, but all diseases they have seen across the board have low levels or less than ideal levels of butyrate because people are not diversifying their diet enough and getting enough fiber in their diet to even produce that.

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Postbiotics is officially defined as the inactivated probiotics and or their bioactive components, which basically just means they killed the bacteria.

So inactivated them, as they say it quite nicely.

They just killed them.

Probiotics you want to take because it nourishes your gut health into a favorable environment.

Postbiotics are the molecule these microbes living in our gut are producing from the energy or the diet we are eating.

And these are molecules that are beneficial to us, the human host.

And so over the years, what we have found and others have found is that this molecule is a very potent activator of a mechanism of action called mitophagy.

Talk to us more about probiotics in skincare because we do see that a lot.

Prebiotics and postbiotics are, are very important-

Okay

... especially when it comes to the, uh, the microbiome of the skin.

So that's just marketing.

Okay.

So we need to be looking for postbiotics on a label.

Or prebiotics even more so.

You mentioned one specific group where probiotics was not a good idea, right? So anybody on any type of immune therapy, immune system is depressed.

Is that where postbiotics, I know people are like, we're just different tenses here.

Postbiotics, so for those who don't know, so if we didn't specify this, probiotics are live organisms.

Yes, and correct me if I'm wrong, by the way.

Postbiotics are inactivated, or I guess they're dead organisms, but they're still beneficial, correct?

So postbiotics is the byproduct, right?

Of probiotics?