What’s so important about gut health?

Most of your health is depending on a well-balanced (and fluent) microbiome.

Some forms of communication happen on such a microscopic level that they cannot be seen or heard. Sometimes, what works diligently for us goes completely unnoticed.

One device of nature’s innate ability to communicate is the microbiome (you’ve probably already heard of it). The microbbiome is a collection of bacteria, fungi, and even parasites that exists on and within each of us. It’s what helps facilitate communication and connection between us and the natural world.

Your microbiome is essentially a collection of microscopic communicators, helping to digest food, regulate immune function, and produce essential vitamins and neurotransmitters that help with mood. In essence, most of your health is depending on a well-balanced (and fluent) microbiome.

A balanced microbiome communicates with the intestinal cells and prevents disease-causing bacteria from sticking to the gut lining.  A dysfunctional, unbalanced microbiome, on the other hand, contributes to inflammation, digestive issues, brain fog, and too many diseases to name.

Bacteria is not the enemy. In fact, you are mostly microbes! We have at least 10 times as many microbial cells as human cells.

FAQs

Usage Instructions:

• • Adults and Children 3 and Over:
    • ION recommends 1 teaspoon of ION* Gut + Microbiome 3x/day. Optimal support is achieved when taken 30 minutes prior to meals, but you can take it immediately before, with, or after a meal, (or on an empty stomach) and still receive benefit.

Sensitive Adult Usage:

• • Results can vary with initial ION* Gut + Microbiome usage, with many customers reporting rapid and profound early results. These results are not the direct effects of the supplement itself, but instead reflect the innate healing process that occurs in a body as the firewall system is optimally up and running.
  • There is a subset of individuals, however, that can experience symptoms of tiredness, headache, bloating/increased gas, or bowel changes. If you feel you may be sensitive to the changes that can occur as your innate defences and capacity for water/nutrient absorption are restored, we suggest a slower approach. Start with 1/8 teaspoon of ION* Gut + Microbiome daily, increasing usage slowly, as tolerated, to get to recommended label usage.

Do any of the ION* products need to be refrigerated? 

• • No, all of the products in the ION* suite are shelf stable and do not require refrigeration.

Is sediment and variation in colour normal? 

• • Yes, every product in the ION* suite is all natural and soil derived; the colour, taste, and amount of sediment in each bottle can vary. It is neither abnormal nor harmful.

Is ION* Gut + Microbiome similar to probiotics or enzymes?  

• • • ION* Gut + Microbiome is not a prebiotic, a probiotic supplement, or a direct source of enzymes. It contains zero bacteria. We need a much more diverse microbiome in our gut than one can achieve by replicating the same strands of bacteria over and over (this monoculture can happen when we take probiotics).
    • ION* Gut + Microbiome is unique in that it naturally enhances the diversity of your individual microbiome in your gut. It works as a communication network that gives our bodies the tools to create their own bacterial ecosystem again – that ecosystem that has been wiped out by environmental toxins such as antibiotics and pesticides. Without the communication network, there will always be overgrowth of certain species and underrepresentation of others.

Note: Please consult your healthcare practitioner concerning the addition or removal of probiotics and digestive enzymes in your personal regimen; as each person is unique, we cannot make individual recommendations.