Lactic acid bacteria

The gut immune system

The inner surface of the intestine is a whopping 300-400 square meters. Around 80 percent of our immune system is directly linked to this enormous intestinal mucosa and is completely dependent on the internal microflora, and thus on access to the right microorganisms.

Vitamin K2

Textbooks from a few decades ago state that vitamin K deficiency is very rare because vitamin K is formed in the intestine.

This requires a balanced intestinal flora! It is not the intestine itself that produces vitamin K, but the lactic acid-forming bacteria that our unique intestinal flora is composed of.

Stress, antibiotics, sugar and preservatives are just some of the factors that contribute to disrupting the intestinal flora and thereby reducing the body's own production of vitamin K2.

A diet with fermented foods, on the other hand, will improve the body's - or more precisely, the intestinal flora's - ability to make vitamin K2.