Are you wondering whether you should be taking probiotics for women? Learn more about the link between probiotics and improved gut and vaginal health.
You have more bacteria inside your gut than you have cells in your entire body (approximately 10 times more, to be exact). That’s pretty hard to imagine, isn’t it? Though we often talk about bacteria with disdain, not all bacteria are bad. In fact, without the diverse colonies of beneficial bacteria inside our digestive tracts, we wouldn’t be able to digest our food or extract nutrients from it.
But it’s not just the gut that contains essential bacteria. The vagina and urinary tract also contain a delicate balance of bacteria that work together to create a hostile environment for unwanted bacteria. The ideal vaginal pH is anywhere between 3.8 to 4.5. Anything outside of this range could lead to a bacterial imbalance. We’ll talk about problems that can arise from imbalanced vaginal bacteria in a minute.
First, let’s talk about probiotics for women (such as the kind included in Hersmoothie) and how they can help us ladies maintain the ideal bacterial balance in our digestive tract, urinary tract, and vagina.