Prebiotics, Probiotics and Postbiotics: A Simple Guide to Gut Health

Your gut is home to trillions of microbes that help digest food, make certain vitamins and support your immune system. Keeping that community happy comes down to three things.

Prebiotics: the food

Prebiotics are types of fibre that your body can't digest but your good bacteria can. Onions, garlic, bananas, oats and fructooligosaccharides (FOS) are common sources.

Probiotics: the helpers

Probiotics are live beneficial microbes. Curd, buttermilk and fermented foods contain them. Bacillus coagulans is a spore-forming strain that holds up well through stomach acid.

Postbiotics: the results

When good bacteria ferment fibre, they produce useful compounds such as butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid that nourishes the cells lining your colon.

Why all three together?

Feeding the bacteria, adding helpful ones and supplying the compounds they make covers the whole cycle. That's the idea behind Chewly Gut, India's first 3-in-1 gut gummy.

Simple daily habits

Eat more fibre from vegetables, pulses and whole grains. Include a fermented food daily. Drink enough water, sleep well, and move your body. These matter as much as anything in a bottle.