Ark Naturals Gentle Digest

Gentle Digest provides a source of beneficial intestinal bacteria and also helps to encourage their growth.

All mammals have numerous beneficial bacteria living in their digestive tracts (gut), including dogs, cats and humans.

Periodic use of antibiotics, as well as natural aging tends to decrease the amount of beneficial bacteria in your pet’s digestive system. Beneficial bacterium helps to digest food, absorb nutrients, and eliminate toxic substances. Alleviates occasional gas, diarrhea, and intestinal upset

What are the possible benefits of Gentle Digest?

• Contains chic ory – a prebiotic that helps to jump start the growth of good bacteria
• May help digestive balance, alleviates minor constipation and diarrhea
• Supports proper digestion and absorption of processed pet foods.
• Normal levels of lactobacilli in the gut supp orts the abs orption of essential trace elements including calcium, phosph orus, magnesium, and iron in both animals and humans.
• Lactobacilli produce B vitamins and vitamin K

What special ingredients does Gentle Digest feature?

• Gentle digest contains patented Lactobacillus bacteria sporogenes.
• These are microencapsulated lactobacillus spores which are resistant to heat and stomach acid. Sporogenes germinate within the optimum growth environment of the intestines to deliver a maximum concentration of viable (live) lactobacilli.
• Many probiotic products on the market for both humans and pets are useless because they contain virtually no live bacteria.
• Prebiotics – Chic ory root (FOS) fructo-oligosaccharides are small sugar polymers that serve as preferred foods f or lactogacilli, and encourage (jump start) their growth.