Our gut not only helps digest food but also acts like a second brain, affecting our immune system, mood, energy levels and even how well we sleep. Around 70% of our body’s immune system sits within our digestive system so it is important to keep it functioning at its best to optimise our overall health and well-being.1 Incorporating prebiotics into your diet is one way of doing this.
Ensure is contains 28 essential vitamins and minerals and is enriched with prebiotic fibre to support a healthy digestive system:2
Helps keep the lining of your digestive system healthy.5
Works closely with vitamin B12 to help the body break down protein.7
Helps the body digest carbohydrate, fat and protein.6
A prebiotic is a type of dietary fibre that encourages the growth and activity of certain ‘good’ bacteria in the large intestine.3 Dietary fibres that have high prebiotic effects include inulin, fructo-oligosaccharides (fructans or FOS) and galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS).3
As well as boosting beneficial bacteria in your gut, prebiotics have also been suggested to:4
Help your body better absorb some nutrients
Support a healthy heart
Help weight management
Help lower the risk of gut infections
Maintain muscle strength and support bone health
Maintain muscle strength and bone health without flavour
Low volume, high-energy for those who have difficulty drinking larger volumes
High protein and CaHMB to support muscle strength and recovery.15–18
High calorie, protein dense to help gain and maintain healthy weight19
Strength and energy for malnutrition risk, surgery, injury or illness recovery.20
Food for Special Medical Purposes. Use only under medical supervision.
FOS: fructo-oligosaccharides. GOS: galacto-oligosaccharides.
References: 1. Wiertsema SP, et al. Nutrients. 2021 Mar 9;13(3):886. 2. Ensure® product Label. 3. Monash University. Dietary Fibre And Natural Prebiotics For Gut Health: FAQs. Available at: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/gastroenterology/prebiotic/faq#3. Accessed: April 2023. 4. Slavin J. Nutrients. 2013;5(4):1417–35. 5. Harvard School of Public Health. The Nutrition Source – Vitamin A. Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamin-a/. Accessed: May 2023. 6. Harvard School of Public Health. The Nutrition Source – Vitamin B. Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamins/vitamin-b/. Accessed: May 2023. 7. Harvard School of Public Health. The Nutrition Source – Folic acid. Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/folic%20acid/. Accessed: May 2023. 8. Ensure® Plus Strength Product Label. 9. Deutz NE, et al. Clin Nutr. 2016;35(1):18–26. 10. Ekinci O, et al. Nutr Clin Pract. 2016; 31(6): 829–835. 11. Malafarina V, et al. Maturitas. 2017;101:42–50. 12. Ensure® TwoCal HN Product Label. 13. Ensure® Plus Product Label. 14. Harvard School of Public Health – The Nutrition Source (Vitamin D). Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamin-d/ Accessed: April 2023. 15. Nutrient reference values for Australia and New Zealand (Vitamin D). Available at: https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/nutrients/vitamin-d. Accessed: April 2023. 16. Puertollano MA, et al. Curr Top Med Chem. 2011;11(14):1752–66. 17. Walsh NP. Sports Med 2019;49(Suppl 2):S153-S168. 18. Harvard School of Public health – The Nutrition Source (Zinc). Available at: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/zinc/. Accessed: April 2023. 19. Mayo Clinic Health System – Support your immune function with good nutrition. Available at: https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/support-your-immune-function-with-good-nutrition Accessed: April 2023. 20. Prietl B et al. Nutrients. 2013;5(7):2502–21.
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