HEALTH REPORT
Holiday-ready digestion & immunity
Heading away? Discover the simple pre-trip routine and carry-on staples that keep digestion calm, immunity strong, and traveller’s tummy off the itinerary.
Holidays should feel light, bags packed, plans made, appetite ready. But travel and festive eating can throw your gut (and your immune defences) off script: new foods, late nights, long flights, and different water all challenge the delicate balance of your microbiome and gut lining. A smart pre-trip ritual can help strengthen the gut barrier, feed friendly microbes, and bring along hardy probiotics shown to cope with travel stress. That’s the idea behind myBrainCo. Gut Repair, an award-winning, FODMAP-friendly daily powder that bundles probiotics, gentle prebiotic fibres, digestive enzymes, L-glutamine, soothing botanicals and supportive nutrients in one scoop.
Independent reviews and meta-analyses suggest S.boulardii can reduce the incidence of traveller’s diarrhoea when started before departure and continued during travel, small but meaningful protection that’s easy to add to your carry-on routine. Feed the good guys (without the bloat) Your beneficial microbes thrive when they’re fed the right fibres, especially when your diet gets patchy. Gut Repair includes Sunfiber® (partially hydrolysed guar gum/PHGG) and Fibregum™ (acacia gum), two well-tolerated, low-FODMAP certified prebiotic fibres that encourage Bifidobacteria and Lactobacillus
and boost short-chain fatty acids like butyrate to support comfortable, regular digestion and a strong gut barrier. A touch of resistant starch from organic green banana adds another gentle substrate, handy when travel slows you down.
Why the gut matters for immunity on holiday Around 70 percent of the immune system sits along the intestinal wall, so a resilient gut lining and balanced microbiome are your first line of defence when you’re sharing planes, ferries and family tables. Supporting the gut helps the immune system respond appropriately, neither under- reacting nor going into inflammatory overdrive. Two travel-tough probiotics Gut Repair features two complementary, shelf-stable probiotics. Saccharomyces boulardii is a probiotic yeast that naturally resists stomach acid and antibiotics, helping it reach the intestines intact to support microbial balance, gut-barrier integrity and healthy immune signalling. It’s been studied for traveller’s tummy and antibiotic- associated upsets, useful when routines and menus change. Bacillus coagulans is a spore-forming probiotic designed by nature to survive the journey through your digestive tract; it’s commonly used for IBS-type discomforts and fits well when you need something robust on the road.
Comfort with unfamiliar foods Festive buffets and roadside eats happen. Digestive enzymes in Gut Repair help break down proteins, fats and carbohydrates in heavier
Independent reviews and meta-analyses suggest S.boulardii can reduce the incidence of traveller’s diarrhoea when started before departure and continued during travel.
meals, while soothing botanicals, including marshmallow root and aloe inner leaf, support a calmer gut environment. L-glutamine supplies preferred fuel for intestinal cells and is widely used to support tight-junction integrity (think: nourishment for the gut wall). A bioavailable form of zinc further supports mucosal defences.
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