Probiotic 20 Billion Supplement - 13 Probiotic Strains Per Serving Vegan Capsules - 30 Servings, Non-GMO

Nobody tells you that digestion is one of the things that changes, so most women assume they have simply started eating badly.

The gut community shifts with age, and in women it shifts again around the change. Diversity tends to narrow, the bifidobacteria side tends to thin out, and things move more slowly than they used to. That is the background to a lunch that suddenly costs you an afternoon.

Thirteen strains, and the two families they come from:

• Eight lactobacillus – acidophilus, salivarius, plantarum, rhamnosus, fermentum, reuteri, gasseri and paracasei. The family most associated with day to day digestive comfort
• Five bifidobacterium – lactis, bifidum, longum, animalis and breve. This is the side of the gut community that thins with age, and the side most associated with regularity
• In a vegetable capsule – cellulose rather than gelatin, with brown rice flour as the carrier the culture sits on

A single strain answers one question. A gut that has changed in several directions at once is rarely asking one question.

VERA Probiotic 20 Billion is one capsule a day with a glass of water, taken every day rather than on the days you feel you need it. What you get for that:

• Breadth rather than a single strain doing all the work
• Support for digestive comfort and a rhythm you can rely on
• One capsule, so it survives contact with a real morning

🌱 The first week can be a bit noisy, and that is expected

Some women notice a little more gas or rumbling in the first days on any probiotic. It is the most common reason a bottle gets abandoned in week one, and it usually settles on its own. We would rather tell you now than have you think something has gone wrong.

🗓 Two to four weeks is where women say they notice

That is the window people describe in their own words, and it is worth holding to. What they report is rarely dramatic. It is a week where nothing in particular happened, and the realisation that this is unusual.

👗 The way women actually describe the change

Almost nobody talks about their microbiome. They talk about clothes fitting the way they did in the morning, about not planning the day around a bathroom, and about eating out without doing arithmetic first.

☀ Every day, including the good ones

A probiotic taken on the bad days only never gets a chance. These are living cultures passing through rather than building up a reserve, so the daily habit is the product. Individual response varies here more than in almost any other category.

This is a category built on numbers, so here is what our numbers do and do not tell you.

• On the twenty billion, plainly – that figure is part of the product's name. It is not printed in the ingredient list, there is no split showing how it divides across the thirteen strains, and there is no statement of whether it is measured at manufacture or at the end of shelf life. We have asked the supplier for all three. That is the whole caveat, and this is the only place on this page it appears
• The label names species, not strain codes – probiotic research is done on specific strains with codes after the name, and this label gives the species. So you will not find us borrowing a trial from a strain we cannot prove is in the bottle. What we can tell you is which thirteen species are in it, which is more than most labels in this aisle manage
• A bigger number is not a better product – that is the official position rather than ours, and it is the single most useful thing to know when you are standing in front of a shelf comparing bottles at 10, 50 and 100 billion
• It is not a treatment for anything – if your digestion has changed in a way that worries you, or changed suddenly, that belongs with a doctor rather than with a bottle from a shelf
• It is not a hormone product – nothing here touches oestrogen, hot flushes or night sweats, whatever the rest of the women's supplement aisle implies about gut bacteria and hormones

What is left is thirteen named species, one capsule a day, and a page that tells you what it does not know.

This was made for women whose digestion started behaving differently somewhere in their forties, without anything obvious having changed.

It's especially for you if:

• You have started dressing around your stomach in the afternoon rather than the morning
• Your rhythm used to be something you never thought about and now it is something you track
• You have been on antibiotics recently and things have not quite come back
• You have compared two bottles on CFU count and had no idea whether the bigger one was actually better
• You want one capsule in the morning rather than a sachet to mix or three to swallow

Thirteen named species, 30 capsules to a bottle, one a day. Gluten free, lactose free, corn free, allergen free, hormone free, antibiotic free, alcohol free, non-GMO, all natural and vegan. Made in the USA.

It is not for you if you are pregnant or nursing, under 18, or living with a condition that affects your immune system, in which case probiotics are a conversation for your doctor first.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If VERA isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.