If you’ve ever suffered with bloating, you’ll know how uncomfortable it can be. Bloating occurs when the bowel stores up excess gas and it can affect anyone. There are many ways to control your symptoms. At Altruvita, our team engage in ongoing research to find the nutrients that love our bowels the most.

 

Green Tea is high in the antioxidants, polyphenols which are absorbed by our guts and play a large role in the maintenance of a healthy gut flora.** Green tea is widely researched to support good digestive function.**

 

Curcumin, which comes from the Indian spice turmeric has antioxidant** benefits that have been recognised for centuries and is widely linked to evidence of digestive comfort**. Altruvita’s Curcumin is from CurcuWIN®, a form of curcumin that is 46x more bioavailable than others on the market.*** Adding turmeric to cooking can be really helpful too, but will generate far less therapeutic benefits than taking a supplement.

 

Vitamin D has been linked to bowel inflammation, and deficiency is linked to those suffering with IBS and IBD. Also known as the sunshine vitamin, Vitamin D is hard to source through the diet so plenty of sunlight on the skin and a good quality supplement are the best ways to absorb it.

 

Our diets are a great place to start to source these 3 important compounds/vitamins, adding omega-3 rich foods such as oily fish and nuts, drinking regular green tea and adding turmeric to your cooking. However, to have a meaningful impact on the bowels you would need to include a significant and unobtainable quantity of each per day consistently. This is where good quality supplementation comes in.

 

Altruvita Happy Tum contains 200mg Camelia sinensis leaf Green Tea extract, only 0.1-0.5% caffeine, 1000IU of Vitamin D3 and 500mg of CurcuWIN®.  

        

 

**GB ARTICLE 13.1 BOTANICALS ON HOLD LIST

*** JÄGER R ET AL. COMPARATIVE ABSORPTION OF CURCUMIN FORMULATIONS. NUTR.J 2014;13(1):11.