Naked Biotics

Raw, Natural and Vegan Probiotics

What is Naked Vegan Probiotics?

Naked Vegan Probiotics is a blend of live, fermented bacteria, brewed specially with botanicals including Rose Hip to help maintain the normal function of the gut, so you can feel good and glow from the inside out.

Unlike regular freeze-dried tablets, Naked Biotics exist in live liquid form; each bottle contains 12 strains and three species of bacteria that are able to reach your digestive system alive. We add specially selected herbs too, so every single dose is bursting with goodness.

After fermenting at body temperature for 21 days using our NBTP (naked body temperature process), the bacteria in Naked Biotics are strong, adaptable and ready to restore natural harmony. Naked Biotics is vegan, natural and raw.

Our mission is to help you listen to your body and reconnect with nature, because we believe life in its raw form is powerful.

Why Vegan Naked Biotics?

Have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach or knots in your tummy? These gut feelings give us a glimpse into just how important the digestive system is to our overall health and wellbeing.

Billions of bacteria, nerve cells and mood inducing chemicals, such as serotonin, are based in the gut; it’s also home to roughly 80% of the immune system. Pretty amazing right? However, modern lifestyles can disrupt this natural harmony, and prevent you from feeling your best.

Naked Biotics is designed to support your body from the inside out.

At Naked Biotics we harness the power of science and nature to deliver you a daily dose of raw life; enabling you to function at your full potential.

Why the Fermentation Process ?

LET’S TALK FERMENTATION…

Fermentation is a process that’s been around for centuries. Fermentation is the process in which a substance breaks down into a simpler substance. Microorganisms like yeast and bacteria usually play a role in the fermentation process, creating beer, wine, bread, kimchi, yogurt and other foods. Human beings have actually been taking fermented probiotics for thousands of years already before the medical industry came in and said we need to take capsules.

Fermentation means to take a food and use it to grow good bacteria. Kefir and kombucha are natural probiotics. Soya sauce is naturally fermented, and so are a lot of the fermented soy products they eat in Asia. Sauerkraut in Germany.

In South Africa a traditional fermented food is Amasi (maas). All of these are natural ways of growing good bacteria for the body.

Naked Biotics probiotics are manufactured through a fermentation process as well. A select and very consistent group of microorganisms are added to a food grade fermenting tank along with various ingredients and herbal extracts. The temperature in the tanks is highly controlled and is generally maintained at 37.4 degrees Celsius, which is half a degree above human body temperature. The reason for this is that the microbes selected are all what is termed “mesophillic”, meaning they grow best in moderate temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, typically between 20 and 45 °C. So they like the body’s temperature and during the manufacturing process, they get used to the environment they will be entering.

After all the ingredients are added to the fermentation tank, it is sealed and then closely monitored for the next 18 – 21 days. Daily tests are taken for readings such as pH (acid/alkaline scale) and Brix (carbohydrate or sugar levels). During fermentation, the microorganisms consume the sugars and multiply, producing lactic acid as a by-product. Once the pH reaches the specified level, samples are then drawn and sent for external analysis at an accredited 3rd party laboratory. Only once this Certificate of Analysis is issued to us, do we compete the packaging phase.

What is the benefit of fermented probiotics?

With fermented probiotics like Naked Biotics, a whole wide group of beneficial bacteria are grown together in real world conditions. They are given a food source and have to survive together, so whilst they are growing, they are adapting, the weak ones are dying out, they are fighting off bad bacteria…and more interestingly, they are also keeping each other alive. So, at the end of the fermentation cycle, you have a group of extremely resilient bacteria that have not only adapted to real world conditions, but they have also created an environment that is good for them to live in! And THAT is very important.

WHAT MAKES NAKED BIOTICS MORE EFFECTIVE – UNDERSTANDING CFU COUNT?

A quick look at the range of probiotic products available immediately reveals two segments: liquid (fermented drinks) and dry (capsules, tablets and powders).

Dry products come in many shapes and sizes, however the technology behind them is broadly similar and generally involves freeze-drying.

Liquid products are generally fermented and contain live bacteria and a source of nutrition for the bacteria. Human beings have been taking fermented probiotics for thousands of years already before the medical industry came in and said we need to take capsules. Fermentation means to take a food and use it to grow good bacteria. Kefir and kombucha are natural fermented probiotics. Soya sauce, Sauerkraut and Amazi (maas) are also naturally fermented. All of these are natural ways of growing good bacteria for the body.

The way that the dry probiotics are made is that they will identify particular bacteria then grow them each individually in a laboratory and multiply them into the billions of “Colony forming units” or CFU’s. They then freeze-dry them to keep them alive and put them into capsules. The reason they need billions of CFU’s is because the bacteria are not very resilient (strong) and so a lot of them die before reaching the gut. These bacteria were not exposed to real world conditions as they’ve been grown alone in a lab with no competition – they have not had to fight to survive, adapt themselves, compete etc, and so they are not very robust.

The probiotics companies have solved this problem by producing them in the billions of CFU’s per dose so that even if a lot of them die, enough are making it through to the gut. But at the end of the day, they are still not the most natural form of bacteria and are still not as strong as they should be.

With fermented liquid probiotics a whole wide group of beneficial bacteria are grown together in real world conditions. They are given a food source and have to survive together, so whilst they are growing, they are adapting, the weak ones are dying out, they are fighting off bad bacteria and more interestingly, they are also keeping each other alive. So, at the end of the fermentation cycle, you have a group of extremely resilient bacteria that have not only adapted to real world conditions, but they have also created an environment that is good for them to live in.

“So, it is quite revolutionary and is the only live probiotic that can get a shelf life like that.”

Yes, but how many CFUs are in there? Well, as you have now seen, CFUs only apply when it comes to freeze-dried capsule probiotics. Why? Because you need billions of them to even survive and make it to where they are supposed to be going. When you are dealing with naturally fermented liquid products, CFUS are not an issue because the bacteria take very well to the body. You don’t hear people saying, “how many CFUs in Kombucha or Kefir?” It doesn’t apply because you are not dealing with pure cultures. So again – CFU counts are only important when dealing with freeze-dried bacteria. I can tell you, however, that we are required to do laboratory tests on every batch we produce, and the CFUs in Naked Biotics are anywhere between 1 million and 100 million per dose, much the same as in nature, but not in the billions…as it’s not needed.

Naked Biotics are live, non-freeze-dried, liquid probiotics. The advantage it has over other fermented drinks like Kombucha, Kefir or Maas is that it is also produced in a method that gives it a long shelf-life. Because of the stringent temperature controls and control of sugars and pH in our brewing process, we create a product that is stable for more than 2 years once bottled. So, it is quite revolutionary and is the only live probiotic that can get a shelf life like that.