PB 8 Pro-Biotic Acidophilus - Vegetarian Nutrition Now 60 VCaps

PB 8 Pro-Biotic Acidophilus, 60 vegetarian capsules for the bacteria that beat you to the apartment

PB 8 Pro-Biotic Acidophilus from Nutrition Now is a vegetarian probiotic formula in a 60 VCap bottle, made to support digestive health and the steady background work your gut already keeps running. The word doing the work here is "Acidophilus." It's a name that means "acid-loving," which is a strange thing to put on the front of a bottle you swallow. (Most things name themselves after a benefit. This one named itself after a preference, like it wanted you to know what kind of place it likes before you sent it down there. A bacteria that announces it loves the acid is a bacteria that already made peace with where it's headed.) It supports digestive comfort, the quiet kind that happens whether or not you're paying attention.

Then there's the "Vegetarian," a word that describes the capsule, not the resident. (The shell skipped the animal. What goes inside is still a colony of living things, which is a fine line for a vegetarian product to walk, but the line holds. A capsule that went vegetarian and then filled itself with bacteria is a capsule that drew its boundaries somewhere specific.) It promotes a healthy balance of gut flora and helps maintain the natural processes a body already knows how to run, the steady upkeep that doesn't file a report.

Why People Keep It Around

• PB 8 Pro-Biotic Acidophilus, 60 vegetarian capsules to the bottle
• "Acidophilus" means acid-loving, which tells you what the resident is into
• The "VCap" went vegetarian, which is a boundary a probiotic can draw
• Supports digestive comfort, the steady background kind
• Promotes a healthy balance of gut flora as part of a routine you already keep
• Helps maintain the natural digestive processes a body already knows how to run
• Good for someone who wanted their probiotic named plainly and counted out in advance

How to Work It Into Your Day

Take it as the label directs, with water, so it has company on the way down. That's the procedure. (A probiotic works best when you keep it regular, which is the part people skip. The capsule can't keep a schedule for you. Showing up was always the hard part, not the swallowing.)

It pairs naturally with the rest of a routine you already keep, the steady meals and the moving around and the part where the day settles into its order. (PB 8 supports digestive comfort, but it can't open its own bottle. Nothing built to back up the bacteria already inside you has ever twisted its own cap out of consideration for you, which seems like a missed opportunity for something this committed to the cause.) Store it somewhere cool and dry, since a bottle of capsules sits and waits without asking for much. For a probiotic that named itself after the acid it loves and then went vegetarian about the shell, that's a fair trade.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.