BodyBio Sodium Butyrate - Postbiotic for Gut Health, Leaky Gut Repair, Digestive Support, Bloating Relief, & Microbiome Balance - Butyric Acid Supplement for GI Wellness

Like all medications or supplements, this should not be taken without first figuring out what the problem is and then determining realistic ways to treat it. Taking something just because 'I have stomach issues' or 'it's trendy' or 'I saw it on social media' is a horrible way to get to whatever vague definition of health you're trying to achieve, rather if you know what the problem is, then you can start figuring out how to get there. If your problem is upper GI (stomach, duodenum) this is not the cure you're looking for. If your problem is lower GI (caudal small intestine, colon) then this might actually help, especially if leaky gut is involved. If your problem is lousy diet, little sleep, lots of stress, and no exercise, all the pills in the world won't help as you need to fix your lifestyle, the same with food sensitivities and allergies, get tested and adjust your diet accordingly. Yes this stuff smells weird, it is also called butyric acid (the name comes from the greek or latin for 'butter') and they use it as a fake butter flavor in foods. Does it work? That depends on the problem!I first heard about this stuff not on social media or on a trendy daytime talkshow but rather two years running at a professional conference for bovine medical professionals (cow doctors) from two different speakers, from two different states, talking about two different topics (immunology and ruminant nutrition). A professor of mine once said a ruminant is basically a pig's GI tract with a rumen tacked on, and he wasn't far wrong, as most mammals (sans horses and certain rodents, the 'hind gut fermenters') have a fairly similar hind gut. We spent hours talking about the role of stress and diet on the GI tract, particularly the phenomenon called 'leaky gut,' and the immune system's response thereto. Butyric acid came up quite a bit, not as something for sale, these guys weren't sales reps but researchers, professors, and nutritionists, but it plays a huge role in calming the immune system's response to junk in our gut, especially junk that leaks into the blood. It also helps feed the good bacteria and the colon cells and strengthens the bonds between those cells, helping prevent said leaks. All I could wonder was why no one had told me this from the human medical side if it is so vital in cows?! I did a bit of digging and found studies with positive results in dairy calves, weanling pigs, broiler chickens, rats and in vitro cell lines but only a few case studies on the human side. For $20 I thought it worth a shot.I have suffered from what I call 'IBS' for over a decade, but it's worse than just diarrhea: it is body aches, headache, no energy, brain fog, emotional unease, itchy skin...life kind of sucks most of the time. I was tested for food sensitivity and try to avoid the worst of that, which helped a ton. I added more fiber to my diet which also helps some, but on my best days I was still at 75% capacity and on my worst days, it is sort of like the flu without the cold symptoms. I tried colostrum at my doctor's behest (bad idea when you have a severe whey sensitivity!) and then a good probiotic (that only made the diarrhea worse) but had pretty much given up on supplements. Then I heard about this and thought it was worth a try, at worse I'd be sick for three days and out $20.I've been on it a little over a week and just ordered a bigger bottle. It hasn't done anything for my stomach per se, it is still pretty much like having a ticked bucking horse in your abdomen at times, but for the rest of me it has been a most excellent investment and I hope in time even my irritated gut will eventually chill out (weeks to months probably). It calms down the immune system (inflammation), it feeds the gut and good bacteria (promotes healing), and it repairs those leaky junctions between the cells (which is what allows the leaks and ticks off the immune system in the first place). Besides for the typical unhappy stomach, I feel like I haven't since I got sick: I have energy, the mental fog has lifted, my emotions are more balanced and calm, I don't ache everywhere and haven't had a vague headache for 9 days. I'll still need to stick to my strict diet but maybe this stuff will encourage enough healing that I can someday expand it a little? Maybe with enough time and healing the GI signs themselves will chill out? With less exposure to foreign stuff in the blood maybe my immune system will chill out too? But at least I can now have some semblance of a life. It won't cure it, especially on its own, but it is a huge step in the right direction. This is also with a covid exposure (I never get respiratory disease but I feel like I've just eaten a large triple meat pizza with my immune response), prednisone (I've cut out any pain killers or steroids unless necessary, those being a covid exposure or a migraine), and discovering I can no longer eat brown rice pasta (which I have eaten a couple times this week and upset the primadona I call my intestine), with all that this stuff still works! Just make sure you're using it for the right stuff: certain types of IBS, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory GI diseases like celiac and crohns, leaky gut syndrome. Stomach ulcers, pancreas and bile issues, stomach acid, a primary issue with allergies or sensitivities (instead of the leaky gut leading to the sensitivity), SIBO and other upper GI maladies probably won't benefit much unless there is a combination of issues. Please check with your health care provider and nutritionist before making any life changing medical choices!

Works great for my digestion & reduces acid reflux & bloating in my stomach.

I’ve been using this for several months now, and just updated my review. It’s really annoying with the amount of people who post something online about how amazing a product is after trying it for a few days then you never hear from them again because it was a placebo effect.I tried the calcium/magnesium formula of butyrate around 10 years ago, but my GI system couldn't tolerate it. That was probably because of the magnesium content, which is a strong laxative. I'm also male and don't like getting too much calcium, which is bad for us and easy to over do. Additionally, all the research studies out there are around sodium butyrate. There's pretty much no research whatsoever around calcium butyrate or magnesium butyrate! If you don’t know already, butyrate is a short chain fatty acid found in butter, and in lesser quantities in certain cheeses. It is also produced by your intestinal bacteria. Numerous studies have purported it to have numerous beneficial properties. Unfortunately, butyrate only makes up about 2.7% of butter. So, you would need about 22 grams of butter (a little over one and half tablespoons of butter) to get the butyrate in one of these capsules.Anyhow, I had suffered from severe mostly morning IBS-D for 20+ years after several courses of antibiotics for acne as a teen. A little over a year ago I finally found a high fiber food I could digest by blending pinto beans and increasing them slowly in my diet up to a couple cans a day with no side effects. This helped me tremendously. Then a few months ago I discovered this formula. I started taking 4 a day, but started getting weird gut issues, nausea, dry skin and lips. I moved down to a couple capsules a day, and finally stopped it altogether. Right after I stopped it I became stopped up for nearly a week, which has never happened to me. Then things started to go backwards a little. I decided to add the sodium butyrate back a month ago small amounts at a time, and now I’m able to eat pretty much anything, including all the super healthy high fiber fruits and vegetables I could never eat. Most days now I end up emptying out the capsule and gagging down just half (or less) of the powder inside instead of taking a full capsule. Or, I talk one capsule every other day. If I take any more than that, I start getting side effects again. After doing some research, I saw that nausea was reported in one of the studies on it, along with vomiting. After doing a Google search, I saw someone else who posted in on online discussion forum about this same side effect after discontinuing sodium butyrate.If you aren't familiar with the NLM's Pubmed, you should Google it and look for research articles on sodium butyrate (make sure to do an advanced search for sodium butyrate in the title). You will find numerous studies regarding sodium butyrate's beneficial properties in most aspects of health including cancer, sleep, inflammation, brain functioning, insulin sensitivity, and more. There are however a couple studies reporting that excess butyrate beyond what is produced by a normal host of bacteria in your gut, can actually cause damage, hyper-permeability, and inflammation! So, if you have gas a lot or fast transit such that there's a lot of fermentation going on in you, you may already have too much butyrate in your system. Google's scholarly article database (scholar.google.com) is also a good platform for searching research studies. Sodium butyrate also functions as a histone deacetylase inhibitor in human health.

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