The word “probiotic” means “for life.” Probiotics are the good bacteria that live in the gut and maintain a healthy gastrointestinal tract. Science estimates there are some 100 trillion of these healthy microflora in the intestines, or 10 times the number of total cells making up the body.

The World Health Organization defines probiotics as “microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer health benefits to the host.” But just how much probiotics is “adequate?”

How Much Do You Need?
TV commercials often tout yogurt for its “healthy bacteria,” but is eating an occasional cup of yogurt enough? Hardly. Research suggests that in order to ingest an adequate amount of healthy bacteria, one would need to eat multiple cups of high-potency yogurt daily to ingest around 10 billion “colony-forming units,” also known as bacteria. Many of the average yogurts in grocery stores contain bacteria “only” numbering in the millions, which is not nearly enough. *

Can You Benefit From More Probiotics?
Illya Mechnikov, Nobel prize laureate and discoverer of probiotics, documented in detail the unusually lengthy life spans of societies that practiced eating probiotic-rich foods. He made consistent observations of men and women more than 100 years old leading highly active and healthy lives. Decades of research have backed up Mechnikov’s original observations demonstrating that ingesting certain probiotics can help improve body health. *

What Makes Ultra Probiotics Unique?
Ultra Probiotics features nine premium strains of probiotics, providing more than 25 billion live cells^ of beneficial microflora cultures. It includes more than 3 billion live cells^ of Lactobacillus bulgaricus, highly ranked for conditioning the GI tract to support healthy cultures of the other eight probiotics in the formula.*

For complete information about Ultra Probiotics visit the ALTRUM website at: http://www.altrumonline.com/products/DUP.aspx.

January ALTRUM News Online

Healthy Eyesight Helps Maintain Independence for Life

Being able to see means being able to do; however, good eyesight is increasingly under threat from several factors. The January issue brings you detailed information about the nutrients that may help protect eyesight for a lifetime.

This edition features ALTRUM Vision Power, a premium multi-nutrient formula designed to supplement good nutrition and potentially help maintain eyesight. *

Page two examines the specific nutrients in Vision Power.
On page three, regular users of this unique formula report their experiences. *

On page six, find results of a recent study of two of the nutrients thought to help eyesight.


Visit www.altrumonline.com to view the entire January issue of ALTRUM News

Give Yourself the Lasting Gift of Good Health

December ALTRUM News

Dealers Don and Kathy Reichert of Colorado Springs, Colo. are proof of the axiom that a healthy lifestyle can keep one healthy for life. Read the story of their good health and supplementation program on page one.

Get tips on how to help yourself to better health on page two.

Page three examines the role of probiotics in gut health and on page six find information about why it takes more than diet alone to ensure good health.

Visit www.altrumonline.com to view past issues of ALTRUM News.