Ep. 86 – KePro: How to Maintain Gut Health & Fill in the Gaps of Your Diet – with Leslie Cannon

Leslie Cannon has 25 years of experience in the food industry, doing everything from formulations to R&D challenges, QC standards to manufacturing, retail channels to distribution. 

Leslie became fascinated with how food impacts the body, so she spent years studying with scientists, microbiologist, and PHDs to learn more. Then Leslie’s personal physician asked her to formulate a food product for his cancer patients. Not because the doctor wanted a food to cure cancer but because most of his patients ended up essentially starving to death, and they needed a nutrient-dense food that they could actually eat.

This started the journey to creating KePro, a kefir protein probiotic, natural whole food created to help maintain your digestive health and fill in the gaps of what is lost in the American diet. It contains 33 billion probiotics per gram, vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, and natural electrolytes, all working together in a symbiotic relationship.

KePro = Kefir + Probiotic

So, what is Kefir?

Kefir or kephir is a fermented milk drink similar to a thin yogurt that is made from kefir grains, a specific type of mesophilic symbiotic culture. The drink originated in the North Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and Russia, where it is prepared by inoculating cow, goat, or sheep milk with kefir grains.

Kefir contains the probiotic Lactobacillus kefiri and the carbohydrate kefiran, both of which protect against harmful bacteria.

Full-fat kefir is not only a great source of calcium but also vitamin K2, which plays a central role in calcium metabolism. Supplementing with K2 has been shown to reduce your risk of fractures by as much as 81%, and it also helps with fighting cancer. 

And we’ve all heard about probiotics… but how important are they, really?

Probiotics can…

• Increase healthy bacteria 
  • Probiotic Supplementation in Patients with Alzheimer’s Dementia – An Explorative Intervention Study.
• Promote a healthy immune response in your gut
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29693607
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27810310
• Reduce gut inflammation
  • Probiotic Supplementation in Patients with Alzheimer’s Dementia – An Explorative Intervention Study.
• Reduce leaky gut
  • The effects of Lactobacillus plantarum on small intestinal barrier function and mucosal gene transcription; a randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial.
  • Immune response and intestinal permeability in children with acute gastroenteritis treated with Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
  • Probiotic supplementation affects markers of intestinal barrier, oxidation, and inflammation in trained men; a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial.

Other resources on probiotics:

• The benefits of probiotics bacteria
• Impact of probiotics on colonizing microbiota of the gut.
• Fate, activity, and impact of ingested bacteria within the human gut microbiota. 
• Dr. Ruscio’s Probiotics Starter Guide

If you want to try KePro yourself, you can order it from thomunderwood.net/toolbox.

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Download this Episode MP3.

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Resources:

• Get KePro: thomunderwood.net/toolbox
• Dr. Ruscio’s Probiotics Starter Guide

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