Regular Finchley Clinic customers – and, especially, regular readers of this blog – will surely be aware of the high esteem in which we hold the Global Health Trax (GHT) probiotic supplements, Threelac and Fivelac.

For many years, we’ve trumpeted and met with much agreement from our loyal customers over the fantastic merits of these two products. And yet, we’re happy to announce, there’s a new contender in town for their collective crown in the probiotic supplement stakes.

Taking after its forebears, GHT’s new offering, Sevenlac, comprises several probiotic strains (you guessed it; seven), suggesting that it *could* be an improvement on both Threelac (with its three strains) and Fivelac (with its five). Not least because Sevenlac offers up all five of Fivelac’s strains and then an extra two – one of which is the brand new Lactobacillus johnsonii train, of which GHT has high hopes, claiming it has ‘provocative possibilities’, including potentially ‘positive effects on the immune system’

Sevenlac probiotic strains

To be clear, then; according to GHT, Sevenlac’s proprietary formula contains the following active probiotic strains:

• Bacillus coagulans – may help control intermittent digestion/ stomach issues
• Bacillus subtilis – may crowd out ‘bad bacteria’ in the gut
• Enterococcus faecalis – boosts the gut levels of a major genus within the lactic acid bacteria group; one that naturally inhabits the digestive tract
• Lactobacillus acidophilus – breaks down nutrients in the gut to produce the likes of lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide, thereby helping create an optimal intestinal flora
• Bifidobacterium longum – may aid the smooth running of the digestive system
• Lactobacillus rhamnosus – may prevent and treat cases of diarrhoea and acute gastroenteritis
• Lactobacillus johnsonii – in positively affecting the immune system, this new probiotic strain may inhibit the growth of pathogenic bad bacteria and the production of gastrin (reducing acidity in the gut).

What might Sevenlac do for you?

If you’re not that familiar with probiotics and what’s so good about them, let’s take a quick look at why they can contribute so effectively to gut health and, therefore, to overall health – and so why Sevenlac may be a good supplement to try. The fact is that, by significantly boosting the levels of ‘good bacteria’ with all their health-giving properties in the intestinal tract, a course of naturally-derived probiotics (like Threelac, Fivelac or indeed Sevenlac) is terrific for repopulating your gut’s intestinal flora in the most positive way possible.

That’s to say, loading up your gut with these good bacteria can effectively crowd out the aforementioned pathogenic bad bacteria (which can cause microbial infection via yeast overgrowth and affect the efficacy of the immune system); thereby tipping the gut’s bacteria balance back in the direction it should be for healthy living.

Better than Threelac and Fivelac?

Not only does Sevenlac comprise seven different probiotic strains – three of which are to be found in Threelac and five in Fivelac – we think it’s also reasonable to assume that, as this new product has been entirely developed and released by GHT, it will contain the same sort of numbers of each of its live bacteria as the previous two GHT supplements do. That means that Sevenlac most likely comprises around 500 million of each of its seven live bacteria, ensuring there’s something like a total 3.5 billion live bacteria in each Sevenlac sachet available from us.

Now, if you know anything about probiotics, you may conclude this isn’t a particularly high count of live bacteria for a modern probiotic product to offer. Yet, like GHT, we at The Finchley Clinic don’t believe however billion live bacteria a probiotic offers a customer is necessarily as important as other (so-called) experts do. We believe it’s surely much more important what specific probiotic strains a supplement contains and, therefore, what an overall supplement can do for an individual. So, if Sevenlac’s seven strains prove to be collectively better for a customer’s gut health than Threelac’s three or Fivelac’s five, then clearly that’s significant.

Moreover, unlike Threelac and Fivelac, Sevenlac doesn’t contain canola oil; an oil ingredient that we don’t believe offers the finest health benefits. Instead, it comprises sunflower oil, which we feel is a better bet from a health-giving perspective.

So, to conclude, if you’ve got on well with Threelac and/ or Fivelac before now and you’re curious about Sevenlac (and, even if you’ve not tried either of its predecessor products but feel it sounds like it could do positive work for you), our advice is to give Sevenlac a go and see what you think. And be sure to let us know, too, we’d love to hear your feedback – we’re currently offering customers a 60-day price-back guarantee if they’re not entirely satisfied with this new probiotic product.