Bacteria often get a bad rep in the health world. Not all bacteria are bad, however. Many don’t realize that good bacteria exist in our body and should be promoted, not repressed or killed. One way to support good bacteria is through probiotics, which come in an array of forms. There are common misconceptions surrounding probiotics. Here are five de-bunked myths about them: Myth #1: Avoid microbes at all cost Wrong! There is a stigma surrounding microbes, a type of bacterial microorganism found in each and every one of us. That’s right, our bodies contain millions of microbes, 99% of which are ..read more

  Most people generally know drinking water is a good thing for the body. Its biggest job is to circulate nutrients - when we are dehydrated, things just do not work as well.  Water also makes us less cranky – yes, dehydration can cause headaches and/or affect your mood.  Other benefits for the body include better athletic performance since water composes 75% of muscle tissue, it’s a natural appetite suppressant and helps us have less joint pain by keeping cartilage soft and hydrated. What people may not be aware of though is that drinking water also hydrates the skin ..read more

It’s February, which means that some of us have already ditched the New Year’s Resolutions we made last month.  But don’t beat yourself up…2017 has just begun, and it is never too late to make skin health a priority.  This is your year for healthy, glowing skin!  And since our skin is our body’s largest organ, let’s resolve to take better care of it in 2017. The key to making resolutions stick is by starting small and setting goals that are attainable and realistic.  Committing to a BioEsse skin care routine is not daunting – it’s doable!  At BioEsse we’ve made it ..read more

  Key Benefits for Healthy Skin: #2 Stronger Skin It’s generally known that probiotics are good for our digestive systems. Just in case you don’t know, probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts, and our bodies are full of them – both good and bad. Probiotics are often called the "good" or "helpful" ones because they keep the gut healthy. Probiotics to strengthen the skin, however, are not so well known. Skin is the first line of defense against disease. It’s also constantly exposed to the elements like cold harsh winters and the damaging rays of the sun, not to ..read more

  Key Benefits for Healthy Skin: #1 Balanced Skin Just like taking probiotics to support trillions of healthy intestinal bacteria, supporting health-promoting bacteria on the skin is also important.  These microbes are called the skin microbiome, and they support efficient skin healing, skin immunity, and skin rejuvenation. Maintaining a healthy skin microbiome may be the best-kept beauty secret to date.  A powerful yet neglected anti-aging tool, a balanced skin microbiome is an essential partner for healthy, glowing skin.  This brings us to the first benefit of BioEsse®:&n ..read more

  Key Benefits for Healthy Skin: #3 Brighten Your Skin The real beauty “secret” to glowing skin may, in fact, lie in a healthy skin microbiome. If you’ve been following our blogs, you know that the skin microbiome is the name for the trillions of health-promoting bacteria on your skin.  These microbes protect us from diseases and environmental toxins, produce vitamins and other nutrients, and regulate our immune system.  We are learning that healthy, glowing skin requires a healthy skin microbiome.  And at BioEsse, we have thoughtfully created our products with this in mind ..read more

  Key Benefits for Healthy Skin: #5 Protection for Your Skin We hope you have enjoyed our “Key Benefits for Healthy Skin” blog series over the last few weeks. As we’ve shared, there are five key benefits for healthy skin – balance, strengthen, brighten, smooth and protect and the BioEsse Probiotic Skin Care line addresses all of them. We wrap the series today with benefit #5 – the importance of protecting your skin. Since the discovery that exposure to ultraviolet radiation is the leading cause of skin cancer, shielding skin from the damaging rays of the sun is a must. To do that properly ..read more

  The Link Between Probiotics and Allergy Relief It’s no secret that allergy season is in full swing, and this time of year is brutal for allergy sufferers.  The scratchy eyes, sneezing, runny nose…sometimes it feels like there’s no medicine strong enough to tackle the symptoms!  But a recent University of Florida study discovered that there might be a connection between probiotics and allergy symptom relief!  Research has already shown that probiotics promote digestive health and stimulate the immune system, but scientists also suspect that they increase “the human body’s ..read more

  Stress and Your Microbiome! The University of Guelph (U of G), a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada recently led the first study of its kind to understand the relationship between stress and the microbiome as published in the journal of Biology Letters. U of G researchers found that red squirrels living in a low-stress environment harbored healthier communities of micro-organisms. Conversely, the greater the stress, when measured in the same squirrels two weeks later, revealed less bacterial diversity which could be an indication of poor health ..read more

The University of Guelph (U of G), a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada recently led the first study of its kind to understand the relationship between stress and the microbiome as published in the journal of Biology Letters. U of G researchers found that red squirrels living in a low-stress environment harbored healthier communities of micro-organisms. Conversely, the greater the stress, when measured in the same squirrels two weeks later, revealed less bacterial diversity which could be an indication of poor health. It’s very possible these findings ..read more