How is Sécuril® different from FOS?
While FOS is a food that lactobacillus like, it is also a favorite food of Candida albicans and other yeast. People who take FOS often experience severe bloating, pain and discomfort. FOS has never been a particularly good food for Bifidobacteria since they thrive on smaller chain fatty acids like propionic acid, which is only a 3-carbon fatty acid that is normally the waste product of other species of healthy bacteria. Propionic acid is a fatty acid and not a carbohydrate, like FOS. That’s where Sécuril® comes in. While it is not a “normal” bacteria in the human gut, it is friendly and will grow there if supplemented. Sécuril® can eat almost anything and make propionic acid out of it. This allows for dramatic increases in the levels of Bifidobacteria species (there are five major species of Bifidobacteria in your gut that need to be in balance with one another). Perhaps the best thing about propionic acid is that not only does Candida not like it as food, it is directly toxic to Candi
