BodyBio Butyrate - Postbiotic for Gut Health, Digestive Support, Bloat, Gas & Constipation Relief, Leaky Gut Repair - Sodium + Butyric Acid Supplement for GI Wellness

Like all medications or supplements, this should not be taken without first figuring out what the problem is and then determining realistic ways to treat it. Taking something just because 'I have stomach issues' or 'it's trendy' or 'I saw it on social media' is a horrible way to get to whatever vague definition of health you're trying to achieve, rather if you know what the problem is, then you can start figuring out how to get there. If your problem is upper GI (stomach, duodenum) this is not the cure you're looking for. If your problem is lower GI (caudal small intestine, colon) then this might actually help, especially if leaky gut is involved. If your problem is lousy diet, little sleep, lots of stress, and no exercise, all the pills in the world won't help as you need to fix your lifestyle, the same with food sensitivities and allergies, get tested and adjust your diet accordingly. Yes this stuff smells weird, it is also called butyric acid (the name comes from the greek or latin for 'butter') and they use it as a fake butter flavor in foods. Does it work? That depends on the problem! I first heard about this stuff not on social media or on a trendy daytime talkshow but rather two years running at a professional conference for bovine medical professionals (cow doctors) from two different speakers, from two different states, talking about two different topics (immunology and ruminant nutrition). A professor of mine once said a ruminant is basically a pig's GI tract with a rumen tacked on, and he wasn't far wrong, as most mammals (sans horses and certain rodents, the 'hind gut fermenters') have a fairly similar hind gut. We spent hours talking about the role of stress and diet on the GI tract, particularly the phenomenon called 'leaky gut,' and the immune system's response thereto. Butyric acid came up quite a bit, not as something for sale, these guys weren't sales reps but researchers, professors, and nutritionists, but it plays a huge role in calming the immune system's response to junk in our gut, especially junk that leaks into the blood. It also helps feed the good bacteria and the colon cells and strengthens the bonds between those cells, helping prevent said leaks. All I could wonder was why no one had told me this from the human medical side if it is so vital in cows?! I did a bit of digging and found studies with positive results in dairy calves, weanling pigs, broiler chickens, rats and in vitro cell lines but only a few case studies on the human side. For $20 I thought it worth a shot. I have suffered from what I call 'IBS' for over a decade, but it's worse than just diarrhea: it is body aches, headache, no energy, brain fog, emotional unease, itchy skin...life kind of sucks most of the time. I was tested for food sensitivity and try to avoid the worst of that, which helped a ton. I added more fiber to my diet which also helps some, but on my best days I was still at 75% capacity and on my worst days, it is sort of like the flu without the cold symptoms. I tried colostrum at my doctor's behest (bad idea when you have a severe whey sensitivity!) and then a good probiotic (that only made the diarrhea worse) but had pretty much given up on supplements. Then I heard about this and thought it was worth a try, at worse I'd be sick for three days and out $20. I've been on it a little over a week and just ordered a bigger bottle. It hasn't done anything for my stomach per se, it is still pretty much like having a ticked bucking horse in your abdomen at times, but for the rest of me it has been a most excellent investment and I hope in time even my irritated gut will eventually chill out (weeks to months probably). It calms down the immune system (inflammation), it feeds the gut and good bacteria (promotes healing), and it repairs those leaky junctions between the cells (which is what allows the leaks and ticks off the immune system in the first place). Besides for the typical unhappy stomach, I feel like I haven't since I got sick: I have energy, the mental fog has lifted, my emotions are more balanced and calm, I don't ache everywhere and haven't had a vague headache for 9 days. I'll still need to stick to my strict diet but maybe this stuff will encourage enough healing that I can someday expand it a little? Maybe with enough time and healing the GI signs themselves will chill out? With less exposure to foreign stuff in the blood maybe my immune system will chill out too? But at least I can now have some semblance of a life. It won't cure it, especially on its own, but it is a huge step in the right direction. This is also with a covid exposure (I never get respiratory disease but I feel like I've just eaten a large triple meat pizza with my immune response), prednisone (I've cut out any pain killers or steroids unless necessary, those being a covid exposure or a migraine), and discovering I can no longer eat brown rice pasta (which I have eaten a couple times this week and upset the primadona I call my intestine), with all that this stuff still works! Just make sure you're using it for the right stuff: certain types of IBS, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory GI diseases like celiac and crohns, leaky gut syndrome. Stomach ulcers, pancreas and bile issues, stomach acid, a primary issue with allergies or sensitivities (instead of the leaky gut leading to the sensitivity), SIBO and other upper GI maladies probably won't benefit much unless there is a combination of issues. Please check with your health care provider and nutritionist before making any life changing medical choices!

My HRT advisor recommended this product and I can 100% feel the difference in my body. I have less bloating and I am the most regular I've been in years. I highly recommend this product.

I read that this is a supplement that experts recommend taking more than the idosage on the bottle. I have to take it about 3 times daily every day to keep from getting an infection from diverticulitis. It's a great product, but it does smell weird.

I’ve been using this for several months now, and just updated my review. It’s really annoying with the amount of people who post something online about how amazing a product is after trying it for a few days then you never hear from them again because it was a placebo effect. I tried the calcium/magnesium formula of butyrate around 10 years ago, but my GI system couldn't tolerate it. That was probably because of the magnesium content, which is a strong laxative. I'm also male and don't like getting too much calcium, which is bad for us and easy to over do. Additionally, all the research studies out there are around sodium butyrate. There's pretty much no research whatsoever around calcium butyrate or magnesium butyrate! If you don’t know already, butyrate is a short chain fatty acid found in butter, and in lesser quantities in certain cheeses. It is also produced by your intestinal bacteria. Numerous studies have purported it to have numerous beneficial properties. Unfortunately, butyrate only makes up about 2.7% of butter. So, you would need about 22 grams of butter (a little over one and half tablespoons of butter) to get the butyrate in one of these capsules. Anyhow, I had suffered from severe mostly morning IBS-D for 20+ years after several courses of antibiotics for acne as a teen. A little over a year ago I finally found a high fiber food I could digest by blending pinto beans and increasing them slowly in my diet up to a couple cans a day with no side effects. This helped me tremendously. Then a few months ago I discovered this formula. I started taking 4 a day, but started getting weird gut issues, nausea, dry skin and lips. I moved down to a couple capsules a day, and finally stopped it altogether. Right after I stopped it I became stopped up for nearly a week, which has never happened to me. Then things started to go backwards a little. I decided to add the sodium butyrate back a month ago small amounts at a time, and now I’m able to eat pretty much anything, including all the super healthy high fiber fruits and vegetables I could never eat. Most days now I end up emptying out the capsule and gagging down just half (or less) of the powder inside instead of taking a full capsule. Or, I talk one capsule every other day. If I take any more than that, I start getting side effects again. After doing some research, I saw that nausea was reported in one of the studies on it, along with vomiting. After doing a Google search, I saw someone else who posted in on online discussion forum about this same side effect after discontinuing sodium butyrate. If you aren't familiar with the NLM's Pubmed, you should Google it and look for research articles on sodium butyrate (make sure to do an advanced search for sodium butyrate in the title). You will find numerous studies regarding sodium butyrate's beneficial properties in most aspects of health including cancer, sleep, inflammation, brain functioning, insulin sensitivity, and more. There are however a couple studies reporting that excess butyrate beyond what is produced by a normal host of bacteria in your gut, can actually cause damage, hyper-permeability, and inflammation! So, if you have gas a lot or fast transit such that there's a lot of fermentation going on in you, you may already have too much butyrate in your system. Google's scholarly article database (scholar.google.com) is also a good platform for searching research studies. Sodium butyrate also functions as a histone deacetylase inhibitor in human health.

Please read the entire review if you haven’t before…. To the Amazon reps, if you are reading this- please block this company from selling anymore of this supplement. Update- ok so it’s been over a month since I got off this supplement. And I am STILL having problems. This supplement actually GAVE me acid reflux and stomach issue I never had before. I used to be able to drink coffee and eat red sauce. NOT ANYMORE! My stomach is torn up from the sodium hydroxide. PLEASE think twice before taking this supplement. It literally has been the hardest recovery time for me. I hardly ever give reviews and I never give bad reviews…. But I have to warn everyone. I didn’t realize why this supplement was making me so sick, until I read some of the other reviews. Sodium hydroxide IS LYE! They literally put lye as an ingredient in this! If you look up the definition of sodium hydroxide this is what it says- “Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound, a corrosive white solid. Sodium hydroxide is a very strong chemical. This article discusses poisoning from touching, breathing in (inhaling), or swallowing sodium hydroxide. Sodium hydroxide is found in many industrial solvents and cleaners, including products to strip floors, brick cleaners, cements, and many others. Below are symptoms of sodium hydroxide poisoning or exposure in different parts of the body- AIRWAYS AND LUNGS- Breathing difficulty (from inhaling sodium hydroxide) Lung inflammation Sneezing Throat swelling (which may also cause breathing difficulty) ESOPHAGUS, INTESTINES, AND STOMACH- Blood in the stool Burns of the esophagus (food pipe) and stomach Diarrhea Severe abdominal pain Vomiting, possibly bloody EYES, EARS, NOSE, AND THROAT- Drooling Severe pain in the throat Severe pain or burning in the nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue Vision loss HEART AND BLOOD- Collapse Low blood pressure (develops rapidly) Severe change in blood pH (too much or too little acid in the blood) Shock I am actually speechless because what do you say to a company that puts such a volatile compound in a supplement you are trusting to help you…. I didn’t think it was even possible for this to happen. I got horrible diarrhea, dizziness, heart palpitations, swollen throat, achy body, extreme tiredness but couldn’t sleep well. If the company is reading this review- Please start caring about the people you are making these supplements for.

I recently completed a Gut Zoomer test to evaluate my gut health, and one of the key recommendations was to add BodyBio Butyrate to help heal my leaky gut. I’ve been using it consistently, and so far I’m seeing real improvements. My digestion feels more stable, and my overall gut comfort has noticeably increased. BodyBio Butyrate seems to be working well for me, and I’m grateful to have found a supplement that supports my healing process.to heal my gut.

I am taking this product for IBS-C. PROS: It came fresh and is not as stinky as another brand I tried, but it is still VERY stinky. I purchased this brand because it does not state any fillers or additives that many other brands have. It was working at first (about a week and a half). It stopped some of the really bad IBS symptoms I was experiencing almost immediately, the first day I tried it! CONS: After about 1 week I became so constipated and dehydrated that I could not eliminate at all and my my skin was so dry it was flakey feeling and in several areas horribly itchy, and became red and swollen around my eyes. I felt like an old lady with wrinkles around my eyes I never had before. It took a couple of months to finally gain most of my soft skin back, although, it returns once in a while without consuming enough water everyday (8-10 glasses). This never happened to me before. Also, my hair became extremely dry and started falling out like crazy! It subsided only after about 2 months of discontinued use. Dose Taken: I went from 1 whole pill to 1/4 pill with no relief in less than a two week trial period (I took: 1 time a day and alternated the days to 1 pill every other day after about 4-5 days of use.). I was originally alternating it with Cal/Mag Butyrate the first couple of day then discontinued the Cal/Mag Butyrate completely because I thought that this might be the cause of this sever dehydration. It wasn't. LATER I did a little more research realized this product is most suitable for the people with IBS-D and for Colitis. We have 2 dogs with two different forms of Colitis and it worked great for them! (see below) PROS: I heard that Butyrate works great on animals. So I tried it with these 2 dogs I have with Colitis. Oh My! It works so good that I can now let them chew bully sticks again for a few minutes every other day! This is such great news because their teeth were becoming so horrible, not even brushing helped. We have to be very careful on the dose according to the weight of the dog and they still cannot be on any diet, but we can occasionally give them a treat (couple times per week) and they both manage to handle it. Constant monitoring is a must, and every dog would be a different case, just like humans, but we are so happy with the results we see in both of them. (Just a side note: One dog is a Standard Poodle and will be 14 years old in May [it's 3/4/1] and had arthritis in her back hips really bad, this treatment even helped her get up from the floor a little easier, most of the time! My Star Rating was hard to determine. For the Dogs I gave it the 4 Stars, but for IBS-C I would of given it a 1 Star!

BodyBio logo All articles BodyBio Product Specific Questions BodyBio Butyrate Why do you have Sodium Hydroxide in Butyrate? Search Why do you have Sodium Hydroxide in Butyrate? Updated 4 months ago Butyric acid inherently has a low pH of 2.9, which means it is highly acidic. Consuming it in this "pure form" could lead to significant discomfort in the stomach, which already has a naturally acidic environment. To buffer the acidity of butyric acid, the FDA recommends the use of food-grade sodium hydroxide, a substance that is also utilized in the making of pretzels, processing of grains, and dough conditioning. Sodium hydroxide has a high pH of around 13.0, and when combined with butyric acid, it helps to neutralize its acidity and lowers the pH of the final product to a pH of approximately 7.9, which is much gentler on the stomach. There is no "sodium hydroxide" left in the final product. The caustic properties of sodium hydroxide are completely neutralized and the result is a safe, bioavailable nutrient, butyrate salt.