Bloating after a meal doesn’t start in one place. That’s why one bottle rarely settles it.
It begins at the meal, where food that isn’t fully broken down travels on largely intact. It continues further down, where the bacteria living there ferment whatever arrived undigested — and fermentation makes gas, which is the pressure you feel an hour or two after eating. These two formulas work at two points in that sequence rather than twice at one of them.
- ✓ Digestive Enzyme Pro — works on the meal itself, one capsule at the start of it
- ✓ Gut Restore — works on the population doing the fermenting, 20 billion CFU across 13 named strains
- ✓ One order covers both points rather than one of them
Enzymes at the start of the meal, probiotic once a day.
De-Bloat & Digest Stack
$41.52
Two points in one sequence
Start with the meal. Digestion is a demolition job: food arrives as long chains, and nothing crosses into you until those chains are cut into pieces small enough to absorb. Enzymes are the scissors, and each one cuts a particular kind of bond.
Digestive Enzyme Pro supplies six of those scissors at the meal itself, which matters more as you get older: Laugier and colleagues measured pancreatic secretion in 180 people aged between sixteen and eighty-three and found lipase, phospholipase and chymotrypsin output falling steadily from the third decade onward (Digestion, 1991). What arrives in the capsule is 2,500 HUT of protease with 90 GDU of bromelain and 2,670 TU of papain for protein, 1,500 FIP of lipase for fat, 600 LACU of lactase for the sugar in dairy, and 300 GALU of alpha-galactosidase for the carbohydrates in beans and cruciferous vegetables — the ones that otherwise travel intact to where the fermenting happens. Enzymes act on the meal they arrive with, so take one capsule at the start of it.
Next, the population doing the fermenting. Gut Restore delivers 20 billion CFU across thirteen strains — eight Lactobacillus and five Bifidobacterium — every one named on the panel. Lactobacillus species work mostly higher up, in the small intestine; Bifidobacterium species dominate lower down, in the colon, where most fermentation happens. Covering both means covering the length of the gut rather than one section of it. It is shelf-stable, so the count on the label does not depend on your supply chain keeping it cold. One capsule a day.
Two formulas, two points in the same sequence, taken as one routine.
If your symptoms are severe, persistent or new, have them looked at.
Common Questions
What arrives, exactly?
Two full-size bottles, each with its own Supplement Facts panel: Vital Digestive Enzyme Pro and Vital Gut Restore. Digestive Enzyme Pro is 60 servings.
How do I take both?
Digestive Enzyme Pro goes at the start of a meal, so the enzymes are present when the food arrives. Gut Restore is one capsule a day. They work through different mechanisms and there is no known interaction between them.
How long before I know?
The enzymes act on the meal in front of you, so that part you will know inside a week. The probiotic works more slowly — a microbial community reshapes gradually. Give that three months.
†These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.