The health programme Trust Me I’m a Doctor contacted Nourish Kefir in May 2016, asking us to provide 280 bottles of our fresh organic, natural kefir drinks for 10 healthy volunteers who agreed to take part in a gut health trial to be scientifically conducted for the TV series.
The BBC researchers outlined what was happening in the trial; that 10 volunteers would be drinking kefir every day for a month. As part of the scientific study each volunteer would provide stool samples taken before they started drinking kefir and at the end of the trial.
The aim of the before and after analysis was to determine what changes if any were happening with the bacteria in the guts of the volunteers. The scientists were looking to see what effects the kefir would have in the intestines of these people when they drank it every day for a month.
We were very excited to take part in the study. Our founder Deborah already knew from personal experience and years of research, plus customer testimonials that Nourish Kefir works! The difficulty as a small business is to scientifically prove our products effectiveness, so the BBC leading the scientific research provided an independent study and we were excited to see the results.
At the end of January 2017, the BBC released a press release about the trial results. The programme was shown on BBC2 a few days later and we were very excited to watch it – especially to see what Dr Michael Mosley would say about the kefir.
The Results
In the scientific study over a 30 day period Nourish Kefir was proven to populate the guts of some of the volunteers with new strains of gut-friendly bacteria that were previously not present.
This link takes you to the webpage for Trust Me I’m a Doctor where you can read their synopsis about the trial:
Can I alter my get bacteria and improve my health?
The link to the scientific paper gives more in depth information:
Trust me I’m a doc scientific study 2017