{"id":306042,"date":"2026-01-27T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/306042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:15:12","slug":"gut-health-stalling-give-it-a-boost-with-these-10-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/306042\/","title":{"rendered":"Gut health stalling? Give it a boost with these 10 supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/newsletter_es_best_embed_desktop.png\" alt=\"Standard Shopping\" width=\"158px\" height=\"158px\" class=\"sc-gytJtb kpUGLA\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gut health is a key 2026 wellness trend, and supplements to boost and protect it are everywhere right now, promising everything from flatter stomachs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/shopping\/esbest\/health-fitness\/best-prebiotic-powders-b1215142.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">instant digestive calm<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But with influencer hype, sky-high CFU counts and vague claims on labels, it\u2019s hard to know what\u2019s genuinely worth buying and what\u2019s just clever marketing. To cut through the noise, we asked one of the UK\u2019s leading gut health experts what really matters when you\u2019re shopping for supplements.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theibsdietitian.com\">Kirsten Jackson<\/a> is a registered dietitian with over 13 years\u2019 experience specialising in irritable bowel syndrome and gut health. She\u2019s also a Forbes Health advisory board member and the author of Take Control Of Your IBS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the most overlooked factor when people are trying to improve their gut health?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they are not eating. People are obsessed with cutting out foods to improve their gut health, but 99 per cent of the time, their gut health will only improve by adding foods in. For example, there is a huge interest right now in ultra-processed foods, but the reality is that someone&#8217;s gut is more likely to be bad because they are simply not eating enough fibre, rather than that they consume a few UPFs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which ingredients should shoppers prioritise or avoid when buying a gut health supplement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupplement-wise, prioritise buying supplements that are scientifically proven to target the bit of your gut you need help with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She points to peppermint oil capsules for pain and cramping, and \u201cpsyllium husk or partially hydrolysed guar gum, which have been proven to help constipation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long should supplements take to work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI usually see psyllium husk or partially hydrolysed guar gum working within 2\u20133 days\u2026 and then the probiotics are well documented in some cases to take up to three months to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should you check on the label before buying?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to check that all supplements are third-party tested. For a probiotic, you need to check the strain\u2026 the exact strain, the quantity of it and the exact format of it is identical to the one which is in the research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve rounded up all of the best supplements for gut health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gut health is a key 2026 wellness trend, and supplements to boost and protect it are everywhere right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[18,6579,135,76525,19,17,508,3013],"class_list":{"0":"post-306042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-gut-health","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ibs","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-nutrition","15":"tag-supplements"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115966779249861387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}