How This One Bacteria Can Improve Immune Function & Mental Health*

When was the last time you thought about your immune system? If you're like most people, it was probably the last time you felt a little under the weather. However, immune health can do more than fight off bugs, as it also influences our gut, brain, mood, and overall inflammatory balance.

By definition, the gut microbiome is the group of microorganisms1 in your intestines. This includes about 100 trillion bacteria, fungi, yeast, and viruses, which work together to regulate various functions in the body. They also control levels of harmful microorganisms, including those that cause suboptimal health.

If you've got a pulse on gut health, you've likely heard of gut diversity, or the number of species living in your gut. It holds a major role in overall health, but thanks to modern living, we've lost touch with ancient bacteria that used to be found in our gut.

This is due to many factors, including urban settings, pollution, limited access to nature, sleep3 disruptions, overly sterilized environments, and parts of the Western diet1, particularly artificial sweeteners, food additives, and ultra-processed foods.

Luckily, gut health is a popular area of research, and scientists are constantly learning how we can diversify the gut. We now know habits like eating a balanced diet, getting enough sleep5, reducing stress6, avoiding smoking7, and even regularly exercising8 can enhance gut diversity.

It's also possible to reintroduce ancient bacteria into your system, thereby increasing gut diversity and enhancing your body's resilience. And just taking pre- and postbiotics on their own may not be enough.

While you can't change the world around you, it's possible to change the world within you.

Enter Mycolicibacterium aurum Aogashima (M. aurum). As a beneficial ancient bacteria, it's the star ingredient in immy, a daily immune supplement.*

M. aurum is naturally found in the earth's soil. Our ancestors were regularly exposed to this bacterium by interacting with the soil, but we've lost touch due to the sterile nature of our urbanized lives. immy lets you safely get this old friend back into your system.*    

To understand how M. aurum works, it helps to think of your immune system as an orchestra. M. aurum acts as the "conductor" between your immune system's complex parts, including the gut, ensuring they work together as they should. Not only will this help support the immune system itself, but it can help with your body's overall inflammatory status and enhance stress resilience.*

Now, immy isn't a one-stop cure-all for all your issues, nor does it claim to be. Instead, it's meant to be used alongside a healthy lifestyle and balanced diet. Once you've gotten these aspects in place, you can then boost and add the orchestrator—immy—to tie your gut's complex parts together, says Akle.

When taken daily, M. aurum can fine-tune and enhance your immune system by interacting with cells in the gut.* 

"The gut contains specialized cells that detect individual bacteria including mycobacteria [like M. aurum]," explains Akle. When exposed to M. aurum, these cells interact with other immune cells, including those that control immune responses, as well as linking into the gut/brain axis.

"Stress and anxiousness are strongly linked to [the body's inflammatory status], resulting in a vicious cycle as one triggers the other," says Akle. 

As Akle points out, not all inflammation is bad. 

"Inflammation is the way the immune system deals with any threat," he says. "The problems arise when there's an imbalance and neither side can win; this results in prolonged inflammation, and if it goes on too long, then concerns arise."