Our Gut And Vitamins
Most vitamins we get from food, but some we actually make in our bodies with the help of bacteria! Vitamin K and biotin are the two vitamins we make in our intestines. That’s why it’s so important to maintain good intestinal health. People with some bowel diseases have problems making enough of these vitamins. In fact, when people have part of their bowel removed, because they suffer from cancer or crohns or ulcerative colitis, they may need to start taking biotin and vitamin K supplements, to make sure they don’t develop a deficiency in them.
Taking probiotics can have a secondary beneficial effect in people with their intestines intact, in that it restores the balance of good bacteria. If we have too much of the unhelpful bacteria, it makes it difficult to maintain a population of the good bacteria. Then there may also be a vitamin K and biotin deficiency.