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SELECTING THE RIGHT STRAIN FOR THE DESIRED BENEFIT

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Selecting the Right Strain for Your Patients

By answering a few questions, our Strain Selector will help guide you to the appropriate HOWARU® strain for your patients based on their individual benefit area needs.

What do probiotics and dogs have in common?

Specific benefits from probiotics go beyond genus and species—you need to know the strain, too. Each probiotic strain has a specific job to do and may work best in certain benefit areas, so choosing the right strain for the right job is important. Do you need help selecting the right strains for the right patients? Our Strain Selector can align HOWARU® strains with patient health needs.

Dogs and probiotics follow a similar taxonomy (genus, species, strain), and they each have a job to do.

1. IDENTIFY THE TAXONOMY.

PROBIOTIC:

Genus: Lactobacillus

Species: acidophilus

Strain: ABC

DOG:

Genus: Canis 

Species: lupus 

Strain: ABC

2. ASSESS THE JOB TO BE DONE.

PROBIOTIC:

Aid in colonic transit time

DOG:

Run the Iditarod

3. SELECT THE SPECIFIC STRAIN OR BREED TO DO THE JOB.

PROBIOTIC:

Lactobacillus acidophilus ABC vs Lactobacillus 
acidophilus XYZ

DOG:

Canis Iupus Husky vs

Canis Iupus Chihuahua

YOU WOULDN'T CHOOSE A CHIHUAHUA TO RUN THE IDITAROD.

You would choose a breed better suited for the job and the environment.

The same is true of probiotic strains. You cannot possibly know if the probiotic will get the job done without identifying the strain.

Recommend the right probiotic strain for the desired outcome

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