Not a treatment for active infection.
FloraGuard is a daily food supplement. If you have an active vaginal or urinary tract infection, please consult your clinician — FloraGuard is not designed or marketed as treatment for an active condition.
FloraGuard works through one straightforward mechanism: replacing the lactobacillus populations that hormonal change depletes. Here's the chain, plainly.
The vaginal microbiome of a healthy reproductive-age woman runs on a self-sustaining cycle. Oestrogen drives glycogen production in the vaginal epithelium. Glycogen feeds lactobacillus species. Lactobacillus produce lactic acid. Lactic acid keeps the local pH in the protective 3.8-4.5 range. The low pH suppresses opportunistic species and reinforces lactobacillus dominance.
The cycle is held in place by oestrogen. When oestrogen drops — as it does, gradually, across perimenopause and substantially in post-menopause — every link in the chain weakens. Less glycogen, less lactobacillus, less lactic acid, higher pH, less protection.
FloraGuard supplies the lactobacillus species the depleted system has lost. It doesn't restore oestrogen — that's HRT's job, and FloraGuard is complementary to HRT, not a substitute. What it does is provide the microbial population the system needs to maintain its protective layer, daily, in capsule form.
The vaginal microbiome literature has, over the last 20 years, identified a relatively small number of strains with consistent, replicated evidence for vaginal-health endpoints. We chose the four with the strongest individual evidence:
What's not here matters too. Bacillus species (popular in marketing, not part of resident vaginal flora). Generic Bifidobacterium species (gut-relevant, not vaginal-relevant). Cranberry, boric acid, herbal additives — all valid in their own contexts, not in this one.
The capsule format is a delayed-release vegetarian HPMC, designed to survive stomach acid and dissolve in the lower gut. From there, the strains either colonise the gut directly or migrate via the gut-vaginal axis — both pathways are documented in the literature, and both contribute to the eventual vaginal flora benefit.
The CFU count is set at 6 billion total, guaranteed at end of shelf life. Most probiotic products quote CFU at manufacture, by which time 30-50% of the cells may already have died by the time the bottle reaches you. End-of-shelf-life guarantees mean the count on the label is what you actually take.
Refrigeration is not required. The capsule and the strain selection are designed for room-temperature stability for the full shelf life.
FloraGuard is a daily food supplement. If you have an active vaginal or urinary tract infection, please consult your clinician — FloraGuard is not designed or marketed as treatment for an active condition.
If your symptoms are significant, local vaginal oestrogen is the most effective single intervention available. FloraGuard works alongside HRT and complements it; it doesn't replace it.
Probiotic colonisation takes weeks. The clinical trial endpoints in this literature typically don't move meaningfully until week 4-6. If you're taking it for a week, that's not the protocol.
If you're pregnant, nursing, immunocompromised, or have any condition involving immune dysregulation, please consult your doctor before starting any probiotic, including FloraGuard.