8 ways a broken gut is
quietly ruining your day
Most people blame stress, age, or bad luck. The real cause is usually sitting right in your digestive system — and it starts fixing itself once you know what to look for.
The Daily Shake is a chocolate protein and gut health shake with 34 nutrients, including probiotics, prebiotics, digestive enzymes and L-glutamine. One scoop. R799 for your first month.
Things I found out about my gut
that I wish I knew sooner
Four facts that change how you think about your energy, mood, skin and sleep.
of your serotonin — the hormone controlling mood and sleep — is made in your gut. Not your brain.
of your immune system lives in your gut. Low immunity usually starts with poor gut health, not bad luck.
Taking a probiotic alone won’t fix your gut. Without prebiotics to feed it and enzymes to activate it, it passes through unused.
Fix the gut and you often fix the energy, bloating, mood swings and bad skin at the same time. One root cause. Many symptoms.
Is your gut behind this?
Every one of these problems has a gut connection most people never consider.
You’re bloated and can’t figure out why
Bloating is your body’s most obvious way of saying something is wrong. Cutting bread, dairy or gluten rarely fixes it permanently — because the real problem usually isn’t what you’re eating, it’s how your gut is processing it.
Without the right digestive enzymes, food ferments in your gut instead of being broken down. Without probiotics to balance bacteria, bad bacteria overwhelm the good and produce gas. And if your gut lining is damaged, toxins leak through and trigger inflammation — which looks exactly like bloating.
You’re tired all the time and sleep doesn’t fix it
Waking up exhausted, crashing before lunch, binge-watching Netflix because you have nothing left — this is more likely a nutrient absorption problem than a sleep problem.
Your gut draws energy from your food. But if the bacteria are out of balance and the enzymes aren’t breaking food down properly, you’re not absorbing what you eat. The calories go in. The energy doesn’t come out. People with chronic fatigue almost always have gut imbalances.
Your skin isn’t responding to anything you try
Creams, serums, diet changes, more water — and the breakouts or dullness keeps coming back. That’s because acne, eczema and dull skin are often symptoms of an internal problem, not a skin problem.
The body detoxes through the skin when the gut isn’t removing waste properly. What’s happening inside shows up outside. A gut that absorbs nutrients correctly gives your skin what it needs — and detoxes through the correct channels instead of pushing it out through your pores.
You’re anxious, irritable or just not yourself
Your gut produces 95% of the serotonin in your body. Not your brain — your gut. Which means an unhappy gut can make you mentally unhappy, anxious and harder to deal with long before you trace it back to digestion.
When bad bacteria dominate and your gut lining is leaky, toxins pass into the bloodstream and the result is chronic low mood, stress sensitivity and unexplained anxiety. Most people medicate the mood, not the gut. It rarely works long-term.
You’re exhausted but can’t sleep properly
Counted enough sheep to fill the Karoo? An unhealthy gut can cause insomnia and broken sleep — and it comes back to serotonin. The serotonin that converts to melatonin (your sleep hormone) is produced mostly in the gut.
If your microbiome is imbalanced, you can’t produce the hormones you need to wind down properly. No amount of sleep hygiene fixes a gut that isn’t holding up its end.
You can’t shift weight no matter what you try
Every diet. Every plan. Cut the carbs, added the protein — still nothing. It’s not always willpower or calories. When your gut is out of balance, your body struggles to process food, absorb nutrients and manage energy storage.
This leaves you feeling hungry after eating, causes blood sugar swings, and makes fat storage harder to shift. A healthy gut helps regulate appetite, metabolism and digestion — not just the number on the scale.
You get migraines that seem to come from nowhere
If certain foods trigger a pounding headache, your gut is almost certainly involved. Research has found a strong link between gut health and migraines — people with frequent headaches are significantly more likely to also deal with IBS, bloating and reflux.
When digestion is under strain, inflammation and chemical imbalances create the neurological conditions that cause headaches. It’s not the food — it’s what your gut is doing to it.
Your immune system feels like it’s working against you
Frequent illness, slow recovery, inflammation that won’t settle, conditions that flare without an obvious trigger — these are all connected to what’s happening in your gut.
Research shows that certain gut bacteria can permeate a damaged gut lining and trigger immune overreactions. 70% of your immune system lives in your gut. If the gut isn’t healthy, your immunity isn’t either.
Four gut nutrients.
One scoop.
Most gut supplements give you one ingredient. The Daily Shake gives you the four that need to work together — plus 30 more.
Lactospore probiotics to restore healthy bacteria and crowd out the bad ones. A balanced microbiome is where everything starts.
Inulin prebiotic fibre to feed the good bacteria. Taking probiotics without prebiotics is like planting seeds without watering them.
Digezyme enzyme blend to break food into usable nutrients. Without enzymes, the probiotics don’t have much to work with.
The amino acid that repairs a damaged gut lining. If your gut is leaky, nothing else works until the walls are fixed.
If any of those 8 signs sounds like you, this is what we built to fix it.
One chocolate shake. Prebiotics, probiotics, digestive enzymes and L-glutamine — all working together, not separately. And for the current batch, we have a special welcome offer to new subscribers — R799 for your first month.
What you get today
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“I always suffered from irritated bowel the whole night every day — but after I drank this yesterday, I woke up with so much energy. And I slept! I really recommend Great Shakes.”
Keeditse L. · July 2024 · Verified buyer
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* Value based on: The Daily Shake (R1,199) + Electrolyte Powder (R229) + Delivery (R209) = R1,637 total. You pay R799.
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“I have never experienced a product like this. I have high blood pressure, IBS and stress — and I feel so much better. I feel like we can keep up with the pace of life now.”
“I always suffered from irritated bowel the whole night every day — but after I drank this yesterday, I woke up with so much energy. And I slept! I really recommend Great Shakes.”
“This shake has changed my life. No more afternoon slumps. I no longer feel bloated daily. It’s somehow relieved my water retention too. My nails and skin look great.”
“It’s definitely helping with IBS and I have more sustained energy. If my energy flags during the day, it’s invariably because I forgot to take my shake that morning.”
One shake vs.
buying separately
You could buy each gut nutrient individually from a health store. Here’s what that actually costs.
| What your gut needs | The Daily Shake | Buying separately |
|---|---|---|
| Probiotics (quality strain) | ✓ | ~R250/month |
| Prebiotics (inulin fibre) | ✓ | ~R180/month |
| Digestive enzyme blend | ✓ | ~R200/month |
| L-Glutamine | ✓ | ~R180/month |
| Multivitamin + minerals | ✓ | ~R180/month |
| Collagen + amino acids | ✓ | ~R350/month each |
| Lion’s Mane + Cordyceps | ✓ | ~R400/month each |
| Tastes like chocolate | ✓ | ✕ |
| Monthly total | R799* | R1,740+++ |
*Subscriber welcome price. Standard subscription R999/month. One-time R1,199. Buying all 34 ingredients separately costs R7,200+/month.
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