Pendulum – Akkermansia (30 Caps)

Akkermansia muciniphila maintains the mucus layer separating your gut lumen from your immune system. In a healthy gut it makes up 1–4% of the total microbiome. In people with metabolic syndrome, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and chronic gut inflammation, it is typically severely depleted or absent.

What it supports

• Mucin production and mucus layer thickness in the large intestine
• Tight junction integrity and reduced intestinal permeability
• Short-chain fatty acid production (propionate and acetate) to fuel colonocytes
• GLP-1 signalling — associated with glucose handling, satiety, and metabolic health
• Microbiome diversity and gut-immune barrier function
• Metabolic health markers including fasting glucose and inflammatory signals

Ingredients

Akkermansia muciniphila WB-STR-0001 (patented strain) — 100 million AFU per capsule
Chicory Inulin — 276mg

AFU = Active Fluorescent Units; measures only live, viable bacteria.
Delayed-release vegetarian capsule. Refrigerate after opening.

Directions

Take 1 capsule daily with food. If new to Akkermansia, start with 1 capsule every other day for 2–3 weeks before moving to daily.

🎧 Listen and learn

🎧 Gastroenterology and the Microbiome with Associate Professor Edmund Leung
🎧 Healing the Gut — The Functional Medicine Way with Dr. Ben Weitz

Why we stock it

Pendulum is the only company producing live Akkermansia muciniphila at scale under oxygen-free conditions — obligate anaerobes die on contact with oxygen, and conventional probiotic manufacturers cannot maintain viability through production, packaging, and distribution. The chicory inulin in the capsule provides fermentable substrate specifically matched to Akkermansia's metabolic requirements. I use it for anyone with persistent gut permeability, metabolic syndrome patterns, or a microbiome that hasn't responded to standard probiotic interventions.

Manufactured in the USA (Pendulum Life, anaerobic facility).