REVIVE . RESTORE . REGENERATE
Your gut.
Your schedule.
A clean-label fermented millet gut shot, built for your biology — patented, independently validated, dairy-free.
THE FOUNDER
The inventor, not just the founder.
Former UN social-development professional and clinical practitioner; creator of India's first vegan cheese category; holds the patent on the millet matrix at its heart. She built mi-biotics™ after watching the person closest to her rebuild his health from the gut up.
THE SCIENCE
Evidence, not adjectives.
GRANTED INDIAN PATENT
Patent No. 551921 — granted October 2024 — Fermented Multi-Millet. Fruit-Based Vegan Probiotic Composition and Method of Preparing the Same
INDEPENDENTLY VALIDATED
Tested in vitro against an Asian gut microbiome by AMILI in Singapore.
WORLD-CLASS INGREDIENTS
LGG® (Chr. Hansen) & Wellmune® (Kerry).
THE LINE
Why a dedicated line matters - how we maintain standards
A dedicated, purpose-built, dairy-free line in Coimbatore, TN built around a live, clean-label fermented product, not retrofitted between others. Every batch of mi-biotics™ is made to spec and released after rigorous testing by reputed third-party labs.
THE RECOVERY
Two videos, five years apart - the human truth
“In 2021, COVID-19 put me in intensive care for nineteen days. The drugs that saved my life also destroyed my gut — and my recovery had to start there, by rebuilding my microbiome from the inside out. My wife, Ritu, the inventor named on the patent, set aside the product she’d been working on and built something for exactly this. She called it mi-biotics™. Five years later, here I am.”
- Lavindra de Silva is Retü®’s Chief Business Officer.
He spent three decades building and scaling companies across technology and consumer goods before joining Ritu to build the business around mi-biotics™ — the product that helped rebuild his own health.
Connect with him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lavidesilva/
THE ECOSYSTEM
Why the gut dictates
everything..
By the numbers, you are at least as much microbe as human. The cells in and on your body are split almost evenly between microbial and human — close to a one-to-one ratio, not the ten-to-one figure you may have read, which the science corrected in 2016. But look at genes rather than cells and it isn’t close at all: your microbes carry more than ten million genes, against roughly twenty thousand of your own. By that measure you are overwhelmingly more microbial than human. This community, most of it living in your gut, does work your body cannot do alone. When it’s healthy, you rarely notice it. When it isn’t, you notice almost everything.
~1.3 : 1 microbial to human cells · 10M+ microbial genes (vs ~20,000 human) · ~90% of the body’s serotonin made in the gut · ~70% of immune tissue in the gut
microbial cells to human cells living in and on the body
Corrected in 2016 from the old "10:1" claim, which traced to a 1970s estimate. The measured ratio sits near 1.3:1 — close enough that a single bowel movement can briefly tip it.
microbial genes in the catalogue, against our own ~20,000
The 10M+ figure is a non-redundant catalogue drawn across many people's microbiomes. Any single person carries a few hundred thousand to a couple million microbial genes — still a substantial multiple of our own.
of the body's serotonin is produced in the gut
Accurate — but this serotonin largely stays in the gut, where it supports motility. It does not cross into the brain. The gut–brain link runs through other channels: the vagus nerve, immune signals, and microbial metabolites.
The most-misread stat of the four. It supports a gut–brain signalling story — not the idea that the gut brews your mood and ships it upstairs.
of the body's immune tissue is housed in the gut
Reasonably supported by the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT), but the exact figure has a fuzzy origin. Read the dashed line as "most," not a precise measurement.
The softest of the set. Widely repeated, loosely sourced — sound as a directional claim, shaky as a precise one.
THE PRODUCT
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Mango
No dairy. No added sugar. No added preservatives. No artificial colours, flavours, or sweeteners.
Lychee
No dairy. No added sugar. No added preservatives. No artificial colours, flavours, or sweeteners.
(Coming Soon: Spicy Jeera — Carrot & Pumpkin — Matcha — Lemongrass & Ginger — Pandan — Mixed Berry)
THE CULTURE
Join the Culture.
Be one of the first 500 founding members - get a free six-pack of mi-biotics™ when we launch in Bangalore and Combatore this August.
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