Causes of UTIs

A UTI is caused by bacteria in your urinary system, which invades and sticks to the lining of your bladder. The bacteria travel from the anus to enter through your urethra, AKA the tube that carries pee out of your body. Women happen to have shorter urethras than men, which means bacteria are more likely to travel to the bladder or kidneys and trigger an infection.

Common UTI causes include:

• Not peeing after sex
• Wiping from back to front after going to the bathroom
• Urinary tract blockages like kidney stones
• Enlarged prostate glands in men and constipation in children, which make it more difficult to empty the bladder
• Conditions that require urinary catheters (a tube in the bladder that drains urine)
• A weakened immune system as the result of diabetes, HIV, or chemotherapy

10M doctor visits each year are for UTI-related issues
- National Kidney Foundation

60% of women will experience symptomatic acute UTIs in their lifetime
- American Urological Association

20-40% of these are likely to experience an additional episode
- American Urological Association

Protect yourself from painful UTIs now.

While the usual treatment (and even prevention) protocols for a UTI include antibiotics, taking antibiotics too often can be harmful to your body and can even cause yeast infections. The last thing you want is to cure one infection only to find you have another in its place. Thankfully, all-natural UTI protection does exist in cranberries – thanks to PACs – the cranberry’s active molecule.

What do Cranberry Pills Do?

Scientists used to believe that cranberries guarded against UTIs by making urine more acidic, which in turn produces a less conducive environment for bacteria like E. coli, which are often the culprit. But in recent years, studies have landed on a different understanding: it appears cranberries make it more challenging for invasive bacteria to stick to the walls of the urinary tract. The nutrients in cranberries may alter the bacteria, so they are unable to stick to the urinary tract, or the cranberries create a slippery surface on the urinary tract walls that makes it difficult for bacteria to get a grip!