Give Your Gut the Foundational Support It May Need with SBO Probiotics

The idea of eating dirt isn’t new. It’s been around a long time, dating back more than 2,500 years.

Hunters and gatherers couldn’t avoid it, and regardless of culture, there’s evidence people have included traces of dirt in their diets throughout the ages.

Think about when you were growing up. It is likely many of you, much like myself, grew up in homes where having a vegetable or flower garden was commonplace. In fact, you probably helped out by pulling weeds and planting seeds with your bare hands.

Even if you didn’t have a family garden, as a kid, you probably played outdoors for hours each day and got more than a little dirty.

Back then, people didn’t worry so much about dirt – it was part of life. You got dirty and then, you cleaned up.

It wasn’t until years later that Americans became obsessed with cleanliness. We stopped touching dirt – and we made sure we didn’t eat it.

Today, it’s no longer “normal” to get your hands dirty. Designer garden tools and thick, plush gloves just about guarantee that you won’t soil your hands.

And it’s not only adults… These days, children spend far more time in front of computers than they do digging in the ground.

If you do happen to get dirty – or end up with dirt-covered food – there’s no shortage of fancy vegetable scrubbers, antibacterial soaps and sanitizing hand gels to remove grime and bacteria.

While all this may sound like a good thing for your health, this obsession with sanitation and cleanliness has forced us to take a step backwards with our gut health.

Modern–Day Hunters and Gatherers Reveal Surprising Truths About Microbiome Health

Your microbiome is your unique collection of intestinal bacteria – the trillions of gut bacteria that influence your immune health, mood, behavior, digestion, metabolism and weight.

Since there’s little doubt that modern-day living affects your gut health, how would your microbiome differ if you lived completely isolated from modern medicine, food and culture?

To answer that question, a group of researchers and a Venezuelan government medical team set out by helicopter to a remote Yanomami tribe living on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.

Members of this tribe have lived as hunter-gatherers for more than 11,000 years in this region of the Amazon rain forest. This outside visit marked their first contact with modern society.

After taking samples from 12 of the villagers' fecal matter, the research team used DNA analysis to determine which species of bacteria thrived in the hunter-gatherers' guts.

Their first surprise was the astonishing number of different species present in the Yanomami's microbiome. The tribe had about 50% more ecological diversity in their gut than the average American. Obviously, there were multiple factors at play in this remote region:

• The population’s high–fiber indigenous diet differed greatly from the standard American diet.
• They had never been exposed to antibiotics.
• They had far lower exposure to electrical fields and EMFs.
• The sanitation and hygiene practices that are so prevalent in the Western world were absent here.

While sanitation and hygiene were indeed important variables, other factors played a role as well, especially diet.

There are many little–known factors affecting your microbiome on a daily basis that can alter its pH, impact your absorption of nutrients, inflammatory response, immune function, digestion and your gut’s ability to fight invaders.

The Nine Factors That Harm Your Gut Health

The health of your microbiome depends on having the proper balance between beneficial bacteria and potentially pathogenic bacteria, as well as the health and integrity of your gut lining.

When your microbiome falls out of balance or loses its diversity, or when your gut lining becomes compromised, many processes in your body can be impacted. Here are nine of the biggest factors:

1. Antibiotics

Most antibiotics can alter your gut microbial balance. Whether you’re taking antibiotics right now, just finished a course last week or took them years ago, the well-being of your microbiome may be compromised.

Included are the antibiotics hidden in food, especially factory-farmed meats and conventional dairy products.

2. Heartburn pills

A British study on twins suggests that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) taken for heartburn can alter your gut flora. An additional 2015 study confirms PPI users are associated with a less healthy gut microbiome compared to non–users.

3. Fluoridated and chlorinated water

The chlorine in chlorinated tap water can potentially destroy both the bad bacteria and the good, friendly bacteria in your gut. The same is true for fluoride.

4. Processed and refined sugars

One of the fastest ways to create an imbalance – and feed the bad bacteria in your gut – is to eat too much sugar and non-fiber carbohydrates. Few things fertilize and speed up the growth of pathogenic microbes faster than sugars.

5. Processed, refined foods

Processed foods, including pasteurized milk, can harm your good bacteria. Eating the typical Western diet of processed foods produces a profoundly different microbiome than one high in vegetables and fiber.

6. Bioengineered foods, pesticides and other agricultural chemicals

Certain genetically–engineered foods and even some non–GMO foods that are not organic, like wheat, can contain glyphosate, an agricultural herbicide that’s been shown to target and destroy good gut bacteria. Conventionally raised animals are typically fed bioengineered grains such as GE corn.

7. NSAIDs (Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)

Certain popular over-the-counter painkillers can damage cell membranes and your gut lining as well as harm healthy gut flora.

8. Stress

Stress affects your gut in a number of ways, such as hindering the production of enzymes and absorption of nutrients along with reducing oxygen levels and blood flow. Plus, it can impact the functioning of your entire GI tract, including your gut flora.

9. Pollution

Airborne particulate matter from car exhaust, home furnaces and industry as well as livestock emissions travel from your lungs to your intestines and can alter your gut bacteria and intestinal barrier. It can contaminate the food and water supply, leading to further injury of your gut bacteria.

Now that you know what can upset the balance of your microbiome and the integrity of your gut lining, let’s look at what you can do to help restore your gut health to support your well–being.

Why Your Microbiome Needs Reconditioning and Reseeding Bacteria

A healthy microbiome contains two different types of bacteria:

1. Bacteria from Mom (and Dad to a lesser degree) during the birthing process, breastfeeding and close interactions with friends and family shortly after birth. These include the commonly used probiotic species Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium.

These organisms are essential for your body’s functioning and control its many biochemical reactions. The typical western lifestyle causes significant harm to these bacteria, which can lead to dysbiosis, or an imbalance of microbes.

2. Transient organisms from the natural environment. These microbes are key “reconditioning” probiotics. They are introduced into your microbiome through environmental exposure in the form of spore organisms.

These important bacteria perform critical housekeeping functions in your gut. They’re sometimes referred to as the “gut police,” because they take care of the condition of your gut and support the growth of good bacteria.

Think of these two categories of bacteria as reconditioning and reseeding. Environmental bacterial spores condition your gut and ready it for reseeding by beneficial bacteria from fermented vegetables or probiotic supplements.

We’ve talked about how everyday living conditions and lifestyle can easily disrupt your delicate microbial balance and gut lining integrity.

We have also explored how by avoiding dirt and focusing too much on sanitation, we destroy the environmental organisms so crucial to our gut health.

Why Regular Probiotics May Not Be Enough to Support Your Gut Health

Mother nature produces bacterial spores as a means to survive extreme environmental conditions and to exist long–term in conditions that might normally kill the bacteria.

The complex spore-forming process takes about eight hours. It involves the buildup of layers surrounding the bacteria core, ending with outer protein-like layers known as the spore coat.

Different from regular probiotics, spore–forming bacteria offer four major advantages over non-spore-forming probiotics, such as Lactobacillus in your gut:

1. Spores can survive the low pH of the gastric barrier to deliver the entire dosage to your small intestine (not the case for all Lactobacillus species).
2. Spores resist breakdown from enzymes, solvents, and hydrogen peroxide as they travel to your small intestine.
3. Spores are heat-stable, so the product can be stored at room temperature without losing any potency or effectiveness.
4. Certain spores are antibiotic-resistant, which means you can take them while using antibiotics to help support your healthy microbiome.

When the spores reach your small intestines and are exposed to the right nutrients, they germinate. This process, which takes just a few minutes, allows water to enter the spore to break down and remove the spore coats. Freed of its protective layers, the beneficial probiotics can resume cell growth inside your body.

Here’s what you need to keep in mind about spores and regular probiotics: They are not interchangeable as they perform different functions in your gut.

To truly optimize the health of your microbiome, you need both.

Nature’s Original Spore Probiotic That Benefitted Even Dinosaurs

Because our ancestors were hunters and gatherers and ate off the land, much of their diet was teeming with environmental bacteria.

These strains of bacteria were able to survive in the outside environment, and they were able to pass through the acidic gastric system and end up thriving in the intestines.

After thousands of years of exposure, humans have actually come to require these specialized strains for proper, healthy function of many of our biological systems.

The most well-known, well-studied and widely used spore probiotics are from the Bacillus species – in particular Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus clausii and Bacillus coagulans.

You won’t find these spore probiotics in foods, as our modern sterilized food systems have eliminated these critical species from our diets.

So where can you find them?

Originally thought of as “soil organisms,” studies show they are actually digestive tract organisms that use the soil to transfer themselves from host to host.

Bacillus species are abundant in the environment, and data suggests they spanned the globe thousands of years ago.

While bacteria are known to mutate quickly, the bacillus subtilis species has remained the same for tens of thousands of years – proof of how resistant bacillus is as an environmental probiotic.

Bacillus species, including Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus clausii and Bacillus coagulans have been shown in research to:

• Train the immune system to support a healthy normal inflammatory and immune response.*
• Support digestion and assimilation of food and nutrients.*
• Support your body’s natural detoxification processes.*
• Support your GI defenses against everyday threats and bacterial overgrowth, including your small intestine.*
• Produce key nutrients at the site of absorption to maximize bioavailability.*

Bacillus spore probiotics produce vitamins, enzymes, carotenoid antioxidants, and some very valuable fats.

Short-Chain Fatty Acids for a Healthy Gut

Some researchers believe short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) may be the most important nutrient for a healthy gut and microbiome.

SCFAs are fatty acids produced by your gut microbiota as fermentation products from unabsorbed food in your small intestine.

What sets them apart from other fatty acids is their unique structure: fewer than six carbons in straight and branched-chain configurations.

The most abundant SCFAs are acetic acid (C2), propionic acid (C3), and butyric acid (C4). They comprise as much as 95 percent of the SCFAs in your colon.

SCFAs play important roles in the health of your microbiome and gut, as they:

• Support healthy blood flow and fluid and electrolyte uptake.*
• Promote healthy intestinal permeability, helping to support your gut and keep your gut wall sealed.*
• Promote the production of immune cells.*
• Increase fat metabolism.*
• Support the growth of beneficial organisms (lactobacillus and bifidobacter).*
• Help promote a healthy normal gut and systemic inflammatory response.*

In recent years, propionic and butyric acids have received the most attention for a very good reason: low levels of these are connected with inflammatory processes in your body.

The highest concentration of butyrate in your body is in your gut. This short-chain fatty acid is an important energy source for your intestinal cells.

If levels of butyrate run low – or are diminished – intestinal cells die. Butyrate also plays key roles in supporting digestive health and a normal inflammatory response in your gut.

Diet does not provide a reliable, absorbable source of SCFAs, so you must depend on key gut bacteria to produce SCFAs (especially butyrate) for your microbiome.

Complete Probiotics SBO: A Unique, Research-backed Formula

Complete Probiotics SBO provides four outstanding soil-based spore probiotics:

1. Bacillus clausii

It is the most widely used probiotic in the world and is research-backed to be a potent immune enhancer.*

2. Pediococcus acidilactici

It promotes a healthy inflammatory response in the intestines as well as a healthy immune response. It can exist in anaerobic conditions like your gut and promote the optimal environment to support a healthy bacterial balance in your gut.*

3. Bacillus subtilis

It promotes a positive environment for the growth of beneficial bacteria and is important for immune development.* It produces nattokinase (the key compound in Japanese natto) and vitamin K2. It also increases SCFA production in the gut by over 40% to support reconditioning of your gut and microbiome.*

4. Bacillus coagulans

It produces an L+ optical form of lactic acid that offer greater support for immune health and gut defense. It also supports digestive and urinary tract health as well as nutrient absorption.*

Imagine for a moment a lush, bountiful garden, filled with thousands of different plants. All the plants work together to keep the garden vibrantly healthy.

Over time, this garden, like many real-life gardens, experiences assaults that challenge its well-being: weeds, dousings with herbicides and other harsh chemicals, and a lack of proper soil nutrients.

I paint this picture for one reason – to show you how our Complete Probiotics and Complete Probiotics SBO work together in your gut:

• Complete Probiotics SBO acts as the gardener. Like any good gardener, it pulls weeds from the garden, detoxifies the soil, and replenishes the soil’s energy and nutrient content. This is similar to how it functions in your gut.*
• Complete Probiotics provides the new seeds to replace the good plants in your garden (or, in the case of your gut, reseeds new beneficial bacteria). New bacteria can only be as healthy as its foundation and growth medium.

A good gardener leaves the garden when its work is completed, and that is exactly what Complete Probiotics SBO does in your gut.

Providing key “reconditioning” strains of spore biotics designed by nature to be transient, it helps protect and recondition your gut flora during its time there.*

Because it leaves your gut when its work is finished, you need new reconditioning strains every day to provide daily, ongoing care.

That’s why it’s ideal to take Complete Probiotics SBO along with Complete Probiotics every day.

And for women, Complete Probiotics for Women contains beneficial probiotic strains to address their unique needs including digestive and gut health, as well as immune and vaginal health.*

A Unique Organic Mushroom Blend for Natural Prebiotics

Researchers have discovered that probiotics work more effectively when you include prebiotics.

Prebiotics, or non-digestible food ingredients, stimulate the growth and activity of the beneficial bacteria in your gut and help optimize the health of your microbiome.*

Mushrooms are one of my favorite forms of prebiotics because they offer so many potential benefits.

Certain mushrooms contain high levels of a prebiotic substance called beta–glucans, a non-digestible oligosaccharide that feeds your good bacteria and promotes valuable health benefits.*

As part of Complete Probiotics SBO, we’ve added an Organic Mushroom Blend containing three highly valued mushroom mycelium:

• Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) – Helps maintain your intestinal epithelium or lining, supporting its integrity.*
• Shiitake (Lentinus edodes) – Has a beneficial, modulating effect on immune function and protective qualities for your GI tract.*
• Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) – Contains two polysaccharide complexes that are gaining a great deal of scientific attention for their ability to enhance immune status.*

The mycelium part of the mushroom is the part below the ground you don’t see. I’ve chosen to use the mycelium in this product, because it more closely mimics the underground environment in which the spores thrive.

Mushrooms are also a rare source of ergothioneine, an unusual sulfur–containing derivative of the amino acid histidine. This “master antioxidant” may play a very important role in protecting your cellular DNA from oxidative damage.*

Is Complete Probiotics SBO Right for You?

Because your gut needs both kinds of probiotics – spore probiotics and reseeding probiotics, many people may benefit from taking both Complete Probiotics SBO and Complete Probiotics, especially if you have a compromised gut or if you’ve travelled to another country in recent months (your microbiome can change in as little as 24 hours).

And for powerful microbiome repair, Complete Afterbiotics combines the power of soil-based organisms, non-spore-forming probiotics and a probiotic yeast in a Prebiotic Citrus Bioflavonoid Complex base.

Complete Probiotics SBO

Foundational blend of active bacteria for creating an optimal environment for daily probiotic use*

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4 Billion CFUs of:

• 4 resistant SBO strains to protect and recondition your gut flora, including Bacillus clausii SC-109*
• Organic mushroom blend of prebiotics to promote immune health*

Complete Probiotics

Multi-strain formula in a delayed-release capsule for optimal maintenance of overall gut health*

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70/100 Billion CFUs of:

• 10 reseeding probiotic strains, including long-lasting Lactobacillus acidophilus DDS^®-1
• Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) as a form of prebiotics nourish the beneficial bacteria in your gut*

Also available in special Women’s and Children’s formula (10 Billion CFU)

Complete Afterbiotics

The perfect trifecta of diverse strains to provide powerful support for microbiome repair*

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18 Billion CFUs of:

• 3 resistant SBO strains to recondition your gut, including Bacillus subtilis HU58*
• 3 reseeding probiotics, including yeast probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii
• Prebiotic Citrus Bioflavonoid Complex to reestablish intestinal barrier function*

As long as you have a good source of probiotics in your diet, such as high-quality fermented vegetables, Complete Probiotics SBO can be a suitable stand-alone product.

Keep in mind, Complete Probiotics SBO is a gut reconditioner, not a full-spectrum probiotic. That’s why taking it along with Complete Probiotics is important.

Pairing Complete Probiotics SBO with some of my other products may provide even more benefits:

• Psyllium to reduce gas by as much as 50%.*
• Protein Powder (any of my products will work) to reduce ammonia.*
• Digestive Enzymes to enhance absorption of nutrients.*

And because no refrigeration is required, you can take them with you wherever you go.

Experience SBO Probiotics And its Many Benefits With Complete Probiotics SBO Today

Nearly everyone has heard about probiotics, but few people know about spore probiotics or spore biotics – at least not yet. While they may be as ancient as the hunters and gatherers themselves, the power of spores is just becoming known.

Complete Probiotics SBO is a potent spore biotic formula that can potentially help you:

• Improve the condition of your microbiome and gut integrity.*
• Promote tight junctions in your gut epithelial lining.*
• Support a normal inflammatory response in your gut and body.*
• Enhance digestion and absorption of nutrients.*
• Lower the pH in your gut to promote the growth of beneficial bacteria.*
• Support your body’s immune function.*
• Support your GI tract’s detoxification processes.*
• Boost the production of short-chain fatty acids by as much as 40 percent.*
• Enhance the benefits of Complete Probiotics and Complete Afterbiotics.*

We think you’ll agree – that’s an impressive list of potential benefits. All from the addition of soil-based bacteria to your diet.

Why not give our Complete Probiotics SBO a try today, and see what it can do for you? Order your supply today.