Dr Mercola Dr Mercola Complete Spore Restore Probiotic

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

• 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)
• Spores resist breakdown from enzymes, solvents, and hydrogen peroxide as they travel to your small intestine
• Spores are heat-stable, so the product can be stored at room temperature without losing any potency or effectiveness
• Certain spores are antibiotic-resistant, which means you can take them while using antibiotics to help support your healthy microbiome

Dr Mercola has formulated Complete Spore Restore to include four outstanding soil-based spores or spore biotics and a prebiotic organic blend of three highly valued mushroom mycelium to potentially help:

• 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
• Contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
• Reduce unwanted bio-film effects to help fight pathogenic bacteria
• 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 (reseeding probiotics)

Think of it like a garden, where the spores act as the gardener. Like any good gardener, they pull weeds, detoxify the soil and replenish its energy and nutrient content. Spore probiotics provide a healthy foundation and growth medium.

Then you need seeds. Reseeding probiotics provide the new seeds to replace the good plants in your garden that wither due to a lack of proper soil nutrients, or assaults like harsh chemicals and herbicides.

You need both for your garden to thrive, and so does your gut.

Soil-based organisms (SBOs) are bacteria spores that work in your gut much like the gardener. Spores provide key “reconditioning” strains of bacteria that help protect and recondition your gut flora, and prepare it for the introduction of probiotics. They help your microbiome recover from on-going assaults by fluoridated and chlorinated water, stress, medications, processed foods and refined sugars, EMFs, and pollution.

Our ancestors’ diets included these bacteria spores, but today people avoid touching dirt and thoroughly scrub their vegetables to remove all traces of soil along with their naturally occurring organisms.

Complete Spore Restore provides four outstanding soil-based spore probiotics:

• Bacillus clausii
  Most widely used probiotic in the world
  Contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
  Antibiotic resistant for use during antibiotic treatment, so spores remain stable in the presence of antibiotics
• Pediococcus acidilactici
  Research shows it promotes a healthy inflammatory response in the intestines as well as supporting a normal and healthy immune response.
  Can exist in anaerobic conditions like your gut.
  May improve gluten sensitivity.
  Helps balance your intestinal micro-flora and promote optimal health.
  Produces several different antimicrobial compounds to support a healthy bacterial balance in the gut.
• Bacillus subtilis
  This specific subtilis promotes a positive environment for the growth of beneficial bacteria.
  Produces nattokinase (the key compound in Japanese natto) and vitamin K2
  Highly important for immune development as it germinates in the small intestine.
  Widely used and considered safe (GRAS – Generally Regarded As Safe).
  Increases SCFA production in the gut by over 40 percent to support reconditioning of your gut and microbiome.
• Bacillus coagulans
  Secretes a bacteriocin, Coagulin, which has activity against a broad spectrum of microbes.
  Produces L+ optical form of lactic acid that has a greater effect on immune stimulation and gut defence.
  Contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
  Supports digestive and urinary tract health, as well as nutrient absorption.
  Intensively studied with long history of use for gut concerns and normal inflammatory response.