Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Gut health expert Tina Anderson knows why your probiotic supplementation is a waste of money.

24 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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This short YouTube interview (host Josh Trent) features Tina Anderson explaining that most common probiotic supplements cannot survive the gastric system—many strains require refrigeration and she states ~99.99% die before reaching the intestine. Anderson describes licensing spore-based probiotic strains from a London university that form endospores (a hardy shell) enabling survival through the stomach to the intestines; she and her husband invested personal funds to develop these strains. The piece frames mainstream probiotics as often ineffective and positions spore-based strains as a scientific solution.

We found this problem that most probiotics weren't surviving the gastric system. If a probiotic needs to be refrigerated in order to stay alive, it means it wouldn't even survive on the store shelf. So how in the world would it ever survive your body temperature, which is 98.6. We've tested this time and time again. 99.99% of them die by the time they get to the intestine.
What people don't know may be actually harming them and it's definitely making them waste money. You and your husband spent your life savings on this mission, on this I for the spore based strains. So the science is really powerful because otherwise you wouldn't have risked at all.
We were able to license these incredible spore based strains from London University. They're called spore based probiotic and they are called that because they have this endospore shell around itself and this spore shell allows it to be a very hardy organism and actually survive the journey from the mouth through the gastric system into the intestines.