Mushroom Probiotics

Yes, our Mushroom Probiotics powder blend is 100% certified organic by the ACO (Cert No. 12672).

100% certified organic ingredients:

Turkey Tail mushroom fruiting body extract (Trametes versicolor), Maitake mushroom fruiting body extract (Grifola frondosa), Shiitake mushroom fruiting body extract (Lentinula edodes) Millet, Amaranth, Quinoa, Hemp Seed, Hemp Protein, Turmeric, Chia Seed, Ginger, Marshmallow Root, Licorice Root, Molasses, Agave, Lactobacilli.

We recommend starting with 1/4 - 1/2 tsp (1.6g) each per day. 

Teelixir Mushroom Probiotics are considered a whole food blend that can be consumed multiple times per day.

However, if you are sensitive to herbs or in a poor state of health, you may want to start with less to avoid a detoxifying effect.

When your body feels ready, you can increase your dosage according to your daily needs.

Mushroom Probiotics can be taken at any time of the day. It does not contain any caffeine or stimulate-like compounds.

Enjoy in the AM and PM to boost gut health and support digestive function.

This can sometimes be a very confusing question to answer. The truth is not all probiotics are created equal. 

The reasons are that most probiotics on the market use lab-grown and synthetic bacteria. When a company states they have billions of bacteria in their products (CFU – Colony Forming Units)–that’s a sign they are synthetic and made in a laboratory.

While the idea of consuming billions of healthy bacteria in one pill sounds convincing, the reality is this marketing tactic is often misleading to the consumer. Here’s why:

1. There’s no guarantee at the time of purchase that a probiotic product has that same amount of good bacteria it lists on its label. From the moment most probiotics are manufactured in the lab, they begin to degrade. This bacteria is extremely sensitive and volatile. These probiotic products must be constantly refridgerated to prevent the good bacteria from dying. The good bacteria is only useful if it remains alive. Synthetic bacteria is also not as strong as our naturally fermented probiotic foods.

2. The other problem is that when consumed, most probiotics today don’t make it through the digestive tract alive to colonise the gut. This defeats the purpose of consuming a probiotic at all. If a probiotic is so fragile that it requires refrigeration, how do you expect it to survive the high temperatures and naturally acidic conditions of the stomach?

3. Bacteria is highly intelligent and their strength lies in working together in colonies (thousands in each colony) and communities, not on their own. Many probiotics on the market isolate one bacterial strain as opposed to multiple strains that balance the whole system and allow the colonies to support and communicate to each other. The body requires ‘healthy and alive’ bacteria colonies working together throughout the entire body.

The purpose of probiotics therefore, must be to arrive alive in the intestines to perform its necessary function and also be commensal to the gut.

We want to emphasise that it’s not the number of bacteria (CFU) present that’s important; but rather it’s how many make it through the digestive tract to recolonise the gut and build a community to effectively work together. That’s what counts.

The superfood ingredients in Teelixir Mushroom Probiotics are all naturally fermented foods and made within the boundaries of Nature–not a laboratory. The good bacteria have naturally grown from organic foods, as nature intended. The bacterial strains feed on the whole foods, remain alive and well, dormant in their own food source (the probiotics) and when you eat them, they activate and multiply in the millions into effective communities that work to restore, maintain and balance gut health.

When you have a stabilized probiotic that is naturally fermented with foods such as Teelixir Mushroom Probiotics, the count doesn't matter. What you have in this case is a dormant probiotic and prebiotic specifically designed to feed and change the terrain of your bodies garden (microbiome) which produces many more billions of good bacteria inside your intestinal system where it counts.

Our organic gut supportive superfoods are fed to a mother culture of good bacteria (probiotics) that breaks down the ingredients over six weeks and activates the valuable nutrition–vitamins, minerals, amino acids and prebiotics–making them more bioavailable and absorbable in the body.

We use a number of probiotic strains in the fermentation process of our Mushroom Probiotics blend. These organic strains are grown in Australia and cultured from food—not dairy, fecal matter or laboratory bred: 

Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Lactobacillus delbrueckii, Lactobacillus Caseii, Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, Lactobacillus Caucasus, Lactobacillus Fermenti, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Lactobacillus Brevis, Lactobacillus Helveticus, Lactobacillus Leichmannii, Lactobacillus Lactis, Bifidobacterium Bifidum, Saccharomyces Boulardii, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.

Mushrooms are made of hard chitinous cells which are difficult to digest. In order to break down the chitinous cells in raw mushrooms and release their valuable nutrients, the medicinal mushrooms need to be processed in some way. 

Before the fermentaion process, Teelixir mushroom fruiting bodies undergo a dual extraction process using water and organic alcohol. This creates mushroom extracts rich in immune system supportive beta-glucans (water soluble polysaccharide compounds) and the adaptogenic triterpenoids (alcohol soluble compounds).

There are absolutely no fillers in our Mushroom Probiotics blend. Every ingredient has been carefully selected for its beneficial qualities for supporting gut health and digestive function. 

First, we have the immune-boosting prebiotic components of the medicinal mushroom extracts in order to create fertile soil for our bacterial garden (microbiome) to grow. This is critical. 

Second, in order to facilitate the growth of the probiotics, we’ve included superfood grains–millet, amaranth and quinoa–to provide food for the fermentation process as well as other nutrition–vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins and enzymes. All of these grains are naturally gluten free and lectin free. 

The molasses and agave are additional food sources for the bacteria to feed on. This helps speed up the fermentation process. The bacteria consumes these natural sugar sources during the fermentation (6-weeks timeline) leaving almost zero sugar remaining once the process is complete. 

Finally, we’ve included additional supportive herbs – turmeric, licorice root, marshmallow root, and ginger – that are known for gut and digestion support. 

All of the ingredients undergo this fermentation process together making all of their nutrients more bioavailable.

Yes, Teelixir Mushroom Probiotics is 100% gluten free.

Yes, Teelixir Mushroom Probiotics is 100% vegan and dairy free.

We use natural sugars–agave and molasses–to feed the bacteria. This is a normal part of our wild fermentation process. However, less than <1 gram of sugar per serving (0.2 g per ½ tsp, in fact) remains in the final product making Mushroom Probiotics suitable for everyone.

Yes, Teelixir Mushroom Probiotics is 100% lectin free.

With the growing concern around inflammatory proteins in foods that damage gut and digestive health, we made sure every ingredient in this formula is lectin-free and will not cause any undue stress on your digestive system.

Unlike most lab-grown probiotics on the market, Teelixir Mushroom Products does not need to be refrigerated which makes it the perfect travel companion. Store in a cool, dry place.

Yes, absolutely! In fact, we recommend it. Combining Mushroom Probiotics with other herbs and foods can enhance their potency and effectiveness by making the nutrients from the food more assimilable and bioavailable.

One caveat is to avoid combining Mushroom Probiotics with ascorbic acid, also known as synthetic vitamin C. Use botanical sources of vitamin C instead such as Camu Camu or Gubinge powder.

Many consumers are aware of the importance of taking a daily probiotic, however, the discussion about prebiotic bacteria and its value is not common knowledge.

Probiotics are healthy bacteria that live in your body naturally–strains such as Bifidobacterium spp. and Lactobacillus spp.–that help your intestines break down the food you eat.

Prebiotics don’t actually contain bacteria. They exist as a food source–special fibres in food–that act as the fuel to help good probiotic bacteria grow in the body. 

Researchers have found that prebiotics is helpful in increasing the good probiotic bacteria already in the gut, improving general wellbeing and reducing the risk of disease.

Medicinal mushrooms are rich in prebiotic compounds such as polysaccharides that help proliferate the growth of probiotics.

If we imagine the microbiome as a thriving healthy garden, the prebiotic bacteria represent the soil or fertilizer where the plants and flowers grow. Without soil (prebiotics), the plants (probiotics) cannot grow.

Consuming prebiotics and probiotics together provides the best opportunity to improve intestinal flora.

Yes, our Mushroom Probiotics blend can withstand heat up to 55ºC degrees without damaging the probiotic nutrition. This makes it ideal to mix or sprinkle the powder on cooked meals.

Every ingredient used in Mushroom Probiotics is certified organic. We source our organic ingredients from all over the world. In alphabetical order:

Agave (Mexico)
Amaranth (India)
Chia Seed (Paraguay, Mexico, Bolivia)
Ginger (Australia)
Hemp Seed and Hemp Protein (Germany, Lithuania, Canada, Inner Mongolia)
Licorice Root (Egypt)
Maitake mushroom (China)
Marshmallow Root (Albania)
Millet (Australia)
Molasses (India)
Quinoa (Bolivia)
Shiitake mushroom (China)
Turkey Tail mushroom (China)
Turmeric (India)

Yes, absolutely. Every batch is third-party tested and verified for safety. If you'd like to see our latest lab reports, please contact us.

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