Keeping your pet healthy is essential for their well-being. Vet bills can add up quickly, so it’s important to watch your pet’s health and keep a log if their eating habits or behavior begin to change. And remember on cold winter days it may seems difficult to provide exercise for your pets, but it is critical to their well being that you do so.

Did you know that the addition of Probiotics in your diet might substantially reduce upper respiratory infections for winter athletes? That's the conclusion reach by researchers who recently published their results in theInternational Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism.  

Researchers conducted a four month study of 84 highly active men and women engaged in winter endurnace-based physical acitivities and examined the effects Protbiotics supplements had on the incidence of upper respiratory-tract URTIs) and immune markers.

Both “too much hygiene” (in the form of antibacterial soaps, hand washes, etc.) and antibiotics eliminate common bacteria, doing away with some of the good bacteria needed for that immune system balance. Smart use of probiotics in personal health, household cleaners and even in your lawn and garden can help reintroduce that good bacteria to your life.

In a nutshell, probiotics (me and my little microbe buddies) are live microorganisms which, when administered in adequate amount and under appropriate circumstances, confer a health benefit on the host. These benefits might include boosting the immune system and aiding your digestive tract.

Most of our customers drink their Essential, Xtra Immunity or Herbal Probiotics with water, juice or other healthy beverage or food.  That’s why we here at Innovative Probiotics are always on the lookout for good recipes for our probiotics.

Here's a terrific one for a mango-berry green smoothie with probiotics! Have your own favorite green smoothie recipe? Be sure to share it in the comments section!

Whether this is your first visit to InnovativeProbiotics.com or your 15^th, we’d like to welcome you to our own little corner of the internet. Here at Innovative Probiotics – and at our parent company, OCCU-TEC, we have a strong belief in the power of probiotics and a passion for natural health, wellness and sustainable living. We suspect you do too.

Probiotics have been widely used in Asia and other parts of the World for many years, but it has been a “best kept secret” in the United States; but that may be changing.

Apply a disinfectant, kill the germs — right?   It's not that easy.  With the advent of modern disinfectants, many of us may feel a false sense of security when using germicides.  However scientists are finding germs are apparently smarter, tougher and more organized than anyone ever imagined.  Recent discoveries have shown that bacteria on damp surfaces do not remain as isolated and free floating life forms but communicate and colonize with other germs to build a tough, protective biofilm that can withstand even the strongest disinfectants.

Apart from the OMRI listing, SCD Probiotics complies with the current Food Grade Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Guidelines enforced in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration. GMP guidelines provide a system of processes, procedures and documentation to assure the product produced has the identity, strength, composition, quality and purity that it is represented to possess.

Sure, it won't guarantee the best vegetables, fruit or flowers; ones that are so good that they will attract the attention of thieves; but it certainly can help make up for all kinds of plant deficiencies by improving your garden soil… So start composting!