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Martha Carlin Featured on the Vitality Made Simple Podcast
I was honored to be a recent guest on the Vitality Made Simple Podcast with the wonderful Dr. Debbie Ozment! Dr. Ozment shares practical, understandable and fun strategies to enhance your Vitality and Healthspan on her show. She is a wealth of knowledge, and is committed to early diagnosis and intervention of periodontal disease to positively affect not only the mouth, but the entire body. In... -
How To Level Up Your Keto Diet With Probiotics?
The connection between your gut microbiome and well-being cannot be denied. The last few decades have opened the door to understanding how truly we are what we eat. Whether you’re on keto, a carb lover, or a green smoothie pro, every meal you eat alters and shapes your gut microbiome. Studies reveal that a diverse gut microbiome is a healthy gut microbiome. The more... -
Can Probiotic Supplements Make or Break Your Fast?
Intermittent fasting (IF) may have started as a fitness trend for weight loss, but today it's a go-to lifestyle choice for many. Practicing intermittent fasting has been linked with health benefits such as lowering blood sugar and insulin, preventing heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. Research also suggests intermittent fasting can have a possible therapeutic effect on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. ... -
The Best Probiotic to Take After Surgery to Boost Recovery
Every year nearly 15 million Americans undergo a surgical procedure. Surgery is a dramatic transformation for anyone's body, so taking steps to prepare and recover properly will ensure you reap only the benefits of a surgical procedure and hopefully none of the common complications. Probiotics are essential to rebuilding the microbiome, which can especially be impacted by antibiotics commonly administered with surgery aftercare. They... -
Yield&Shield™: Probiotics for your soil, from your garden to your gut
Many years ago when my husband, John, was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s I instinctively knew that there was a connection to the food we were eating. This started a long journey for me, digging into our food supply and the herbicides, pesticides and preservatives that are used in our industrial agriculture operations. Most media was not covering these significant issues and in fact when... -
How Does Sugar Shift Affect Energy Levels?
We love hearing from our customers about what they were looking for in a probiotic and how ours has impacted their overall health! When Helen came across Sugar Shift, which helps the microbiome transform unneeded accumulations of sugars into mannitol, her energy levels at the time were low. She worked long hours and wasn't sleeping well. Nothing seemed to help. When she started taking Sugar Shift, she... -
What sets BiotiQuest apart?
We love hearing from our customers about what they look for in a probiotic and why they're grateful that they came across ours! Merredith began taking Sugar Shift three years ago, after chemo and years of antibiotics. Sugar Shift was created to target the way the body metabolizes sugars. We support our formulas with our teams deep knowledge of microbial genetics and our BioFlux computer model... -
Start the New Year off Right and Join the Sugar Shift Challenge!
Ready to start January off on the right foot? One of the easiest ways you can support your gut health in the new year is by taking a daily probiotic. Sugar Shift is a targeted, one-of-a-kind probiotic, formulated to improve sugar metabolism and boost your overall energy. By shifting the way your body metabolizes sugar, you can avoid many negative effects while reducing your... -
How Sugar Shift helped Ken lower his blood sugar
Ken started measuring his blood sugar last year, when he found out his glucose was high: enough to be labeled a potential metabolic disorder which naturally alarmed him as an active 56 year old interesting in biohacking. After just eight days of taking Sugar Shift, he noticed a reduction in his glucose levels. In addition to lowering his blood sugar, he was able to... -
Sugar Shift Challenge: the results are in!
Early this summer we launched a challenge to see how BiotiQuest’s Sugar Shift could impact fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels. We recruited 18 challenge participants who were already measuring their blood sugar daily. Challenge participants provided a week's worth of their data before starting the challenge. The majority of the participants in the challenge group came to us from Dr. William Davis’ Wheat Belly Blog, and were... -
Why Sugar Shift? It’s All in the Strains!
Many factors of our modern lifestyles like diet and stress, plus our environment and exposure to toxins, can affect our microbiome. And when our choices - both unavoidable and intentional - disrupt our gut harmony, our overall health takes a hit. Our immune system, brain function, weight, sleep, skin, and digestion can all be negatively impacted. Probiotics are on the rise, because they present... -
Can Probiotics Help Support Parkinson's GI Symptoms? + BiotiQuest®
Can Probiotics Help Support Parkinson's GI Symptoms? It’s a question I explored in this interview with Robert Rodgers, PhD, on Blog Talk Radio. We also discuss the journey to find supportive therapies for my husband, John, an 18 year "veteran" of Parkinson's Disease, and the development of our probiotic, Sugar Shift. Robert’s show is all about Parkinson’s Recovery, so we naturally talk about our...