✅ Elixa delivers 50x more beneficial bacteria per dose compared to the average probiotic supplement – Half a Trillion CFUs per dose!
✅ Our powerful blend takes effect within 3 days.
✅ Utilises a completely different mechanism to conventional probiotics; a targeted anti-microbial approach.
Hi, I'm Karl Seddon and I'm the founder and inventor of Elixa Probiotic. The short-course, ultra high strength approach to probiotics.
The problem is gut dysbiosis.
You may have heard of this as an 'imbalance' in your gut microbiome (aka. your gut flora).
Calling it an 'imbalance' is vague and not particularly accurate.
The problem of gut dysbiosis should be viewed very clearly: it is the presence of problematic microbes in your intestine.
Not an 'imbalance'.
View gut dysbiosis like an infection of the intestine.
An infection that is chronic (long-lasting and persistent) and moderately 'low level' in terms of it not being an immediately, life-threatening infection (as opposed to the more conventional gut infections such as those that cause 'food poisoning' symptoms, for example).
It's even possible for gut dysbiosis to be devoid of the classic symptoms of a conventional gut infection, such as diarrhoea. Although usually those with gut dysbiosis do not have ideal bowel movements.
While gut dysbiosis is not an immediate threat to your life, it can certainly have a severe effect on your health and therefore your quality of life. And this can last for years - with accumulating consequences.
They produce inflammatory substances and toxic chemicals.
That is the neatest way to summarise it.
The vast majority of problems caused by gut dysbiosis arise from those two features: inflammatory substances produced in the gut and toxic chemicals (including neurotoxic chemicals) produced in the gut.
The inflammatory substances (for example, lipopolysaccharide) and the toxic chemicals (for example, ammonia) move from the gut into the bloodstream - arriving at the liver first.
The effect that these substances have on the liver, the brain, and all the other tissues they circulate to, is one mechanism via which gut dysbiosis affects the entire body.
Another mechanism is via the long-term aggravation of the immune system within the intestine itself: this causes some problematic behaviour such as insufficient production of regulatory T-cells; needed to regulate immune responses, which ultimately has an effect on the entire body because a large number of immune cells are produced in the gut tissue; which subsequently circulate around the body.
My aim with gut dysbiosis is to eradicate the problematic microbes.
Dietary changes and other approaches can often improve gut problems somewhat, but they are doing so by working around the problem. For example, avoiding FODMAPs/fiber is simply minimizing the amount of fuel the bad microbes receive. It doesn't eradicate them.
The real problem is the inflammatory and toxin-producing microbes being over-populated in the gut in the first place. (I use the word microbes because they are not only bacteria. They include yeast, archaea, viruses, bacteriophages, and other microorganisms.)
Most probiotic supplements are designed and dosed in a manner that aims to 'replace missing species'.
This is because those supplement sellers view the primary problem as a 'deficiency' in beneficial microbes.
While a deficiency in gut microbial diversity can increase the probability of acquiring a gut dysbiosis in the first place, once you have gut dysbiosis, the primary problem is the presence of the problematic microbes which have now colonised or overgrown within your gut; effectively a chronic infection of the gut.
Replacing missing probiotic bacteria in small volumes to the gut ecosystem does not turn back the clock once the dysbiosis has taken hold.
However, probiotics do still present the most promising strategy....
To target the problematic microbes you must use something with anti-microbial action.
But not simple herbs or antibiotics.
No - What I have observed to be the best tools for eradicating these problematic bacteria are..... bacteria themselves.
Specific strains of bacteria.
They operate like complex biological weapons against the problematic microbes. (Explained below.)
I have found this approach to be far superior to any simplistic chemical approach (such as herbal or even pharmaceutical anti-microbials and antibiotics) for gut dysbiosis.
But, as I've mentioned, the strains must be selected specifically for this purpose: targeted anti-microbial action. Not to replace 'deficiencies'.
Not only that, you need a much higher volume of probiotic bacteria than what is found in a conventional probiotic supplement.
All of this means that Elixa must be produced differently.
We produce Elixa at an extremely high concentration (CFU/g) and the strains are selected for their ability to produce conditions conducive to the suppression, destruction, and elimination of problematic microbes throughout the gut.
Elixa is 50x the bacterial count of a typical conventional probiotic and, as mentioned earlier, the strains have been selected with anti-microbial action in mind, unlike conventional probiotics.
There are numerous mechanisms which the Elixa bacteria utilise.
Some are simple.
For example: the production of anti-bacterial and anti-fungal chemicals.
Other mechanisms are more sophisticated.
For example: infiltration of biofilm communities harbouring the problematic microbes.
Other mechanisms are more indirect - such as outcompeting their opposition for nutrients and space within the gut (most importantly the mucin ecosystem of the gut).
Because - much like a course of antibiotics - once you have suppressed/killed the problematic microbes to a great enough extent, the body's immune system and the normally-present beneficial microbes within your gut will keep the bad microbes away.
The good microbes are like flowers occupying an entire garden, thereby keeping out weeds (the bad microbes).
But the weeding must be done first! (the aim of the Elixa course)
The difference between Elixa and an antibiotic is that Elixa is targeted.
Antibiotics do not kill bacteria based on whether they are good or bad by a human's definition. Their targeting is based on cellular mechanisms of the bacteria.
Elixa Probiotic, on the other hand, utilises beneficial bacteria (Bifidobacteria) which we have co-evolved with. They are the early colonisers of the gut with various biochemical mechanisms conducive to a beneficial microbial ecosystem with low or no levels of harmful microbe. That is why human breast milk contains Bifidobacteria and substances that foster the growth of Bifidobacteria specifically.
Not everyone. That would be unlikely, although it remains my aim.
But a very promisingly high number of people do.
And, to put this in perspective, the proportion of people who respond to Elixa, who did not respond to normal probiotics, is incredibly high.
I know this because almost every single person who emails me asking about Elixa has already tried the other widely-marketed approaches to gut problems. Including conventional probiotics.
Elixa is the big gun. It is the option people stumble upon after years of trying all kinds of diets and supplements.
That's how we've grown by word-of-mouth. I have precisely zero employees who perform marketing or sales. I do that myself by producing informational content about gut dysbiosis.
And the good thing about Elixa is that you don't need to wait around for months to find out if it is right for you. You'll know within the first 3-6 days. Hence you only need to try the 8-day course to see whether Elixa works well for you.
Most of the people who email me with fantastic results have already been trying to resolve their gut dysbiosis for many years and they have, of course, tried all the normal probiotics with nothing to show for it. So, if conventional probiotics have not worked for you, Elixa is still well worth considering.
Elixa is the big gun. But do not take my word for it. This page is here to explain the mechanisms via which Elixa works against gut dysbiosis.
Instead take the word of whoever you heard or read recommending it to you (which is how most people hear about my brand and end up on this site).
Or browse my videos and go deeper on my reasoning. If you like the sound of it - give Elixa a try.
Thank you for reading!