Stronger Through Our Communities of Life
We are not separate from nature—we are nature. Our bodies are vibrant ecosystems, teeming with microbial life that connects us to the world around us. When that balance is disrupted, our health—and the planet’s—suffers.
Diverse, thriving ecosystems are the foundation of resilience, whether in a forest, a farm, or your gut. Every choice you make—composting, reducing chemicals, nurturing soil—supports life, inside and out.
Our probiotics are part of that daily commitment to live in harmony with nature. Because when we care for the life within and around us, we all grow stronger.
Better Living Through Natural Biochemistry
We believe that the more we treat biology like isolated chemistry, the further we get away from healing. We research, patent, and manufacture products using a bioactive community of live probiotics + fermented postbiotics to restore health to life on Earth.
As pioneers in microbiome science, we’ve been studying and manufacturing our probiotics for 22+ years. And unlike other probiotic companies, we’re not purchasing and repackaging isolated, frozen and dried probiotic strains—that are designed knowing many won’t survive digestion to make it your gut.
We combine traditional fermentation methods, precision-tuned by science, to design probiotic products that are as close to nature as possible, most bioavailable, and carefully controlled for real health results—whether we’re talking about soil health, plant health, animal health, or human health.
We grow our microbes together. When we bottle them, they’re alive and active. Instead of competing with each other, they form a strong, supportive ecosystem where they rely on each other for survival.
This makes them an ultra-effective team that works together to survive harsh environments, actually get to where you need it to go, and stay alive so it can work.
As the 11 probiotic strains in SCD Essential Probiotics grow together, some of them grow first and make postbiotics first. Other probiotics in the ecosystem eat those postbiotics. They become a symbiotic community: a beautiful example of depending on each other to thrive together.
These postbiotics are key to our probiotics’ high survivability and stability. These postbiotics are also highly beneficial to your health: they include bioactives that include antioxidants, organic acids, short-chain fatty acids, and bioavailable forms of nutrients.
Most other probiotics are isolated from the postbiotics they make, then bottled. Even most postbiotic supplements use isolated postbiotics that are then packaged together with other lab-grown ingredients at bottling.
In every SCD Probiotics bottle, you’re getting a living ecosystem of both probiotics and postbiotics, that are readily available to start influencing health.
It’s nature + science at its finest.
Probiotics are living microorganisms who provide health benefits to us. We need these microbes in our lives to thrive, but they’re on the decline in our environment and our own bodies. And other probiotics aren’t delivered alive and active, so they’re not as effective. So we use science to refine and concentrate our probiotics, while empowering them to do what they do best. Which is eat, grow, create, and help us thrive.
With our science and with our products, we make it easier to add these probiotic communities to your life, farm, or business, and easier to lead a healthier, more connected, and more sustainable life on Earth.
For Everyone
Everyone and every life form deserves good health. We manufacture clean probiotics for all ages, dietary needs, with zero animal testing.
Alive & Never Freeze-Dried
Probiotics must be alive and active to work—and to make postbiotics. Unlike other companies, we’re not purchasing and repackaging isolated, frozen, and inactive probiotics and nutrients. Ourprobiotics are naturally fermented together, then bottled alive, active, and with their helpful postbiotics.
Made in Kansas City, USA
97% of our products are fermented, manufactured, packaged, and quality tested here in our partially solar-powered US facilities.
All the Benefits of Fermented Food, Plus Scientific Precision
Each of the strains in our patented probiotic communities are rigorously, scientifically-selected, metagenomically studied, and stress-tested as multi-strain teams.
No Refrigeration Needed
Our products are shelf-stable for up to 2 years, with no refrigeration needed. This is a sign of our probiotics’ high quality and viability as live, active probiotics from our bottling line to their destination. Plus, it makes them super easy to use, store, ship, and travel with.
Natural Innovation
Microbes link us together and empower health planet-wide. Our breakthrough, patented probiotic technology is more than simply non-toxic: it’s restoring healtheverywhere it goes.
Better health and better lives
through community.
We believe in building better lives and better health by being better community members. In prioritizing our connections with people across the world and with nature. In rebuilding our health by taking better care of our planetary health.
SCD Probiotics was founded in 1998 as Sustainable Community Development, with a mission to create products that replace the toxic chemicals in our lives—using the power of probiotics to restore health and balance to our soil, our food, our bodies, our homes, and our planet. Inspired by the probiotic communities who work together to encourage life and health at their most foundational levels, we use 22+ years of microbiome research and scientific precision to design health-building products that work incredibly well by mirroring nature as closely as possible.