SIBO: Getting Back to a Happy Gut
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Abdominal pain. Abdominal bloating. Digestive issues. A constant feeling of discomfort that keeps you from enjoying any meal and skipping out on social events. The idea of wearing a bathing suit got thrown out the window like week-old fast food fries.
It may have started after taking acid-blocking drugs. It may have started after a course of antibiotics. It may have started after some type of intestinal infection. It may have started after a very stressful event or time in your life. How it started no longer matters--now it's all about figuring out what's wrong and beginning the process of healing your gut.
You've seen a long list of doctors, including GI specialists. But, while GI doctors are great for making sure you don't have a tumor, ulcer or blockage, they're not good with figuring out functional problems with the way your gut works. Once you're had every MRI, colonoscopy, endoscopy and lab test you could think of and you still don't have any answers, you begin to think it's all in your head.
But it's NOT in you head and there ARE answers--just not ones that your doctor may be aware of.
SIBO. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. This is the elusive diagnosis that can wreak such havoc on your gut and change your life.
While there are no quick answers to SIBO, understanding how diet, exercise and natural supplements play a role in calming the fire in your gut and making it work the way it is supposed to is the first step in recovery.
This book will help you understand the basic way your gut works and what goes wrong with it. It will cover the details of the microbiome, that collection of living organisms in your gut that dictate so much of your health. It will cover how to foster the growth of the bacteria you want and destroy those you don't. It will cover how powerful your dietary choices are and the different diets that have been used to control SIBO.
If you're at a point in your life that you're willing to make the changes your gut needs, this book will be the beginning of making your gut happy again.
James Bogash, DC
Since acquiring a passion for how the body works in chiropractic school, I have continued to indulge this desire by reading some 120 peer reviewed medical journals per month. I'm always learning more about how to help people avoid chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, dementia, osteoporosis, obesity and cancer, and pass along this information in my blog. There are currently almost 2,000 posts cataloged on almost every health topic imaginable! For some reason, the information that we understand about avoid and managing chronic diseases remains a big secret. Drugs dominate and lifestyle is pushed to the side. Time after time I have new patients come into my office that have not been given the information they need to get or stay healthy. This blog has always served as therapy for me, allowing me to share with the world this hidden information. Hence the name "Rantings…"
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SIBO - James Bogash, DC
Table Contents
GUT OVERVIEW
PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DIGESTION
DESTROYING YOUR GUT; WHAT CAUSES STOMACH BLOATING
SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH, AKA SIBO
ABDOMINAL BLOATING RELIEF: FIXING SIBO
SUMMARY ON ABDOMINAL BLOATING RELIEF
RESOURCES
OTHER EBOOKS AND FREE GIFT
Gut Overview
No discussion that relates to gas bloating relief can be had until the basics are understood. So before we start anything I’ll give you a very basic understanding of how the gut works. Very basic.
Just like every other organ system, the gut is an incredibly complex system that we still don’t understand fully. And few people understand even a small piece of what we do know.
And before you think that the average gastroenterologist much know quite a bit about the gut, you’ll realize quickly that few really understand the very organ their specialty circles around, otherwise the average GI practice would look far different than it does today.
As far as the importance of the gut goes—I always say that the body digests and does everything else. In other words, digestion and absorption of nutrients is THE most important thing our body does. Mess with this and all hell breaks loose.
Stages of Digestion
There are several stages to the digestive process. Problems with digestion play an integral role in stomach pain and bloating.
Oral Phase
Contrary to common thinking, digestion does not begin in the stomach. It begins with your sense of smell and chewing. This aspect of eating is far more important than most realize.
And not just eating, but eating SLOW. Study after study has shown that those who eat faster and chew less have higher risk of diabetes and obesity. Merely slowing down and enjoying your food can improve your health. Don’t even need to exercise or eat less or even better (although you should…) to be healthier.
Your sense of smell, when triggered by food smells, kicks off the production of saliva. In saliva, the are several enzymes. The enzyme lingual lipase starts the fat breakdown process, and the enzyme alpha amylase starts on carbs.
Because of this, digestion of certain molecules begins even before food hits the stomach.
Gastric (Stomach) Phase
Once you swallow, digestion leaves the oral phase and picks up in the stomach.
So long as you’re chewing your food in a leisurely pace, the stomach is where most people’s digestive health starts to break down, leading with stomach pain and bloating. This is because it is affected greatly by stress, antibiotics and poor food choices.
Worst of all, however, is medicine’s wanton use of drugs that block acid. Acid is an critical point in the digestive process.
Stomach acid release, otherwise known as hydrochloric acid (aka HCl) is stimulated by saliva and the hormone gastrin. HCl has a long list of essential functions for good health. Some of these include:
Most digestive enzymes are produced in an inactive form (otherwise the enzymes would digest the very glands they are made in). Stomach acid activates these enzymes so they can work.
Creates an acid environment to break down certain proteins (the pH of the mixture in the stomach, called chyme, should be around 2-3, or very acidic).
Kills off most of the live bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungus that is ingested. This becomes a VERY important factor.
Needed to absorb certain vitamins like B12 and iron.
Needed to turn on certain anti-cancer compounds in food (like broccoli).
The pH of the stomach must be low enough to tell the pancreas to release bicarbonate. Stomach acid ensures this happens. Without it, the pH of the contents released from the stomach (chyme) stay acidic and can damage the entire length of the intestinal tract.
Other hormones released in the stomach include pepsin (breaks down protein) and gastric lipase (breaks down fat).
Pepsin works best at a pH of 2, which means that, if you are not releasing enough stomach acid from stress or prescription drugs to lower the pH