Alter Your Health

#85 | Slaying SIBO! How To Heal Your Gut

April 04, 2019 Dr. Benjamin Alter Episode 85
Alter Your Health
#85 | Slaying SIBO! How To Heal Your Gut
Show Notes

SIBO, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, is such a popular diagnosis these days...

 

The fact of the matter is that it is NOT a diagnosis, but a laboratory finding the signifies an underlying deeper imbalance.

FUN FACT: The SIBO breath test was actually developed at my alma mater, National College of Natural Medicine

In this conversation we speak to what's really causing symptoms of SIBO and how to finally heal!

Some takeaways from this conversation...

  • Conventional approach to SIBO
  • Different forms of SIBO - hydrogen and methane producing bacteria
  • The hidden type of SIBO - hydrogen sulfide producing bacteria
  • What is sulfur metabolism and what does this have to do with SIBO
  • How to optimize your sulfur metabolism
  • Why a low sulfur diet may be helpful for some period of time
  • Keys considerations for reintroducing foods and sustaining health and wellbeing

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Links to learn more

Links to some more good stuff
- ALL NEW EAT MORE, WEIGH LESS PROGRAM - www.alter.health/eat-more-weigh-less
- 1-on-1 Nutritional Analysis Package - www.alter.health/nutritional-analysis
- Get the Alter Health weekly WFPB Meal Guides: www.alter.health/meal-guides
- Work with us in the Thrive on Plants program: www.alter.health/thrive-on-plants