SIBO Articles
Rifaximin (Xifaxan): Why It May or May Not Improve Your SIBO – 2023
Rifaximin (Xifaxan): Why It May or May Not Improve Your SIBO Rifaximin (Xifaxan) is one of the most common antibiotics prescribed for SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth). It is a relatively safe antibiotic and can help reduce hydrogen-dominant bacterial...
SIBO: Hydrogen, H2S, or Methane, What Is the Difference? Updated 2023
People with digestive issues suffer from different symptoms. Whether it is upper gut dysbiosis, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), or colonic dysbiosis, there is usually a cause, and most people have similar symptoms. What is the cause of different symptoms...
Tired of Bloating? The Low FODMAP Diet, How to Make it Work – 2023
The low FODMAP diet was developed at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. It is an excellent diet relieving SIBO and IBS symptoms and is easier to adopt than an elemental or semi-elemental diet. Following the diet hopefully helps decrease opportunistic bacterial...
Candida Dysbiosis, Are You Suffering from It and What to Do About It
Updated 2022 Candida Dysbiosis, Are You Suffering from It? All About Candida Dysbiosis Candida is a genus of yeasts found within most humans' intestinal and vaginal flora and is generally considered commensal unless overgrown. Candida can become opportunistic and...
SIBO/SIYO/Heartburn: Detailed Information and How to Find Relief (2020)
FYG Livestream on SIBO, What Is It and How to Find Relief! Conquering SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth)/SIYO (small intestine yeast overgrowth) What is SIBO/SIYO? SIBO is a medical condition where you have microbial overgrowth within the microbiome of the...
Neomycin – Why Fix Your Gut Does Not Recommend Its Use for SIBO-C
Neomycin - Why Fix Your Gut Does Not Recommend Its Use for SIBO-C Big pharma is always finding new ways to resurrect older medications to treat diseases. Since so many of our current antibiotics are becoming microbial resistant, older medications despite their side...
My Hydrogen/Methane Breath Test Were Negative, Can I Still Have SIBO?
The hydrogen/methane breath test is a diagnostic test for the determination of SIBO. You still have a lot of bloating, gas, and stomach discomfort, but your breath test results were negative. Is it possible to still have SIBO, if your breath test results were...
Why I Caution the Use of the Antibiotic Flagyl (Metronidazole)
Why I Caution the Use of the Antibiotic Flagyl (Metronidazole) for SIBO and C. difficile Infections Many different medications are in use where doctors are sadly unaware of their potentially severe side effects. The antibiotic Flagyl (metronidazole) is no exception....
Klebsiella Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, What to Do
Klebsiella Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, and What to Do to Hopefully Recover Bacteria are ubiquitous, and some are more helpful in improving our health than others. Some bacteria are mutualists; for example, we feed them nutrients through eating...
Bile Reflux, Weak Pyloric Sphincter, and How to Improve Fat Digestion
Fat digestion and assimilation are essential for overall health. Many of my clients with upper gut dysbiosis have issues digesting fat, causing bile reflux and pyloric sphincter insufficiency. Ketogenic diets that are high in fat are a recent fad, and many people are...
Biofilm: Why It Might Be Hard to Resolve Dysbiosis and How to Reduce It
Biofilm is any group of microorganisms that stick together in a large colony on a surface. Bacteria, for example, adhere themselves to a surface, and other bacteria using tiny hair-like appendages called pili. They also form polysaccharide matrices to enclose the...
Upper Gut Dysbiosis, Anxiety, Brain Fog, Fatigue, Is Ammonia the Cause?
When someone is suffering from dysbiosis, imbalances within the body can readily occur and make people ill. Upper gut dysbiosis is becoming more well-known and is separate from SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) and colonic overgrowth. With new research, we...
Can Your Gut Health Affect Blood Pressure?
The American College of Cardiology has released new guidelines for defining hypertension or high blood pressure. There are news sources like CNN[1] and the Wall Street Journal[2] that are claiming that the affected American population that will now be defined as...
How to Make Sibo Friendly Bulletproof® Coffee That Improves Gut Health
SIBO Fighting + Intestinal Renewal – Iced Bulletproof® Coffee Recipes In honor of the new Bulletproof ghee, this oldie but goodie is getting a new coat of paint. Bulletproof® coffee is very popular. A common recipe for the coffee starts with high quality, very low...
Your Appendix, Not as Useless as You Were Misled to Believe
Medical science and the media have convinced you that your vermiform appendix is a vestigial organ, but is it? Appendectomies are performed across the world and are given little thought to what effect this has on the body. It is believed that removing your appendix is...
Bismuth: When Should It Be Used to Improve Your Digestive Health?
Here at Fix Your Gut we may seem harsh on most medications that are recommended for digestion. Our opinionated views on medications may be true, but we are equally harsh on supplements that we feel may cause issues with their use as well. However, there are some...
Campylobacter, A Cause of SIBO
Can one bout of food poisoning lead to SIBO? Cases of viral gastroenteritis have been linked to the development of SIBO, but what about food poisoning caused by bacterial toxins? Campylobacter Does this sound familiar? You just got over a bad case of food poisoning....
Why Supplementing With Probiotics May Make You Ill – Part 2: MMC Issues
Probiotics are supposed to improve digestive health, yet they sometimes make people ill - especially if they have SIBO. Why do supplements touted for improving digestive health make some people worse? Is it microbial die-off in people with SIBO? If they continue...
IBSchek, a New Test to Determine SIBO?
A new test has been made available to aid in the diagnosis of SIBO. The test is known as IBSchek and is available through Commonwealth Laboratories, Inc. Here is a video of Dr. Pimentel discussing the test: Finally, a blood test that can be used to diagnose SIBO. No...
SIBO Fighting + Intestinal Renewal – Iced Bulletproof® Coffee Recipes
SIBO friendly hot Bulletproof® coffee recipes! Recently, a few iced coffee Bulletproof® coffee recipes have appeared on the Bulletproof® forums. Who does not love iced coffee? We can modify the popular iced Bulletproof® coffee to help combat some of the main causes of...
All About Parasites and How to Reduce Your Parasitical Biome
Even in the United States, it is still easy to become infected with parasites through contaminated water, [1. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/water.html] ingesting meat that isn't cooked completely, [2. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/gen_info/faqs.html]...
What to do for Hiatal Hernias and Squatting to Relieve Constipation!
GERD Protocol 12 - Hiatal Hernia A hiatal hernia is the protrusion of the upper part of the stomach into the thoracic cavity through a weakness in the diaphragm. There are two different types of hiatal hernias.[1. Beers, Mark, The Merck Manual, Merck Research...
Constipation, What Is It, What Causes It, and How to Find Relief
Constipation Relief! Constipation creates multiple problems in the body and can manifest itself in different ways. Constipation can eventually cause toxins to build up in the body from a lack of bowel transit time. Slow moving waste through the colon ferments longer,...