Understanding SIBO with Dr Mark Pimentel | Ep.59 - a podcast by Rebecca Coomes

from 2018-05-07T21:00

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Dr Mark Pimentel is a pioneer in the research of SIBO. Today he joins Rebecca to talk all-things SIBO. Listeners of The Healthy Gut Podcast submitted their questions for Dr Pimentel, which Rebecca gets him to answer. They cover the following:

Different treatment options available for SIBO including different options for methane dominant SIBO
Methane overgrowth vs bloom
Whether methane always equals constipation and what it means if you’re hydrogen-dominant and have SIBO
Whether it’s safe to do multiple rounds of SIBO treatments
How to uncover the underlying cause(s) of your SIBO (The Healthy Gut Podcast members get exclusive access to our handy SIBO causes and risk factors guide)
What to do if your practitioner doesn’t believe SIBO exists
What the future looks like for post-infectious IBS patients
The future of hydrogen sulphide SIBO: treatment and testing
What we should do if we get a negative SIBO breath test but still experience symptoms
Whether we should be considering the broader gut microbiome when treating SIBO
Whether we should be using additional supplements and/or treatment aids, such as FMT, prebiotics, probiotics, prokinetics, laxatives, digestive enzymes, HCL, bitters, etc
What diet we should be following and whether we should starve or feed our bacteria during treatment
What the future looks like for SIBO patients and SIBO treatments

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