tanedout
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Found a great resource for gut health issues (specifically SIBO and IBS). The author of the website seems to be someone a bit like Helen who researches everything very thoroughly, and thinks outside the box.
www.gutcritters.com
He cured his SIBO by taking pre and probiotics, and doing a week long garlic tea protocol (so I guess very high amounts of allicin, which is usually one of the main components of herbal SIBO protools, but it's probably much stronger using lots of fresh garlic - probably like a whole pack of allicin caps after each meal)
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, Part Eight: Treatment Options For SIBO
I plan to try this when I can tolerate FODMAPS a bit better (garlic is high FODMAP, so some people may struggle with it), but it's another that could be worth a shot - and certainly one that could potentially give very quick results.
www.gutcritters.com
He cured his SIBO by taking pre and probiotics, and doing a week long garlic tea protocol (so I guess very high amounts of allicin, which is usually one of the main components of herbal SIBO protools, but it's probably much stronger using lots of fresh garlic - probably like a whole pack of allicin caps after each meal)
I used a garlic press to crush one to two cloves into a glass, added fizzy water to make the garlic bits float to the top and waited a minimum of 15 minutes before drinking to allow the allicin time to form.
Please note that a clove is one small piece of a garlic bulb. I once told this story to someone who will remain anonymous, and they went home and tried to eat a whole bulb of garlic instead. Mother of God! Are you crazy I exclaimed? I’m shocked they could get most of it down without vomiting!
I soon learned it was best to take this garlic “juice” on a full stomach or risk nausea. I did this after each meal, including breakfast, if you can imagine, for about seven days. So what happened?
Well, at first I felt a lot of stomach discomfort and rumbling. Then the need to go to the bathroom became overwhelming. It was not unusual to experience cramping as well. And what showed up in the toilet was like nothing I had ever seen before or since. I can only describe it as fudge-like in consistency with a very reddish-brown hue. I’ll leave it at that.
This went on for several days until my stools returned to normal. By then all of my IBS symptoms disappeared. I was shocked to say the least as nothing else had worked until then. What the garlic killed is still a mystery to me. Was it bacterial or fungal or both? I don’t know or really care. I was just happy it, whatever “it” was, was finally gone.
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, Part Eight: Treatment Options For SIBO
I plan to try this when I can tolerate FODMAPS a bit better (garlic is high FODMAP, so some people may struggle with it), but it's another that could be worth a shot - and certainly one that could potentially give very quick results.