Brandon Gilta - SIBO Diet: A Beginners Step-by-Step Guide To Reversing SIBO Symptoms Through Diet With Selected Recipes

SIBO Diet

A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide To Reversing SIBO Symptoms Through Diet

With Selected Recipes

Copyright 2019 Brandon Gilta

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We, humans love to eat. Especially nowadays, when there are a lot of food technologies and innovations that make dishes more mouth-watering and tastier. With these food inventions, we also discover new diseases. Some of them had already made us suffering from their symptoms but we dont consider them a disease before. One of them is the Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO).

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) is the excessive growing of bacteria in the lower part of the small intestine. These bacteria are of different varieties and is normally located in the colon or large intestines. The mechanisms that regulates the balanced bacteria population in the intestines are compromised and SIBO occurs.

A person with SIBO experiences abdominal pain, diarrhea, abdominal distention or bloating which is because of too much gas in the stomach, too much belching, and constipation. When SIBO is severe, a person starts to lose weight and begins to have a vitamin deficiency. Because of the symptoms, people commonly thought SIBO as a typical stomach disease and it is not correctly diagnosed as SIBO. According to Kresser (2016), SIBO is a largely under-diagnosed disease. Patients do not usually consult when they have symptoms and most Doctors are not aware how common SIBO is.

The symptoms of SIBO are difficult to minimize and treat. Firstly, because it is directly connected to the persons diet. One might attempt to consume probiotic drinks or eat fibrous vegetables for good digestion, but this might worsen the symptoms instead. Unlike the traditional knowledge we have with food and our stomach, the diet to reverse SIBO is completely different.

This book will show you that some of the common food we eat, although they are nutritious, can worsen the symptoms of SIBO. You might want to pay attention to the details of each chapter if you happen to be experiencing the symptoms of SIBO. Weekly to do lists and recipes are provided to guide you in reversing its symptoms.

What exactly happens to our stomach when we have SIBO?

We all have beneficial bacteria in our stomach that helps with good digestion and allows the production of right amount of gastric acid in our small intestines. They also help fight the bad bacteria from the food we eat. Bacteria in the small intestines is different from those in the large intestines and each have different functions.

SIBO happens when bacteria of the small intestines excessively grow or the type of bacteria in the small intestines changes and is replaced by the bacteria that is normally in the large intestines. The bacteria that causes SIBO are combination of different types of bacteria and not only of a single type. Many cases of SIBO are found to be overgrowth of bacteria that is supposed to be in the colon but is found in the small bowel, and there are only rare cases of overgrowth of bacteria from the small bowel itself.

The overgrown bacteria are found in the lower part of the small intestine. When a person eats a food that is difficult to digest by the higher part of the small intestine it goes to the lower part and it will be eaten by the overgrown bacteria. The food serves as a fuel for the bacteria instead of becoming a nutrient to the body. When the bacteria consume the food, they ferment it and produce gases which results to bloating or too much burping or gas releasing. Because the body do not get the nutrient of the food, instead of getting healthy the person will suffer from many more diseases.

SIBO is not contagious unlike other gastrointestinal diseases. SIBO is often neglected because a person might be suffering from abdominal pain and the doctors will not be able to see anything wrong with his or her body, especially when the person does not suffer with any other diseases. The doctors will see the body as normal because in the normal state, the intestines already contain bacteria. SIBO will only be diagnosed as it is once the doctor considers the possibility of SIBO and perform tests precisely for SIBO.

What are the effects of SIBO?

Aside from the symptoms, the actual effect of the overgrown bacteria in the small intestine are

Thinning of the cell lining the small intestine called mucosa which will result to a leaky gut. This in turn will make large protein particles from the intestines to flow in the bloodstreams, causing more severe diseases.

What are the conditions or factors that cause SIBO?

There is no exact source when and where we get SIBO. It can be from the food, drinks and drugs we intake. Studies shows that the factors that may lead to the development of SIBO are the following:

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Multiple courses of antibiotics or Medications

Prior Bowel Surgery

Low stomach acid

Metabolic Disorders such as Diabetes

Hypothyroidism

Immunodeficiency states

Hypochlorhydria

Elderly age

GI Infection

Organ System Dysfunction: Liver, kidney, pancreatic dysfunction, Crohns and Celiac diseases

Researchers found that 80 % of IBS patients are positive to SIBO. IBS and SIBO have the same symptoms but there are many other factors that cause IBS and only one of those factors is SIBO. Hypo and Hyperthyroidism are autoimmune diseases and are associated with the changes in microbiota compositions and to intestinal bacterial overgrowth. It is found out that 54 % of people with these diseases are positive with SIBO.