If you’ve been dealing with SIBO and suddenly find yourself reacting to foods you used to tolerate, it can feel like your body has completely changed, often overnight. Healthy foods like tomatoes, avocado, spinach or even leftovers (hello batch cooking!) start triggering strange symptoms. Flushing. Anxiety. Bloating. Headaches. Heart palpitations. A few hours down the…
Are you struggling with SIBO and dizziness? If you’ve ever felt lightheaded, spaced out, or slightly off-balance alongside your gut symptoms, it can feel really confusing. The doctor will likely tell you it’s anxiety, dehydration, or maybe just ‘nothing to worry about’, but when it keeps happening – especially around meals, during flare-ups, or alongside…
If you’ve been dealing with SIBO, IBS or Functional Dyspepsia for a while, you’ll probably have come across the idea of gut motility – and specifically the migrating motor complex (MMC). The MMC is the housekeeping wave that clears leftover food and bacteria from the small intestine between meals. When it isn’t working well, symptoms…
The migrating motor complex (MMC) is one of the most important systems for gut motility, and one of the most overlooked drivers of SIBO and ongoing gut symptoms. How the MMC affects motility, bloating and relapse If you’ve been told your SIBO, IBS or Functional Dyspepsia is caused by ‘bacteria’, it makes sense that everything…
Most people associate SIBO with bloating, gas, or constipation. But the truth is, SIBO can cause a long list of strange, non-digestive symptoms that many doctors overlook. I know this first hand. For years, I experienced a confusing array of symptoms: brain fog, night sweats, twitching muscles (my eyes were constant!), dizziness, rashes, rosacea, mood swings, itching,…
What is SIBO? For years, we’ve been told that Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) is exactly what the name says – too many bacteria in the small intestine. Doctors and functional medicine practitioners have been treating it like that for decades, throwing antibiotics and harsh antimicrobials at it to ‘kill off’ the bacteria. Here’s the…
If your gastritis isn’t improving, or your symptoms keep coming back despite treatment, it’s worth asking whether it’s actually gastritis at all. What is gastritis? Gastritis means inflammation of the stomach lining. It can be acute (sudden onset from things like NSAIDs, alcohol, or food poisoning) or chronic (gradual and often linked to infections like H. pylori, autoimmune issues,…
Looking for the best SIBO diet? If you’ve been told to cut carbs, fibre or entire food groups to heal your gut, you’re far from alone – but this approach often makes things worse. When I was first diagnosed with SIBO, IBS, and Functional Dyspepsia, my first instinct was to take control by changing my…
The root causes of SIBO are often overlooked, as SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) does not occur randomly. It’s not something you simply wake up with one morning. We naturally have ‘SIBO-proof’ bodies. There are several mechanisms that keep the small intestine’s microbiome balanced, so for SIBO to develop, multiple systems in the body must first…
SIBO stands for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth. Sounds fairly self-explanatory, right? Wrong. So what is SIBO, really? For years, the functional and the conventional medicine spaces have been treating SIBO as a condition of overgrowth – ie. there are too many bacteria growing in the small intestine. There is a myth that the small intestine…