Today I'm going to review the FoodMarble AIRE2 device and show you how to use it as a healing
tool for IBS and SIBO. So stay tuned. For videos on how to find your personalized IBS
and SIBO relief plan that works, please consider subscribing and be sure to hit the bell to be
notified whenever I post a new video. If you're new here, welcome. My name's Amanda Malachesky.
I'm a certified Functional Nutrition Gut Health Coach and a Digestive and Allergy Detective. And
I'm also the host of the online program called The Calm Digestion Method. As a Gut Health Coach,
every single day I'm supporting my clients with IBS and SIBO in finding their personalized diet
supplement and treatment plans to resolve their IBS and SIBO. And I'm also a former
IBS and SIBO sufferer myself. Today I'm really excited to showcase the
FoodMarble AIRE2 device and show you how it can be used to simplify some of the challenges that
you're having as an IBS or SIBO patient. So let's get started. One of the biggest
challenges people experiencing IBS and SIBO have, is trying to figure out what should they be eating
or which foods are triggering their IBS symptoms. The FoodMarble AIRE2 device can help with this and
it can also be used as a SIBO testing device. So let's open up the box and check it out. Okay, so
here I have my brand new FoodMarble AIRE2 device. So let's take the lid off. There's a little
handy dandy little, let's get started pamphlet. It tells you how to download the app. Inside the
box here we've got the little device itself. And then beneath that we have a full booklet
to tell us how to get started. And a little USB cable compartment of course as well. And there's
a little carrying case also. Look at that. So the device didn't come charged, so I just
plugged it in and now I'm going to have to wait to see what it does till it's all charged up.
While I'm waiting for the device to charge, I'm just going to download the app and get it all
set up on my phone. So it just walks you through the process of creating an account, and then it
kind of walks you through a little questionnaire. Which device do you have? Tells you how to charge
the device. And then, why are you using this app or this device? What's your purpose for it?
And it also checks in about your symptoms, what's common for you, how often do you
poop. And then it walks you through the process of connecting your device and taking a breath sample.
And actually what it wants you to do first is log a meal. So I've gone through and logged
what I had for breakfast the morning that I was making this video. The app walks you
through the process of setting up for the breath test and then running it.
Now that I've got my AIRE2 charged up and ready to go, I'm going to take a breath sample. And
this simply gives you a specific reading of your hydrogen and methane gas levels at any given point
in time. So I've turned on the AIRE2 device and it told me it's warming up. And then you
see that little slowly blinking blue light. So you double click this big button to turn it on,
and then it'll tell me from the app when it's ready to take a sample. And here I am breathing
into the device and taking my sample. Now this reading alone is kind of one isolated data point
in time, and by itself it doesn't really tell us very much. But the FoodMarble app allows you to
track your gas levels alongside your symptoms, your meals and your bowel movements. And when
you combine all of this data together, this is extremely useful information to help you
figure out what's triggering your symptoms and how much FODMAP's are contributing to that.
The main way that the FoodMarble App does this is that, when you log your meals,
it calculates the amount of FODMAPS present in that meal for you. And then you take a gas reading
maybe an hour after you eat to get a sense of how much fermentation is happening as a result of that
meal, and that FODMAP consumption. So if you're regular about this tracking, you can really get
a sense of how your FODMAP intake correlates with your symptoms. In addition, you can also purchase
FoodMarble's Food Sensitivity Testing kit, which is a collection of four FODMAP substrates,
that you can use as individual tests. To use this, you would do a two to three week regular low
FODMAP elimination diet. And then do these trials one by one with the test samples to see how your
body responds to those specific types of FODMAPS. Then you could use that information to craft a
custom low FODMAP diet for you that eliminates only the foods that are really problematic for
you, and allows you to continue eating the ones that really don't bother you.
This can be a fast track way to assess your FODMAP sensitivity without having to do a really lengthy
food reintroduction process. You know, really painstakingly doing one food at a time. Now, in
addition to using the AIRE2 to assess your FODMAP sensitivities and how you're tolerating your food,
you can also use it as a simple SIBO testing device to test for hydrogen or methane SIBO.
Just like with a regular SIBO test, you would do a 24-hour prep diet,
and run the test the following morning. You'd take a baseline sample, drink the test solution,
and then use the device as directed by the app to collect samples every 15 or 20 minutes.
This makes the AIRE2 a super good investment if you're sure that you have SIBO and you're
going to need to be retesting periodically to see how your progress is going with your SIBO
treatments. Whether you're using herbs or antibiotics or the Elemental Diet,
for example. The current price for the AIRE2 as of this video, which is in February of 2023,
is 249 US dollars. And that's comparable to the price of one single SIBO test. The only thing you
have to pay for in subsequent SIBO tests is a $20 packet of glucose to make your test solution. So
if you'll be doing repeated tests, this is a super good value. In addition, even though it's not
quite ready yet, the AIRE2 is set up to collect hydrogen sulfide data as well as the hydrogen
and methane data. So once FoodMarble brings this online, the AIRE2 device will basically
be equivalent to doing the trio-smart breath test that looks for all three types of SIBO.
The one downside to the AIRE2 is that if you're not a doctor or you're not working with a doctor,
you won't have access to the Lactulose as a test substrate and you'll have to use glucose. Glucose
in general works just as well as Lactulose in most cases. So in most cases, this isn't a problem. But
if you really do need the Lactulose solution for one reason or another, you may have to
go with a regular SIBO test. One last really cool feature of the FoodMarble AIRE2 is that there's a
dashboard where you can access all of your data and filter it and look at it in different ways.
And if you're working with a practitioner who also uses FoodMarble, you can also link
your data to your practitioner, so that they can follow along with your tests and samples as well.
Some of my clients are already doing this, and it's really helpful to be able to look at this
data together with them and help them answer questions and support them with this process
of testing for SIBO. Before I was using the AIRE2, I was often requesting this very same kind of data
from my clients, but having them use paper to take notes with it and things. And though that
can still work, this is just a really convenient package where everything's done digitally. People
can do it on their phone really simply, and then the data's just automatically logged. I don't have
to ask them to upload it or scan it for me and put it onto their computer for me. So my overall
conclusion, I think that the FoodMarble is an excellent tool for helping you manage
SIBO or generally IBS. And to help you make the connections between the foods you're eating and
some of the symptoms that you're experiencing. And also to be used as a SIBO testing device.
It's relatively affordable, it's easy to set up, and it allows your practitioner to
really support you along the journey. If you'd like to purchase your own FoodMarble device,
I've left a link for you below this video on how to find that. It's not an affiliate link,
so I don't make any kind of commission from this. I just generally believe in it as a great product.
And if you're needing help figuring out your own IBS strategy or treatment, I want to encourage
you to download a free copy of My Roadmap to Gut Recovery, which lays out the complete process that
I use to help my clients go from digestive symptoms, food and supplement anxiety and
protocol confusion to a confident IBS relief plan that works. So they can live a normal life again.
You can grab your free copy of that by going to confluencenutrition.com/roadmap,
and I'll be sure and leave a link for that below this video. All right, let me know if
this video was helpful for you by clicking like or leaving me a comment or question. And next,
I'd really love for you to watch this video called The Truth about What to Eat for SIBO
treatment. And I'm going to leave a link for that below this video. Have a great one.