you're talking about measuring your your
fecal bacteria yeah population using
like you biome yeah you buy them or you
know their other like Rocky Mountain
blah blah blah doctors data whatever
yeah yeah well yeah I mean you biome has
yeah slightly different approach but
okay along those lines here
so what's I really see for one it's very
first of all I heard a podcast you did
with Jessica Richman from you biome and
I think you had talked about this and
that's how I became first aware that
you'd talk to me or the link between
when you mentioned having this
hypothesis that you thought possibly
some of these symptoms of Lyme disease
were the consequence of just complete
gut dysbiosis where you're you know
you're taking several rounds of
antibiotics and you are obliterated you
know your gut bacteria a lot of the good
ones are going away and you know and if
you don't take a very strong probiotic
immediately after antibiotics it
repopulate with all the bad stuff and
it's really hard to get because they
take up the occupy space and they're
sitting in what's called the mucin in
the gut and they have to stick in the
mucin to stay otherwise anything
anything you take will just flow through
it's kinda like the flow through yeah
and so it's really hard to to repopulate
I've been doing a lot of self
experimentation with using you by um
Detroit money my gut bacteria
you know genotypes but um have you tried
yes all number-three have a mariner do
you okay so the sachets are the what I
recommend because I have the capsules
the sachets have 450 billion you know
which is more than what the capsules
have 450 billion is like 10 times more
than what most probiotics have yep the
thing about the SLE number three very
interesting so it's the probiotic that I
take I'm taking it because I've had a
lot of I've had some gut issues that
started in graduate school because I got
em RSA mmm and yeah that's one
antibiotics were the were the
prescription and I had several courses
of strong ones finally it kept coming
back and I was like fed up I'm like
given Mercer I don't really need some I
got a slowly resistant staph
staph aureus theft auto service yeah yes
I worked in a Children's Hospital no
that's a good place - they're everywhere
in hospitals so who knows where I got it
right I mean but the point is I got it
and it sucked and so I finally after
like I don't have three or four rounds
of antibiotics it would I would take it
and then go away and then like a month
later come back and again and again and
I was like I can't do that it's like
yeah so I read and literature that with
the help of my husband and that you know
garlic and grapes grapefruit seed
extract just a concoction of things
I applied both topically I made a cream
then I orally took and within 24 hours I
got this thing to come to a head pus out
and never came back
I understand so but as a consequence of
all the antibiotic use I had serious gut
issues led to IBD and it's I've been you
know finally been able to recover and I
variable valve disorder yeah
inflammatory bowel inflamed so but it's
been really really a long journey in the
tweaking my diet and doctors of course I
went to see doctors and they were just
like here take an SSRI it helps with the
pain and I'm like I'm not gonna take an
SSRI yeah and then like walked out of
that doctor I'm like I'm not you're
insane you know this was like a like a
pelvic pain specialist doctor so I've
just had terrible experiences with
doctors and finally I'm like why aren't
you asking me about my diet fiber or you
know things like that and so I tweaked
my diet and did lots of things but VSL
number three so you've seen it have you
with the you biome testing have you seen
any I haven't done a follow-up test in a
few months but I have been taking the
smb3 so now I'm optimistic yes hopefully
so so I did a 30-day vs whole number
three course with the sachets which are
for 950 billion and did a stool test and
I'm still waiting for those results um
I've had my husband die both Dan he's
done a recent course of antibiotics and
so I had him do his baseline and then
after right after literally with the
date he stopped taking out about a
Snapple biome I got that data back so
I've been looking at that so I'm gonna
talk about all that it's really
complicated and things in the literature
are confusing and some people think some
things and they're actually not true so
I've been looking at other people's you
buy them anyways I'm gonna be doing a
series of talks on this and it's cool
pretty excited but um
you