Greetings!
Eric Bakker from New Zealand a naturopath all the way down from New Zealand.
That's for coming back and looking at my videos today.
It's a nice, wet, rainy day out there and we're going to do some videos.
I've got a question here from a lady in the states, she says Eric what causes SIBO?
Why is it so hard to treat?
She really wants to know that.
This lady sent me an email a while ago.
I won't read out the email, it's like this long with like 50 questions on it, which I
haven't really got time to answer personally, but I'll do it through a YouTube video.
So, if we analyze the question, SIBO what causes it and why's it so hard to treat?
I've done some questions, some YouTube videos on SIBO or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
A long time ago, when I was a student we called it dysbiosis, we didn't call it SIBO.
Now we know really that it's a small intestinal bowel problem, particularly it effects the
small bowel.
The small bowel's about 20 feet long.
It's over three times as long as I am.
It's huge.
And like any part of the GI tract it contains bacteria.
The stomach doesn't have a lot of bacteria in it because it's quite acid forming and
low PH.
When we get down to the small bowel we have got bacteria down there, but there nowhere
near as much as you're gonna find in the large intestine and the colon.
So, it's estimated that you've got around a thousand to maybe two or three thousand
bacteria per milliliter in the small bowel.
A milliliter is a thousand of a liter.
So it's only a very tiny amount of fluid.
So, a thousand to two thousand bacteria in a milliliter in the small bowel.
When we get to the colon or the large intestine however, we're gonna find over a billion bacteria
per milliliter.
So a lot, lot more bacteria in the large bowel.
It's a lot more competitive.
It's a different kind of environment.
But the small intestine is what we're talking about.
The small intestine and the bacterial overgrowth.
Some of the research I've looked at says that SIBO can be caused by some bacteria in the
large intestine coming back into the small bowel and overgrowing.
Other research I looked at states it's primarily a lifestyle, particularly of the western world
kind of problem.
So what causes it, it's difficult to work out, but antibiotics are a prime cause of
SIBO but so is stress and so is irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's disease.
The oral contraceptive pill is also linked with small intestinal bacterial problems.
There are many medications, proton palp inhibitor drives or acid blockers can be linked up with
it.
So there are a myriad of drugs that are linked with it.
Stress is one of the big ones, but it's also estimated that about six to 15 percent of
healthy people are A-symptomatic, meaning they haven't really got symptoms but they
also have SIBO.
It's also estimated that 80 to 90 percent of people with irritable bowel syndrome have
got SIBO.
So, what are the symptoms?
Well, cramping pains, bloating, gas, diarrhea, a lot of abdominal discomfort, can be multiple
mal motions or even only a bowel motion every two or three days, but generally it will mean
bloating and abdo ... abdominal discomfort will be a prime one that you can get with
it.
Why is it so hard to treat?
Well if you think about, it's right in the middle of the body.
It's a difficult part to get access to.
So, we can take medications in for example, one of the prime drugs that are used for it
is called Rifaximin, it's an antibiotic.
But one study I looked at, a very prominent study, said that about half the people who
take Rifaximin even more 60 percent get no result with it at all, just aggravation.
Also, research has shown that you're gonna get a slightly better outcome with an anti-microbial,
natural one than you are the Rifaximin, but the problem with Rifaximin is it really can
create a lot of discomfort and pain and sickness with a lot of people.
It can have a lot of side effects.
So, it is a transient drug.
It doesn't stay in the body, it moves through and it causes [inaudible 00:04:10] killing
the bacteria.
I really don't like Rifaximin.
I know there are some SIBO doctors and SIBO experts that love Rifaxamin, but I've had
too many patients contact me that feel really bad after taking it.
And I see too much collateral damage with that product.
I don't really like it.
So, what do I recommend?
I recommend natural microbial.
I'm gonna recommend a broad spectrum, natural antimicrobial.
I find it far more effective that Rifaximin.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
The other thing with SIBO I should tell you is these bacteria can cause a lot of problems
in your body, these bad bacteria.
They're little buggers because they can gobble up B-vitamins.
They can even eat up your B-12 before your own body has access to it, right?
Because if you look at B-12, B-12 comes primarily from meat.
You can get it from some natural sources, but it's much harder to get a hold of.
Now, B-12 is very, very important because it's one of the most important B vitamins
for the nervous system.
It helps to give you a lot of strength and stamina.
It helps to mature blood cells.
It helps to stop anxiety and depression.
It's very, very powerful.
A nervous system boosting vitrain.
So when you're low on B-12 you can have quite low stamina, low energy.
You can be much more prone to mood swings, poor cognitive function.
You're also more prone to methylation disorders, which is a complicated bi-chemical cycle.
So if you have methylation disorder you can be more prone to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's,
Dementia's, cancers, heart disease, many different types of diseases, by having a poor methylation
cycle.
B-12's also important for detoxification of many different types of toxins from the body.
These bacteria can also interfere with bio acids.
Now, bio acids are very important because they allow a proper breakdown of fat soluble
vitamins for us to absorb them and access them, vitamins A, D, E, and K.
So, if you've got a lot of these bad bacteria you can actually have deficiencies of vitamin
A, deficiencies of vitamin D, vitamin K, and vitamin E, bad news.
There's also bacteria that can gobble up iron, bad ones and that can make you really exhausted
and tired.
Give you a lot of anemia and a lot of immune dysfunction.
So, you need a very healthy viable gut to have very good health and you need to do so
by making sure you've got a good balance of the right kind of bacteria in the small bowel
and to keep the bad ones suppressed.
Lactobacillus love the small intestine.
Bifida bacteria predominate in the colon, large intestine.
So stool testing will often show the levels of lactobacillus that we find in the small
bowel.
I don't want to blow my own trumpet, but I know that canxida removed the supplement I
created about five years ago now.
Has been used by a lot of people with SIBO to great effect and also a lot of these people
include people who've used Rifaximin with no luck at all, and when they used canxida
removed they had a good result.
Now why is that so?
Well as I mentioned before Rifaximin is only a ... it's a one trick pony.
It's a one particular drug that has a very narrow band of action in the small bowel.
So, a study has shown that natural antimicrobials has had a better effect that Rifaximin in
fact.
So why would you use an antibiotic when you can use a natural treatment for SIBO?
Canxida remove you're gonna use two, three times a day for example.
One tablet, three times per day for about two or three months.
If you use it with a probiotic, a specific one made to work on conditions like SIBO,
like canxida restore, you're gonna get an even better outcome.
The great thing with these natural antimicrobials is particularity canxida removed, it has a
broad spectrum action, okay?
So it's not a one trick pony.
It doesn't kill off the beneficial bacteria.
We've repeatedly seen this with stool testing.
And the third one is the bugs don't seem to become resistant to it.
We can take down a lot of these bad bacteria within about a 12 week period.
So, that's a bit of food for thought with SIBO.
It can be hard to treat, but with the right kind of diet and the right kind of treatment
you're gonna get a great outcome with SIBO.
So, I hope that gives you a little bit of an insight into SIBO.
What else have we got here?
Yeah, so why's [inaudible 00:08:34] ... we talked about that.
So, don't forget to click on the link in the description below if you haven't got my canxida
report.
It's quite a good shopping list to take with you.
It shows you the foods which I really want you to focus on when it comes to improving
your body.
Not just from canxida but also from SIBO.
Thanks for tuning in on the video.