Amber’s life changed with SIBO Yogurt

Amber H. shared this testimonial describing the results she enjoyed by making SIBO Yogurt that I introduced in my Super Gut book:

“I have been sick most of my life. I didn’t realize HOW sick until I got REALLY sick about 16 years ago.

“I have always had a hard time sleeping (I could not sleep as a child) and have been overweight, super low energy with a red face for as long as I can remember. In 2009, I came home from a work appointment and my eye swelled up so badly my husband had to take me to the emergency room. They could not figure out what was wrong with me and shot me up with prednisone and sent me on my way. Fast forward, thousands of dollars later spent on tests, diets, naturopaths, specialists etc. with some relief but nothing made me feel like I was fully on the road to healing until my sister gave me a jar of SIBO Yogurt 5 weeks ago.

“To say the SIBO yogurt has changed my life in a few weeks would be an understatement. I am finally sleeping soundly, I have clear thoughts, my inflammation is way down, I am losing weight, have more energy and I am feeling in love with my life! Dr. Davis says in his book that the SIBO yogurt gives some people spectacular results and thus far I feel like I am one of those people. The SIBO Yogurt has been a miracle for me so far and I believe I will regain full health that I have never really known. I just ordered the Gut to Glow and am excited to try it out.”

It appears that Amber has suffered from the effects of SIBO since childhood when she likely received antibiotics. Compound this, of course, with exposure to the ubiquitous herbicide glyphosate in water, air, soil, and elsewhere; other herbicide and pesticide residues in food; chlorinated drinking water; antibiotics in food; food preservatives with antimicrobial properties; emulsifying agents in processed foods like ice cream and salad dressings; lack of vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, and iodine, the lack of which disrupts the intestinal immune barrier and impairs normal intestinal motility; lack of sunlight; overexposure to sugar, etc. Given the tsunami of microbiome-disruptive factors that surround us, it’s a wonder that anyone in the modern world has anything close to a normal healthy microbiome. In Super Gut, I share the rationale and evidence that tells us that half of all Americans now have SIBO. SIBO, of course, leads to endotoxemia, i.e., the export of bacterial breakdown products into the bloodstream that explains how and why microbes dwelling in the small intestine can be experienced as disrupted sleep, mental “fog,” eye problems, excessive body weight, and fatigue, as Amber experienced, effects distant from the small intestine. It could also be experienced as depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, coronary disease, atrial fibrillation, fatty liver, neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmune diseases, skin rashes like rosacea or psoriasis—virtually all modern chronic diseases experienced by Americans minus those due to injury or infection. (I would not label SIBO as an infection, but an infestation, overproliferation of fecal microbial species that have ascended from the colon where they belong.) SIBO and endotoxemia can initiate disease and/or make any condition initiated by other factors worse.

Those of you familiar with my discussions know that SIBO Yogurt works because the species included:

• Colonize the small intestine where SIBO occurs, and
   
• Are vigorous producers of bacteriocins, i.e., natural peptide antibiotics effective in killing the species of SIBO like E. coli and Klebsiella

Since I published the original SIBO Yogurt recipe, I’ve since modified it by replacing the B. coagulans with B. subtilis, as we found that fermentation of B. coagulans was somewhat unreliable, yielding wide variation in eventual microbial counts and inconsistent results in texture and thickness when fermented. I therefore replaced it with B. subtilis, a more reliable fermenting microbe in dairy products with a wider range of bacteriocin production. One advantage of B. subtilis is its ability to produce baceriocins effective in killing so-called Gram-negative species, just like L. reuteri and L. gasseri, but also Gram-positive species. It means that if your version of SIBO is dominated by Gram-positive species such as Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, or Enterococcus, you have greater hopes of successful SIBO eradication. It also means that you have a choice of making a sparkling juice using the DE-111 strain of B. subtilis that you can obtain through several commercial kombuchas (e.g., Vitalife kombucha from Aldi’s for $2.19) and is a vigorous producer of carbon dioxide (thus the carbonation) or as the HU58 strain available from Microbiome Labs to ferment as yogurt.

Budget permitting, I plan to conduct a formal clinical trial to validate this concept. (I’m currently working on four clinical trials that have currently tied up my time and resources.) In the meantime, know that you can make SIBO Yogurt in the comfort of your kitchen, a concoction that looks and smells like yogurt, but is not yogurt, of course, that not only helps you reverse SIBO but also provides a long list of benefits from restoring these species largely lost from the modern human microbiome. By the way, my current preferred source for L. reuteri is the microbe that we have studied in both animals and humans available from Oxiceutics.com.

The original IHB post is currently found on the: ⎆Infinite Health Blog, but accessing it there can require an unnecessary separate blog membership. The copy of it above is complete, and has been re-curated and enhanced for the Inner Circle membership.