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Okay, what the heck is all this to do about small intestinal bacterial overgrowth?

CBO.

Everywhere you go, it's trending.

I have CBO.

I've seen my functional medicine doctor and I have SIBO.

And that's what's wrong with me.

And I'm getting treated for SIBO.

Just this past week, I had a patient come in with telling me that they were diagnosed with

SI because they walked into their GI doctor's office,

and the GI doctor said, here, blow in this tube.

And within a couple of seconds, the doctor proclaimed that I have SIBO because he measured hydrogen and methane on my breath, therefore I have SIBO.

Not.

Now, why do I say that?

Let me give you a little history of the human microbiome.

Remember that we really did not know anything about the human microbiome and how important it was, how diverse it was, how many species there were, until the human microbiome project, which started in 2006 and finished in 2016. For years, we did not believe that there were any bacteria that lived in the stomach, for example,

because stomach acid would kill any bacteria that you happen to swallow,

and so it would be impossible for bacteria to exist in that

acidic environment well lo and behold when h pylori was discovered as a bacteria that not only

thrived in the stomach, but could be a cause of gastric

ulcers, that we began to say, oops, I guess we were wrong that bacteria don't exist in the

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