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Hey, everyone. This is Dr. Rousha with your fast facts.

A great episode with Dr. Allison Seabacker talking about prebiotics, FODMAPs, and whether you should use those or withhold those during CBO treatment.

Your fast facts, whether you consume or avoid prebiotics and or FODMaps during CBO treatment,

does not appear to have a significant impact on CBO.

Published evidence suggests that probiotics may be more effective in treating or enhancing

sebo treatment than prebiotics.

Probiotics have been shown to be an effective CBO treatment and help with CBO and IBS

symptoms.

Perhaps because probiotics may exert more impact on the small intestine

than the large intestine. And we elaborate on all of this in the episode. Dead or heat-killed

probiotics have positive impact, suggesting that living probiotics may not be necessary.

There appears to be a subset of SIBO patients who respond well to carbs, prebiotics, and fiber,

which I term as carbohydrate and prebiotic responders in SIBO.

There may also be some novel prebiotics that are safe and more effective for SIBO than standard prebiotics,

partially hydrolyzed guargum and a certain type of GOS found in a compound known as bymuno.

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