Why Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) Rarely Occurs On Its Own

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Why Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) Rarely Occurs On Its Own | This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens More than 500 different species of microbes live in our gut and our gut bacteria regulate many of our bodily functions, from creating vitamins to controlling our immune system, metabolism, brain function, and more. Simply put, they are critical to our long-term health. Imbalances in the gut ecosystem often trigger or exacerbate small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), along with many other issues. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. George Papanicolaou to explain what SIBO is, how they diagnose and treat it in their patients, and why it is almost always paired with a number of other health issues. Dr. Hyman also shares his personal experience battling SIBO along with mercury poisoning. George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is Board Certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine Practitioner. Upon graduation from his residency he joined the Indian Health Service. He worked on the Navajo reservation for 4 years at the Chinle Comprehensive Medical Facility where he served as the Outpatient Department Coordinator. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He practiced with a philosophy centered on personal relationships and treating the whole person, not just not the disease. He called that philosophy, “Whole Life Wellness”. Over time as the healthcare system made it harder for patients to receive this kind of personal care Dr. Papanicolaou decided a change was needed. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health—a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou to join The UltraWellness Center in 2017. This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. Athletic Greens is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners a full year supply of their Vitamin D3/K2 Liquid Formula free with your first purchase, plus 5 free travel packs. Just go to athleticgreens.com/hyman to take advantage of this great offer. Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. George Papanicolaou, “The Power Of Food To Heal Everything From Autoimmune Disease To Traumatic Brain Injury” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrGeorgePapanicolaou

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.4	The food baby is this basically.
0:04.3	You're fermenting food where you shouldn't be.
0:06.8	Foods meant to be fermented in the large intestine.
0:09.2	And that's like Florida, right?
0:10.9	But you know, what's happening with small intestine bacteria
0:13.5	level goes bacteria up in Maine.
0:15.2	And the foods coming in the main, Maine's not ready for gas.
0:18.3	So now all of a sudden you've got this gas
0:20.8	where it doesn't belong geographically,
0:22.5	you feel very uncomfortable.
0:24.0	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark.
0:25.2	My main goal with diet is to use food as medicine.
0:27.7	But even when we eat super well, most of us are missing out on certain essential nutrients.
0:32.4	Our soils have become depleted and our digestive tracks just aren't working so great.
0:36.6	They're compromised by stress and toxins.
0:38.4	And they just can't absorb nutrients as efficiently as they should.
0:42.5	And that's why I always use and I recommend to my patients
0:45.7	a multivitamin mineral as nutritional insurance.
0:49.6	It covers the basics for all our day-to-day body functions,
0:53.8	all the things that we need that our food might be missing.
0:56.8	But there are so many products out there I wouldn't go near
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