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SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. I assume most of you know that, or probably wouldn't be clicking on Hashimoto's and SIBO.

It's one of those very important things to know about. But again, it really needs to be put in context and because, what occurs with these types of conditions and it's been ever since people came out with the four R program remove, replace, now it's called the leaky gut program. The leaky gut program was enough maybe back in the seventies and eighties, but it's really not enough, now SIBO is much more involved than leaky gut, but SIBO can be one of the big causes of leaky gut. My point is going to be, we have a SIBO program, we have oral tolerance programs online, we have so many different programs now. I now have patients coming in here who have done them all and they're still sitting here.

Coming in here to try to find out what's going on, a lot of it is about the order in which you attack something and, SIBO is kind of up there with Hashimoto's. Hashimoto's is, for those of you who are tuning in here, who may not know what Hashimoto's is, it's an immune attack against your thyroid and without getting into it too heavily, the battle when you go to a functional medicine practitioner is the immune system. First, in most cases, it's the main system first. Whereas 70% of the system it's in the linings, particularly of your intestines barrier linings and your intestine, some of it's on the inside of your lungs. But the biggest part is in the intestines, which is why the leaky gut stuff came about because early on, people started realizing that when their guts got better, their Hashimoto's symptoms started to clear up.

This went along with the gluten issue. We thought we were really hot years ago. We would go like, "Hey, get off of gluten first of all, Oh my God, it feels so much better, we were bad, we know." Now it's a lot more than just gluten and that the person who gets off of gluten and feels wonderful is maybe 10% of the people walk in here, 5% and that there was more to that. SIBO is kind of like the new Holy grail in a lot of ways. There are a lot of programs on online for it and they're good. They're good programs, except SIBO is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. SIBO can be caused by thyroid problem. SIBO can be caused stress, stress responses, paralyze your stomach and your intestines because when you're in fight flight, the stress response stops you from having to move your bowels or urinate because you're in fight flight.

Hypothyroidism, which most Hashimoto's patients become hypo thyroid, long before the attack takes its toll, this is the immune system, this is the thyroid, long before this attack takes its toll and damages this thyroid mechanism, you'll get hypo thyroid symptoms. Both of those will slow down your gut. Both of those are like the number one and two causes of constipation, like stress, hypothyroid. If you have constipation, first thing you want to look for is those three things, even over dehydration and all those types of things. So now, dampens that movement so you get the constipation's, it slows down that movement, and then you get an imbalance and bacteria in your stomach and then here we go back to these vicious cycles.

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