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📌 Watch my webinar on my new IBS-D Freedom Method: www.theibsfreelife.com/registration-yt
If probiotics helped IBS, most people with IBS would not still have IBS.
The thinking behind a probiotic is that your gut is empty and needs something added. Your gut is not empty. It is full of things that were there before the probiotic arrived, and some of those things are exactly what is causing the problem.
In this episode, I'm going to show you what advanced testing actually finds in the gut of someone with chronic diarrhea and urgency, why adding a probiotic into that environment first makes things worse for most women, and the one specific type that behaves differently from everything else on the market.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Stop Taking Probiotics. Here’s Why
1:30 Biofilms: why bacteria, yeast, and parasites in your gut are protected from anything you add on top
2:20 What an advanced functional stool test actually finds before any treatment starts
3:10 The correct sequence: find what is there, address it, create the right environment, then rebuild
4:05 Why adding a probiotic before you know what you have can feed the problem instead of fix it
4:55 The one type of probiotic that behaves differently: Mega Spore Biotic by Microbiome Labs
5:50 What spore-based probiotics do that standard probiotics cannot
6:40 What to do tonight: audit every supplement you are currently taking and ask why
❓ QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Why would a probiotic make IBS symptoms worse?
A probiotic adds bacteria into an environment that may already contain yeast overgrowth, parasites, or harmful bacteria protected by biofilms. Adding more bacteria on top without addressing what is already there can feed the problem instead of resolve it.
What does advanced stool testing find that a standard test misses?
Advanced functional stool testing maps the full gut environment: bacterial balance, yeast and mold overgrowth, parasites, inflammatory markers, and immune function. That picture shows whether it is safe to add anything into the gut or whether something needs to be cleared first.
What is a spore-based probiotic and how is it different?
Spore-based probiotics like Mega Spore Biotic survive stomach acid intact and activate in the large intestine where most gut dysfunction happens. Most standard probiotics do not survive the trip.
📱 RESOURCES
Website: www.therootedrn.com
Webinar: www.theibsfreelife.com/registration-yt
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theibssolution/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digestivewellness
🔔 Subscribe for weekly episodes on why conventional testing keeps missing the root cause of chronic diarrhea and IBS, and what functional medicine finds instead.
ABOUT BROOKE KANE, RN
Brooke Kane is a Registered Nurse and Functional Medicine Practitioner with over 15 years of clinical experience. After seeing three GI doctors for her own severe IBS and being told each time that everything was normal, she studied functional medicine and healed herself. She has since helped over 500 women find the root cause of chronic diarrhea and urgency and achieve normal bowel function. She is the founder of Rooted Healthcare and the IBS Solution program.
#IBS #GutHealth #FunctionalMedicine #ChronicDiarrhea #IBSRelief
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By Brooke📌 Watch my webinar on my new IBS-D Freedom Method: www.theibsfreelife.com/registration-yt
If probiotics helped IBS, most people with IBS would not still have IBS.
The thinking behind a probiotic is that your gut is empty and needs something added. Your gut is not empty. It is full of things that were there before the probiotic arrived, and some of those things are exactly what is causing the problem.
In this episode, I'm going to show you what advanced testing actually finds in the gut of someone with chronic diarrhea and urgency, why adding a probiotic into that environment first makes things worse for most women, and the one specific type that behaves differently from everything else on the market.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Stop Taking Probiotics. Here’s Why
1:30 Biofilms: why bacteria, yeast, and parasites in your gut are protected from anything you add on top
2:20 What an advanced functional stool test actually finds before any treatment starts
3:10 The correct sequence: find what is there, address it, create the right environment, then rebuild
4:05 Why adding a probiotic before you know what you have can feed the problem instead of fix it
4:55 The one type of probiotic that behaves differently: Mega Spore Biotic by Microbiome Labs
5:50 What spore-based probiotics do that standard probiotics cannot
6:40 What to do tonight: audit every supplement you are currently taking and ask why
❓ QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Why would a probiotic make IBS symptoms worse?
A probiotic adds bacteria into an environment that may already contain yeast overgrowth, parasites, or harmful bacteria protected by biofilms. Adding more bacteria on top without addressing what is already there can feed the problem instead of resolve it.
What does advanced stool testing find that a standard test misses?
Advanced functional stool testing maps the full gut environment: bacterial balance, yeast and mold overgrowth, parasites, inflammatory markers, and immune function. That picture shows whether it is safe to add anything into the gut or whether something needs to be cleared first.
What is a spore-based probiotic and how is it different?
Spore-based probiotics like Mega Spore Biotic survive stomach acid intact and activate in the large intestine where most gut dysfunction happens. Most standard probiotics do not survive the trip.
📱 RESOURCES
Website: www.therootedrn.com
Webinar: www.theibsfreelife.com/registration-yt
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theibssolution/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digestivewellness
🔔 Subscribe for weekly episodes on why conventional testing keeps missing the root cause of chronic diarrhea and IBS, and what functional medicine finds instead.
ABOUT BROOKE KANE, RN
Brooke Kane is a Registered Nurse and Functional Medicine Practitioner with over 15 years of clinical experience. After seeing three GI doctors for her own severe IBS and being told each time that everything was normal, she studied functional medicine and healed herself. She has since helped over 500 women find the root cause of chronic diarrhea and urgency and achieve normal bowel function. She is the founder of Rooted Healthcare and the IBS Solution program.
#IBS #GutHealth #FunctionalMedicine #ChronicDiarrhea #IBSRelief