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Prebiotics Resource – Gut Health and Disease
Prebiotic Resource
Prebiotics are different form of food that escape digestion in the upper digestive tract. They make their way down to the large intestine virtually unchanged and feed certain beneficial bacteria that are part of our gut microbiome.
In …
Lactose Intolerance? Prebiotics May Help
As an avid gut explorer I am well aware of the knock on effect that the gut can have on digestion and food intolerances. That’s why I wasn’t so surprised to come across a paper exploring the link between the …
SIBO: Prebiotics & Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
The use of prebiotics and probiotics in small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO for short, has been generally considered a bad idea. The thinking does make sense. If you have an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine then …
Prebiotics: Lactulose – An Underutilised Prebiotic with Potential
Following on in the series on prebiotics, this week we will be covering a very underappreciated and utilised prebiotic known as lactulose.
The few people that may already be familiar with this substance may be confused at the moment, …
Prebiotics: Details on Building Your Gut
I have been delving into the world of prebiotics lately and wanted to update my thinking on this subject from the last article.
Previously I was concerned with the idea of feeding potentially pathogenic or less than friendly microorganisms …
Prebiotics: Gut Boosting Review
Unknowingly we have been consuming prebiotic foods for eons. Anyone who was breastfed as an infant has consumed prebiotics that have altered their gut microbiome in a beneficial way. Recently prebiotics have taken the front stage as a gut boosting …
Natural Campylobacter Treatments – Herbal Medicine and The Gut
Campylobacter jejuni, a gram negative bacterial infection, is a major cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. Today we will be covering what Campylobacter jejuni is, how it affects the body and some natural treatments to discuss with your gut health …
Probiotics for SIBO – Helpful or Harmful?
Are probiotics helpful or best to be avoided when treating SIBO?
Read on to learn what recent research tells us about probiotic use in small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
Setting the Stage
SIBO, also known as small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, …
SIBO : Types of Bacterial Overgrowth
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, is a digestive imbalance I commonly see and treat in my practice. As a clinical herbalist I use herbal medicine, select prebiotics and targeted probiotic strains to help …
Dietary Fibre and Short Chain Fatty Acids 101
Dietary fibre and the short chain fatty acids that are produced as a by-product have many beneficial impacts on human health. For years now I have been writing on the benefits of different short chain fatty acids (butyrate, acetate and …
