Yersinia enterocolitica is a bacterial infection that I have seen in patients with chronic digestive health issues. With a Yersinia infection common symptoms include diarrhoea and cramping but this bug can cause a range of other digestive issues. When approaching …
Herbs: Histamine Intolerance & Mast Cell Activation
Lately I have been seeing more sensitive patients. These patients are eating only a handful of ‘safe’ foods, they have a long list of supplements that they react to and their symptoms are unusual and hard to pin down to …
Root causes of SIBO: Motility Issues
One of the main conditions I treat in my clinical practice is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth or SIBO for short. Clients come to the clinic with bloating, food intolerances, nausea and a change in their bowel movements (either constipation or …
Joint Pain & Fatigue Caused by Oxalate Overload
Are you experiencing joint pain and fatigue after you eat certain foods? Maybe it feels more like muscle soreness and an afternoon slump after lunch? Read on to learn how certain foods can be triggering mitochondrial dysfunction leading to fatigue …
Ulcerative colitis & Butyrate Dysfunction : IBD Series
Ulcerative colitis is a subtype of inflammatory bowel disease that I commonly see in my clinic. Often the patient is experiencing abdominal pain and blood, mucous or urgency with their bowel movements (or all three). Sometimes they have lost so …
Methane SIBO: Advanced Treatment Options
Methane dominant small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, also known as methane SIBO or even SIMO (small intestinal methane overgrowth) is commonly seen in patients with constipation, bloating, flatulence, burping and sometimes even reflux and heartburn. This particular condition, as well as …
Candida infections: Three Testing Options
Candida is often the first thing that patients think has gone wrong in their gut. Frequently it is more complicated and often involves bacterial overgrowths, enzyme dysfunction leading to food intolerances as well as potential fungal overgrowths. That said, the …
Testing & Treating Citrobacter Overgrowths
Today I wanted to share some thoughts on citrobacter. Now, this is a bacterial overgrowth that I frequently find when I test the large bowel of my patients. It is a member of the …
E. coli as Driver & Treatment: IBD series
Escherichia coli, or E. coli, is a gram negative bacteria that is a common inhabitant in a healthy gut. However, certain strains of this particular species are known pathogens that can contribute to active inflammation and drive inflammatory bowel …
Histamine Intolerance & the Gut
There is a strong connection between histamine intolerance and the gut. This inability to deal with high histamine foods in my patients with gut conditions like SIBO, coeliac disease and IBS is something I see in the clinic every week. …