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 …
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 …
Prokinetic Herbs: Herbal Medicine for Gut Motility
There are many herbs that act to improve motility in the digestive tract. In this article we will explore the top prokinetic herbal medicines that assist digestion by keeping things moving through the gut.
In my clinical practice I use …
SIBO : Testing Options & Recommendations
Today we are following on with the SIBO series of videos covering different ways to test for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Don’t forget there is a free Ebook download available to go along with this …
Psyllium Seed for Reflux and Heartburn
Heartburn, reflux and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD/GORD) is common. Lately I have been seeing a connection between my patients with poor gut health, particularly constipation, and reflux and heartburn. Today we will be exploring a study that found psyllium seed …
Clove: Herbal Medicine for the Gut
I use a ton of clove in my herbal medicine dispensary. So much so that it was one of the first few herbs that I bought in bulk to make my tinctures from scratch with. As I treat mainly gut …
SIBO: Methane Dominant Treatment Plan
Methane dominant SIBO, also known as methane SIBO or constipation SIBO, is a form of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. The predominant microbe, called Methanobrevibacter smithii, is an archaeon which can convert hydrogen into methane, resulting in slowed intestinal transit.
The …
Ginger Juice Tea – Say Goodbye to Colds
Fighting off an oncoming cold isn’t as hard as you might think. True there are a million and one different approaches that you can dig up on the internet. In our household we have tried a dozen or so different …