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Dr Siebecker

Förkortningar:

SI tunntarmen
LI tjocktarmen
UC ulcerös kolit

May 4 2011, Dr Lo Radio (view a YouTube clip)



August 25 2011, SCDLifestyle (audio player at bottom of post)

1:25 How she used SCD to overcome IBS – then discovered why it works for SIBO
8:25 What exactly is SIBO… so you know what you’re up against
12:50 The symptoms that you have SIBO and the specific tests to know for sure
20:21 What to do if you have SIBO and how to choose the treatment option that’s right for you
26:35 Shedding light on the “die-off’ mystery – with clinical experience on what to expect and how long it lasts
30:56 Using SCD as a treatment for SIBO – and whether or not antibiotics are really necessary
34:40 The pitfalls to avoid if you want to cure SIBO with SCD – and the mistakes that can work against your healing progress
38:27 The best answer when figuring out how long it takes to CURE SIBO
45:22 The specific steps to follow for the next 30 days, 90 days, and 1 year to overcome SIBO AND make sure it doesn’t come back again

51:56 How to become a SIBO expert by gaining access to the latest treatment strategies being taught to medical professionals

September 5 2011, Underground Wellness Radio- SIBO Undiagnosed and Under treated (interview at 10:00 min)
  • Siebecker har själv haft IBS, läste Breaking the vicious circle (BTVC) (Gottshell) och A new IBS solution (Pimentel). Båda handlar om SIBo. Mycket forskning på PudMed.
  • Olika bakteriekoncentration i SI/LI. Mekanismer som håller låg konc i SI:
    • HCl
    • Enzymer
    • Galla
    • GALT (immunförsvar)
    • MMC
    • ICV
  • SI innehåller mest anaerobiska bakterier som är svåra att odla. Det är inte nödvändigtvis patogena bakterier som växer i SI. 
  • Symtomen kan vara väldigt blandade. 
  • Test för SIBO: utandningstest med laktulos- (rekommenderas, visar hela SI) eller glukoslösning (tas upp för snabbt, visa bara övre SI).
    • Att andelen gas ökar kraftigt inom 2 timmar tyder på SIBO.
  • Behandling: antibiotika som inte absorberas, påverkar både SI & LI.
    • Att sibo kommer tillbaka inom 2 veckor efter avslutad antibiotikabehandling är vanligt. 
      • Följ LCHF-diet: GAPS/SCD/FODMAP/Cedar Sinai
    • Använd en prokinetisk läkemedel, t.ex. lågdos av antibiotika. (Retromycin, iteromycin?)
    • Elemental diet kan användas isf antibiotika
    • Probiotika: BTVC:undvik bifidus. Men det finns studier som säger att bifidus-stammar är bra vid IBS. Dock individuellt. 
      • Undvik prebiotika (t.ex. FOS, inulin)
        • Beror på dosen, många tål dem om de står under övriga ingredienser, och inte som huvudingrediens med mg-angivelse.
        • Benbuljong kan ge symptom, dosberoende. Innehåller mucopolysaccarides. Använd köttbuljong istället (om symptom).
    • GAPS: mindre bönor, fruktjuice och bakpulver (basisikt), fokus på näring enligt WAP än i SCD. Båda är bra.
  • Siebeckers SIBO-bok på gång, tar upp kopplingen mellan SIBO och alla andra sjukdomar som SIBO är kopplat till. 
    • Tar bl.a. upp Crohn's. (Både SCD och FODMAP utvecklades för Crohn's-patienter). Koppling Crohn's <-> SIBO, studie med Rifaximin. 
  • Webinar för läkare tillgängligt på hemsidan.
  • Q&A:
    • Förstoppning efter att ha gått över till SIBO-diet. Laktulos på recept kan göra SIBO värre. Magnesium att föredra för symptomlindring vid förstoppning. Öka dosen om det inte fungerar.
    • Ökar total colosectomi pga UC risken för sibo? Inga studier, men SI anpassar sig och delar av SI börjar ta över funktioner som tjocktarmen hade.
    • Dödar kokosolja bakterier om man äter det samtidigt som fermented foods? Antagligen inte. 
    • Koppling Hashimoto's och SIBO. Det finns ett paper på det, se hemsida. Hypothyroidism saktar ner MMC vilket leder till SIBO. 
    • Svaga muskler på VLC-diet. Kolhydrater kan hjälpa, men toleransen varierar mellan individer. Testa t.ex. vitt ris om du inte tål pumpa. 
      • Kan också bero på elektrolytnivåer, som kan vara låga på SCD. Kolla recept på electrolyte replacement. 
    • Vegetarian och SCD/GAPS. Kräver mer kolhydrater för att få i sig näringen. Testa 1 månad. Om inget resultat, överväg kött. 
    • Elemental diet. Vivionex sub-optimal, kan man göra egen med benbuljong?
      DIY: aminosyra-pulver (inte vilket som helst), olja, honung. Kaseinintolerans kan vara ett problem med kaseinpulver, men de innehåller mindre laktos än vassleprotein. Aminosyraprofilen i benbuljong är inte komplett. Köttbuljong är det. Tillsätt olja och en monosaccarid. 
    • Det finns definitivt en koppling mellan hudåkommor som psoriasis och SIBO. Studier på acne vulgaris och SIBO.
    • Stark koppling SIBO/leaky gut. Mekanismen bakom många associerade sjukdomar. 
    • SIBO ur ett evolutionärt perspektiv:
      • Håller vi på att utveckla en slags idisslar-mage med extra bakterier pga. att vi äter mat som vi själv inte har enzymer att bryta ner (bl.a. spannmål)? Uppstötningar vanligt. 

March 14, 2012, Underground Wellness Radio- Ask the Digestion Doc with Dr Allison Siebecker


September 2012, Dr Siebecker explains the art and science of the FODMAP diet (audio player at bottom of page)

3:32 How FODMAPS was created to treat Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
10:34 The campfire effect: why beans give everyone gas
15:05 The nitty-gritty of FODMAP Intolerance is…
19:38 Intestinal Gas can speed up or slow down digestive motility
29:30 Fructose is malabsorbed when this happens…
32:33 How would you know if you had a FODMAP problem?
40:55 SHOWDOWN: Comparing SCD vs. FODMAPS

51:23 SIBO has been shown to cause Fructose & Lactose malabsorption


October 16 2013, Super Human Radio- SIBO: Is your bacteria stealing your food and poisoning you in return?
(starts at 1:03) (You Tube clips)


November 12 2013, Patrick Timpone One Radio Network- SIBO


December 3 2013, Dr Lo Radio- The Digestion Fix with Dr. Allison Siebecker
  • SIBO Symposium -14
    • IBS- PI, testing, SI microbiome skiljer sig från LI mocrobiome, low dose Naltroxone as a motility anhancher, SIBO related to other conditions as acne rosascea, diet, herbal Abx, treatments used in clinics
  • Intermittent fasting for digestion
    • Pro: (if BG regulation ok) rests digestion, detox, kills microbes
    • How often is induvidual
    • Con: due to toxic environment, IF can release toxins too fast.
  • Excessive gas, bc of fiber? 
    • yeast produces CO2, easily absorbed
    • Bactaria in the SI or LI
      • Probiotic bacteria produce mostly acid, which other bacteria might convert to gas
      • Inbalance might be the broblem, and/or overgrowth
    • Cruciferous veggies -> gas
      • low fodmap diet, or SCD (-grains, sugars, starch) + low fodmap for sibo. 
      • Fodmaps are higly individual
  • Feeling good after 5 d juice cleanse, then bloated from real foods. 
    • SI or LI problem? -> test for sibo. if Neg.-> dysbiosis. -> Use low fobmap, probiotics and herbal Abx to shift things around
  • Dual stool testing:
    • Culturing stool tests misses parasites (recommended: biohealth labs), complement with:
    • DNA (Genova)
      • Sensitivity testings helps select appropriate treatment(?). Dual tests are worth the cost.
  • 4 Treatment opitions (depending on individual circumstances):
    • Everyone does SCD+FODMAPS. 
    • Elemental diet: absorbs in upper SI. 10-15 lbs weight loss. Not alwaays appropriate bc Px underweight due to malabsorbtion and/or difficulty eating. Effective in 2 w. 14 d -> test. if Pos -> +1w. -> test. 
    • Antibiotics: more studied
    • Herbal Abx: worse die-off
    • For hard-to-treat patients many rounds might be required.
    • A limited diet gives great symptoms relief, but is very restrictive. 
    • Preventative diet: SCD+fodmap for 1 month.
      • Cedar sinai diet is prventative, not really for treatment.
      • Lower carb
      • Leaky gut heals fast once sibo is treated
  • Serotonin SI/brain
    • many receptors in intestines
    • healing the gut -> better mood
    • depression from eating certain things. See GAPS book for more on food-mood connection.
  • Probiotics
    • Individual. Rotate and find one that works.
    • On avg 25% benefit. You notice it if you stop taking them. Some few feel really good, or bad. 
    • "Align" brand w. B. Infantis helpful for many patients, despite sub-optimal ingredients. Not as good results with isolated B.Infantis (bc patented strain?). 
    • In most cases no need to avoid bifidus.
    • Renew life/Advanced naturals 100 bn ultra potent, helpful in IBS
    • Overgrowth concern: studies show that probiotics only is successful, at least not bad, for SIBO. They might be affecting motility.
    • D-lactic acidosis concerns in the GAPS comunity
      • Not seen in Siebecker's patients
      • Can be tested for
      • SBOs: limited experience, but more expensive and no real advantage over other probiotics.
    • FOS is bad for SIBO
  • Concerns about having to feed bacteria
    • If you have SIBO, getting rid of it is most important
    • If you eat some plants and fruit, it's usually enough. Bacteria can also feed on amino acids from meat and mucus in the intestines. 
    • No one knows hos to get the right balance
    • Prebiotics feed both good and bad bacteria
  • Constipation
    • Is going every 2 days ok? Yes, if you feel good. Try Magnesium and go every day and see if you feel better. Every 3 days is not normal. 
  • Can bad gut health make you overweight? 
    • Yes, e.g. FMT as both cause and treatment. Other causes: e.g. topical hormone cremes. 
  • Chlorin dioxide as a treatment option for SIBO? 
    • No experience, but keeping mind open. Needs all tools in her practice.
  • Takeaways
    • If blood sugar control is good, then don't snack between meals. Go 3-4 hours with only water.
    • Keep a regular eating schedule. Variation causes stress.
March 14 2014- Wellness Warrior Radio: All About SIBO

1:30 How many times is it normal to fart in a day?
 6:30 Diane’s Embarrassing SIBO story – Really? It’s not fat! 6 pack abs may be easier to build than you think!
10:00 How to test for SIBO and why Dr Allison encourages you to work with a practitioner to get rid of it (CONTACT DIANE www.dianekazer.com/schedule if you’d like her help with this)
11:50 What is SIBO? Listen to the signs and symptoms. Might you have it too?
16:30 What are the causes of SIBO?
18:25 What is the difference between IBS and IBD
20:30 20% of us will NEVER see our 6 pack unless we fix this! Exercise and Acid Reflux. GAS at the GYM sucks. How to fix it? Listen til the end ;)
26:00 How Proton Pump Inhibitors can impair (aka jack up) your digestion and cause SIBO.
29:30 Is your Acid Reflux from too much or NOT ENOUGH stomach acid. How to test to tell. Listen to this BEFORE taking ANY PPI’s.
32:30 Could antibiotics cause SIBO and incessant belly bloat?
35:00 How to treat SIBO (aka belly bloat)? 4 options for you to try!
39:00 Bone broth? Healthy or not for SIBO? Things to avoid while healing.
43:00 “I thought FIBER was GOOD for us?” Learn why it’s not in this case! Nuts too?
47:00 “I stopped eating gluten OR I tried juicing OR I’m eating more vegetables OR I started a Paleo diet AND I don’t feel better!” WHY?
51:00 Which probiotics are BEST and which ones do damage?
54:00 A carb-accident ‘weighting’ to happen! If carbs make you feel worse & bloated. White flour is ok to eat? Huh?
1:00:00 Hormone imbalance and digestion issues are teammates. Which to address first?
1:03:20 How to build your baby’s immune system EARLY. Why these 3 things MUST be addressed BEFORE and AFTER you have a baby!
1:13:00 Could SIBO be caused by a physical or genetic imbalance?

1:17:00 How to work with your doctor to treat SIBO?

  • Sammanfattning

April 17 2014- Balanced Bites: Episode 135: special guest Allison Siebecker (Transkribering via länken.)

1. Updates [3:16]
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2. Introducing our guest, Dr. Allison Siebecker [4:07]

All the SIBO diets are versions of paleo. We just see phenomenal results.

Kost har inte riktigt fått fäste hos läkare.


3. How to tell if you have SIBO [7:31]

The key symptoms of IBS and SIBO are bloating, constipation or diarrhea or a mixture of the two, and then pain which could be discomfort.

Distention means physical swelling. But it is possible to have a feeling of bloating without the swelling

SIBO: GI: bloating, altered bowel movements, pain. + more

Leaky gut symptoms are systemic


4. SIBO and leaky gut [9:50]

SIBO, among other things, can cause leaky gut

About 50% of people with SIBO get leaky gut

Leaky gut healed in almost all patients in 1 month, without other intervention than Abx for SIBO.

Mixed IBS type


5. Diagnosis options for SIBO [18:34]

Best way to test: lactulose breath test. lactulose is a prescription item. Sometimes, depending on state regulations, the doctors aren’t allowed to order this test. The order the urine organic acid test instead, that actually can’t diagnose sibo.

You can’t really distinguish the organic acids that indicate a bacterial abnormality, you can’t distinguish between the small and large intestine very well on that test.

Too few studies have been done to validate UAA testing.

Glucose more common than lactulose in Europe

glucose is absorbed in the first 2 feet of the intestines, and so it can only diagnoses SIBO in the top 2 feet of the small intestine, so that’s the duodenum. But very accurate for that part of the SI. Can be ordered by anyone.

Lactulose doesn’t get absorbed, it actually goes all the way through into the large intestine

Most people have the overgrowth in the lower, or distal part, of the small intestine

Endoscopy + culturing only reaches top 3 feet of SI. Invasive, more expensive than breath tests. Anaerobic bacteria can’t be cultured.


6. Why is there a bacterial overgrowth in the first place? [24:25]

Decreased motility – MMC

Most common cause: acute gastroenteritis

Physical obstruction impeding the path of clearing away bacteria out of the small intestine

Non-draining pockets after surgery or diverticuli

SIBO is an overgrowth of nonpathogenic bacteria. It’s an overgrowth of the bacteria that’s normally within us. Pathogenic bacteria are not normally within us. When they come into us, they give us gastroenteritis. Pathogenic bacteria secrete a toxin, and it’s called cytolethal distending toxin. And it’s abbreviated as CDT. All these bacteria have the same toxin. It turns out that the B portion of this CDT toxin; there’s an A, B, and C portion of this toxin. The B portion looks like a protein on one of the nerve cells in our small intestine. And so through an autoimmune process, an autoimmune mediated process of cross-reactivity or molecular mimicry, as it’s also called, our immune system attacks the protein on our nerve cells in our small intestine at the same time that it’s attacking the CDT toxin, because they look very similar. This protein on the nerve, it’s called vinculin, and the nerve cell is called the interstitial cell of cajal, and abbreviated as ICC

And these cells are pacemaker cells in the small intestine that are necessary for doing the migrating motor complex. And what they have been able to figure out is that the damage is successive oftentimes, so it depends on how severe the gastroenteritis was, or is. So, these cells will be damaged by a bout of gastroenteritis. But they may not get to the threshold at which SIBO develops. It’s actually been figured out exactly the amount of cells that need to be damaged, and that need to be still there when a person will then develop SIBO. So I think what can happen for a lot of people is, most everyone has had gastroenteritis in their life multiple times. In fact, young children get sick like this a lot, you know vomiting and diarrhea, and I think we even lose count, who even knows before 5 if we can even remember, we probably all had it, you know? {laughs} So I think damage can accumulate for people, setting a stage. Which is why some people don’t get SIBO or IBS until adulthood, and it might just be that they have a triggering event, like one last bout of gastroenteritis, and that was enough to do it.

How come one goes on to develop SIBO or IBS and the other doesn’t? Well, it might have to do with the accumulation of damage that one person had and the other didn’t.

This is also called post infectious IBS. And what Dr. Pimentel’s theory is that post-infectious IBS is none other than SIBO.

About 50% of the people who develop post-infectious IBS or SIBO, will spontaneously recover within 5 years. It can take some time; it can take quite a bit of time. The interstitial cells of cajal are very plastic. When there’s some sort of assault to them, they switch from a nerve cell into a muscle cell. They can switch back.


7. Preventing possible SIBO when you get gastroenteritis [36:46]

We are realizing how very serious gastroenteritis can be. Now, we did already know this, because in the non-industrialized world, gastroenteritis is still a major cause of death, actually

So what doctors are saying to do is basically take some kind of antibiotic, whether it’s natural or pharmaceutical, as soon as you think you’re having this. In fact, what a lot of doctors is recommending is to take them prophylactically when you go traveling. Because it’s very common to get gastroenteritis when traveling, particularly in a non-industrialized countries. So, for the pharmaceutical option, what’s recommended is the same antibiotic that is used to treat SIBO, which is rifaxamin. And then, if you’re wanting to do the natural option, then you could use any of the natural antibiotics we use for SIBO as well. One doctor I know recommends, we use Allicin that is extracted out of garlic. The one we use is called Allimed. One of my doctor friends recommends to his patients that are traveling that they prophylactically take that daily. I think he recommends 6 a day

Many people get SIBO because of having a disease that slows motility. And some common ones are diabetes and hypothyroid. And surgery. And drugs (opiates).

Simplifying sibo pdf from SIBO symposium

Rifaxamin, that’s used has been studied to be shown to be not very damaging at all. And that’s because it stays only in the intestines. it is broad-spectrum, but it doesn’t absorb into the blood system. I do need to use it with many of my patients.

That means you’re much less likely to get urinary tract infection or some other thing as a side effect from the antibiotic, so that’s good. And also, rifaximin is anti-inflammatory, and it’s been studied and shown that it doesn’t cause yeast overgrowth, and lastly it’s been studied for up to, I think, 6 repeats without antibiotic resistance developing.

I generally love the idea of using the natural antibiotics, but what I can say is that there are pros and cons to each, and the patients that I see, because I’m a specialist in SIBO, I happen to see often more severe patients, particularly patients who have been to many other doctors for the SIBO, and the treatment has failed. So I get a lot of complicated cases, and I have to use anything and everything I can. I need my toolbox to be as big as it can to help these people. So, I think, for someone who is starting out with someone who has never had any treatment, please by all means, start with the naturals! Go with the least offensive thing first. But, just know that there’s other options if that fails.


8. Approach to treating SIBO with food [44:39]

I usually get to see people who have been on one of the SIBO diets, and I’ll explain them in a minute, for many years actually without enough help. SCD is grain-free, and therefore, of course, gluten free. It does emphasize all home cooking, and it takes away all sugars except honey and maybe a little bit of stevia.

SCD emphasizes easy-to-digest foods and cooking methods. Paleo emphasizes raw foods, salads etc., that might not be good if you’re having digestive issues. the SIBO diet deemphasize and decrease fiber because fiber is an exclusive food for bacteria. So it can worsen the problem.


9. SIBO and FODMAPs [50:57]

Patient after patient tells me; it’s almost like a keynote of how you could know if you have SIBO, is basically carbs bother me.

And the carbs could be anything, but honestly for the most part I find it to be grains and baked goods. That’s the number one thing that bothers people. The simple sugars, the single sugars, if it’s really just that that’s bothering someone, I tend to think a little bit more about yeast.

There’s a spectrum of which diet you use based on the severity of the person. And what I would say is, when someone is really having a lot of trouble with their diet, nothing is much working, what I go to is a combination of the specific carbohydrate diet with a low FODMAP diet. Somewhere in the middle would be the specific carbohydrate diet and GAPS.

If people go grain free, so long as they’re not overeating fiber and raw foods, and they feel better, absolutely they should be thinking about SIBO.


10. Treatment of SIBO [55:09]

The four options are: antibiotics, herbal antibiotics, elemental diet, and diet. Because I see more of the challenging cases, I have never been able to see diet alone be enough. I don’t believe that it couldn’t, I just don’t get to see it.

Herbal antibiotics, what we’ve been using is the Allimed, we use oregano like you do, we use goldenseal or other berberine containing herbs, and we use neem, and sometimes cinnamon. What we haven’t found to work as well is those big combination formulas, with everything but the kitchen sink in there. A lot of times they’ll have antivirals, they’ll have antiparasitics, and a lot of real antifungal focused herbs, and I think it just waters down the potency of the treatment. We have to use pretty dang high doses of the herbal antibiotics I just mentioned, and we usually have to do it for 4 weeks, if not longer, and that’s only one treatment course. One round. When people come in with a pretty severe case, where the gas is very high, it could take multiple treatment courses to get their SIBO gone.

Elemental diet kills them by starvation, but yet you get fed. But this treatment is very tough, because you’re not actually eating for 2 weeks. And that’s hard to do. Plus the drink tastes very bad. But it’s extremely effective. if somebody has very, very high gas levels, like in the 100s, normally if you’re going to use antibiotics or herbal antibiotics it could take multiple courses to get that gas level down, where as elemental diet might be able to do it in 2 weeks.


11. Resistant starch and SIBO [1:00:09]

There was someone saying that they thought resistant starch could actually help SIBO that was disturbing to me. I followed all the links through and found so many mistakes and so many erroneous, so much erroneous information. And the links were so tenuous, it was like someone else posting someone else’s comments from something. But when I read this study that, whomever it was that was quoting, it had actually gotten quite a lot of the information directly backward.

Resistant starch is a fiber. So, there are many different definitions of fiber, but one of the key definitions is indigestible to humans, which means we don’t produce the enzymes to break the bonds that hold the sugars that make up the fiber. We don’t have the enzymes to break that apart. So indigestible to humans, but digestible to bacteria. That is one of the core definitions of fiber, and that is what resistant starch is. There are four types; I’m sure you’ve all been reading about it. So, resistant starch is a fiber, and it is fermentable. There were some comments about people saying it only feeds good bacteria, that doesn’t matter. Because normal bacteria is what is overgrown in SIBO. And also, certain prebiotics, they get touted as only feeing a certain type of bacteria, and that’s just not the way it works, and there’s plenty of studies to show that. So, what I would say is this. We don’t have to make it be a scientific thing, really. All that matter is, if a person wants to try it, go right ahead and see how it affects you.


12. Prevention, avoidance, maintenance of SIBO [1:03:44]

Don’t take a proton pump inhibitor. Or any acid blockers. Next would be if you have any of the diseases that decrease motility, do whatever you can to treat those diseases. Don’t over consume carbohydrates, particularly processed ones. Don’t overindulge in alcohol. If you’re traveling, or if you do get gastroenteritis, take some Allimed to see if you can prevent anything from happening.

There are some studies that show that probiotics really help in the treatment of SIBO, and then there are some expert doctors that think that they may not be so good. So the jury is out, but I generally think it’s a good idea to eat fermented foods and probiotics because there are studies that show they help motility.

I just want to encourage for anyone who thinks they have SIBO, or has SIBO and has trouble with it, to just not give up. Because so many doctors, they’re not methodical about they’re treatment. And many patients aren’t either. Life overwhelms us, and we have to stop what we were intending to do. But particularly when it comes to your working with a doctor. If somebody gives you one treatment, and that’s it and they don’t see you again, don’t stand for that and don’t give up. Go back, get yourself retested, and keep going until you get it gone. That’s what I would say.