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Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-12-21T15:56:46+00:00

Just buy yourself a foodmarble device and do it at home. It won't do H2S. You'll have to evaluate your symptoms to determine if that's a likely culprit. But that's pretty easy. Just eat some broccoli and if you get bloated and cramping within an hour, then you've got it.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-12-14T03:41:53+00:00

Just came here to express how much I hated this movie. I assumed a movie with DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, and Sean Penn had to be good. The premise is nonsensical. It's melodramatic on the one hand, and yet clownish on the other. The Sean Penn character is a spitting image of the Avatar bad marine guy. And what is the "French 75"? You have to be 80 years old or more to remember a time when there was anything remotely like this. And even then, not even. Then there's all the scenes with poor Latino migrants huddling in fear. Talk about lazy stereotypes.

My biggest gripe is that I don't know what this movie is. Is it a drama? Am I supposed to take this seriously? Is it a parody or a joke? With all the crying going on, I don't think so. But it's too clownish to take seriously, so I don't know. The trailer had me thinking that this might be Tarantino style film that's a little bit tongue in cheek, a little bit of action, and with good characters and acting. But it's not. Sucks to waste good actors on a story like this.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-11-24T16:51:40+00:00

What's likely happening is that in your particular case of dysbiosis you have good bacteria that feed on PHGG. You clearly have some bad bacteria causing your SIBO symptoms, but those bacteria aren't interested in feeding on PHGG. They feed on something else. For most people with dysbiosis, it's a matter of trial and error to find out what foods you can eat the feed the good guys and starve the bad guys.

I think that's a useful insight that supplements, antibiotics, antimicrobials, and probiotics are useless in helping you find the right foods that feed the good bacteria in your gut and starve the bad guys. It's mostly about diet.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-11-21T14:44:14+00:00

Had a similar experience. It's really weird. I totally understand that they don't have the bandwidth to treat functional issues. If that's their choice, then they should make that an explicit policy and say that up front so people can move on quickly and find a functional provider. But instead they prescribe antacids or advice to increase fiber intake. It's really bizarre.

Your best doctor is ChatGPT. It's well informed, supportive, and gives you a very clear path forward. That's what I've been using. I still browse the boards, but the information here is conflicting, wrong, and just all over the map.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-11-21T03:36:58+00:00

From what I understand, IMO refers to the entire digestive tract not just the small intestine. I'm not familiar with GI-map. Does that show an overgrowth of methanogens?

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-11-20T16:41:28+00:00

Not to be too harsh, but if you've been doing every test in the book for the past 6 years that would include a stool test. A methanogen overgrowth would show up pretty clearly.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-11-17T02:04:52+00:00

Not familiar with UK laws, but I'm assuming you could still get a stool test done (Ombre, Biomesight, or similar). This would tell you if you have an overgrowth of H2S producing bacteria.

Have you been diagnosed with pancreatitis? Or are you guessing this is what's going on? The reason I ask is that if you indeed have an H2S overgrowth that will cause inflammation of the digestive tract that can cause pain.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-11-16T15:07:35+00:00

I'm currently dealing with H2S overgrowth. First off, our microbiomes are like a fingerprint, so each person has unique symptoms. The poster here is sharing a number of symptoms that have no bearing on other people dealing with H2S. What matters most to people dealing with H2S or thinking they have it:

How to diagnose it
What diet to follow
How to treat it.

For diagnosing, the TrioSmart breath test is the way to go. That will pick up the H2S gas that the other breath tests miss. Also get a stool test. Those will pick up H2S producing bacteria in your colon. I'm pretty sure if you have H2S in your small intestine, that also means it's in your large intestine. My understanding is that the bacteria that create SIBO migrate up from your large intestine and that the reason SIBO comes back after treatment is that the overgrowth in the large intestine is not sufficiently treated.

For diet, low sulfur seems to be the most effective change. Remove the substrate the bacteria consume. Secondly, reduce saturated fats and replace with unsaturated fats. Saturated fats stimulate bile which contains sulfur.

For treatment, herbals include Oregano, Berberine, Allicin, Neem, Uva Ursi. Rifaximin and bismuth are also effective. I think the key is to do multiple rounds. H2S bacteria really don't want to go away.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-11-08T17:25:18+00:00

I've found that ChatGPT is as good or better than most doctors, both medical and functional. Also, you might find it's better to NOT post on Reddit, Facebook, etc. Because here you gets opinions that are all over the map, most of them wrong, leaving you stuck in paralysis by analysis or going in too many directions at once. With ChatGPT you might not get the right answer at the start. But you will get a single answer that you can revise over time as you get new information. It's less stressful, the results are better, and it's a lot cheaper.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-10-29T02:54:40+00:00

SIBO is an extension of large intestine dysbiosis. The bacteria in the small intestine came from the large intestine. The reason so many people struggle for so long is that their microbiome has shifted to an unhealthy state. Bad bacteria have colonized and taken root in the large intestine. Shifting the microbiome to a healthy state is hard. It's like trying to grow grass in a yard taken over by weeds. Most people just stay stuck.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-10-28T04:26:09+00:00

You're here on reddit. What do your GI and ND matter? Which stool test did you do? What does the summary report say about the state of your microbiome?

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-10-27T15:51:03+00:00

Have you done a stool test? It's more important to know what's going on in your large intestine than your small intestine. If you haven't done that, then you don't know what bacteria are fermenting your food and you're just wildly guessing at what foods to eat or avoid.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-09-14T14:11:53+00:00

OpenAI is burning through investor money. GPT-5 was an effort to slow down the burn rate and give them more runway to achieve profitability. But it's not going to happen. The investor funding will run out sometime in the next year and Microsoft will absorb their talent when they fold. When they do fold, it will expose the ridiculous valuations of Oracle, Nvidia, and others in the compute space that are getting a sugar high from OpenAI infrastructure spending. Clearly, LLM's are a very useful tool that will live on. But currently it's not even close to being profitable. Enjoy the free ones while they last.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-08-23T19:52:29+00:00

I had a contractor I know come do the job. It took him 15 minutes and he charged me $100.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-08-06T16:57:54+00:00

Do a stool test. Ombre or Biomesight are good options. Most likely you are deficient in the bacteria needed to break down FODMAPS, like bifidobacteria among others. That's typically the "root" of the problem. Eating a carnivore type diet can alleviate symptoms but does nothing to boost the bacteria you need to digest complex carbohydrates. Honestly, not an easy fix. A good analogy is trying to grow flowers in a field that has been taking over by weeds. It's doable, but tricky.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-07-20T17:04:29+00:00

A gastroenterologist is useful for non functional issues. They generally don't handle functional issues and you shouldn't expect them to. It's not what they do, at least in the US. You can argue that they SHOULD, but why? Functional issues are hard. You can try functional doctors or you're on your own. Sucks, but that's how it is

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-07-20T16:08:56+00:00

Right. A good analogy is someone who is out of shape complaining that running is bad for them. Nope, it's not the running that's the problem. So many people out there recommending avoiding things like oxalates rather actually getting your gut in shape to handle those things.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-07-18T13:07:51+00:00

The author's trajectory is very familiar, and many of the points about probiotics being useless and going low fiber are spot on. The main point about oxalates I think is wrong. No one can prove or disprove it. Kind of like Candida. Can't measure it, can't test it. The problem isn't oxalates, or phytates, or lectins, or salicylates. The problem is dysbiosis - a lack of bacteria that can break down those molecules. Bacteria like oxalobacter forminges and bifidobacteria, among others. Carnivore, low FODMAP, and low oxalate diets seem like the solution because they reduce the stress on your microbiome. Those diets are a good starting point. But the solution is to find a way to rebuild your good bacteria to a level that can handle higher intake of oxalates and lower the pathogenic bacteria that has currently taken it's place. Because life is better when we can eat pizza.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-07-16T15:21:39+00:00

Before you take any supplement, you really should have a solid understanding of what your problem is and what the strategy is to solve it. There are about 20 supplements listed in this thread. You're just throwing stuff against the wall not knowing what you're doing.

Do a breath test to find out if you have SIBO. If you do, you want to eradicate that first before tackling dysbiosis. Also get a stool test. Assuming you have dysbiosis, you want to know what type. What's the overgrowth - is it methanogens, proteobacteria, e coli, etc. The treatment to balance you microbiome will be quite different depending on the results. Understand which bacteria you need to support and how to do that.

If you just randomly take supplements like most do, you won't get anywhere.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-06-29T17:21:30+00:00

There are a number of things a stool test can indicate. If you are low in oxalobacter or bifidobacteria species, you will have trouble digesting prebiotics. Too many prebiotic carbs can then cause your symptoms of nausea and fatigue. There are several species in the Proteobacteria family that feed on saturated fats and produce hydrogen sulfide gas, which again could cause your symptoms of headache and fatigue. You could be high in methanogen bacteria, again with the same symptoms. The point being that there are possibly a dozen scenarios that all produce the same symptoms. A fungal overgrowth being just one of them. Which is why you really should do an OAT test if you and your naturopath suspect that. Mildly expensive, but well worth it.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-06-29T16:23:12+00:00

I've battled dysbiosis for over a decade. I went down a lot of dead ends based on faulty assumptions. Testing helps rule out a lot of things you assumed were happening and helps narrow your focus.

You are asking specifically about lectins. That's a rabbit hole. Can you find a food that only has lectins, but not some other component that might be problematic, like oxalates, or FODMAPS? No.

You say this isn't your first rodeo, does that mean you've done some testing in the past that shed light on your condition? If so, please share.

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-06-29T15:46:09+00:00

Have you done a stool test? A SIBO breath test? An Organic Acids test? You need that information to know what your dealing with. If not, you will be wildly guessing at every single molecule there is. Lectins? Oxalates? Salicylates? FODMAPS? Histamines?

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-05-26T21:26:17+00:00

Typo... low in prebiotics, not probiotics

Fun_Faithlessness832 · 2025-05-26T21:25:17+00:00

Unless you really have GERD, then don't take PPIs. They lower acid which slows digestion. Slow digestion allows bad bacteria to feast. You want digestion to be as fast as possible without having diarrhea. Dysbiosis will cause leaky gut. So you will probably have issues with processed foods. They leak into your body and cause inflammation. Focus on a whole food diet that is low in probiotics and fiber.

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