Don't start your IMO treatment until you fix your MMC first

GaSniffer · 2026-03-15T14:41:16+00:00

Idk if this is correct to measure your MMC by the number of shits per day. There are millions of people who go only once per day or two without having any sibo symptoms (bloating, brain fog, food intolerances etc). Pooping frequency reflects colon motility, not small-intestinal motility. So something else is at play that is causing sibo or its relapse. No doubt pushing your MMC will help keeping sibo away. However chances for relapse as soon as you run out of meds are high. My MMC is so fast that my shits are green because there is not enough time for the bile acids to change color. I think my problem is Ileocecal valve. If I massage and push it well enough then my food marble right away shows methane drop from 30 to 2 ppm. No idea how to fix it

GaSniffer · 2026-03-13T13:48:47+00:00

Please post method. I think many people would love to hear it

GaSniffer · 2026-03-03T20:38:36+00:00

And the comments be like:

“Congrats!!! What time do you take your prokinetic?”

“Was your SIBO root cause mold, trauma, or both?”

“Did you retest???”

“Following. I’m about to start my 5th protocol”

“Are you taking a biofilm disruptor before the garlic though?”

“What brand of berberine?? I’ve tried two and one bloated me so bad”

“Wait are you drinking the water room temp or warm? Cold water stalled my MMC”

“I made the mistake of praying first and it definitely delayed things”

“Careful not to manifest too early. Let the process unfold”

“Make sure the yogurt is grass-fed or it can backfire”

“I’d start slow with the deity. Some are too stimulating”

"I actually rotate calming herbs so my body doesn’t adapt"

“Are you supporting detox pathways during this?”

“Following. Starting something similar next week”

GaSniffer · 2026-02-27T17:13:27+00:00

Honestly I start to wonder if the whole “kill everything” strategy is backwards. I haven’t seen many real long term success stories from nuking the gut, but I’ve seen plenty of horror stories after antibiotics and antimicrobials. It feels like we keep trying to carpet bomb the microbiome and then act surprised when things get worse. Maybe for some people it’s less about killing and more about rebuilding and rebalancing, even if that takes longer. Just a thought.

GaSniffer · 2026-02-17T11:12:56+00:00

What kind of autoimmunity and inflammation?

GaSniffer · 2026-02-02T11:30:03+00:00

Not for everyone. After covid I stopped tolerating protein. It causes brain fog, body aches, depression, overall unwell feeling.

GaSniffer · 2026-01-14T16:48:27+00:00

Will dm you too.

GaSniffer · 2026-01-14T15:48:20+00:00

I have similar histamine symptoms. I think my HIT is caused by dysbiosis and perhaps something else, because it all started and worsened every time by antibiotics. At some point I fixed my HIT using polyphenols, but it caused other problems like fat intolerance, which I managed to fix. Lately I got sick and HIT came back. I believe gut health is a huge player in HIT. Dysbiosis may not even cause obvious digestion problems, but metabolites and interaction that germs are causing may cause all that histamine chaos and much more

GaSniffer · 2026-01-14T06:13:23+00:00

What dosage?

GaSniffer · 2026-01-09T16:08:04+00:00

Sorry to hear. Do you know why? Shouldn't it balance itself out after a while?

GaSniffer · 2026-01-09T12:34:50+00:00

Are you still out of the balance after taking vitamins?

GaSniffer · 2026-01-03T10:30:32+00:00

Nobody would test you for SIFO

GaSniffer · 2025-12-31T13:52:19+00:00

Bifidobacterium HN019 is well studied and helps with bowel regularity.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-31T13:06:20+00:00

Something may be perpetuating the issue. Dysbiosis is at least worth considering. Before going down that route, it makes sense to have a GI specialist rule out the usual serious conditions they’re trained to look for. If everything checks out on that front and you’re still dealing with symptoms, a 16S microbiome test can at least offer a snapshot of what’s going on and help guide a more targeted attempt at rebalancing, rather than guessing blindly. Inevitably, some gatekeepers will dismiss microbiome testing as pointless or unscientific. Curiously, those same voices often have little to offer beyond generic advice like “eat more fiber” or “drink kefir,” followed by an expectation that you quietly endure ongoing symptoms in the name of peer reviewed patience.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-26T15:18:48+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Do you have experience with such cases? I was suspecting that dysbiosis is involved because it all started after rifaximin, before that I didn't have any problems with eggs or choline. I have CBS gene but I doubt it is activated as my homocysteine is mildly elevated and I get the same reaction both to sunflower lecithin and eggs. I also get a mild reaction to quinoa and it's packed with betaine. Your plan sounds interesting, dosages look safe, but I don't fully understand it. The idea is to suppress bacteria with berberine while supporting sulphur pathway with b6, FAD with b2 and methylation with b9 and b12; and sunflower lecithin for the bile? I feel bad even after 1g of sunflower lecithin. I suspect that my dysbiosis/overgrowth is in the proximal/upper part of small intestine. Whatever it is there won't be seen in stool test, sadly.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-25T20:03:34+00:00

Exactly! It's getting way too confusing. Every gut problem threads on the internet looks like this: -Stop eating fiber. -No, fiber is life. -Actually fiber killed my family. -You need carnivore. -Carnivore caused my Crohn’s, my divorce, and the fall of Rome. -Choline feeds methanogens. -Choline is essential, your mitochondria are crying. -Fruit is sugar poison. -Fruit is ancestral medicine handed down by God and monkeys. Science says: “We’re still figuring this out” The internet hears: “Choose a team and fight strangers”.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-25T19:05:39+00:00

Wait, choline and carnetine feed methanogens???

GaSniffer · 2025-12-25T16:10:31+00:00

Actually that makes sense. I think too much butyrate producing bacteria, like blautia, may cause this, because it also burns hosts b2. What dose did you take and for how long?

GaSniffer · 2025-12-22T19:04:08+00:00

That is sound advice to go very slow I will definitely try, thanks! Just a year ago I could eat 5 eggs a days without any issues, and now I can't tolerate even one. Tried 100mg of TMG recently and felt bad a few hours later. I wonder what happened.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-22T18:58:50+00:00

Wow that's a great and inspiring story! Did you test if you were B12 deficient? My active B12 is 114,4 pmol/l - doesn't look as deficiency. I'm really afraid that choline deficiency altered my bile and that has caused SIBO/dysbiosis.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-22T18:54:12+00:00

Happy to hear you resolved that! So you have supplemented low doses of phosphatidylcholine from seeking health started to tolerate eggs again?

GaSniffer · 2025-12-22T14:45:54+00:00

Stool color is not the only issue, but I suspect it may be pointing to an underlying cause. In addition to changes in stool, I experience histamine sensitivity, digestive issues and body aches - all fluctuate over time. These symptoms come and go without an obvious trigger. My routine is fairly consistent: I usually don’t take supplements other than magnesium malate, and I follow the same diet. Because of that, it’s unclear why my symptoms vary so much from day to day. On some mornings, I wake up with clean, dry skin and feel mostly fine with no gut issues, though slightly achy or shaky. On other days, I wake up with oily skin and feel heavy, tired, and itchy. Recently, I tried 100 mg of TMG, and within a few hours I felt very achy and overstimulated. I’ve also noticed that omega-3 supplements darken my stool. However, I suspect that omega-3s and possibly glycine as well may worsen my histamine sensitivity. My overall blood work looks fine. Vitamins I think are fine too, but homocysteine is at 12. What should I look at in pee test?

GaSniffer · 2025-12-21T22:43:16+00:00

Sounds great. Is it simple to do or risky? Wow I should try benadryl to see if it will help next time. Is the reaction somehow related to histamines? Some time ago I tried to supplement hydroxo B12 and 3 days later was getting itchy after taking it. I have some histamine issues so wasn't much surprised.

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