SIBO:

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Understanding and Addressing SIBO: A Modern Health Challenge

 

Before tackling microbiome-building strategies, it’s crucial to address the prevalent condition of SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth).

 

SIBO is a condition that disrupts gut balance and contributes to widespread health issues. SIBO’s effects range from immediate digestive discomfort to systemic issues like autoimmune disorders, metabolic diseases, and neurodegenerative conditions. SIBO can trigger or worsen conditions and diseaes. SIBO is often overlooked in conventional healthcare, which tends to focus on symptom management through medications without addressing the root cause: the overgrowth of harmful bacteria.

 

Causes of SIBO and Contributing Factors

 

The cause of SIBO is precisely the same cause of many modern conditions and diseases:

 

• The cycle begins with a deficiency or complete absence of beneficial bacteria species.

 

 Several modern factors contribute to SIBO:

 

• Medications: Antibiotics, acid-suppressing drugs and NSAIDs alter the gut environment.

• Diet: Sugar-rich diets and processed foods, often containing additives like polysorbate 80, encourage unhealthy bacterial growth. Misguided low-fat, low-calorie diets cause bile to stagnate and encourage unhealthy bacterial growth.

• Lifestyle Factors: Stress, poor sleep, and sedentary habits weaken gut integrity.

• Gut Mobility Issues: Conditions like hypothyroidism or opioid use that slow intestinal movement create favourable conditions for bacteria to overpopulate.

 

Common Symptoms and Signs of SIBO

 

Key signs that might indicate SIBO include:

 

• Food Intolerances: Symptoms like bloating, gas, or diarrhoea within 90 minutes of eating certain foods (e.g., high-FODMAP foods, beans, onions) can indicate bacteria in the small intestine.

• Digestive Issues: Persistent bloating, diarrhoea, constipation, or IBS symptoms often signal underlying bacterial overgrowth. Fat malabsorption identified by seeing fat droplets in the toilet after a bowel movement.

• Skin Rashes and Inflammatory Conditions: Eczema, rosacea, and psoriasis can arise from bacterial toxins affecting the skin.

• Chronic Inflammation: Conditions such as fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome, and chronic fatigue often have ties to SIBO.

• History: A history of Helicobacter Pylori infection in the stomach or of hypochlorhydria (lack of stomach acid) is a setup for SIBO. The use of certain medications like acid-blockers and NSAIDs, hypothyroidism, and a history of opioid use or abdominal surgery can increase the risk of SIBO.

 

Impact of SIBO on Health

 

You will have read our introduction to SIBO in our NEED TO KNOW page. There we introduce the important understanding that:

 

• The prevalent condition of SIBO is part of a downward spiralling cycle of harm.

 

It is extremely important to understand:

 

• The cycle begins with a deficiency or complete absence of beneficial bacteria species.

 

Understanding this is the key to understanding the solution:

 

• A healthy microbiome is the absolute foundation of good health.

 

SIBO and bacterial overgrowth, particularly of pathogenic species, degrades the intestinal lining, making the gut more permeable and leading to endotoxemia - where bacterial toxins circulate in the body, affecting various organs beyond the gastrointestinal tract.

 

Unchecked, SIBO the endotoxemic process, including the release of toxic by-products, like lipopolysaccharides (LPS), into the bloodstream, contributing to systemic inflammation and can worsen or initiate many conditions. To name a few:

 

• Gastrointestinal disease: strictures, stenosis, haemorrhoids, diverticular disease, colon polyps, colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome.

• Neurodegenerative and autoimmune disease: Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

• Metabolic disorders: metabolic syndrome, obesity, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, gallstones.

• Cardiovascular disease: coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation, rheumatic heart disease

 

Diagnosing SIBO with Breath Testing

 

Diagnosis often relies on the hydrogen breath test, which measures levels of hydrogen or methane gases after consuming specific sugars or fibres. Elevated levels suggest SIBO, as they indicate bacteria are fermenting food to early in the digestive process. There are various products available to test hydrogen gas that you may find are suitable for you.

 

An effective self-diagnosis is to eat something to which you have an intolerant symptom (nothing that is particularly harmful to you). If, within 90 minutes, you experience gas, bloating, headache, panic attack, asthma attack, rashes, in fact any adverse symptom that occurs within 90 minutes of consumption, it is virtually guaranteed you have SIBO. It takes a between 90 minutes and up to 6 hours for food to reach your colon. Therefore, if a reaction occurs within 90 minutes, then it has to be an adverse microbial reaction that is occurring in the small intestine.

 

Treatment and Recovery Approaches

 

• Our recommendation for everyone new to SuperPow is to firstly participate in one of our twelve-week membership programmes.

  • This will ensure you reap maximum SuperPow benefit.

• However, there is much scientific evidence that supports a four-week membership programme of our STAR product in most cases. This alone will provide spectacular effects.

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• With the unavoidable effects of modern-day living, we recommend the STAR four-week membership programme is repeated at least every six months.

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Why We Recommend the Twelve Week Programme

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• Some conditions and diseases caused by microbial destruction may have been predicated by, for example, multiple years of antibiotic use for the inadequately termed ‘treatment’ or ‘management’ of a condition.

  • The use of sustained long-term drugs that cause microbial destruction will likely require more than the four-week programme.

  • This is satisfied by the twelve-week programme in the vast majority of cases.

• Should our twelve-week membership programmes not yield expected results, this will ensure you have taken the best possible probiotic course of action to address microbial health.

• The twelve-week membership programmes provide the highest possible level of certainty for the repair and restoration of your microbiome.

• The twelve-week membership programme unlocks many membership advantages that include the most cost-effective way to purchase SuperPow products.

  • The twelve-week membership cost savings will be applied to lifelong future purchases.

  • The twelve-week membership will automatically qualify you for our planned introduction of future membership benefits.

• The twelve-week membership programme provides an optional free telephone consultation that confirms your health situation and that you have selected the correct 12-week programme for you.

 

SIBO Specific Treatment and Recovery Approaches

 

• REBUILD twelve-week membership programme

• If there is any doubt as to whether you have SIBO, then our strong recommendation is to participate in the REBUILD twelve-week membership programme as your first membership programme.

• The REBUILD twelve-week membership programme consists of six weeks of REBUILD, followed by six weeks of STAR. This will be life transforming.

• REBUILD provides the highest possible concentration of bacteria specie and strain for the treatment of SIBO and the ousting of harmful pathogenic bacteria from your small intestine.

• REBUILD bacteria specie and strain produce the strongest possible doses of a range of bacteriocins, a naturally occurring range of powerful natural antibiotics.

• REBUILD bacteria specie and strain are clinically proven to produce extremely effective bacteriocins.

• REBUILD is a more effective, less aggressive, natural approach to combating SIBO.

• REBUILD formula currently provides around a 90% success rate when treating SIBO.

• WE DO NOT RECOMMEND REBUILD DURING PREGNANCY.

• We hope you will now be aware of the possibility of ‘die-off effect’ as explained in our INSTRUCTIONS section. If not, be sure to read it by clicking this INSTRUCTIONS link.

 

• Herbal treatment protocols are available.

• Herbal protocols, for the treatment of SIBO, currently provides around a 65% success rate.

• We would recommend herbal treatment protocols above antibiotic treatments.

 

• Antibiotics, such as Rifaximin, are available for SIBO ‘treatment’.

• Antibiotics are not recommended as beneficial for microbial health or for microbial treatment.

• Antibiotics, for the treatment of SIBO, currently provides around a 50% success rate.

• There will be harsh side effects including the extinction of good bacteria.

• Having destroyed the good bacteria, you invite pathogenic bacteria to ascend and proliferate throughout your small intestine post-antibiotics.

• The REBUILD twelve-week membership programme will be required to repair and restore the devastating post-antibiotic treatment effect.

 

• Biofilm disruptors.

• Bacteria often form protective biofilms that make them resistant to treatment.

• Adding biofilms disruptors can enhance the effectiveness of antibiotics or herbal treatments.

• Biofilm disruptors can impact negatively, particularly on a fragile single biofilm mucus layer of the small intestine.

• Biofilm disruptors have not been necessary when using REBUILD for the treatment of SIBO.

 

• Diet and Lifestyle Adjustments.

• Reducing refined sugars and FODMAPs temporarily can help reduce symptoms, but long-term dietary adjustments that support balance are recommended.

• For those dealing with SIBO, it’s often advisable to avoid prebiotic fibres temporarily, as these can feed harmful bacteria. Once the bad bacteria are cleared, you can gradually reintroduce beneficial fibres that nourish healthy microbes.

• Fermented foods aid in supporting the growth and maintenance of beneficial gut bacteria.

• Diet and lifestyle adjustments are identified with our recommended SIHAP Consultation. This can be purchased for £200-00 in our SHOP or by following our SIHAP link here SIHAP.

• We would always recommend an initial twelve-week membership programme that provides an optional free telephone consultation that confirms your health situation and that you have selected the correct 12-week programme for free.

 

Moving Forward with SIBO Management

 

Moving forward with SIBO management is the same as moving forward with small intestine health management, microbial health management and overall health management. These are all one and the same.

 

We may recommend diet and lifestyle adjustments in accordance with personal circumstances.

 

However, your best possible course of action is to boost your microbiome health on a regular basis.

 

That is why after your first twelve-week membership programme, we recommend a regular four-week membership programme as a follow up at least every six months. Regular proactive microbiome probiotic care not only restores balance but also mitigates the risk of future bacterial overgrowth, helping to maintain optimal health.

 

Many SuperPow consumers enjoy the health benefits of for example, improved mood or improved skin, to such an extent, that SuperPow are included as part of their daily or bi-daily routine.

 

In conclusion, for effective SIBO or overall health management, simply look after your microbiome and it will look after you.