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SIBO

What are your thoughts on Integrative Therapeutics’ Physician’s Elemental Diet? This seems to be a pure elemental diet and perhaps the best option out there for people looking for a ready-made version.

Chris Kresser: I agree 100 percent. Ingredients are way cleaner than most other elemental options. There is also Absorb Plus,...

I saw a 34-year-old female this week who came in to speak to me about depression related to her miscarriage last year with her first pregnancy. No prior history of depression. Healthy medically except for your ureteral reflux as a child with a history of multiple UTIs and frequent treatment with Septra and other antibiotics growing up. As an adult, still gets recurrent UTIs and often postcoital. Also note from a functional perspective she developed an adult food allergy as shellfish and gets frequent migraines which may be food related. Can you help me connect some dots between the vaginal microbiome issues, UTIs, recurrent antibiotics, migraines, food allergies and depression? Has been prescribed gluten-free Paleo, more exercise, and doing standard labs but haven’t ordered food sensitivity or stool yet. Plan to order probiotics for mood based on stool culture results. Any thoughts on how to avoid future UTIs?

Chris Kresser: Okay. Yes, a lot here. This makes perfect sense to me. It’s a great example of the gut-brain...

Would the treatment for SIFO be the same as the basic SIBO protocol? Can you speak to other combinations of supplements that have been shown to be helpful?

Chris Kresser: Yes, that’s what we do with possible addition of A-FNG and others just mentioned. Just as a general...

I heard you on some SIBO videos talk of some clients who came in with high cholesterol, and when eradicating SIBO, their cholesterol numbers regulated. Can you explain this connection? Am I to assume SIBO is causing systemic inflammation leading to vessel damaging, and cholesterol is produced in excess because of vessel injury? What are other direct or indirect connections?

Chris Kresser: In short, among the mechanisms that we’ll discuss, one is intestinal permeability, and the other is infection. Another...

What nutritional strategies do you recommend for recurrent vaginitis or vaginosis?

Kelsey Kinney: This is actually a pretty easy question for me to answer because, honestly, I would really recommend it...

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