The Trajectory Of SIBO
This Vitamin Protocol Fixed His SIBO, Chronic Fatigue, Brain Fog & Fibromyalgia
Video commentary below.
Poor kid. Been there.
Almost positive, clearly a SAM case (severe acute malnutrition) that it appears he had since childhood, possibly birth. SIBO can begin at birth because bifido is the primary colonizer of the infant microbiota and minus that it sets the conditions that only worsen and can develop into an AIDS like state.
At any rate his diet restrictions aren’t necessary, within six months of proper gut and immune healing and rebuilding he would be making the necessary enzymes to digest and producing his own B vitamins from a functioning microbiota pool. Might be maintenance for life but food restrictions and poor metabolic health outcomes could be avoided at least until age 60. If he avoids the sugar and drugs he’ll be sailing. You can’t give what you don’t have.
Dr. Jeffrey Gordon
Is the issue strictly carbs or is it white sugar (fructose) plus lack of fiber?
It is relatively easy to settle the argument regarding the three variables as put forth by Dr. Robert Lustig. Are refined carbs really the issue behind metabolic syndrome or is it more a lack of fiber and the sugar molecule fructose that leads to liver insulin resistance.
Since I’ve lost close to 40 lbs. over the last year mostly by severely restricting white table sugar intake I’ve been intrigued to settle this issue myself. Reducing high starch, highly refined carbs such as bread, pasta and white rice to one item per meal helped but it was really the impact of greatly reduced sugar intake that led to diet success.
I do realize that before insulin was discovered lowering carb intake to 20 grams or less was the method that most physicians employed in the 1800’s not only to prolong the life of those who suffered from Type I diabetes they used this low carb diet to reverse obesity and arthritis in many patients as well as eliminating Type II diabetes.
There came a time when this type of low carb diet no longer worked for me for weight loss even after gut healing led to effortless weight loss of about 10 pounds.
In western culture in the 1800’s carbohydrates were a mainstay in many diets as sugar was expensive and meat was still a luxury, this would present as a dietary conundrum by today’s standards. For many diet was one of subsistence.
All I can say is that the issue is not hard to resolve without too much effort so I hope you might give it a try. I simply followed the brainiac experiment presented by Dr. Robert Lustig and eliminated white sugar intake alone while adding Good Wheat pasta that includes high fiber, no added sugar and is less refined. Since our dinners don’t often include processed food this was the new type of processed food I chose to experiment with, slightly different than his approach which included many more types of high carb processed food.
Where I am now?
No longer have time to edit 'real science' with a twist or wait for scientific counter culture to gain momentum; even though it appears to be undergoing some type of revolution that is quite astonishing.
Most people don’t know how deep the official scientific narrative goes but I’m happy I followed the less than 5% who just followed the bread crumb trail where it led and weren’t shy about presenting what they found. After twenty plus years of sifting through data I don’t know that I care to face the volumes that still remain while hoping not to lose the good news. It is tiring enough in print, never mind editing videos so for that reason alone I am moving to more of a curation type approach with news you can use rather than more science by opinion or science by celebrity.
recipe
This recipe only has 1/4 cup of maple syrup and no other refined sugar.
- 1 cup Grated Carrots (medium carrots)
- ½ cup Chopped walnuts
- ¼ cup Orange Juice
- 1 ½ cups Whole wheat flour
- 1 ¼ tsp Baking powder
- ¼ cup Maple Syrup
- ¼ cup Butter
- 2 Eggs slightly beaten
- ¼ cup warm Water
- 1 tsp Cinnamon (or other spices if using)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Paste Extract is fine if you don’t have the paste
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WHO STATEMENTS: 2017 Millennium Goal
- Breastfeeding,
- food (security)
- and water security (sanitation)
are major protective factors against malnutrition and critical factors in the maturation of healthy gut microbiota, characterized by a transient bifidobacterial bloom before a global rise in anaerobes. Early depletion in gut Bifidobacterium longum, a typical maternal probiotic, known to inhibit pathogens, represents the first step in gut microbiota alteration associated with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Later, the absence of the Healthy Mature Anaerobic Gut Microbiota (HMAGM) leads to deficient energy harvest, vitamin biosynthesis and immune protection, and is associated with diarrhea, malabsorption and systemic invasion by microbial pathogens. A therapeutic diet and infection treatment may be unable to restore bifidobacteria and HMAGM.
Researchers found that malnourished children’s microbiota failed to follow the healthy pattern they identified in healthy children. The microbiota of malnourished children is immature, lagging in development behind that of their healthy peers. Supplementing these children’s meals with widely used therapeutic foods that increase calories and nutrient density reduces deaths from malnutrition, but it does not fix their persistent microbiota immaturity.
“Perhaps more insidious than slowing growth is malnutrition’s effect on less visible aspects of health, including impaired brain development and dysfunctional immunity, which follow these children throughout their lives”.
The Father of The Microbiome
Dr. Jeffrey Gordon
SIBO
SIBO can cause severe malabsorption, serious malnutrition and immune deficiency syndromes in children (non breastfed) and adults.
Prognosis is usually serious, determined mostly by the underlying disease that led to SIBO.
Immunizations
The WHO recommends that immunization or treatment be orally administered due to economic, logistical and security reasons. Furthermore, this route offers important advantages over systemic administration, such as reducing side effects, as the molecules are administered locally and have the ability to stimulate the GALT immune responses (Levine and Dougan, 1998; Neutra and Kozlowski, 2006; Bermúdez-Humarán et al., 2011).
Infections
For ANY infectious or parasitic disease to start, it is ALWAYS a requisite that the host suffer IMMUNODEFICIENCY. At the same time, infectious and parasitic diseases themselves cause additional IMMUNE SUPPRESSION and more MALNUTRITION. This immune suppression is SECONDARY to the accumulation of free radicals, especially oxidizing species, that occurs during and after infectious and parasitic diseases.
Clinical Aspects of Immunology and Biochem J.
Current IBD Research 2016
Currently available treatments for IBD, which target the systemic immune system, induce immunosuppression, thereby exposing the patient to the risk of infections and malignancy. The interplay between the gut and the systemic immune system determines the final effect on target organs, including the bowel mucosa. Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are associated with an altered systemic immune response leading to inflammation-mediated damage to the gut and other organs.
Clinical & Translational Immunology (2016)
Gastroenterology and Liver Units, Department of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Most importantly, the immune modulatory agents used today for IBD do not achieve remission in many patients.
Not all IBD patients benefit from currently available drugs. Young people with IBD do not want to be on long-term drug therapy. Oral immune therapy, while not yet studied in large cohorts of patients, may provide an answer to this unmet need.
Clinical & Translational Immunology (2016)
Gastroenterology and Liver Units, Department of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Tolerance
Tolerance is the ability of the immune system to ‘see’ and respond appropriately. Without galactose (a necessary sugar) the immune system can not 'see'. Your immune system would not be able to function without galactose Your body wouldn’t know which cells are
“good” and what cells are “bad.” Your body wouldn’t know who the invaders were and which ones should be attacked by antibodies. As you will learn the importance of these ‘sugars’ in gut microbiota health is a rapidly expanding field of research, only recently
discovered, including HMO's (human milk oligosaccharides).
Why galactose?
Milk sugar aka lactose has been shown to be very beneficial for the human body though unlike sucrose, lactose is made up of glucose and galactose. There is no fructose in lactose. It is a healthy disaccharide sugar. Galactose is known as the “brain sugar” and supports brain development of babies and children. Galactose helps triggers long-term memory formation. Galactose has been shown to inhibit tumor growth and stop its spread, particularly to the liver. This beneficial sugar can also enhance wound healing, decrease inflammation, enhances cellular communication, and increases calcium absorption.
What does immune ‘tolerance’ mean in simple language?
Immune tolerance, or immunological tolerance, or immunotolerance, is a state of unresponsiveness of the immune system to
substances or tissue that have the capacity to elicit an immune response in a given organism. The Th1 cytokine profile is vital for clearance of certain organisms and ancillary immune activity, and a limiting effect on this cytokine profile may result in reduced chances for overcoming infections especially intra-cellular organisms residing within macrophages.
Effective clearance will depend on appropriate macrophage activation (which occurs through IFN≥ release by Th1 and NK cells) and production of nitric oxide. If this pathway is disrupted IFN≥ secretion is blocked, impairing macrophage activation.
Persistent blockade of these inhibitory receptors has lead to the breakdown in immune self tolerance, thereby increasing susceptibility to autoimmune or auto-inflammatory side effects, including rash, colitis, hepatitis and endocrinopathies.
Many drugs may cause checkpoint blockade toxicity including pharmaceutical drugs termed ‘immuno therapy’ by pharmaceutical companies, these include Mab drugs and cancer treatments.
Checkpoint Inhibitor–Induced Colitis: A New Type of Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
Madeline Bertha, MD MS, corresponding author1 Emanuelle Bellaguara, MD, Timothy Kuzel, MD, and Stephen Hanauer, MD
ACG Case Rep J. 2017; 4: e112.
Published online 2017 Oct 11. doi: 10.14309/crj.2017.112
PMCID: PMC5636906
PMID: 29043290
The Elderly
Mammal milk is required for enhanced phagocytosis as shown by research, especially in the elderly. Whole fat mammal milk can actually restore phagocytosis in senescent cells in the elderly. Phagocytosis, by which immune cells ‘eat’ bacteria or infected cells, is one of the mechanisms that help to resist infections. Lactic acid bacteria strains like acidophilus also increases phagocytosis.