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872 - The Best SIBO Probiotic Protocol

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5774 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

There’s a common misconception that you shouldn’t take probiotics for SIBO.  

Where this comes from is the thought that adding bacteria to a bacterial overgrowth must be a bad idea.  

But this overlooks how probiotics actually work AND the plethora of data we have on probiotics for SIBO. 

So let’s dive in to see what all the data actually means. 

 

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro 

00:46 How probiotics actually work in the body

02:33 Probiotic type 1: S. boulardii 

04:08 Probiotic type 2: Lacto-Bifido 

07:13 Probiotic Type 3: Soil-based 

09:12 The protocol 

 

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0:39.7

apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show.

0:45.8

Hey everyone, let's discuss probiotics for SIBO. Thankfully, this is an area where there's robust science

0:52.3

to help us understand if or how probiotics can help

0:55.9

CBO and the answer here is they can. So let's run through the science and then also distill the

1:01.7

science down to a protocol you can use at home so as to improve your CBO. Some context here, I see a lot

1:09.8

of this and it is something that I've published on and myself and our team continues to research, and we currently have actually a paper in peer review on the treatment of SIBO.

1:18.9

So I think I'm fairly qualified to comment.

1:21.6

Now, why this conversation matters is because probiotics have very broad benefits for people. They can help with

1:32.6

CBO and will detail this data in a moment. It's important to clarify that probiotics are quite

1:39.9

powerful antimicrobials. They've been shown to combat CBO. Again, details here to follow.

1:47.6

They've been shown to be antifungal and antiparacitic. So even though we sometimes might think,

1:53.8

well, it's a bacteria, how is that something that can function like an antibiotic? It's because

1:59.4

probiotics actually release antimicrobial

2:02.7

peptides that exert this antibacterial, antipyacertic, and antifungal action. Not only that,

2:10.5

probiotics tune your immune system. There are certain receptors in the lining of the gut,

2:16.8

PRRs or pattern recognition receptors,

2:20.4

TLRs, toll-like receptors, and we've discussed on the show in the past, one in particular,

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