It may not be the number of bacteria growing in our small intestine, but the type of bacteria that can be modified in our diet.
When researchers tested more than 1,000 patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for more than six months from typical symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), including irritable gas, bloating, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, nothing more serious appears to happen, including inflammatory bowel disease. In infancy, there is an enzyme called lactase that digests lactose in the small intestine, but of course most of us lose it after weaning. “Genetic mutations have resulted in persistence of lactase in adults, but about 75% of the world’s population absorbs lactose after the age of 30 and is lactose intolerance. However, a third of patients have been diagnosed with small intestinal bacteria overgrowth (SIBO).
“The evidence for SIBO and IBS is controversial, primarily due to the fact that (respiratory) tests used in clinical practice to diagnose SIBO are not effective,” as I have previously investigated. Similarly, the meaning of fewer bacteria cultivated in the small intestine is unknown, as numbers do not appear to be correlated with symptoms. It’s not the number of bugs that grow in the small intestine, it’s not the type of bug. Therefore, it is “dispersing the small intestinal microorganisms,” which is generally not overgrowth, but the wrong kind of growth, and appears to underlie symptoms associated with functional gastrointestinal disorders like IBS.
How can I prevent this from happening? Symptoms appear to correlate with a significant decrease in the number of Prevotella. Do you remember them? Prevotella is a healthy fiber feeder, “suggesting a higher fiber intake in healthy people,” while more insects have eaten sugar in symptomatic patients, which “may reflect a higher dietary intake of simple sugar.” However, correlation does not imply a causal relationship. To prove the cause and effect, it must be put into the test. This is exactly what researchers did.
“Significantly switching between groups of healthy people who habitually ate a high-fiber diet (11g per 1,000 calories per 1,000 calories) with a high concentration of simple sugars for seven days (11g per 1,000 calories per day) (10g per day <10g). The gut microbiota predicted symptoms (such as abdominal distension and abdominal discomfort) and were associated with changes in duodenal (gut) permeability." In other words, they developed leaky gut within seven days. And while some people went from Sibo positive to Sibo negative, others from Sibo negative to Sibo positive, that wasn't a problem as the number of growing bacteria was not correlated with symptoms. As shown below, it was a growing bacteria type, and in my video fiber, it was FODMAP with low SIBO symptoms at 3:12.
It’s no wonder their internal organs are leaky. Short chain fatty acid levels have plummeted. These are magical byproducts that our good intestinal insects make from fibers and mean “play an important role in the integrity of the epithelium (intestinal) barrier.”
Therefore, there is no sound data suggesting that something like the low FODMAP diet has any benefit in patients with SIBO symptoms, but there have been dozens of randomized controlled trials tested for fiber. Overall, the researchers found that there is a significant improvement in symptoms of randomized symptoms to increase fiber intake. It may help explain why “high fiber, plant-based diets can prevent many diseases common in industrialized societies.” Such a diet has this effect “on the composition and metabolic activity of the colonic microbiome.” Our excellent intestinal insects collect plant residues like fiber and produce “health-promoting and cancer-reducing metabolites” like short-chain fatty acids. “All evidence shows a physiological need of around 50 g of fiber per day. This is the amount found in traditional African diets and is associated with the prevention of westernized diseases.” This is about twice the typical recommendation, three times more than what most people get on a daily basis. Perhaps it’s not surprising that we need that much. Despite splitting from chimpanzees millions of years ago, there is still a wide consensus in the composition of each microbiota to this day. They still eat 98-99% plant-based diets and feed their friendly plants with fiber, but they remove most of the fiber-rich foods from their food supply.
