Download my free candida report here Greetings. Eric Bakker. Thanks for coming back and checking out my videos again. I've been on YouTube now for a few years. I'm getting some great feedback from people, awesome feedback. And lots of people are getting amazing results just by following some of the simple instructions in my videos. These aren't really complicated videos. They're simple videos based on my 30 plus years of experience and also based on common sense. Something not very common today with smartphones and a lot of dumb people and a lot of smart technology out there. I'm not saying you're dumb, I'm just saying you've got to think along simple lines and basic lines, what's really going to help you with your problem.
So today we're going to talk about why you'll likely never get rid of SIBO by relying on antibiotics. Whether it's amoxicillin, or rifaximin, or Xifaxin, or any kind of drug like that. These are all drugs. There are a lot of naturopaths, not so much in the southern hemisphere but in the US that prescribe rifaximin. Since I've been working online through FaceTime and Skype, I've had lots and lots and lots of people. I've seen hundreds upon hundreds that have taken rifaximin with minimal result. Some got initially a result, and then they regressed. They had to go back on this rifaximin again. Because it doesn't really get absorbed well in the gut. It acts in the gut and you pass it out. So it's not really good for anything except a small bowel kind of problem.
But I've got a bit of stuff written on paper here, so I want to spend a bit of time with you today explaining to you why, in my experience, relying on antibiotics for SIBO is a complete waste of time in most cases. Because you're taking your eye off the ball. You're thinking this drug is going to cure all my problems. All my hydrogen and methane issues in my gut are all going to be resolved with this drug. Well, it isn't going to happen in most cases. You may get a partial ... it's like giving a teenager a cash advance. It feels great initially, but then, bang. They're back to square one again. And that's my experience in most cases, that I've seen, taking an antibiotic for SIBO.
Now let's explain a few reasons why I'm making this statement. Number one, you're not really looking at all your options. So your naturopath may say to you, for example, look. This drug's going to work. You've shown a high level of methane or hydrogen in your breath test. We've done a breath test on you, it's clearly obvious you've got SIBO, and now we're going to cure it with this drug. So the patient thinks, wow, all my problems are over. This drug is going to cure me. But did you look at all your herbal options before you went into antibiotics? Because remember, rifaximin works on gram positive and negative bacteria in the small intestine. It doesn't generally make it to the large. It cleans the slate, it can wipe out a whole lot of other stuff apart from the SIBO bacteria you're looking at. It's not necessarily going to target SIBO. So, that's my concern.
Herbal options tend to be, in my opinion, more broad spectrum. You're looking at a wider range of bacteria. But not only that, you're also going to target SIFO, or small intestinal fungal overgrowth. Because these antibiotics do nothing for fungal. They only target bacteria. So all you're doing is you're looking at one particular little tiny thing in the gut that you're trying to work on. But the gut's more complex than that. In my opinion, most all people I see when I do stool testing, and I've done thousands of these tests, have got imbalances across the board. They will have some fungal issues. Many have parasites these days. Many have got issues with low pancreatic enzyme output. They're going to have low secretory IgA or poor immune function. They're going to have bowel imbalances, colon imbalances, small intestine imbalances. There'll be imbalances all across the board.
So in my opinion, giving most people with SIBO just an antibiotic is not going to be really helping all of these issues. It's not individual enough for the patient. Your clinician, naturopath, or functional medicine doctor really is best to do by you by doing a proper functional stool test to see what the heck's going on with your gut. A three day stool test. Day one, two and three. Three samples done properly. You need proper instructions on how to do it. That's going to show where the real problems are. And then likely you'll get a susceptibility panel showing you what agents to target, those bacteria or fungus. That are specific for your need. Not what your clinician thinks. Oh, let's give this a try for ten days. It's not good enough. Alright?....
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