I've been taking a blend of herbs, and after two weeks, I began to have loose stools, and find myself going to the toilet very often. Occasionally, I'd have diarrhea.
I'm taking a blend of herbs that disrupts biofilms, but I was taking it not for the gut (as my gut has been fine all along, or at least I haven't noticed anything to complain about - no gas, daily bowel movement, and feces don't smell so bad (unlike way before I lessened fiber intake), and no acid reflux; also don't recall a bum stomach). I was taking the blend to disrupt biofilm in my blood vessels.
At first I suspected that it was my magnesium supplementation, but after removing that supplementation, my loose bowel condition persists.
I did some research, and I found that on a site where the gut microbiome is discussed, it talked about talking some biofilm disruptors, and that it had to be taken for 2 weeks for effects to show.
Well, my diarrhea occurred after two weeks of taking the herbal blend. I thought to myself whether the diarrhea is a sign of bacteria being released into the gut as a result of biofilm being disrupted.
If true, the next thing on my mind is: How do I stop this diarrhea?
Incidentally, I wasn't taking any antibiotics at the moment as I'd stopped taking antibiotics as I had to give myself a little break from antibiotics. I'd been taking doxy 100mg/day for 40 days already, and I want to be cautious as there's a thread about how too much use of tetracycline antibiotics could downregulate the mitochondria.
Could it be though that the solution to this diarrhea condition is simply to restore my use of antibiotics?
If so, it would make perfect sense, wouldn't it? If the gut has biofilms, just taking biofilm disruptors would release bacteria, and antibiotics would keep the diarrhea from occurring.
But what if there are biofilms, and one is just taking antibiotics to fix his gut? Wouldn't that also be a deficient approach? Wouldn't one pile up on the dosage of antibiotics and instead of getting better, once would get worse because he's destroying too much of the microbiome, and that would lead to imbalance and dysbiosis eventually?
Biofilms are tough. It's the way established bacteria protect themselves. If you had years of not having good eating practices, poor gut transit times, and your microbiome has already sufference imbalance, biofilms could already have taken root in your gut. Taking antibiotics alone isn't enough, as the biofilms are really tough and antibiotics can't break through biofilms. Taking biofilm disruptors together with antibiotics, or maybe even before antibiotis, may be what's needed to break through the persistent state of poor health of the gut.
Just a thought.
I'm taking a blend of herbs that disrupts biofilms, but I was taking it not for the gut (as my gut has been fine all along, or at least I haven't noticed anything to complain about - no gas, daily bowel movement, and feces don't smell so bad (unlike way before I lessened fiber intake), and no acid reflux; also don't recall a bum stomach). I was taking the blend to disrupt biofilm in my blood vessels.
At first I suspected that it was my magnesium supplementation, but after removing that supplementation, my loose bowel condition persists.
I did some research, and I found that on a site where the gut microbiome is discussed, it talked about talking some biofilm disruptors, and that it had to be taken for 2 weeks for effects to show.
Well, my diarrhea occurred after two weeks of taking the herbal blend. I thought to myself whether the diarrhea is a sign of bacteria being released into the gut as a result of biofilm being disrupted.
If true, the next thing on my mind is: How do I stop this diarrhea?
Incidentally, I wasn't taking any antibiotics at the moment as I'd stopped taking antibiotics as I had to give myself a little break from antibiotics. I'd been taking doxy 100mg/day for 40 days already, and I want to be cautious as there's a thread about how too much use of tetracycline antibiotics could downregulate the mitochondria.
Could it be though that the solution to this diarrhea condition is simply to restore my use of antibiotics?
If so, it would make perfect sense, wouldn't it? If the gut has biofilms, just taking biofilm disruptors would release bacteria, and antibiotics would keep the diarrhea from occurring.
But what if there are biofilms, and one is just taking antibiotics to fix his gut? Wouldn't that also be a deficient approach? Wouldn't one pile up on the dosage of antibiotics and instead of getting better, once would get worse because he's destroying too much of the microbiome, and that would lead to imbalance and dysbiosis eventually?
Biofilms are tough. It's the way established bacteria protect themselves. If you had years of not having good eating practices, poor gut transit times, and your microbiome has already sufference imbalance, biofilms could already have taken root in your gut. Taking antibiotics alone isn't enough, as the biofilms are really tough and antibiotics can't break through biofilms. Taking biofilm disruptors together with antibiotics, or maybe even before antibiotis, may be what's needed to break through the persistent state of poor health of the gut.
Just a thought.