TheSir
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Insightful questions. In SIBO bowel transits are so slow that digestion will be highly putrefactive. The purpose of the milk regimen is not to merely supply the colon with adequate sugar, but also to keep the intestines moving by constant feeding. So in order to ensure that minimal putrefactive digestion occurs, feeding amount & frequency each have to be high. These offset the possible risk of putrefaction from milk proteins. If you are just sipping milk on top of your regular diet, you are not drinking enough to impact the colon or to speed up transit times -> pre-existing putrefactive metabolism tends to only strengthen.If Lactose is such a slow digestible sugar (or Resistant starch) then why would milk cause an overgrowth in the smaller intestine or tongue coating if we try to feed the colon?
Consider that the core of the problem in SIBO is that the harmful bacteria of the colon have spred upward to the small intestine. As us peatarians know, the small intestine should be sterile. If it isn't sterile, normally the fault does not lie in small intestine, but the colon. What is called 'small intestinal overgrowth' is really 'colon undergrowth (of good bacteria)'. Thus when you normalize the colon, the small intestine becomes normalized too. This is why treatments that only seek to clean the small intestines have so low long term success rate.And how does supplying the colon with sugar take care of the overgrowth in the small intestine? Is the Resistant starch resulting in moving the bacteria?
Yes, this is how digestion would ideally work when the small intestine is sterile. With no harmful bacteria present to steal the food and produce harmful acids, the small intestine becomes very competent at extracting nutrition from food. Then it passes the undigestible bulk onto the colon bacteria, so that they may through fermentation extract any remaining value out of the food, producing valuable fatty acids and other goodies in the process.I thought the whole purpose of eating easy sugars and supplying the body with energy is trough the small intestine absorbing most of it instead of having all this fermentation/byproducts from bacteria.
Hope that makes sense.