Peater Piper
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Judging by the posts I've read here and on other forums, I would suspect your friends were fairly healthy otherwise? Once there's reduced thyroid function and other health issues layered on top of the intestinal issues, it becomes a complicated mess. Just about any food can cause issues in a very compromised person, which is how they end up eating a refined diet, because they've learned to avoid everything that causes distress (which in some people, can be almost all food). If simply switching to some fruit and meat were the fix for everyone, I think everyone would be doing it. It's not, unfortunately, which is why we have diets like AIP, specific carbohydrate, GAP, fast tract, elemental, FODMAPs, and other elimination diets. Many people move through them with limited success, because underlying problems that lead to the SIBO and dysbiosis in the first place aren't being corrected. Personally, as someone who spent the first 25 years of my life never experiencing any kind of stomach distress regardless of what I ate, I never understood why so many people had issues. Now that I have what I believe is SIBO, and have spent years playing with different foods and antimicrobials without much success, I now understand what an inconvenience it is, and I can still eat a fairly large variety of foods compared to many people (overdoing dairy or fruit of any type are a big no-no in my case, though).I don't think that's true. I've reversed SIBO in a friend and Crohn's in another within days. Fruit juice, lettuce, meat, seafood for them. With the extra potatoes and basmati for the calories, and mineral water with high Calcium. The goal of my post is showing that a handful of foods give you all the micros in great balance.