100% WORKING TREATMENT for my IBS!

Hello friends. This is my first entry here. I started taking probiotics and glutamine at 17/1/2015. A few days after I started the supplements I found this thread. Many of you have really done your homework, especially Father Maurice. If one person managed to cure him/herself from this life-altering disease I’m very happy. Despite what doctors say that you have to learn to live with it. Would the good doctor like to live with it? Just for a month to get a taste what it feels like. I admire people who search and take their life and health in their own hands. Many of you, if not all, have experienced that doctors are clueless and useless but that’s a whole different discussion on its own. Now I’m 3 months into the treatment but I can’t say anything yet because it’s too soon. The supplements I use at the moment are 1 cap Vsl 112 billion probiotics with 10 gr glutamine 40 min before breakfast, 1 tablet zinc picolinate 22mg with lunch (I started zinc less than a month ago) and 10 gr glutamine about an hour before dinner. I didn’t go the antibiotic way because the percentage of people who might get adverse long term effects is high enough to dissuade me. In 3-4 months I’ll be able to come to safer conclusions. The reason I write today is because I would like to hear your opinion about a theory that’s been floating around and regards probiotics. It’s just a theory like dozens out there but a very intresting one nonetheless.  Many studies have been conducted in the medical community about the use of probiotics, most of them contradicting. Many people have the misinformation to think that the small intestine is sterile. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The small intestine is divided in 3 parts. The first part is called Duodenum and contains 101 to 103 CFU (Colony Forming Units) per mL of fluid, the second part is Jejunum and contains 103 to 106 of CFU/mL and the last part is Ileum and contains 106 to 108 of CFU/mL. Of course these percentages vary from person to person but that’s considered to be the standard. As you can see the small intenstine does contain microorganisms. When a person has SIBO the intestinal flora in the small intestine increases drastically in numbers both good and bad especially the bad ones like candida which otherwise are kept in check by the immune system, fermenting on almost everything you eat, releasing toxins, damaging the intestinal tract, compromising the immune system which in turn can’t keep the flora in check, they multiply even more and so on and so forth, it’s a vicious cycle. In extreme cases of SIBO the microorganisms eat most of the food you eat, depriving you from nutrients making you lose weight. The theory I mention here says that you don’t need more probiotics because you already have more that your body can handle. So if you take probiotic supplements you’re actually doing more harm than good. What you can do is take glutamine, zinc, vitamins whatever it’s helpful, obviously you need to keep a clean diet according to your intolerances that’s the most important thing, slowly heal the gut which in turn boosts the immune system which in turn helps keep the intestinal flora in check. What do you think about this theory? Have you ever heard anything about it?

Hey Maurice,

I am inspired by your treatment and you've made it seem very easy and simple.

I am a sufferer of IBS/SIBO for over 19yrs. I I have tried all kinds of things and nothing has worked.

I wanted to know if while you were in the phase of antibiotics and killing the bacteria, did you maintain a specific diet?

Or just ate as you wish but took you Antibiotics course along with the probiotics and L Glutamine?

Thanks again,

Nick