 So one of the most common symptoms that I see clinically and I think is also something that many health care practitioners see today because many people have it today is what is diagnosed as SIBO. So a small intestine bacterial overgrowth and it's very interesting because I think this is just a you know history of repeating itself. It's a symptom that had bothered people probably since the dawn of time and Historically it was called Candida now. It's called SIBO and in the future will be called something else But in this video, I thought I would share from a Chinese medicine perspective What it really is and some approaches to it. Hey, I'm Dr. Alex Hine Chinese medicine doctor and acupuncturist Author of the health book Master of the Day, which you can check out on Amazon Now I've included two links below this video. The first is a free download Which is four daily rituals that can add years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine And the second is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally or via telemedicine All the information on my clinic and how to reach me is below the video So clinically the people and the patients that I see with SIBO tend to present with a few main symptoms as their primary symptoms as well as symptoms that are kind of the branch Manifestations of those so the primary symptoms that people usually complain about are often bloating food allergies Sometimes alternating bowels like they can be hard and dry or they can be loose and soft serve a High percentage of my SIBO patients are on the cold side. So they're often prone to anemia Anxiety just general pallor. They look pale. They look anemic. They are often thin So some of my SIBO patients are more on the side of if they're stressed. They lose weight easily They lose their appetite easily But the general constellation of symptoms is usually bloating Food sensitivities as well as changes in bowel habits. That's the general cluster of symptoms and beyond that It can move into anxiety depression Insomnia is very common heart palpitations things like that. So what is this from a Chinese medicine perspective? the thing that I see the most is that there seems to be a General constitutional type that has a genetic susceptibility to this kind of I guess you'd call it small intestine issues But really gas production So these kind of people tend to be very sensitive to starches and sugars in their diet Which is why one of the main resources I recommend is Elaine Gochal's book Breaking the Vicious Cycle a lot of people Including the whole paleo movement often began with Elaine Gochal's book Breaking the Vicious Cycle and then now is then applied to you know gaps and all these other elemental diet These all came after the fact but generally speaking these people are number one. There's a genetic susceptibility So in Chinese medicine, we use the word constitution. There's a constitutional weakness usually in the GI or They develop that through prolonged stress or abuse just abusing oneself. So number one people are often predisposed to it They are just yeasty types I am sorry to say and if you're a man, it may be primarily GI Maybe with some psycho emotional symptoms. If you're a woman, it could also lead to vaginal discharge BV yeast infections things like that So what is this in Chinese medicine in Chinese medicine? A lot of the time it's considered cold So cold you can think of as just a concept when we talk about bloating the specific symptom of bloating, which is very common Bloating that comes and goes is considered cold in Chinese medicine. It's considered a deficiency symptom hypo function and The formulas that we use typically are used to warm up and increase the functioning of the GI of the person's Digestion for example so a lot of pungent herbs are used like the medicinal grade cinnamon twig dry ginger and things like that and One of the reasons it's so important to know the cold Which is I guess you could call it the energetic aspect if you believe in that or you like that terminology Is because a lot of these patients that I see will go to health practitioners Who will then put them on a raw vegetable diet and they are having the worst pain and the worst symptoms They've ever had or maybe they've done a medical medium. I forget his name Anthony's celery use cleanse destroys these people's GIs because in Chinese medicine It's cold and it's hypo functioning and so it would be contraindicated to give them raw vegetables or celery Which is one of the coldest things the kind of person who needs celery juice is the acid reflux burning indigestion This kind of person who generates a lot of heat internally if you're having celery juice and you're having loose stools already Or low appetite or bloating you're worsening your symptoms So important to know that it's often due to cold But many people have a mixed picture as well where if they have hard stools There are some heat forming in the system or they have some acne You know on their face or on their forehead is very common in women now the other hand So you have not only the cold type you have the mixed type But the general picture is that is a constitutional weakness This person is prone towards gas production and food sensitivities most of the time But those can also be developed through stress or self-abuse now in a final example here another example of how this kind Of pattern can develop is someone who has a constitutional predisposition But then through abusing themselves worsens the symptoms I'm someone who's in this kind of cold deficient picture always had weak digestion no matter how healthy I ate and It wasn't until I began working like 70 hours a week for about seven years that I ever developed really food intolerances so if I drank coffee I would start to regularly get acid reflux and No matter how healthy I ate I was always getting a little bit of indigestion It just it felt like food was never really sitting in my stomach properly and after a while I started having problems with wheat like if I ate wheat I would get an elevated heart rate my heart would be rapidly for an hour as I was digesting it if I had a pizza or something like that something that was heavier food and I've always had a weak digestion, but never ever had a reaction like that so for me it wasn't until I stopped that phase of my life working 70 hours a week where I could decrease that stress response and As that happened, you know the enzyme secretion sped up and some of those gut sensitivities healed up just by removing the stress and just Working, you know less than 40 hours a week for quite a while So most often I find clinically that it's very treatable sebo even if you've been to other alternative practitioners I find Chinese formulas are I mean, I'm in the field of extremely biased But I find that it's the single most effective thing that I've seen and often through Several months of formulas a person can often go back to eating those things that cause them problems They can combine foods. They don't have as many sensitivities or they can go away So that is my two cents on sebo and bloating very very common symptoms today and In general these people tend to feel better on a low starch diet so That's what I've got again before you go down below this video is a free PDF Four daily rituals that can help you add years to your life with Chinese medicine As well as if you'd like to become a patient of my locally or online via telemedicine The link to my clinic and my email is right below. All right, you guys check those out And I have two related videos for you here