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When you get back your GI Map stool analysis one of the first things that is shown is Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes levels. I think of this as a 20,000-foot view of the major population of your gut. The way life forms are named are in this sequence: 1. Domain 2. Kingdom 3. Phylum 4. Class 5. Order 6. Genus 7. Species Bacteroidetes is a phylum of bacteria that live in your gut. From this point stool analysis will often discuss gut habitants in a Genus and Species. Bacteroidetes

Giving a pro-kinetic to adults taking proton pump inhibitors reduced risk of getting small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) from 13% to 1% in this recent study, Researchers prescribed levosulpiride ; a pro-kinetic that acts on dopamine D2 receptors centrally and peripherally to be given in tandem with the PPI. That's pretty significant given the risk of SIBO goes up with PPI only therapy. In the U.S , we are desperately lacking in good prescriptive pro-kinetics. Another

PCOS update and podcast with Dr. Shannon Hirst

If you have pain and are not addressing it, what is the cost? When I was going through my training, I had a patient teach me that there are two categories of health concerns. One category are considered "Problems", the other category are considered "Issues". He was telling me at the ripe age of 84 that he has lived well by not downplaying his "problems". Meaning his aches and pains were as important to him as addressing his slowly developing heart failure. He even kept a li