Have you ever played Psych?🕵🏼‍♀️

It’s this super fun game you can play on your phone where you try to ‘outwit your friends’. All of my close family and friends (without fail) would write answers for me relating to one of the following:

💨Gas/smelly farts

💓Chad

🍫Dark chocolate

You might be thinking: Gas and smelly farts? Really?

YES, I used to have THE WORST bloating and gas, issues with constipation, and farts that could clear a room! (and no I am not kidding😅)

I had no idea why things were this way, and thought ‘this is just how it is’ and ‘this is just me’…until I realized no it’s not. This wasn’t ‘normal’. This wasn’t ‘just how it is and always will be’. I had SIBO‼️

SIBO is short for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth🦠

+It occurs when bacteria in your small intestine overgrow👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 creating chaos all along your digestive tract (think: reduced harmony, balance, & digestion❌).

+These bacteria FEED off the carbs you eat to produce short-chain fatty acids and gas💨, and also STEAL proteins and vitamin B12 to continue growing🤯.

Symptoms of SIBO may include abdominal pain/distention, nausea, bloating, indigestion, gas, diarrhea, constipation, unintentional weight loss, and/or fatigue.😵‍💫😵‍💫👎🏻👎🏻

Thankfully I worked alongside a functional nurse practitioner to treat my SIBO which truly changed my life.

👏🏻No more bloating.

👏🏻No more foul-smelling farts.

👏🏻No more constipation.

This was how I KNEW functional medicine was the path I wanted to take. I had relief for things that no one else had answers for, and now I’m able to give this same relief to my clients. Coming full circle friends!💫👏🏻💛

Stay tuned for how we test and treat SIBO in tomorrow’s post!🌿