Help Help! Advice for taking an early cruise?!?

[Scott Stevenson]

I'm doing a month of keto to help weed,seed then feed the gut again. When there's bacterial overgrowth, which can be established either from tests or symptoms. (I did a test last year which determined a dysbiosis of gut bacteria) I've found that with a lot of my patients (mind you none of them are bodybuilders-just gen pop) removing all carbs, which are the primary food source for bacteria, starving out all the bacteria (good and bad) while simultaneously planting seeds of good bacteria is the best option to re-establish a healthy microbiome. Hopefully all inflamation will go down, the gut wall will be repaired and nutrient partitioning will be optimized. It'll be taking one step backwards and 2 forward in terms of muscle building.

Realistically at this stage, trying to keep pushing carbs is useless because my gi tract isn't absorbing them and I'm feeling that even small amounts are causing issues (fermentation and gas)

I have no idea what the cause could be though it's just frustrating!! I didn't address the issue properly last year and now I'm paying for it again

So, if you don't know the cause, why are you treating it as if there is a symbiosis?...

By now, of course, a food poisoning would have passed.

You seem to be very particular with your diet, and this is an acute onset (from what I can tell), so with a carefully controlled food intake I'd not expect a dysbiosis unless maybe you literally got a bacterial infection (or took some antibiotics, for example).

Do your symptoms match the time when you had a symbiosis (I'm presuming diagnosed from a stool sample)?...

I'm not saying that having a healthy gut microbiome isn't helpful, but it seems like you don't know whats wrong, but are treating as if you do.

-S