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

[nick xynias]

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

well the symptoms are indicative of malabsorption and typical gut dysbiosis - the gut problems haven't been acute, only the food poisoning which I think effects me more because my gut is in such a fragile and unhealthy state. (thank god that's past though so I can at least train again haha!! )

I actually went further and had an OATS on top of the CDSA stool sample test to get a complete breakdown of my system, which showed a severe gut dysbiosis and the symptoms are very similar to last year which is.

I agree its hard to get a gut dysbiosis to begin with, but even with the cleanest diet in the world - dormant bacteria on the gut wall can be 're-activated' and flourish so to speak, and this is aggravated by periods of very high carbs (which is something ive been doing for the past 4 months). - and this is all because I'm assuming I didn't clear out the bacterial imbalance effectively last year.

I have pretty effective protocols I use for all my patients in any times of gut distress - its not necessarily blindly treating, but rather applying a broad gut health protocol for a month and assessing whether improvements occur.

I use a lot of TCM in my gut protocol, I know your also a practitioner in TCM Scott - do you recommend anything in particular??