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

[Scott Stevenson]

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!! )

THIS makes more sense.

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.

Makes sense as well.

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??

This would depend entirely upon the TCM pattern ("diagnosis") I come with. It could be a downward draining, break up food stagnation formula in combination with a formulae to address the underlying constitution of the individual.

-S