Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a common problem that has recently become a popular diagnosis. This article looks at the root cause of SIBO and reveals actionable steps you can take to heal yourself.
The real root cause
If you are diagnosed with SIBO, your doctor will likely suggest that you take an antibiotic. Unfortunately, in many cases, any antibiotic you use will only offer temporary relief. While the medical community recognizes that SIBO is a bacterial infection, they are unaware that SIBO actually stems from chronic streptococci in the body.
Many people develop strep throat in childhood. It can be passed from a parent at conception, so that the baby is born with strep throat already in their body. Others may catch strep throat at daycare, school, or other places. Strep throat is easily spread from person to person, and there are many strains that you can catch.
Over the years, medical professionals have focused on Group A and Group B streptococci, which are two of the eight groups of streptococci that science and research have publicly recognized at this time. However, Groups A through H are only a small fraction of the actual number of groups of streptococci—there aren't even enough letters in the alphabet to classify the number of groups of streptococci.
Conditions such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) and bacterial vaginosis are also caused by strep, but these problems are often blamed on an unspecified bacterial or yeast infection. For more information on candida, read “The Healer Medium.” Even if some doctors are aware that these conditions are related to strep, they will likely have trouble seeing strep. If strep has been in your body for an extended period of time, it can become nearly impossible to detect its presence in your body with the tests available today.
Nowadays, one of the few times that doctors and practitioners look for strep is when a woman is pregnant or wants to become pregnant. Although doctors and practitioners can sometimes detect strep with a vaginal strep test, these tests are not 100% accurate.
SIBO in the body
Currently, many experts assume that SIBO is often simply a problem in a person’s intestinal tract, but this is not the case. The truth is that SIBO can be present in the body from the mouth all the way to the rectum. This means that SIBO can be found in the stomach, duodenum, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, and esophagus.
Many medical professionals mistakenly believe that bacteria thrive primarily in the intestinal tract. This is because of the widespread but inaccurate belief that there is no stomach acid in this area. They may be skeptical that bacteria could wreak havoc in the stomach because that is where stomach acid is found. The assumption is that this acid would break down and kill all bacteria, including streptococci .
The truth about stomach acid
The medical community still believes that hydrochloric acid is a single acidic solution. The truth is that hydrochloric acid is a complex mixture of seven acids. Anthony William first shared this information in The Healer Medium and addressed the issue in more detail in Liver Help .
A doctor may tell you that you have enough or strong hydrochloric acid based on test results, but these tests do not account for all seven components in the hydrochloric acid mixture because the medical community is not aware of the existence of this mixture.
Medical research and science are mostly familiar with one of the seven elements that make up the mixture. Therefore, if that element, along with three of the other elements that make up part of the mixture, are sufficiently present, then the test can show that you have enough or even too much hydrochloric acid, even if the other three elements are severely depleted or completely absent. When only two or three of the components in the mixture are at low levels, the bacteria will not die when they enter your stomach. And this makes you susceptible to the symptoms associated with SIBO and other gut health problems.
You may know that bacteria can move and travel throughout the body. But what people still don’t know is that bacteria can move from the intestinal tract back up to the stomach, causing problems. For this reason, it is extremely important to build a gastric hydrochloric acid blend so that you can heal yourself from SIBO or protect yourself from other gut health issues.
Some people who have been told they have enough stomach acid still suffer from stomach ulcers. In this case, it is likely because one or more critical elements are no longer present in their stomach acid mix. The bacteria that create these ulcers can thrive when there is a lack of powerful stomach acid to maintain harmony in the gut. Whether you have an ulcer or simply want to prevent one, building strong stomach acid is crucial.
Stomach hydrochloric acid production
Many doctors recommend using antibiotics to treat SIBO, but this practice can actually make strep bacteria that are already in the body stronger. In addition, antibiotics can only suppress symptoms for a short time. Streptococcus can quickly become resistant to antibiotics, and frequent use of antibiotics can lead to an aggressive, mutated form. Overuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence of a number of different strains of strep bacteria .
Decades ago, there were only two groups of streptococci, with a small number of strains associated with each. Unfortunately, these groups of streptococci are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, and now groups A and B have become groups A through Z, and so on. In addition, each of these groups contains branches of mutated strains. Antibiotic-resistant strains can persist in the body for years, causing acne, sinus problems, urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and even appendicitis.
Don't worry if you've taken antibiotics for strep throat in the past. Antibiotics may be necessary in certain situations, but the goal is to continue to strengthen your immune system and get the bacterial load out of your body so it can be minimized whenever possible.
One way you can start to get rid of strep in your body is to increase your stomach acid levels. This will help kill the bacteria in your stomach and any bacteria that may be trying to get into your stomach. Hydrochloric acid works not only in your stomach, but also deep in your duodenum and small intestine (although this is not known to the medical community). Some of the six previously unstudied of the seven acid mixtures in hydrochloric acid are responsible for working with your immune system to protect places other than your stomach, such as deep in your small intestine, where certain elements of the hydrochloric acid mixture work to kill bacteria.
A simple and powerful way to build up hydrochloric acid in your body is to drink 0.5 liters of pure celery juice on an empty stomach every morning. The mineral salts in celery help to restore all the missing elements in the mixture of seven acids that make up stomach hydrochloric acid. Once your acid is boosted, it will be able to destroy SIBO and kill all types of streptococci.
Mineral salts also strengthen your immune system, as some cells of your immune system find great support from the mineral salts in celery (similar mineral salts are found in spinach stems, but that doesn’t mean spinach stems can replace what celery juice can offer you). Once your white blood cells pick up these mineral salts, they help generate chemical compounds that can rid the body of SIBO. It will be hundreds of years before science and research discover the phenomenal ways celery juice helps the body.
Resetting your immune system
When working to overcome strep throat , it's also important to rebuild your immune system. This will allow your body to create new chemical compounds—ones that strep isn't immune to—that can destroy the bacteria and eliminate it from your body.
Once you understand that a diagnosis of SIBO means your body is fighting off strep, you may be able to recall times in the past when the same bacteria caused other problems over the years: strep throat, swollen tonsils, sinus infections, cystic acne, or urinary tract infections. Learn more about these and other symptoms by reading “Help for the Liver.” Identifying what’s going on in your body completely changes the trajectory of your healing process. It allows you to attack the root cause with a confidence and precision you wouldn’t otherwise have.
Additionally, understanding the truth that strep is behind SIBO actually starts to break down the bacteria that’s wreaking havoc in your body. You may know that your thoughts affect your immune system, but this becomes even more powerful once you know the exact culprit causing your symptoms. (At this point, thanks to your newfound knowledge, you’re essentially rewiring your immune system to better deal with the bug.)
Once you understand the truth, a process of identification begins in which the killer cells in your body can fully connect with the pathogen that is causing your symptoms or conditions. Through thought frequencies, your immune system can modify, correct, redirect, and assimilate new information. These abilities are just the beginning. Your immune system can also restructure chemical compounds—a fact that science and research will not discover for three or more decades. Lymphocytes, a subset of the immune system’s white blood cells, use the healing information you learn and absorb to create a new chemical compound that matches your understanding of what is happening in your body. This development allows your immune system to hunt down microorganisms that were once untouched by its defenses.
Fear of fruits
People are often incorrectly advised to avoid fruits if they are trying to rid their bodies of yeast, mold, and bacteria, or to heal symptoms and conditions like candida and SIBO. Unfortunately, this inaccurate advice can lead to an intense fear of fruits, which are actually crucial to true healing. (Learn more about the harmful trend of fearing fruits in “The Healer Medium” ).
Some people don't feel their best when they start eating fruit. They may think that it has too much sugar or that fruit is not healthy for them. The real reason they may not feel good is that fruit is a powerful detoxifier and helps to rid our bodies of toxins. This can cause temporary discomfort. The acids that are naturally found in fruit dissolve bacteria, including strep. Ripe, spotted bananas are especially powerful for someone with SIBO because they can suffocate bacteria and draw them out of the body. Other nourishing fruits include figs, cherries, mangoes, and watermelon. Learn more about the miraculous physical, emotional, and spiritual healing properties of various foods in "The Most Beneficial Foods."
Medicinal foods
Including some simple herbs in your diet can help get rid of SIBO and kill the underlying strep. Some particularly powerful herbs are rosemary, thyme, sage, oregano, parsley, and coriander. There are many ways to use them:
- Sprinkle fresh herbs over any cooked or raw dishes, including guacamole, hummus, salsa, or other types of sauces.
- Drink thyme tea every day.
- Oregano, fresh or in capsule form, is a huge weapon against SIBO.
- Juice parsley and combine it with celery juice (in addition to the pure celery juice you make every morning). The mineral salts in parsley help fight SIBO.
- Eat coriander, which removes heavy metals from the body and also helps destroy SIBO.
Medicinal food supplements
Some supplements can be a great addition to the treatment protocol:
- Vitamin C is able to protect the body from the havoc that streptococci cause and from causing problems such as urinary tract infections, barley, pelvic inflammatory problems, cystic acne, and sinus problems.
- Ant Tree Bark
- Hyssop tea
- Hibiscus tea
- Organic elderberry syrup
- Olive leaf (tincture)
- Liquid zinc sulfate
- B-12 with methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin
Recommendations for high-quality nutritional supplements can be found on the Healer Medium website, in the preferred supplements section.
For more suggestions for supplements and treatments to help manage SIBO, check out "Liver Help."
What to avoid
If you suffer from SIBO, it is extremely important to avoid chocolate until you have cleared the strep from your system and are fully healed. If you have SIBO but love chocolate and can't see yourself giving it up, reduce your intake until you are healed and choose a cleaner version without dairy or processed sugars.
How to move forward
If the journey to healing seems overwhelming, know that you can take it one step at a time, one change at a time. Changing your diet and lifestyle can be challenging, so it’s important to be compassionate with yourself as you go through these changes. Throughout this process, never forget this basic truth: your body loves you and desperately wants to heal. It’s doing everything it can to make that happen. Remember that healing your body takes time, patience, and perseverance. Celebrate each step you take, and be sure that with accurate information and the right tools, you’re equipped to heal.
