SIBO Challenges - Key Insights with GI MAP

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) has received a lot of attention in recent years as a possible cause of common GI symptoms such as excessive gas, bloating, abdominal pain, constipation and/or diarrhea.

In addition to SIBO, a wide range of other factors may cause similar symptoms, posing significant challenges for clinicians in determining the true cause(s) of symptoms, as well as effective treatment approaches. This situation may contribute to the relatively high rate of inadequate patient responses to SIBO treatments.

In this presentation, Dr. Fabian discusses how GI-MAP can provide clinicians with critical insights that can help identify specific imbalances that may underlie common GI symptoms that are often attributed to SIBO.

Presented by Tom Fabian, PhD, CNTP
Dr. Fabian is a clinical laboratory consultant, translational science expert, functional nutrition practitioner, educator, and speaker. He is a former biomedical research scientist with deep expertise in the role of the human microbiome in health, chronic disease, and aging. Tom is a leading expert in translational applications of microbiome research in functional medicine and integrative health settings.
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Research indicates that gut health impacts every area of human health. Optimal health – it all starts with the GI-MAP ® – Comprehensive DNA Stool Analysis via qPCR.

[rafaelthemotivator]

How do we get a GI Map? Regular doctors only check for H.Pylori in stool. I don't know if I have candida or sibo. The first GI doctor I had was garbage, he took a month a half to give me results for a ulcer...Wich I fix on my own with mastic gum, slippery elm, cabbage juice, licorice root extract, Manuka Honey. By the time he tried to give me medication I was almost fixed. He did tell me that I had H.Pylori but I'm not having heart burn anymore because I started raising up my stomach acid and I started adding Bile salts for now.

[KevinDaniArnold]

What are the symptoms for H.Pylori that you look out for in clinical judgment to treat H. Pylori. I know some clinicians treat it every time they see it and some don't treat it until it is high. But from what I have noticed is when it is in the moderate levels, if we have not treated it, by the next test it will be high.

[khrystyna]

Great! Thanks, very important information

[richardworker]

I thought methane was the cause of constipation although Many things can cause it. I wonder how these results are interpreted if they are measured when symptoms are present with no baseline? What a challenging process to manage.

[bubaba]

can this test pick up malessezia in the gut, if not how does someone know if he has malassezia?

[sarahnbenefiel]

How do I do a GI Map if I can not have a bowel movement without an at home enema kit? I can not go at all on my own and need to have another one because my first one I did when I was actually going at least some on my own did not show anything even though I have tons of GI and yeast symptoms. Thank you!

[justinhale]

You loos so much respect as a serious thinker when you casually say "The patient had a lot of [emotional] stress." There is no clinical and objective test of emotional stress. It's subjective. Therefore anything based on that (especially an unfounded assertion) is suspect at best. It's lazy too. You are like the drunk looking for his wallet under the light-post despite knowing he dropped it on the other side of the street - 'But there is no light where I dropped my wallet so I'll look here. '