02/09/2026
SIBO, short for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, is one of those conditions many patients live with for years before they ever hear the name.
I know because I diagnose it frequently.
People are relieved to hear that they have SIBO because now they know why they feel off.
Often, by the time it comes up, people are exhausted, bloated, food-fearing, and frustrated by normal test results that don’t explain how terrible they feel.
That’s not because SIBO is rare.
It’s because it lives in a diagnostic gray zone, at the intersection of gastroenterology, motility, microbiology, and metabolism, and modern medicine tends to compartmentalize those systems rather than view them as a coordinated whole.
Basically, not many physicians are looking for it, even though it’s a problem millions of people deal with.
When you understand what SIBO actually is and why it develops, it becomes much easier to see why integrative approaches can be especially helpful, not as replacements for medical care, but as ways to support the underlying biology that determines whether treatment holds.
What SIBO Is, and Why Most Docs Don’t Address It
When you hear about probiotics, you think “good bacteria.”
What most people don’t realize, and even what many doctors don’t think about, is that while it’s beneficial to have probiotics (and trillions of them at that), your small intestine is not where you want them proliferating.
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