Motility is the engine behind how to treat SIBO at home, and Kieran lays out the biggest levers to pull for motility: restoring stomach acid and bile flow, binding and killing hydrogen producers, maintaining a healthy gut lining, and working on stress.
What Are the Biggest Levers to Pull for Motility?
Biggest levers to pull for motility:
- restoring stomach acid and bile flow
- binding and killing hydrogen producers to limit methane production with tools like Atrantil
- Maintaining a healthy gut lining, motility is highly linked to mucosal integrity
- Working on stress, yoga nidra is my favourite tool for this
If you want to know which areas are rate limiting you, and some basic steps to address them, these are the four places to start.
Does the Amount of Ginger You Use Actually Matter?
At one point I must have done about 500g a day spread between teas and fresh ginger juiceš¤£. Too tasty with lemon and good honey. Interested to try red ginger also.
Should You Bind Hydrogen or Target Methanogens Directly?
Both, depending on the person of course. Its helpful in the short term to bind hydrogen and therefore lower methane slowing motility. It's also important to target methanogens directly when the environment can handle it too in my eyes. Restoring stomach acid and bile flow alongside this work gives the gut lining a better chance to maintain mucosal integrity.
