Guest guest Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Hi Heidi: Please can you explain why you recommend that one takes Pepto? I have unsuccessfully tried to find this on the NN website posts to no avail. I am curous. vsp __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 [vsp] Hi Heidi: >Please can you explain why you recommend that one takes Pepto? I have unsuccessfully tried to find this on the NN website posts to no avail. I am curous. [HJ] It was from Dr. Fine ... he does it with his patients with microscopic colitis, to heal the gut walls. He said he did a 10 day pepto treatment, and most folks get better. If they then get worse, after stopping the Pepto, he suspects celiac. Pepto has bismuth in it, which works (I think) by killing off the more irritating bacteria. I don't know if it kills off the good bacteria also, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of bad side effects. Someone I know who had 20 years or so of gut problems did this, only modified it: he did the pepto AND he went on a kind of elimination diet (meat/vegie/fruit) for the duration. All his gut problems cleared up. Then he added foods back one by one slowly. Worked like a charm for him. It came up on THIS list because someone was saying they had bloating problems, and I recommended that routine as a way of isolating the cause. I think most bloating is dysbiosis, caused either by lack of absorption (low HCL or low enzymes or food intolerance or some combination of the above) or the wrong bacteria took up residence, or maybe the person just ate too much. Anyway, pepto is a quick and dirty fix for dysbiosis. Fixing it permanently involves stuff like figuring out food intolerances, taking probiotics, taking enzymes if needed, etc. etc. Heidi [HJ] [HTG] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Pritchard wrote: > Hi Heidi: > Where do you live? I know that you live in the U.S. and I think that you > are in Seattle but I could be wrong? Close ... I'm about 40 miles north of Seattle, in the middle of nowhere. -- Heidi Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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