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    PROKINETICS  - How's your peristalsis?
    Barb Handy
    • Jun 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    PROKINETICS - How's your peristalsis?

    When you have SIBO, your intestinal motility isn’t functioning properly - called the Migrating Motor Complex (MMC). Your small intestines are not able to sweep food through from the small intestines to the large and you have food stagnation and fermentation. You’ll need to retrain your bowels and a prokinetic can help. There are natural prokinetics and pharmaceuticals. I will always vote to try the natural route first but for some folks like myself, the herbs just don’t work
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    Do You Have SIBO?
    Barb Handy
    • May 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    Do You Have SIBO?

    SIBO stands for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth. What this means is that your Migrating Motor Complex (I will continue to reference this as your MMC) but also known as your peristalsis (what gets your poop moving through your intestines and out your bum!) has stopped working. You may have other causes such as abdominal adhesion's which may not be affecting the MMC's but is prohibiting the movement of food and bacteria out of the small intestine and into the large intest
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