This must be the week of good SIBO posts because here is another that was going around on various Facebook pages – Why Diet Alone Is Not Enough to Treat SIBO.   This is another post that I wish I’d read two years ago since I spent a LOT of time on the low FODMAP diet  while taking herbals when I probably should have been pigging out on FODMAPs at that time and saving the low FODMAP for after I eradicated the little buggers.   Instead the 18 months on low FODMAP caused the current imbalances I’m dealing with in my colon.

On that front, I have added in more good food for bacteria this week.  I made nomato sauce yesterday with the full dose of onions and garlic for the first time and seemed fine with it.  This morning I made banana flour pancakes, green banana flour is a great source of resistant starch and so far so good on that front.   Hopefully between the addition of more FODMAPs in my food, the probiotics with potato starch and the fermented foods I’ll build back up my colon flora and get my butyrate and SCFA levels back to normal in the next 6-12 months.