SIBO & Probiotic Brain Fog in Long-Term Users of Common Probiotic Supplements (Mechanism: D-Lactic Acidosis)
Feeling like your brain veiled in clouds? Could be the D-lactate from the gut bugs overpopulating your small intestine... and you know what: your fancy probiotic may have triggered it or made it worse. If you remember my article about SIBO , i.e. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth from March 2017, you will remember that I listed probiotics as "anti-SIBO" tools. Back in the day when I wrote the article that was also the state of the art... pardon, research, which showed a significantly lower SIBO risk in people who consume a probiotic. Now, with the publication of the latest study from the Digestive Health Clinical Research Center at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University ( Rao 2018 ) I will probably have to revise this article, as using a probiotic to prevent or even treat SIBO could very well backfire and make the classic symptoms like brain fog and bloating worse, not better. Learn more about probiotics and the microbiome a the SuppVersity Mi...