Digestion requires more daily energy than any other system in the body, but it also absorbs the nutrients needed to keep the system running. And when any part of the digestive system – stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder or pancreas – becomes overburdened, we feel it, we just don’t always pay attention to it.

Many of my patients tell me they wake up with a flat stomach and by late afternoon they look six months pregnant. The bloating is sometimes accompanied by sharp, stabbing pains, but rarely gas or burping. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, or SIBO, occurs when bacteria that should be in the large intestine find their way into the small intestine and set up sho