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SIBO Expert Dr. Pimentel Answers Your Questions, Part 1_ Food and Diet

SIBO Expert Dr. Pimentel Answers Your Questions, Part 1: Food and Diet

Diet, IBS, SIBO

Earlier this month, SIBO expert Dr. Mark Pimentel took over Cedars-Sinai Hospital’s twitter account to answer questions about IBS and SIBO. Although Twitter’s character limit doesn’t lend itself to detailed answers, Dr. Pimentel answered some great…

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Diagnosed With Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth

My Story Part 2: I Get Diagnosed with Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)

IBS, SIBO

In Part 1, I explained how I developed SIBO and IBS from food poisoning picked up on a trip to Egypt. I left off in 2009, when an IBS expert at UCLA diagnosed me with…

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post-infectious SIBO

My Story: How I developed Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)

IBS, SIBO

I remember exactly what caused my SIBO. Over the past ten years, one question that doctors usually ask me when I begin to tell them about my IBS (which I now know is SIBO) is…

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