EARLY SIGNS OF GI PROBLEMS:
- your stools are dry and hard
- passing less than 2 stools a day!!!
- straining to have bowel movements
- having every day gas and bloating
- your bowel movement is painful or stools are difficult to pass
- you have a feeling that you have not fully emptied your bowels
WHAT CAUSES GI PROBLEMS:
Pathogens - dysbiosis can be caused by parasitic infections, bacterial overgrowth, or invasive yeast often referred to as Candida. Many people think of parasites as a problem that only occurs when traveling abroad. However, through recent improvements in diagnostic testing methods, doctors are now discovering high levels of parasite infections in the United States, Canada, Europe. Parasites are usually acquired by self-inoculation. This can occur when you eat at restaurants where the staff has poor hygiene, or when you eat from salad bars and buffets where food is left sitting out. Handling money, shaking hands with people and using public restrooms are all ways we are exposed to potential parasitic infections.
Food sensitivities are a common cause of hidden or subclinical inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract.For example, some people are sensitive to grains containing gluten such as wheat, barley and rye. Others react to lactose found in milk and dairy products; many people react poorly to soy. These types of hidden food reactions are frequently found in people with chronic health problems.
