Re:Bacterial Overgrowth vs. Yeast

October 3, 2010

I don't have SIBO, but IBS so I can't specifically answer to your

condition. However, I'd like to say two things. One of which is, it's not

really a good idea to try to follow two diets. One is quite enough.

My own feeling is that SCD is superior. Lots of us here can't eat

all the legal foods. I can't handle eggs, dairy, very much protein (just

chicken and some beef) at a time. In my case I can handle a lot

more fruits than veggies but honey is too concentrated for me except for

a rare treat. So don't let this stop you from trying the

diet. We all have to figure out what works for us when we start,

and then after some healing is achieved (differing lengths of time for

different people) we are able to add more foods. But it's worth the

limited diet for the healing.

Hi everyone,

I am relatively new to this group but have been reading the posts for

the past few weeks and learning about SCD. My naturopath thinks I have

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and recommended looking into

SCD. She warned me that it was very restrictive though so she gave me

some berberine to try along with whatever dietary changes I could manage

to make towards SCD. I am reading the BVC book and also just started

reading The Body Ecology Diet (BED) book. Both books claim to heal the

gut. I am getting confused as to which diet to follow. Maybe this is out

of the scope of this forum, but I thought that if anyone would know the

answer or had the same struggle, it would be someone in this group. The

problem is that I do not tolerate a lot of the SCD legal foods such as

dairy or lots of protein in the form of meat and eggs. Also, I sometimes

have right sided pain when I eat anything sugar-y including honey and

fruits and then go downhill from there. When I started reading the BED

book, I noticed it listed a lot more of the foods I can tolerate and also

does not advocate sugar in any form including fruit or honey. BED does

allow for gluten free grains in small quantities but no nuts. So, my

questions, what is the difference between bacterial overgrowth and yeast

overgrowth or are they just two ways of saying the same thing? If not,

how do you know when you have one versus the other? What are

differentiating symptoms? If not, does SCD treat yeast overgrowth? Has

anyone tried BED? If so, did it work?

TIA for your inputs!

Yash

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