Bacterial Overgrowth vs. Yeast

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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