Our guts are home to around three or four pounds of bacteria. This is normal! Many of these bacteria are neither good nor bad for us, but under certain circumstances we can get a build up of bad (pathogenic) bacteria and/or yeast known as Candida Albicans. Although all of these micro organisms can ferment food the less desirable ones are much more likely to cause chronic fermentation problems causing a build up of gas. If this gas is trapped it causes abdominal bloating and perhaps pain, and if released it obviously results in flatulence.

Besides undesirable gas production pathogenic micro-organisms manufacture and release toxins into the bowel that may cause other gut symptoms like loose bowels, diarrhoea or constipation. If these toxins are absorbed into the blood stream they may cause other, more diverse, symptoms such as fatigue, headaches or skin problems.

At Intelligent Nutrition we will show you how to tackle chronic gut fermentation and an imbalance of gut bacteria known as gut dysbiosis and/or Candida overgrowth.

We will help you tackle your problem with bloating and flatulence by identifying which foods you are fermenting in your gut and which foods are contributing to a build up of undesirable bacteria and/or Candida Albicans.

We will help you reduce the proportion of undesirable gut organisms and help you significantly increase the beneficial species of bacteria that promote bowel health, and the health of your body generally. We are also able to tackle other problems that can be cause by a proliferation of pathogenic micro-organisms, such as gut hyper-permeability (leaky gut syndrome). This condition permits toxins and large food particles to pass from our gut into our blood stream, and is a common cause of food intolerances developing.

Another cause of bloating and wind in some people is poor digestion. This is because any food that we don’t digest or absorb is available for fermentation. We can help you find out if this is a factor and what to do about it.