Presenter: Melanie Keller, ND

Original Date: June 3, 2017

A thorough review of risk factors, including exposure to environmental toxins, clinically relevant in SIBO and associated conditions. Since the use of Agent Orange (Dioxin, DTT) in Vietnam the scientific and public communities have come to understand that environmental chemicals can cause physiologic disruption by acting as a xenoestrogen or endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC). The PUBMED literature confirms that exposure to Dioxin (DDT, TCDD, etc.) is directly linked to endometriosis in women and diabetes in men. Reuters noted a 3-fold increase in IBD in Northern California since 1996. And in Canada there has been a 10-fold increase in Ulcerative Colitis in children.

The introduction of genetically modified organisms able tolerate higher concentrations of glyphosate (Round Up™), a potent pesticide, has made oral exposure ubiquitous and has epigenetic potential to trigger autoimmunity. A 2014 publication entitled “Glyphosate affects the spontaneous motoric activity of intestine at very low doses - in vitro study” [Pestic Biochem Physiol.] demonstrates the effects of EDC’s on the gastrointestinal tract. Scientific treatment of SIBO and associated conditions should include consideration of xenoestrogen’s influence on mitochondrial dysfunction and autoimmunity.

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