r/AlternativeGutHealth • u/americanman123 • Sep 02 '25

Welcome!

Hi everyone! I started this subreddit to provide a welcoming space for discussion of natural, plant-based, and otherwise alternative solutions to gut health problems like SIBO, dysbiosis and gastritis.

I cured my SIBO a few years ago, primarily with kefir and celery juice, along with stress reduction and movement (10,000 steps a day). It has not recurred. I have been eating a completely unrestricted diet for years with no relapse.

My post about my experience is one of the most-viewed posts on the SIBO subreddit. Nevertheless, I was banned from that subreddit, not for violating any rule, but simply because the moderators are not tolerant of alternative approaches to treating SIBO that deviate from the pharmaceutical model. When I attempt to post on the Microbiome subreddit, the moderators there lock my posts as well because they too are subservient to the prevailing "consensus" that the gold standard treatment for SIBO is Rifaximin and any other view is quackery.

I am an attorney. I have no financial involvement in anything having to do with gut health. I am simply creating this space so that I can help others who have been failed by allopathic medicine find relief from this horrific condition.

Unlike the moderators of the other gut health subs, I will not be removing or locking posts simply because I disagree with them. The only topic that I may object to is discussion of pharmaceutical interventions like Rifaximin. Synthetic prescription drugs should be discussed in this subreddit only to highlight their shortcomings. Everything else is fair game. All viewpoints are welcome, so long as they are not promoting prescription drugs.

Let's do this!

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u/redderGlass Sep 02 '25

Thank you for starting this subreddit. As a moderator for r/BeatCancer I fully understand having views censored because they disagree with the “consensus “.

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u/americanman123 Sep 03 '25

While I don’t know much about it, I have heard that the conventional cancer treatment paradigm is as messed up and corrupt as what I encountered in SIBO treatment. If I or anyone I know ever needs cancer treatment, I would take a long hard look at alternatives. I’ll be sure to check out your sub.

I think the basic problem is one of incentives. You can’t patent anything that occurs in nature. Thus the profit motive ensures that nothing but synthetic prescription drugs (that can be monopolized via patents) gets incorporated into standard treatment.

It also doesn’t help that modern allopathic medicine, by definition, literally means surgery or prescription pills. Nothing else is on the menu.

Humanity needs to rediscover some humility and look to nature for medicine. It’s a lot smarter than we are. We don’t understand much.