SIBO and Food Sensitivity Recovery
Marcus was a 45-year-old software engineer who had spent three years chasing gut symptoms that would not resolve. His diet had shrunk to fewer than 12 safe foods. He had completed multiple rounds of gut protocols, all of which failed. His stool test was largely unremarkable.
The breakthrough came when we stopped looking at the gut as the primary driver and tested upstream. His organic acids test revealed severe Clostridia overgrowth that the stool test had missed, critically depleted glutathione, and a SIBO breath test confirmed methane-dominant overgrowth. Genetic testing showed impaired sulfation, slow phase I detox, and reduced glutathione conjugation. His body could not process what it was being given, and every protocol had added more load to a system that was already overwhelmed.