Most readers arrive with one of these two.
The two most common entry points — and the best places to begin.
SIBO — complete guide
What small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is, why it happens, how it's tested, and the counterintuitive part: why fiber, fermented foods, and probiotics can make it worse.
Bloating & Gas
Why bloating gets worse the more fiber and probiotics you take, and how the smell of the gas tells you whether VSC-producing bacteria are overgrowing.
One upstream source, many downstream faces.
The same overgrowth surfaces as different symptoms depending on the gas and the bacteria involved.
Take one symptom, and follow it upstream.
Instead of handing out a label, these anonymized composite notes show the line of reasoning that ties scattered symptoms back to a single root.
Eight years of measuring the gas, not guessing at it.
Neo-Skepticism is the clinical frame of June-sang Yang, MD, a physician in Gangnam, Seoul who has spent eight years directly measuring patients' breath gases — including hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan, the gases standard panels miss. He is also the Korean translator of low-carb / high-fat books including The Big Fat Surprise (Nina Teicholz).
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The English-language writing on SIBO, VSCs, GLP-1, and the gut origins of chronic symptoms lives on Substack.
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