1. Clearing The Overgrowth And Keeping It Gone Are Two Different Jobs
You finish the course. For a few weeks, meals feel normal again. The bloating goes down. You stop planning your day around where the nearest bathroom is.
Then it starts creeping back. A little fuller after dinner. A little more gas. And one morning you're right back where you started, wondering what you did wrong.
You didn't do anything wrong.
Relapse is common, and it's documented. In one study of 80 people whose breath tests came back normal after antibiotics, 35 tested positive again within nine months. That's about 44%.
Antibiotics and herbal antimicrobials are built for one job: reducing the bacteria. They can do that job well. But they aren't built to change why bacteria were able to build up in your small intestine in the first place.
Clear the room, leave the door open, and the same problem tends to walk back in.
