Dr. Elizabeth Boham

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The Dr. Hyman Show · The 5R Protocol That’s Helping People Reverse Disease Naturally · 2 Jun 2025 podcast

So, you know, because, because for this gentleman, for example, you know, he really didn't have stomach pain before a year ago, but what we found out is that when he was a kid, he had ear infections. So, and he had asthma. Probably because he was eating dairy. Probably, right? So it's such a common connection. Oh my God.

I know.

And the kid was fine. That's such a common connection. I mean, even my son, when he started dairy, he got asthma and eczema. It's unfortunately such a common connection. So for this child, he had a lot of ear infections and eczema. And so he was on antibiotics about once or twice a year in his childhood. And he really didn't think that was very much.

He's like, that's not, you know, that wasn't too much. But, you know, it makes a huge impact on the microbiome as we're learning. And then he started to have acne as a teenager, maybe because of dairy more, right? Or some of the imbalances in the microbiome, right?

And so this history of antibiotics sort of set him up. And about a year ago, he had some sort of stomach bug. So some probably viral stomach infection. And then since that time, he started to have all these digestive issues and was losing weight.

Right. So with him, as we do with most of our patients, we do food first, right? So we said, okay, we've got to really focus on this person's diet and help him start feeling better right away so he can start to eat more and regain some of his strength. So we pulled away inflammatory foods. We took them off of gluten and dairy while we were waiting for tests to come back.

Sometimes we will do some tests that look at, of course, we'll test for celiac disease.

Yep, that's for sure.

And he didn't have that.

Absolutely. And even if people are negative totally for celiac, if they have increased intestinal permeability, they start reacting to a lot of different foods. So then you start to see with that leaky gut, as we talked about before, the coffee filter and things are coming through, then the body's reacting to lots of foods that it maybe never reacted to before.

Sensitivities. And because of, and the real thing is it's because of this increased intestinal permeability. So our job is we have to heal that increased intestinal permeability so that they don't have to be so restrictive with their foods. I mean, we still always want them to be on a healthy diet, but we want to relax those restrictions over time. Most of the time we can.

Right. So we did a stool test that looked at his microbiome. And what we noticed is that there was an overgrowth of unhealthy bacteria and unhealthy yeast. So he had this, you know, probably because of years of antibiotics, he developed this dysbiosis, this imbalance in the bacteria and yeast. And so there was an overgrowth of the unhealthy things.

Yeah, right. It's not always like one of those, you think of a stomach infection and you're getting really, really sick, you're throwing up or having diarrhea. This is this, it's an imbalance. and it's called dysbiosis, but that imbalance causes a lot of symptoms in people.

When you have the wrong bacteria and the wrong yeast levels, you can get a lot of bloating after you eat, you can get a lot of fatigue after you eat, you can get those symptoms of constipation and diarrhea, and that causes this inflammation in the digestive system, so all of your digestive enzymes don't work well.

So you're not breaking down your food well, you're not absorbing your nutrients well, and it becomes this vicious cycle that people are dealing with and we see all the time.

You can test to see if there's leaky gut. I love that test too because it's a great way for us to follow up and see how much we're seeing improvement. Are we doing enough? Are we seeing improvement in their leaky gut or increased intestinal permeability?

Right, right. So for him, we removed the inflammatory foods and we removed the bacteria and yeast. I actually treated him with an antibiotic, a non-absorbed antibiotic and an antifungal. So I treated him with prescription medication. Yeah, weed killer. So that was the remove, right? And then the replace.

Because he was underweight and because of that inflammation in his digestive system, I gave him some digestive enzymes for a short period of time just to help him, to help it so the food wasn't as inflammatory for him and to help him absorb more nutrients. And then we worked on re-inoculating, right? So after we gave him some good probiotics.

Put in the healthy bacteria. Some good prebiotics, right? So we know that there's... What are prebiotics? Prebiotics are the things that help feed the good bacteria. So they're the food for the probiotics.

like fibers. Fibers are amazing prebiotics. We know a lot of phytonutrients are prebiotics. So this, I think, is really exciting research when we're looking at our phytonutrients. What are phytonutrients? I know, it's amazing, right? So our food has minerals in it, it has vitamins, but it also has these things called phytonutrients, which are these components in our plant foods.

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