You wake up with a flat stomach. By dinner you're unbuttoning your jeans at the table. So you start subtracting: gluten, dairy, raw vegetables, maybe months of low-FODMAP. It helps for a week or two, and then the bloat comes back.

In this episode, Rachel explains why that pattern is not a discipline problem and usually not a food problem at all. SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, means bacteria that belong in your large intestine have overgrown in your small intestine, where they ferment every meal hours too early. The problem is not what you are eating. It is where your bacteria are living, which is why elimination diets keep working for two weeks and then quietly stopping.

What you'll hear:

- Why the healthiest foods, fruit, beans, and raw vegetables, can trigger the worst bloating when bacteria are in the wrong plac ...