Could SIBO Be an Adaptation for a Sulfur Deficiency?

Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at the MIT.

Her research shows that gut issues like SIBO could be adaptations to the lack of sulfate!!

When we eat animal protein and things like garlic, we can use all these different compounds (like cysteine and sulfur to name a few) as building blocks to make the only form that the body needs - SULFATE.

But for this conversion there is a chain of events that needs to happen, and we need to have all the different co-factors along the way (like B2 or molybdenum) to be able to create this ultimate form - sulfate.

The body will always prioritize having sulfate above other things, because without sulfate we cannot manage blood viscosity and it’s also critical for detoxification in the liver.

So could it be that the fact that 44% of relapses after 9 months of SIBO treatment shows us that the body will support those specific strains of bacteria (sulfate reducing bacteria) in the gut, for the benefit of them making hydrogen sulphide - which is both easily oxidised into sulfate AND transported to be used in cells?

Remember that B vitamins are chromophores - they are designed to work in sunlight. Another light-gut connection!

San Pellegrino mineral water is a superior source of the much needed sulfate.

Most mineral water will have negligible amounts when sulfate (SO4) isn’t even listed.

San Pellegrino has 416 mg of SO4 per Liter.
Vichy Catalan isn’t bad compared to other brands - 46 mg/L

Sulfate, sulfite, sulfide and sulfane - are different forms of sulfur.

The ultimate form is sulfate - that’s what our body uses.

Sulfate otherwise comes in other forms from food, but those must undergo a chain of events to become the bioavailable form.

Since most people are malnourished and lack critical elements for the conversion, chances are many are deficient in sulfate.

Sulfites that come with conventionally produced wine and dried fruit are toxic.

Functions of sulfur in the body:

🦄 detoxification
👌pancreatic enzymes
💪glucosaminoglycane
❤️blood vessels

Sulfate is a kosmotrope. Kosmotropes organize water into a gel.

You can get sulfur from animal proteins and garlic, onions, radishes, cruciferous - all of these listed will need to undergo a conversion to make sulfate though.