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Hello,
Just wondering if anyone had any ideas, because this is driving me a bit mad...
My nails have always been thin and brittle, breaking easily, often with white bits in them. I also have dry lips, which I am told is due to a lack of B vitamins, despite supplementing...
My nails got a bit better when I first started eating better early 2018 (I have 8-10 veg a day), but when I got food poisoning last year (and my energy got much worse), and then started treating SIBO with diet/antimicrobials, my nails got worse again. That wasn't too surprising give how restrictive the diet was. I also ate something slightly dodgy earlier this year, and it dramatically set my health back again, and I was briefly bedbound, so my gut seems to have a major problem with fighting off pathogens...
However, now I'm back on the normal diet with all the veg, SIBO is supposedly gone, but my nails are worse than ever. The gut test I had in 2018 showed no parasites, malabsorption of fat, and no candida (though I'm sure I do have candida as I get thrush so easily - basically whenever I eat any sugar, and I'd recently taken an antifungal when I took the test).
I've been doing gut healing for such a long time now, I just can't understand how I'm still not absorbing these vitamins!! Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be getting in the way?
And in a related question, does anyone know how to strengthen the gut against pathogens? I feel like I'm getting a little better as I get further away from the food incident, but knowing that I'm potentially 1 bite away from a major relapse isn't a nice feeling!
Thank you
Just wondering if anyone had any ideas, because this is driving me a bit mad...
My nails have always been thin and brittle, breaking easily, often with white bits in them. I also have dry lips, which I am told is due to a lack of B vitamins, despite supplementing...
My nails got a bit better when I first started eating better early 2018 (I have 8-10 veg a day), but when I got food poisoning last year (and my energy got much worse), and then started treating SIBO with diet/antimicrobials, my nails got worse again. That wasn't too surprising give how restrictive the diet was. I also ate something slightly dodgy earlier this year, and it dramatically set my health back again, and I was briefly bedbound, so my gut seems to have a major problem with fighting off pathogens...
However, now I'm back on the normal diet with all the veg, SIBO is supposedly gone, but my nails are worse than ever. The gut test I had in 2018 showed no parasites, malabsorption of fat, and no candida (though I'm sure I do have candida as I get thrush so easily - basically whenever I eat any sugar, and I'd recently taken an antifungal when I took the test).
I've been doing gut healing for such a long time now, I just can't understand how I'm still not absorbing these vitamins!! Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be getting in the way?
And in a related question, does anyone know how to strengthen the gut against pathogens? I feel like I'm getting a little better as I get further away from the food incident, but knowing that I'm potentially 1 bite away from a major relapse isn't a nice feeling!
Thank you