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Is SIBO and Leaky Gut the Cause of Your Chronic Health Problems? By Dr. Greg Fors, DC, Board-certified Chiropractic Neurologist The Problem: Suffer from chronic G.I. symptoms: bloating, reflux, gas, abdominal pain, diarrhea and/or constipation? Yet, your exams and conventional lab tests keep coming back normal. Worse yet, you have chronic pain with physical and mental fatigue. Possibly you have mood issues and brain fog, and youโ re noticing other multiple health issues - especially digestive problems. Perhaps you have been given the worthless diagnosis of IBS or fibromyalgia and then handed a prescription for Cymbalta or Lyrica. The Nonsense Diagnosis and Treatments: Think about it. The diagnosis of IBS is meaningless - it is just what you told the doctor - โ my gut feels irritable, I have loose stools, pain and bloating!โ Or, when your doctor tells you have fibromyalgia he or she is just telling you in Latin what you told them in English: Fibro for tissues, mya for muscles and algia for hurt all over. A diagnosis of IBS and/or fibromyalgia brings you no closer to finding out the underlying causes and correction of your health problems. Whatever you call it, there are no drugs that can heal these disabling disorders. You must get to the underlying cause and correct it with proper dietary and nutritional intervention. Chronic Pain and Fatigue an Underlying Cause - SIBO And Leaky Gut: Conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, insomnia and depression are all interconnected. These syndromes are usually related to chronic systemic inflammation. Your G.I. tract plays a major role in this body-wide inflammation because 70% of your immune system resides within your gastrointestinal tract lining. Research is now showing that an imbalance or overgrowth of small intestine bacteria, called SIBO, is a major contributing factor to chronic systemic inflammation and โ feeling like crapโ or FLC syndrome. SIBO and SIFO - What Is It and What Causes It: SIBO is best understood as an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine and SIFO an overgrowth of fungus or yeast in the small intestines. This overgrowth of microbes can ferment the carbs and sugars in your food creating hydrogen or methane gases. As I tell my patients, they dine on your dinner! There are some telltale signs of SIBO or SIFO: gas, bloating, reflux, abdominal pain or cramping usually within a couple hours of eating. Sugar and carbs like breads, pastas, muffins, rice can make these symptoms worse. Depending on the gases produced by this fermentation process, they can create other problems such as cramping and diarrhea from hydrogen gases or constipation from methane gases, or a mixture of both. The conditions of SIBO and SIFO are; therefore, often misdiagnosed as GERD and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). SIBO and SIFO have also been associated with inflammatory bowel disease e.g., Crohnโ s disease and colitis. The causes of SIBO and SIFO are many and complex such as: low stomach acid, pancreatic enzyme insufficiency, multiple courses of antibiotics disrupting the small intestine microbiome, decreased gut motility and chronic constipation causing the bacteria to migrate from the colon into the small bowel. SIBO-Proper Diagnosis and Treatment: Besides the telltale signs and symptoms found on a good history, the gold standard lab test for SIBO is a Challenge Breath Test. This test can be ordered by a doctor knowledgeable in its use and interpretation. Once diagnosed proper treatment must commenced if one is to find real healing. Part of the treatment involves specific dietary changes and antimicrobial herbs to remove the overgrowth of SI bacteria. โ Increased Intestinal Permeabilityโ - Better Known As Leaky Gut: Some of the bacteria found in SIBO can produce toxins that irritate and can even damage the lining of the small intestine. These toxins can damage the

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► On Sept. 8, 1504, one of the world’s most beloved works of art, “David,” by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy’s Piazza della Signoria. It reportedly took 40 men four days to move the 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound marble masterpiece 1/2 mile to the site. ► On Sept. 3, 1777, the American flag is flown in battle for the first time, during a Revolutionary War skirmish in Delaware. Patriot Gen. William Maxwell ordered the stars and stripes raised as a detachment of his infantry and cavalry met an advance guard of British and Hessian troops.

► On Sept. 7, 1813, the United States gets its nickname, Uncle Sam, when a newspaper picks up on the story of Samuel Wilson, a meat packer who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army. Wilson stamped the barrels with “U.S.” for United States, but soldiers began referring to the grub as “Uncle Sam’s.”

automatic teller machine (ATM) makes forcing the British retreat to Canada on its public debut, dispensing cash to foot. The American victory saved New customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville York from possible invasion. Center, New York. ► On Sept. 12, 1940, a collection of ► On Sept. 5, 1970, U.S. forces launch prehistoric cave paintings is discovered the last major American operation of the war in Vietnam when the 101st Airborne near Montignac, France. They depict 600 Division, in coordination with the South painted and drawn animals and symbols Vietnamese army, initiates Operation and nearly 1,500 engravings from the ► On Sept. 6, 1847, writer Henry David Jefferson Glenn in Thua Thien Province Upper Paleolithic period some 16,000 years ago. Thoreau moves in with Ralph Waldo west of Hue. Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, after living for two years in a shack he ► On Sept. 10, 1608, English adventurer ► On Sept. 13, 1971, the four-day built himself on Walden Pond. In 1854, John Smith is elected council president revolt ends at the maximum-security his collection of essays, “Walden, or Life of Jamestown, Virginia -- the first Attica Correctional Facility in New York in the Woods,” was published. permanent English settlement in North when hundreds of state police storm the America. Smith was popular because of complex in a hail of gunfire. Thirty► On Sept. 4, 1951, President Harry his organizational skills and effectiveness nine people were killed in the disastrous Truman’s speech before a conference in dealing with local Native Americans. assault. in San Francisco becomes the first television program to be broadcast from ► On Sept. 11, 1814, during the Battle coast to coast. It was picked up by 87 of Plattsburg on Lake Champlain, a (c) 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. newly built U.S. fleet under Master All Rights Reserved stations in 47 cities. Commandant Thomas Macdonough ► On Sept. 2, 1969, America’s first destroys a besieging British squadron,

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• In stores, chips were sold in barrels, with the grocer measuring out a scoopful or two according to the shopper’s desire. In 1926 a woman named Laura Scudder thought this was inefficient. She had owned a restaurant prior to opening her own chip factory in Monterey Park, California. She had her workers take paper bags home with them at night, and asked them to iron strips of waxed paper inside them. When the bags were filled with potato chips at the factory the next day, they could easily be ironed shut, providing an airtight seal that prevented the chips from becoming soggy during humid weather, and could be displayed on store shelves. • In the 1930s the J.D. Ferry Company of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, invented an industrial-size potato chip machine that carried the chips through a bath of hot oil using automated paddles, spitting them out four minutes later onto a conveyor belt. • The next innovation came from the Dixie Wax Paper Corporation, who manufactured Dixie Cups. In 1934, they

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were the first to perfect the art of the cellophane package, which they called Fresheen. These packages could have logos printed on them. Finally, chips could be shipped long distances. • Still, bags had to be filled by hand, with factory workers measuring out a scoop full into each bag and sealing them by hand. A potato chip factory could turn out 1,000 lbs (453 kg) of chips per hour but could only fill 20 bags per minute. • A man named Dan Woodman solved the potato chip problem in 1940s when he was hired by Lay’s. His design incorporated a rotating turret into which the cellophane bags were loaded, turning them, filling them, and sealing them continuously. Woodman designed, built, and sold these machines to other potato chip factories. • The manufacture of potato chips was almost curtailed during World War II when materials became scarce. The founder of the Snack Food Association made a trip to Washington, D.C. to argue on behalf of the potato chip industry, and production was allowed to continue. In 1944, there were 438 potato chip companies in the U.S. • When television became popular, sales of potato chips soared because they were a favorite snack while watching TV. • In response to consumers who wanted a heftier chip that wouldn’t break when dipped in various sauces, manufacturers introduced the ruffled chip, which is a full four times thicker than a standard chip.

• The “betcha can’t eat just one” campaign was begun in 1963. The first ad starred Bert Lahr, best known for playing the Cowardly Lion in “The Wizard of Oz.” Costumed as various historical figures such as Caesar or George Washington or Columbus, he would confidently eat his one allowed potato chip, followed by sheepishly nibbling away the entire bag. In one such ad he was costumed as Eve in the Garden of Eden, while a snake dangled a bag of chips from the branch of an apple tree above him. • The brown spots in potato chips are caused by high sugar content in the raw potato, which happens when the starch in the potato turns to sugar. This happens when the potato is stored at either a too low or too high a temperature. The ideal temperature for storing potatoes is 50 F (10 C). • Some potatoes that are naturally high in sugars are used for “gourmet” kettle chips where consumers expect them to be brown, with a darker taste than regular chips. • A one-ounce serving of chips provides 5% of the recommended daily allowance of carbohydrates. About 54% of a chip is composed of carbs and 36% of a chip is composed of fats from the oil the chip is fried in. • Typical potato chips contain 5.7 calories per gram. By comparison, strawberries have 0.32 calories per gram. • Although a serving of potato chips delivers between 8 and 30 percent of the required daily amounts of Vitamin C, the fact that so many people eat potato chips so often means that potato chips contribute more Vitamin C to the U.S. food supply than any other food source. • One researcher studied the value of the “crunch factor” by outfitting test subjects with headphones that digitally altered the sound of the crunch they were hearing as they consumed potato chips. When the higher frequencies were

blocked, they rated the chips as old even though nothing had changed. • A bag of 100 lbs of raw potatoes will yield about 25 to 30 lbs of potato chips due to the high water content of the raw potatoes, which is boiled away when the chip is fried. Corn is the other way around however. Dried corn is low in water content, and water and oil are added to make corn chips. A sack of 100 lbs of dried corn kernels will yield 108 lbs of corn chips. • Planned purchases account for about 30% of all sales made at grocery stores, with the other 70% being impulse items. Among the impulse items, salty snacks rank highest.

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EMMA NUTT By: Kathy Wolfe

Emma Nutt established her place in history in 1878 when she became the world’s first female telephone operator for a burgeoning new industry. Tidbits has the story on this remarkable trailblazer in honor of Emma Nutt Day on September 1. • Emma reported for her first day of work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston, Massachusetts on September 1, 1878. Edwin Holmes, a businessman who established the first burglar alarm networks, had just become president of the newly-established Bell Telephone Company. • The company, (which would soon become the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company when Holmes sold his interests just two years later for $100,000) had hired teenage boys as operators. Although the boys had been quite successful as telegraph operators, it was clearly a mistake to use them for person-to-person contact, as they were often rude and impatient with the customers, and delighted in making prank calls and cursing over the phone lines. The boys, (which included Emma’s future husband George), appeared to lack the tolerance for dealing with an average of 120 calls per hour for eight hours a day. • Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell personally hired 18-year-old Emma Nutt away from her job at a telegraph office, believing her soothing, polite, and cultured voice was the answer to the boys’ lack of manners. Her behavior was immediately praised, and within a few hours, the second female operator had been hired – Emma’s sister Stella. By the 1880s, the job was exclusively female, and by 1920, more than 177,000 female telephone operators were on the job in America. • The requirements for the job were very strict, including an age requirement of 17 to 26, and an unmarried status. There were height, weight, and arm length tests, to ensure that the women could reach the top of the tall switchboard and could work in tight quarters. “Prim and proper” appearance was expected, along with perfect posture for long hours in a hard, straight-back chair. During a typical day, Emma repeated “Number, please” hundreds of times, and reportedly could remember every number in the New England Telephone Company directory. She was not permitted to communicate with other operators while on duty. • Emma’s salary was $10 per month for a 54-hour work week of inserting phone plugs into the correct jacks. She and the other operators did receive the benefit of an hour for lunch. However, toward the end of Emma’s 35+ year career, conditions for operators were worsening. The women were frequently forced to work two shifts in one day, with an unpaid, three-hour break between. Minor mistakes were punished with detention. In 1919, four years after Emma’s retirement, New England’s night shift operators walked off the job, crippling the five states in the New England region. After a five-day strike, management settled with the workers, conferring higher wages, better hours, and union recognition.

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GALLOPING GERTIE By: Janet Spencer • The Tacoma Narrows Strait of Puget Sound separates the mainland of Washington State near Tacoma from the Kitsap Peninsula. In 1938, the city of Tacoma commissioned the building of a bridge across this strait. Renowned architect Leon Moisseiff designed the new bridge, one of many he had created. It was called the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. • Even during construction, workers noted that the bridge would oscillate in the slightest breeze. They nicknamed it Galloping Gertie. The design of the bridge trapped the wind instead of allowing it to flow through. The result was similar to the way the Bernoulli principle lifts planes off the ground. • It was more than a mile long, at 5,939 feet (1.8 km), making it the third longest suspension bridge in the world, behind the Golden Gate Bridge and the George Washington Bridge, both of which Leon Moisseiff had helped design. • Measures were undertaken in an effort to stabilize the bridge while it was still under construction: tie-downs, cables, and hydraulic buffers. Nothing worked. • Nevertheless, it was pronounced safe, and was opened to the public on July 1, 1940. People drove far out of their way to ride the roller-coaster bridge. The toll-collectors rejoiced at the increased revenue. • The Washington Toll Bridge Authority hired an engineer at the University of Washington to come up with a solution. On November 2, 1940, he delivered his proposed solutions, which included drilling holes in the bridge decking to allow wind to pass through unimpeded and adding wind deflectors to the girders. But his suggestions were never put

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into place because the bridge collapsed just five days later. • On November 7, 1940, winds gusting up to 45 mph (72 km/hr) caused the road to roll in waves five feet high. Officials closed the road. When the wind increased, the road began twisting with 28-foot (8.5m) undulations and tilting from 45 degrees one direction to 45 degrees the other direction. • After half an hour, the bridge began to disintegrate, until a 600-foot (183 m) long section plunged 200 feet (61 m) into the water. The rest collapsed shortly afterward, dumping a structure five times larger than the Titanic into the sea. • Leonard Coatsworth was the last person to drive across the bridge, narrowly escaping with his life. Abandoning his bucking car, he crawled to safety. His dog, a cocker spaniel named Tubby, refused to leave the car, and died when the bridge collapsed, dumping the vehicle into the sea. Tubby was the only casualty of the disaster. • The collapse of the bridge was recorded on film by the owner of a local camera shop. A second reel of film emerged in 2019, taken by the toll collector for the bridge. • The bridge was insured, but one of the policies could not be collected because the insurance agent had pocketed the premiums. Still, about 80% of the cost of the construction of the bridge was recouped. • Shortages caused by World War II delayed construction of an aerodynamically sound bridge until 1950. The new bridge used the original bridge’s pedestals and cable anchors. The portion of the bridge that fell into the water now serves as an artificial reef and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places to protect it from salvagers. • Leon Moisseiff’s career as an architect never recovered. He died in 1943 at the age of 70.

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Thought for the Day: “I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.” -- Mitch Hedberg

► An 18-year-old Austrian named Helmut Mezer got his driver’s license and a new BMW with the license plate DEAD1. One week later, with Mezer behind the wheel, the car skidded around a curve at 100 mph, hit an embankment and was thrown 200 feet, landing on its roof in a field and killing Mezer.

► In all likelihood, you’ve never run across a moirologist -- in fact, they probably don’t even exist in the United States today. However, professional mourners -- which is what moirologists are -- have a long history, dating back to ancient Greece. Even as recently as the early 1900s, there was a report of a moirologists’ strike in Paris.

► Those who study such things report that the average lifespan of a tree in the metropolis of New York City is only seven years.

► The next time you get a chance, you might want to check the pressure of your car’s tires; if they’re not inflated to the correct pressure, you’re contributing to the $9 million in fuel that is wasted due to improper tire pressure, according to the Department of Energy.

► On any given day, Google conducts approximately 63,000 searches per second.

► Those who study such things -- and who, evidently, have way too much time on their hands -- claim that there are 108 stitches in a baseball.

► A study of 28 women found that screaming has a therapeutic effect on the physiology of the body. After bouts of screaming, the test subjects showed slower heart rates, lower blood pressure and lower body temperature.

► If you’re right-handed, studies show that you tend to wash your left hand more thoroughly than your right hand. Reverse that if you’re a leftie.

► According to cetologists, an adult right whale requires 400,000 calories a day to survive. These scientists who specialize in whales also note that the mainstay of these mammals’ diet is a flea-sized crustacean called a copepod.

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