CDSA results and action plan

Sill in good phase thankfully. I spoke to my nutritionist yesterday about the CDSA results, and here they are:

Parasites - none found. This is good news as parasites such as blastocystis hominis, which are sometimes linked to IBS symptoms, can be very difficult to get rid of.

Yeast/candida - none found. This is also good as an anti-candida diet would have been even stricter, and candida can also be difficult to get rid of. My therapist said that just occasionally the test may miss yeast overgrowth in some patients, but he didn't think that that was the case with me.

Friendly bacteria - I am fairly low on the good bacteria species lactobacillus and bifidobacterium. Not ridiculously low, but enough to show up as less then optimal.

Unfriendly bacteria - again, I have fairly high, but not ridiculously high, levels of the unfriendly bacteria klebsiella and bacillus species.

General digestion - small amounts of meat and vegetable fibers were seen in the stool, which indicates that I may have a deficiency of digestive enzymes or hydrochloric acid/pepsin. I was also low in n-butryrate, a short chain fatty acid. There were a range of other digestion processes tested, such as absoption of nutrients, and these were all normal.

So - there was nothing major there, certainly nothing to match the level of reaction I had to cow's milk. However, there are still several things that could improve, and so based on these results I'm going to take a small number of supplements, at least for a couple of months. These include a digestive enzyme, a good quality probiotic, a butyric acid supplement, and a black walnut tincture and berberine and grapefruit seed complex, which are designed to kill off some of the bad bugs.

I have to say that it's very nice to have a treatment plan that's based on some actual results, rather than the usual method where you go to a GP and they make a random guess about which drug might help you (and then the drug doesn't help you). Wish me luck!