Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Amazing Gut Health Hack with Activated Charcoal

28 May 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD recommends activated charcoal to bind endotoxins and toxins in your gut. Take it on an empty stomach, combine with fasting, and optionally add probiotics. A teaspoon of activated charcoal covers the surface area of your small bowel.

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When you have overgrowth of bacteria in your gut, a lot of times you create endotoxins or lipopolysaccharide. And activated charcoal binds those like a charm. Not only does it bind other toxins, but also binds them. And that can be amazing. Things can be really super helpful to help with a lot of your gut symptoms. So combining, you know, activated charcoal on an empty stomach, 46 capsules, which a teaspoon of activated charcoal is enough to encode a small doubles quart, which is the entire surface area small bowel. So that's kind of cool little thing you can do and then combine that with fasting and then if you need a little help adding a probiotic, that's a simple biohack.