Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Track Your Symptoms for Better Health | Gut Health Hacks

29 May 2025 · 0 min

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Brief excerpt from a YouTube video by Aaron Hartman, MD advising viewers to track symptoms and responses to interventions to identify gut issues. He cites examples: low stomach acid (improved by lemon, lime, or apple cider vinegar), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) where people may react poorly to fiber and some probiotics, and that heavy bacterial overgrowth can respond to toxin binders such as activated charcoal.

The reality is, if you start tracking your symptoms, what's going on, and then how you respond, you can actually figure out if you have low stomach acid, for example, if you do better with lemon, lime, apple, cider vinegar, if you have sibo, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, some of those people actually have issues with fiber and issues with probiotics. If you have a lot of bacterial overgrowth, most people tend to do really well with a lot of toxins in your gut, really well with binders like activated charcoal.