Do you have mystery tummy symptoms?

You may have seen me talk about HPylori before, the best known and most important gastric helicobacter (stomach bacteria) because an infection can cause ulcers and cancer.

But did you know that 2 more out of the 8 formally named helicobacter that impact humans – H heilmannii and H felis – are associated with gastric disease/gastritis? Yet they’re not normally tested.

Many of these other helicobacters can also colonise the biliary tract of the liver and induce hepatitis (and in some cases hepatic cancer), or cause bacteria to enter the blood stream as well as systemic disease in immune-compromised people.

You see, they persistently colonise the gastrointestinal tract, but become a problem when our immune system can’t fight them off.

So if you’ve tested NEGATIVE for HPyrlori and tried gut healing protocols that haven’t worked, it’s possible you could have one of these alternative helicobacter infections.