Pure Encapsulations MotilPro | Hypoallergenic Dietary Supplement to Promote Healthy Gut Motility* | 180 Capsules

This product is certainly on the more expensive side, and it sucks that the serving size is three capsules because it's sometimes inconvenient. However, I think for the purposes of improving gut motility and even reducing inflammation, it is very helpful. This, in tandem with magnesium glycinate/citrate, has been incredibly helpful in improving my bowel movements and preventing constipation. I didn't find the after-taste to be at all disagreeable, you can taste the ginger but it is not something overwhelming. The good thing is that while the serving size is 3 capsules, it contains 180, so should last you nearly two months if you take the serving size once a day.

Gets things moving, gently.

Works wonderful for SIBO motility issues. My advice is to work your way up to 6 a day. Start with 5 a day. Two in the morning. One after lunch and two at night. Once able to handle 5 add a second in the middle of the day but not at the same time as after lunch. Once you can handle the two in the middle of the day separately then you can take them at the same time like the two in the morning & evening. Drink an entire glass of water after each dose to alleviate any burning. If you drink the entire glass you won’t get any burning. If you experience any swallowing or weird esophageal feeling or discomfort in the beginning this is normal & will go away once your intestines start moving again. Don’t get scared or discouraged. Drink more water until the feeling passes. Your intestinal tract wasn’t moving & now is starting the normal wave pattern that moves everything through it. After a month or two any discomfort will go away & you will have normal motility again. Undertaking any regimen for motility issues is a daunting task. It will only get better if you persevere & push through. Once you get the motility back it’s easier to treat the SIBO with Low FODMAP & an herbal antimicrobial regimen.This seller is amazing & ships out immediately. The product is always the same. It would be even better if they’d put this on auto delivery.Update due to reviews having issues with 5-htp.SIBO stops the neurotransmitters from sending signals to the intestines to create the natural wave pattern moving food through. 5-HTP fixes those connections however if you have ADHD or ADD & are on medications for these which encourage serotonin production then moltipro may be too much for you. I’d try & use smaller amounts. If you feel uncomfortable or weird it may be too much serotonin production for your body.There may be other medical conditions as well where medications promote serotonin production also & I’d caution those as well.I have ADHD & can still use MoltiPro extremely successfully with medication adjustments (reduction) but I felt I needed to point this out for those of you who fall into the same category as I

We've dealt with SIBO-induced constipation, leading to encopresis, leading to a flare and diagnosis of Crohn's. Miralax made things much worse (if you have SIBO, avoid it at all costs!). Magnesium works really well to soften the stool, but it doesn't do anything to move things out, so to speak. Mineral oil helped get things moving, but not enough. Senna based laxatives worked to some extent, but I was very concerned about long term use and possible cancer risk, and again, they did nothing to address the underlying cause of the problem (SIBO).We changed to a diet that supposedly works by reducing bad bacteria (SCD and/or combo of low FODMAP). The low FODMAP diet made things worse in the long run (over 2 years, it destroyed the good gut bacteria...you're supposedly only supposed to do it for 4-6 weeks, tops, but researchers didn't discover that until recently). SCD works really well, but again, it doesn't address the reduced motility that (at least in our case) likely caused the SIBO in the first place.Enter MotilPro. The 5-HTP works as a serotonin precursor (supposedly), which is similar to some of the pharmaceuticals that have been used for IBS over the years. The other stuff (mostly vitamins) helps speed things along. The ginger seems to work on some aspect of the motility receptors in the gut. Overall, this seems to really work! Unfortunately, it seems that, at therapeutic doses, it causes abdominal pain. If we do three pills (the recommended dose) it causes great motility, but pain. If we do two pills, the pain is less but I don't know if it works well enough.We tried it more than two weeks after finishing antibiotics the first time we dealt with SIBO, so it was likely too late in the game to make a difference. We're currently using it in conjunction with antibiotics this time around, so hoping there is some sort of synergistic effect and that we can drop off the dose as time goes on. Not sure. Our other options seem to be low dose naltrexone or erythromicin, per Dr. Siebecker's research (http://www.siboinfo.com/).Will update in a few months after things settle down a bit. Right now, I feel it's such a great product, hence the four stars, but in our case, the side-effects my trump the positives. Would give it a five star rating if the side effects were lower.