Dr Michael Erdman, MBBS
Dr. Erdman is a Digestion | Nutrition Consultant, & English Medical Doctor. His area of interest is functional Gastroenterology & Nutrition. He is one of the leading practitioners of the Heidelberg pH Diagnostic test, which tests for gastrointestinal pH imbalances. (Click here to learn more about the Heidelberg pH Test).
Dr. Erdman has dedicated the last 8 years of his academic career to functional digestive medicine. He has co-written multiple national presentations on subjects related to gastroenterology and the gut microbiome, stealth infections of the gastrointestinal tract, Lyme disease, and its associated co-infections. He is also the first author of an original published research article, that newly identifies an association seen in patients with multiple digestive symptoms, having positive blood markers for vector-borne illnesses.
Graduate of King’s College London School of Medicine - 2011
First Author Publication
2021: “Association of Presenting Symptoms with Abnormal Laboratory Values for Vector-Borne Illness – Experience in an Urban Gastroenterology Practice” - Link.
National Presentations
Co-Writer of National presentations with Dr. Farshid S. Rahbar, MD.
2020 SIBOCON - "SIBO Pattern Recognition with Case Examples”
2019: SIBOCON - “SIBO and Related Microbiomes as Biological Markers for Systemic Illness”.
2017: American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine: - “Intestinal Manifestations of Infectious Diseases - with case reviews”
2017: American College of Advancement in Medicine: “SIBO and the disordered gut microbiome”.
Regional Presentations
Co-Writer of Regional presentations with Dr. Farshid S. Rahbar, MD.
2020: "The Functional Medicine approach to GastroEsophageal Reflux Disorder”.
2019: “Traditional and Non-traditional approaches in Inflammatory Bowel Disease”.
2019: "Digestive Manifestations as the Primary Mode of Clinical Presentation in Vector-Borne Illness”.
2018: “SIBO and the Disordered Gut Microbiome”.
Online Case Reviews
2020: Co-author in the Naturopathic Doctor News & Review, with Dr. Melanie Keller, ND. “A complex case of recurrent SIBO: involvement of an underlying cryptic infection” - Link.
2018: Co-author of a functional medicine forum case study, with Dr. Farshid S. Rahbar, MD. “A clinical case of digestive symptoms, narcolepsy, panhypopituitarism, growth hormone deficiency, borrelia relapsing fever group, babesia duncani, GERD, bile gastritis, and fungal dysbiosis”.