Fatigue and primary biliary cirrhosis And, just in case you were thinking, “so what if my liver is overburdened?” This study looked at patients with primary biliary cirrhosis–their livers were losing the ability to move things out of the body into the GI tract for elimination–and found that these patient’s fatigue may be related to […]
Celiac disease in patients with severe liver disease Is anyone getting tired of hearing me rant and rave about food sensitivities causing systemic problems? Here’s another article implicating celiac disease (an allergy to a protein called gluten for in certain grains) in another serious condtion that was previously of unknown origin. An elimination diet is […]
Paracetamol causes most liver failure in UK and US That bottle of Tylenol looks so innocent on the shelf, doesn’t it? Ironic that Tylenol was pulled off the market for a mere week or so several yrs back when tampering was found that killed a handful of people, and yet it remains on the shelf […]
Association between Hypothyroidism and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth Talk about the complicated web that makes up our physiology!! In this small study, it was determined that 54% patients with hypothyroidism due to autoimmune thyroiditis had small bowel bacterial overgrowth (SMBO). So what are the connections? First, we know that anti-secretory therapy for ulcers leads to […]
I’m floored. Look at the outcomes in this study. It’s sickeningly scary. And we’re worried about vaccinating our healthy kids for the flu. Ten years ago we never even heard about NAFLD, let alone in children. This is really only the tip of the iceberg. As our children get heavier and heavier and more insulin resistant we will see […]
