NSAIDs, Intestinal Integrity & Bacterial Translocation in Chronic Heart Failure
This is truly a wonderful editorial illustrating how the systems of the body do not work alone, but rather as an intricate web. It demonstrates other side effects that those of us in natural medicine have always warned about with the use of NSAIDs. As little as 800 mg of ibuprofen can begin to destroy the integrity of the barrier in the intestine, thus allowing molecules to leak through that otherwise should not.