I got a Limbic Stress Assessment by a practitioner in Carlsbad, and she thought my main issues were detox organs, digestion, blood sugar irregularities. Detox organs are all stressed because of neural therapy, so it's becoming very apparent how much this treatment detoxifies if anything. Kidneys/bladder/liver/gallbladder/small intestine/large intestine/spleen. Them munctories are loving me right now aren't they?
I think we patients way too often forget just how important the gut is. Maybe it's because of the increased complaints of IBS even amongst healthy people or not being able to see the word "regularity" without seeing Jamie Lee Curtis' face. In any case, the gut-brain connection is huge. 80% of our nervous system and somewhere around 70% of our immune system is in the gut. Although the Merleir study on H2S was huge, most pundits don't consider it a cause, only an aftereffect. As Dr. Logan said, even if it's not the cause, it may be the "tail wagging the dog," making it just as essential to address as if it were the cause.
Because the pancreas is so stresssed out from the dominance of anaerobic metabolism in CFS (it needs to constantly produce glucagon to breakdown glycogen in the liver because normal glucose metabolism is compromised), it cannot do its other main task: produce digestive enzymes. Because we can't digest our food properly with stomach acid and enzymes, pH imbalance in the gut AND leaky gut occurs.
So if you didn't know, now you know why the stomach, gut, pancreas, liver are all incessantly stressed in CFS, and why our nether organs are nothing to sneeze at (or hold your nose at rather.)
To resolve: up my betaine HCL intake, full range of digestive enzymes (protease for protein, amylase for for carbs, lipase for fats), up probiotics, continue taking pancreatrophin for pancreatic support.
In light of Merleir's findings on H2S and d-lactate production, we need to take probiotics that do not produce d-lactate. Gone are the days of preconceived notions of indisciminatory popping of probiotics. Some suggestions from my research so far: kefir (Dr. Myhill's recommendation) and Align (Dr. Logan's recommendation.)
I think we patients way too often forget just how important the gut is. Maybe it's because of the increased complaints of IBS even amongst healthy people or not being able to see the word "regularity" without seeing Jamie Lee Curtis' face. In any case, the gut-brain connection is huge. 80% of our nervous system and somewhere around 70% of our immune system is in the gut. Although the Merleir study on H2S was huge, most pundits don't consider it a cause, only an aftereffect. As Dr. Logan said, even if it's not the cause, it may be the "tail wagging the dog," making it just as essential to address as if it were the cause.
Because the pancreas is so stresssed out from the dominance of anaerobic metabolism in CFS (it needs to constantly produce glucagon to breakdown glycogen in the liver because normal glucose metabolism is compromised), it cannot do its other main task: produce digestive enzymes. Because we can't digest our food properly with stomach acid and enzymes, pH imbalance in the gut AND leaky gut occurs.
So if you didn't know, now you know why the stomach, gut, pancreas, liver are all incessantly stressed in CFS, and why our nether organs are nothing to sneeze at (or hold your nose at rather.)
To resolve: up my betaine HCL intake, full range of digestive enzymes (protease for protein, amylase for for carbs, lipase for fats), up probiotics, continue taking pancreatrophin for pancreatic support.
In light of Merleir's findings on H2S and d-lactate production, we need to take probiotics that do not produce d-lactate. Gone are the days of preconceived notions of indisciminatory popping of probiotics. Some suggestions from my research so far: kefir (Dr. Myhill's recommendation) and Align (Dr. Logan's recommendation.)