While these factors do play a role, I don’t believe they’re the primary drivers behind the increased pressure I see in patients with GERD. As microbiologist Dr. Norm Robillard argues in his book,Heartburn Cured: The Low Carb Miracle, carbohydrate malabsorption could be to blame. Malabsorpti...
(viral, bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal, protozoal, and helminthic infections), vascular causes, other immune causes including autoimmune etiologies, drug-induced processes, radiation-induced, and other etiologies such as small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, diverticulitis, and bile acid malabsorption. Th...
Digestive enzymes and supplemental acid:In order to properly digest your food and prevent malabsorption, your stomach must release enough stomach acid, your gallbladder must release bile, and your pancreas must make enough pancreatic enzymes. If any of these are disrupted, digestion is negatively aff...
Folic acid (1-5 mg/day) can be given when the diet is deficient in folate and/or in the presence of infection, malabsorption, and where the patient is pregnant. HbH disease Diagnosis of HbH disease is made using hemoglobin electrophoresis. Patients with HbH disease present with mild to ...
bile acid malabsorption– when bile builds up in your digestive system chronic pancreatitis some cancers– includingbowel cancer. Self-care tips for diarrhea If you have short-term diarrhea, there are things you can try at home to help you feel better and treat the problem, including: ...
and I also got self-hitting impulses and a chronic burping problem which is activated by stomach acid/empty stomach which hasn’t gone away even though I haven’t been keto for 5 months. I drank bone broth and tried electrolyte supplements and oxbile but they didn’t help.Drinking about ...
Here is a recap of how grains cause malabsorption issues and how that affects our health and well-being: Damage to the gut lining. If the gut is damaged, you do not absorb nutrients. We need healthy villi and microvilli to absorb our nutrients, be they protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitami...
Gut-residing bacteria have also been shown to suppress the synthesis of tauro-β-muricholic acid (T-βMCA) in the liver by alleviating FXR inhibition in the ileum [55]. T-βMCA is a primary bile acid produced by the liver and it acts as a ligand for FXR in the intestine. FXR ...