Adrenal fatigue (hypoadrenia) outside of the context of Addison's disease, adrenal insufficiency, or actual forms of adrenal dysfunction. A term used in alternative medicine to suggest that the adrenal glands are "exhausted" and unable to produce hormones, which can create a variety of nonspecific symptoms.
Autistic enterocolitis. Part of the Lancet MMR fraud. This "diagnosis" claims that vaccines can cause gut dysfunction, which leads to the brain (somehow) and causes autism.
Candida hypersensitivity (chronic yeast infection). This claim suggests that "chronic yeast infections" are the cause of many non specific symptoms, such as fatigue, weight gain, constipation, dizziness, and pain.
Chronic Lyme disease (not to be confused with Lyme disease or post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome). Used to refer to nonspecific "symptoms of life" like fatigue and muscular pain. Many patients do not have a history of a tick bite or Lyme disease. Symptoms are much better explained by fibromyalgia and ME/CFS.
Leaky gut syndrome. Claims that increased intestinal permeability causes chronic inflammation, which can lead to ME/CFS, arthritis, lupus, migraine, MS, and autism.
Morgellons (it is regarded as a form of delusional psychosis rather than a genuine medical condition). The patients belief that the sores they have actually contain fibers.
Wilson's syndrome (not to be confused with Wilson's disease). A pseudoscientific thyroid syndrome created to explain symptoms like headaches, PMS, irritability, depression, and more. The person that coined this term, Denis Wilson, had killed a patient with this so-called condition by giving them excessive oral thyroid hormones.
Also, see this wiki page for more interesting conditions that are pseudoscientific. I might make a dedicated post to PDA!
HEY IF YOU HAVE PCOS AND GUT PROBLEMS READ THIS PAPER
guess who had an increase in gut permeability that coincided with the 14th day of my menstrual cycle!! because hormones affect the microbiota which affects gut permeability!!! FUCK
Background: There is growing evidence of the significance of gastrointestinal complaints in the impairment of the intestinal mucosal barrier function and inflammation in fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. However, data on intestinal permeability and gut barrier dysfunction in FM and ME/CFS are still limited with conflicting results. This study aimed to assess circulating biomarkers potentially related to intestinal barrier dysfunction and bacterial translocation and their association with self-reported symptoms in these conditions.
Background: There is growing evidence of the significance of gastrointestinal complaints in the impairment of the intestinal mucosal barrier function and inflammation in fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. However, data on intestinal permeability and gut barrier dysfunction in FM and ME/CFS are still limited with conflicting results. This study aimed to assess circulating biomarkers potentially related to intestinal barrier dysfunction and bacterial translocation and their association with self-reported symptoms in these conditions.
Conclusions: Biomarkers of intestinal barrier function and inflammation were associated with autonomic dysfunction assessed by COMPASS-31 scores in FM and ME/CFS respectively. Anti-β-LGB antibodies, ZO-1, LPS, and sCD14 may be putative predictors of intestinal barrier dysfunction in these cohorts. Further studies are needed to assess whether these findings are causal and can therefore be applied in clinical practice.
taking a handful of various relevant pills every time i eat any food besides meat or fat and putting my corset on immediately of i start to bloat seem to be really effective little strategies for eating with fewer consequences!
the pills are stuff like betaine HCl, famotidine (which do almost tbe opposite things to each other so not at the same time), simethicone, SALT!!!, lactase, Beano, probiotics, DXM 30mg tabs, slippery elm bark, magnesium of various kinds, mexidol, and some other stuff i forgot. friend of mine with similar stomach curse has been downing a slug of Jägermeister before meals recently like our great grandmothers before us and reports that for whatever reason it seems incredibly effective for them so i may as well try that too.
I'm being facetious but stomach ailments are all 10-70% psychogenic even if the patient doesn't know it. so treatments should be too. you have to cure somatic injury with somatic treatment. real medicine by itself won't work. you need at least three effective+mostly harmless placebos in your medicine chest at all times.
A new study finds a chemical formed when we digest a widely used sweetener is "genotoxic," meaning it breaks up DNA. The chemical is also fo
Sucralose aka Splenda Is Genotoxic | June 2023
Me: Big Food sells us low quality at high prices that makes us gradually sicker then Big Pharma sells us high priced meds to control the symptoms until we need Big Hospital and a funeral. Think I'm exaggerating? Read on.
"When we exposed sucralose and sucralose-6-acetate to gut epithelial tissues—the tissue that lines your gut wall—we found that both chemicals cause 'leaky gut.' Basically, they make the wall of the gut more permeable. The chemicals damage the 'tight junctions,' or interfaces, where cells in the gut wall connect to each other.
"A leaky gut is problematic, because it means that things that would normally be flushed out of the body in feces are instead leaking out of the gut and being absorbed into the bloodstream."
"We found that gut cells exposed to sucralose-6-acetate had increased activity in genes related to oxidative stress, inflammation and carcinogenicity,"
"To put this in context, the European Food Safety Authority has a threshold of toxicological concern for all genotoxic substances of 0.15 micrograms per person per day," Schiffman says. "Our work suggests that the trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in a single, daily sucralose-sweetened drink exceed that threshold. And that's not even accounting for the amount of sucralose-6-acetate produced as metabolites after people consume sucralose."
Harvard says:
"Some studies show that leaky gut may be associated with other autoimmune diseases (lupus, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis), chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, arthritis, allergies, asthma, acne, obesity, and even mental illness."
Splenda.com says:
"Today, the Splenda brand is the most recognizable and iconic low-calorie sweetener brand in the world, having sold more than 100 billion yellow packets since its launch in 1992."
Michael Zeece, in Introduction to the Chemistry of Food, 2020 says: "Granulated sucralose is mixed with fillers to provide a measure for measure substitution with table sugar (sucrose). The powdered form of sucralose contains 90% bulking agents such as maltodextrin, that are a metabolizable form of carbohydrate. A 50/50 mixture of sucrose and sucralose, plus a bulking agent, is available for baking applications. This mixture reduces caloric content and enables browning reactions in baking applications." Source
Me: Wow. Ok. 50/50 sugar/Splenda plus bulking agents for baking. Would that mean commercial baking? Processed foods? YES!!!
"Sucralose is also highly stable at elevated temperatures that are often used in food, beverage, and drug manufacturing processes so that product sweetness levels can be maintained following cooking, baking, and/or pasteurization. Sucralose also has excellent stability in low-pH products so that sweetness degradation is not a determining factor in the shelf-life of such products."
FDA says "Sucralose is a general-purpose sweetener found in various foods, including baked goods, beverages, chewing gum, gelatins, and frozen dairy desserts."
By weight, Sucralose is about 600 times sweeter than sucrose (sugar).
Me: Even if I don't buy or use Splenda or drink diet sodas there is a good chance that I'm still eating more than 0.15 micrograms of sucralose in "shelf stable" cookies, pastries, bread or ice cream. Big Food cuts in Sucralose/Splenda because it gives big sweetness and probably costs less than natural sugar/sucrose.
The FDA approved it for general use in 1999. They suggest it for diabetic people! No wonder Celiac Disease, Crohn's disease, and irritable bowel syndrome have steadily increased.
Never mind the Leaky Gut diseases or the malignant tumors, Splenda is calorie-free. /facepalm
Change = laxity = release: An inbuilt opportunity for healing
Those of us in the UK already realise that, whilst we had a significant late summer heatwave last week, its well-and-truly over this week, thus we are back into the usual wet and much cooler autumn weather. It’s the time of year, similar to spring, where sudden changes in the weather are par for the course and can be one of the most challenging for anyone living with chronic pain.
My body has…
