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Perhaps you just need to switch to an...Anonymous, <br /><br />Perhaps you just need to switch to another brand of Metformin.<br /><br />Read this and see if it helps:<br /><br />http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2011/02/differing-brands-of-generic-metformin.html<br /><br />DeniseDenisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09787251044110758758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-4613190186477792502011-05-21T11:01:18.466-06:002011-05-21T11:01:18.466-06:00Hello Dr. Ayers,
First time commentor though I ha...Hello Dr. Ayers,<br /><br />First time commentor though I have been reading your blog for a while. <br /><br />I have PCOS and a diet so far that does not go with PCOS- think lots of carbs - particularly sugar.<br /><br />I have to be on Metformin and lets just say that it is simply something that I cnanot tolerate so far. I get lots of gas and loose stools often in a day even when I take just half of the precribed 1500 mg dose. For example, I took one tab two days ago with food after a couple of onth break and am still feeling the side effects. <br /><br />M question is - is manifestation of such extreme side effects a sign on imbalanced gut flora? If it is, is there something I can do it fix it asap? <br /><br />Thanks in advance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-13100527388092587692011-04-14T00:27:36.591-06:002011-04-14T00:27:36.591-06:00Hi Dr. Ayers!
Been missing your fantastic posts, t...Hi Dr. Ayers!<br />Been missing your fantastic posts, this is a major "go-to" site for me to keep trying to digest all the info.<br />Regarding lectins and glutens entry into the blood stream, I was on the look out for this a while ago and you mentioned you didnt think they did or werent sure of their path into circulation. A recent post by Chris Masterjohn on:<br /> http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/cholesterol-blog.html<br />discussed these ideas about the gluten and zonulin connection, which seems to be all well and good for the paleo community but challenges the idea the gluten by itself causes leaky gut. The implication is the biodiversity of the gut flora and I would assume the make up of biofilms an individual has as well. Now we are getting somewhere....<br />Have you seen a few recent articles on wheat and gut flora, or Chris's post and would you care to take some time out of your busy schedule for your interpretation of events?<br />Thanks, and appreciate your time.<br />Cheers,<br /><br />SteveStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451155550683882522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-5468000514554702082011-03-30T20:20:32.054-06:002011-03-30T20:20:32.054-06:00Does honey in high enough concentrations kill both...Does honey in high enough concentrations kill both good and bad bacteria?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-8581655986309268102011-03-23T14:01:12.691-06:002011-03-23T14:01:12.691-06:00Dr. ¿Qué es mejor para la artrosis y la regeneraci...Dr. ¿Qué es mejor para la artrosis y la regeneración del cartílago, la glucosamina, condroitina o el cartílago de tiburón? Por favor ayúdeme, graciasCarmennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-34225134715028399402011-03-22T17:41:31.051-06:002011-03-22T17:41:31.051-06:00How long should we give to remove all biofilm and ...How long should we give to remove all biofilm and bad bacteria with digestive enzymes and pectin?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-41998119721254106942011-03-21T13:27:16.954-06:002011-03-21T13:27:16.954-06:00Ed,
Cisplatin appears to me to attack solid tumors...Ed,<br />Cisplatin appears to me to attack solid tumors by complexing with DNA, blocking mitosis and causing apoptosis in rapidly dividing cells, i.e. cancer. The result is lots of collateral damage before clearance via the kidneys. This would also produce lots of systemic inflammation and ROS.<br /><br />Cancer seems to require the conditions attacked by the anti-inflammatory diet, e.g. NFkB activation, compromised immune system. So the AID is an obvious support for recovering from Cisplatin and cancer. You might also look into support for ROS damage (vit.C, NAC, B12).<br /><br />I am not familiar with the other supportive components of the chemotherapy (antibiotics?), but would expect them to compromise your gut flora. The question is whether having your damaged gut work with a damaged gut flora is better than flushing out the existing gut flora and replacing it with a healthy gut flora from someone else. My guess is that a healthy foreign gut flora would be more supportive of both your damaged gut, your damaged immune system and the rest of your damaged organs. The healthy gut flora would also be less susceptible to new pathogens than your current, damaged flora and help with absorbance of nutrients/vitamins/mineral.<br /><br />I can only speculate. Let me know how you do.Dr. Art Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-44991970599625620352011-03-21T12:58:08.505-06:002011-03-21T12:58:08.505-06:00Dr Ayers, do you think a fecal transplant would be...Dr Ayers, do you think a fecal transplant would be wise after a round of chemotherapy with cisplatin? More broadly I'm wondering what your thoughts are on improving tolerance and recovery of chemotherapy, above and beyond eating an anti-inflammatory diet.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02404726297092447442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-57356400171337248292011-03-21T12:42:46.861-06:002011-03-21T12:42:46.861-06:00Anonymous,
Changes in gut flora are based on the p...Anonymous,<br />Changes in gut flora are based on the persistence/tenacity of the problem bacteria and fungi in biofilms, nutrients in food to support the 150 different species of healthy gut bacteria, and access to the perhaps 50 different species of bacteria that are missing. In some people, e.g. lactose intolerant, only a couple of different species of bacteria are missing and eating live yogurt for a couple of weeks will eliminate the intolerance. Others, e.g. with Crohn's inflammatory bowel disease, are missing half of the health gut bacteria and will require careful changes in diet and systematic access to new bacteria.<br /><br />The answer is that it may take weeks to years. A quick fix would be a fecal transplant to flood your gut with a healthy established community of gut flora that is already trained to grow on a healthy anti-inflammatory diet.Dr. Art Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-40714546290826377992011-03-18T15:39:14.284-06:002011-03-18T15:39:14.284-06:00To remove biofilm and replace with good bacteria, ...To remove biofilm and replace with good bacteria, how many days should we give the whole process? Say I use digestive enzymes, pectin, and fermented food. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-43020475672232211112011-03-13T10:07:23.926-06:002011-03-13T10:07:23.926-06:00Dr. ¿qué le pasa? últimamente no tenemos noticias ...Dr. ¿qué le pasa? últimamente no tenemos noticias suyas. Espero que esté bien, un saludoCarmennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-13786415975421705962011-03-10T07:57:54.997-07:002011-03-10T07:57:54.997-07:00I thought you might find this interesting. Rush Un...I thought you might find this interesting. Rush University in Chicago is currently enrolling people with Crohn's disease for a study on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. They want to see if gut flora can be manipulated by diet. The SCD is a no grain, no lactose and ultra low starch diet. It also uses only honey and fruits for sweeteners. here's the link: http://www.rush.edu/rumc/page-1290995622101.htmlMrs. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02144247274657295271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-54784567914034905492011-03-09T12:49:34.378-07:002011-03-09T12:49:34.378-07:00Buenas noches Dr. Hace poco tiempo me diagnosticar...Buenas noches Dr. Hace poco tiempo me diagnosticaron proctitis o colitis ulcerosa. Necesito orientación en la dieta que debo seguir. Los médicos no dan importancia a la dieta y sólo me han recomendado un tratamiento farmacológico. Por favor, sería tan amable de darme unas pautas a seguir para que los síntomas remitan y para que la enfermedad no progrese? Muchas gracias por su laborAndrésnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-78639283663882727972011-03-06T16:48:12.715-07:002011-03-06T16:48:12.715-07:00Buenas noches Dr.
Necesito su ayuda. Mi médico me ...Buenas noches Dr.<br />Necesito su ayuda. Mi médico me ha dicho que no tome más glucosamina porque tiene efectos secundarios cardiacos y renales. <br />Llevo un año con dolor lumbar y pierna debido a la discopatía y ahora no sé que tomar para poder mejorar los discos intervertebrales. Yo sigo tomando glucosamina pero sin el permiso de mi médico. También estoy tomando colágeno en polvo, ¿qué le parece?¿Es verdad que esto puede regenerar los discos? ¿Qué otra cosa puedo hacer para soportar el dolor? Estoy desesperada, por favor dígame que puedo tomar o hacer. GraciasMaríanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-79394196655611604422011-02-28T00:07:53.009-07:002011-02-28T00:07:53.009-07:00Bill,
All of your symptoms can be explained by an ...Bill,<br />All of your symptoms can be explained by an inflammatory attack of your facial skin by your immune system. That is very loosely defined as rosacea. Inhibiting facial inflammation with steroids or killing the cells of your immune system by using antibiotics to kill gut bacteria needed for the normal development of normal T cells of the immune system, can block rosacea symptoms sometimes.<br /><br />If you stop the steroids or let your normal immune system start to regrow by stopping antibiotics, then symptoms of rosacea will return.<br /><br />What you need to do is grow a normal bacterial community of some 150 different species in your intestines. Probiotics can support the aggressive half that can contribute to attacking your facial skin as well as part of the immune system that suppresses attacks. Soil bacteria clinging to uncooked vegetables supply the other hundred needed species.<br /><br />If you read the rest of my articles, you will also see that many of the needed bacteria grow on the unusual polysaccharides, soluble fiber, present in plant materials. Compost containing thousands of different bacterial species that can utilize all plant molecules provides the normal source of the bacteria than can be domesticated in human guts.<br /><br />Also find that normal bowel stools are formed from packed gut bacteria and not from undigested fiber. If you had a healthy gut, then you would produce normal, well-formed stools when you eat a variety of different foods, e.g. paleo: meat/eggs/fish/dairy with plenty of different veggies.<br /><br />You were eating most of the right foods, but they didn't make you healthy, because you didn't have the needed gut bacteria to digest the food properly. Those same bacteria are also needed to trigger the development in the gut of aggressive and suppressive cells of the immune system. If the aggressive and suppressive parts are out of balance, you get diseases such as rosacea.<br /><br />You might also check out the possibility of a fecal transplant as a quick fix. You cannot regain normal immune system function while taking antibiotics.<br /><br />Let me know what works.Dr. Art Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-42999466861300970672011-02-27T12:09:49.405-07:002011-02-27T12:09:49.405-07:00Dr. Ayers
A little puzzle here after many years o...Dr. Ayers<br /><br />A little puzzle here after many years of healing but still seem to be missing some pieces.<br /><br />Briefly, Ive been told I have rosacea, not rosacea, dermititus, yeast etc etc. Bottom line my face is chronically inflamed and more recently I can pick flakes of skin of at will. If not for coconut oil I could not leave my house.<br /><br />Borderline crippling. Ive done every diet known to man. Most recently Iv spent many years at zero carb. Still no healing. Threw in some yams a few month back and had what seemed like healing for about a week. Then back to flaking.<br /><br />I read through your blog and started taking some D3 as well as sauerkraut and leeks. Ive always had garlic and some onions throughout. <br /><br />Not too long ago I saturated myself with raw milk and broke out full body eczema. Very pleasant. For the first time in 8 years I went to see a derm/doc and was prescribed prednisone, steroid cream and doxycycline hyclate. In 3 days I was good as new. In a week the inflammation had left my face and for the first time in about 7 years I could walk around not staring at my shoes. I stopped the steroids after a week and continued the antibiotic and my face continued to look "normal." <br /><br />Within 2 days of stopping the antibiotic my face was inflamed. Within a week of stopping I could fill a glass with skin flakes from my face. WOrse than ever. <br /><br />My diet is raw yogurt, grass fed meat, garlic, onion, leeks, some ACV (pectin), coconut cream from thailand and some yams. I also have bone broth (gelatin) that I drink each night. Ive been doing the probiotics and VIt D3 with all this. I get all the exercise and sun I could ever need. <br /><br />I know you dont treat but if you were in my shoes......<br /><br />Did I simply stop the antibiotics too soon? Therefore the badguys regrouped stronger...Is it a chronic infection I need to deal with....<br /><br />I have seemingly perfect digestion (even when taking the antibiotic). When going all meat/fat I had months of pure liquid stool, but figured this was OK. Im now at hourly coconut oil coatings. Used to be just in the morning to get me through the day. <br /><br />Im well versed in the "dieoff" theories, however my dieoff (off and on)seems to be lasting now 5 years. Whats the deal? <br /><br />Thanks BillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-25643407261330437312011-02-27T01:18:38.405-07:002011-02-27T01:18:38.405-07:00Jack C,
I just did a cursory read of a couple of s...Jack C,<br />I just did a cursory read of a couple of sites where people have posted similar symptoms. Surgical removal of the gall bladder does not seem consistent with the findings of an apparently normal gall bladder by ultrasound and over active ejection. Surgery does seem to solve the problem and the otherwise normal gall bladder shows signs of chronic inflammation. I am not an M.D. and these are just my impression.<br /><br />It seems to me that this is another case of an autoimmune disease with the surface of the gall bladder and ducts as the target and hence the inflammation. I expect that part of the symptom problems is the neutralization of the inhibitor of pancreatic proteases that is the target of the autoimmune attack.<br /><br />A common trigger for the autoimmunity is antibiotic treatment that wipes out the gut flora of the colon that are involved in normal development of the immune tolerance system of cells that suppress autoimmune disease. The quick cure would be a fecal transplant similar to that used for C. difficil infections. The transplant of normal gut bacteria would restart the suppressive part of the immune system. As you can see elsewhere on this site, fixing the suppressive immune system with repair of gut flora using diet is doable, but slow.<br /><br />I would expect this type of autoimmune problem to also respond to treatment of the inflammation. An anti-inflammatory diet, such as I recommend on this blog, should be part of the long term solution, but I would also expect anti-inflammatory steroid treatment to work.<br /><br />Let me know what happens.Dr. Art Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-83758885257304619182011-02-26T20:46:57.002-07:002011-02-26T20:46:57.002-07:00Dr. Ayers,
Your article further increases my love...Dr. Ayers,<br /><br />Your article further increases my love for honey! My comment below is unrelated to honey, however, to to the possibility that biofilms might be involved in biliary tract infection.<br /><br />My wife, Pat,has been bothered for many years with right quadrant pain in the vicinity of the gallbladder which on occasion prompts a doctor to prescribe an abdominal ultrasound to check for gallstones. The results of her most recent ultrasound was negative, like all the others, and the doctor's solution to Pat's pain was to prescribe acid blockers. More recently, another gastroenterologist is talking about gallbladder removal even though there are no visible gallstones. Pat will have a hida scan next week which might show something.<br /><br />Pat has undergone four rounds of antibiotics in the last year which caused sever digestive problems that brought about unwanted weight loss. It seems likely that the antibiotics would set her up for biofilm problems. <br /><br />I came across an interesting study in Germany about biliary tract candidiasis which found candida infection in 54 of 123 patients (44%). Candidiasis had been suspected in only 7 of the 123 patients. The candida infection was determined from samples obtained by endoscopy. The high percentage of candida infected patients is apparently far greater than expected. (I suppose all of the patient's biliary tracts were infected with something.)<br /><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19555935<br /><br />Elsewhere I read that stents are commonly used to open up blocked biliary tracts, but they generally clog up, with biofilms I assume, within four to five months. This problem has yet to be solved.<br /><br />It seems to me that biofilms may be the cause of biliary tract infections that cause blockage that in turn could cause "gallbladder pain" in the absence of gallstones. This appears to be a very common problem.<br /><br />I would like to now your thoughts on the matter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com