IAH AC Gastrointestinal Disease

Environment
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The gut is at onslaught of the environment in the form of drugs like
chemotherapies, lifestyle toxins such as alcohol and what is in food, as well as
the scourge of our modern times, the stress factor.
From the above it should be clear that psychological stress has a devastated
effect on the gut lining and will contribute significantly to systemic disease.
Heavy metals, from amalgams and food also damage the gut lining, and can
cause dysbiosis.
Chemo and radiation have a special devastating effect on the gut lining, as it will
in fact affect the fast turnover tissue, of which the GIT mucosa is one together
with the gonadal cells and the hair follicle.
In all patients who has received chemotherapy, the gut needs to be seen to be
damaged.
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