Fixing Leaky Gut Helps ME/CFS, and Sometimes Achieves Full Remission
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Nov 2011
Summary
Took a twice-daily leaky-gut supplement stack (S. boulardii, grape seed extract, zinc carnosine, vitamin E, NAG, triphala, glutamine, slippery elm bark, zinc) after years of severe IBS-D alongside his ME/CFS. Digestion was much improved within 3-4 days and he generally felt better across his CFS symptoms. He continued on a reduced once-daily maintenance dose long-term, suspecting the gains would gradually fade if he stopped entirely.
What they credit
Credits Supplements, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids, NAC and glutathione, Pycnogenol and grape seed extract, Selenium, iodine, minerals.
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