Treatment

Fom: 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, A Roadmap for Testing and Treatment' <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cfstestingandtreatmentroadmap/home">https://sites.google.com/site/cfstestingandtreatmentroadmap/home</a>

If you find you have a leaky gut (intestinal hyperpermeability), this means that potent endotoxins such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) made by bacteria in your gut may be escaping into your bloodstream. LPS leaking into the bloodstream may create significant system-wide inflammation. LPS also reduces the antiviral Th1 immune response, potentially making it harder for your body to fight off viruses.<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10678901" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >1</a>

Dr Michael Maes demonstrated that anti-inflammatory and antioxidant supplements such as glutamine, N-acetyl-cysteine and zinc, along with a leaky gut diet, can help fix intestinal hyperpermeability, which in turn can lead to clinical improvements in ME/CFS symptoms (though these improvements may take many months to appear).<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19112401" rel="nofollow" target="blank" >1</a> Sometimes, complete remission from ME/CFS can be obtained by normalizing a leaky gut.<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18063928" rel="nofollow" target="blank" >1</a>