Lymph-Link by Dr. Loretta T. Friedman

Author:Dr. Loretta T. Friedman [Friedman, Loretta T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781637583142
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2022-04-20T10:57:25+00:00

These questions are usually left blank, even though they are important since they have mostly to do with toxicity exposure. It’s a frightening fact that the more specific my questions get about patients’ exposure to toxins, the more blanks I see on the intake form. People tell me all the time that some of these questions—what I call the “fine-tooth-comb questions”—catch them off guard because they illustrate just how many toxins we are all exposed to each day. As you already learned, the toxins listed on my intake form are just the tip of the iceberg.

Though the questions above may look random to you, I have designed them (and the others in my questionnaire) carefully in each case to pinpoint a source where dangerous toxins could be entering my patients’ bodies. Antibiotics, for example, are often looked upon as not only harmless but helpful because they have been prescribed by a physician to treat a health problem. In principle, this outlook is correct. When antibiotics save us from a dangerous infection, they are a miracle of medicine. However, on the other side of the coin, they are still outside chemicals introduced into the system and, as such, have the potential to become toxins and do harm to us. In fact, the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority/Medsafe has gone so far as to warn people that antibiotics are “a common cause of drug-induced liver injury.” They go on to warn that drug-induced liver injury is “unpredictable and largely dose-independent,” which means that there is no “safe” way to take antibiotics that will reliably eliminate the danger—every time you do it, you are taking a calculated risk that the toxins in the drug (which is hopefully simultaneously curing you of some other ailment) may damage your liver.

The threat of dangerous effects on the liver is not confined to rare or extra-strength antibiotics or to only a few people. Antibiotics account for 45 percent of all drug-induced liver injury, and they are, as a class, its single greatest cause. Even an antibiotic as common and frequently prescribed as, for example, amoxicillin prompted a doctor to warn in a recent article for GoodRX Health that “Liver damage from this antibiotic can occur shortly after you start taking it and can be prolonged. Signs of liver injury are often detected even after patients stop the medication.”

If, as we have seen, antibiotics can be a double-edged sword with such sharp edges, it should come as no surprise that oral steroids can also act as toxins, packing some unpleasant surprises for our systems. Specifically, anabolic steroids can cause an awful condition called cholestasis, in which bile—a fluid made by the liver, which is used in digestion—is blocked from going where it needs to go, so it ends up in the blood instead. That’s literal blood toxicity that can be caused by the steroids that any of us might be prescribed at any time. In addition, Carl Grunfeld, chief of the metabolism and endocrine section

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