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- Title
Endotoxemia: A Key Driver of Chronic Disease.
- Authors
Hawrelak, Jason
- Abstract
Introduction: Endotoxemia is a key driver of chronic disease that is seldom on the radar of healthcare practitioners. Bacterial toxins derived from the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) have been considered chronic disease influencers since the early days of modern naturopathy, with naturopaths in the past commenting upon their disease-causing role. Interestingly, research conducted over the past 15 years has begun to shed considerable light on the disease-causing capacity of bacterial endotoxins produced by the GIT microbiota. Discussion focus: This presentation will describe what endotoxins are, detail their origins in the GIT, and discuss how they are drivers in many different chronic diseases common in Western nations, from depression and Alzheimer's disease to type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease. It will cover current ways of testing patients for endotoxemia and explore future testing possibilities. Lastly, it will highlight tools that practitioners can use to address endotoxemia, including dietary recommendations, specific probiotics, prebiotics, and herbal medicines. Conclusion: It is vital that clinicians become more aware of the potential role of endotoxemia in their patient's disease processes and have therapeutic strategies that can effectively address their production and absorption in the GIT. Addressing endotoxemia as an adjunctive treatment approach in a wide range of clinical presentations is a clear example of the naturopathic principle of tolle causum -- treat the cause.
- Subjects
CHRONIC disease risk factors; ENDOTOXIN analysis; TREATMENT of endotoxemia; ENDOTOXEMIA; ENDOTOXINS; GUT microbiome; CONFERENCES &; conventions; RISK assessment; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Australian Journal of Herbal & Naturopathic Medicine, 2021, Vol 33, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
2209-119X
- Publication type
Article