EAT A BANANA, AND A SLIGHT SUGAR INCREASE IN BLOOD AND ZERO SPIKE WITH A COOKIE. HUH? WHAT?
10 TRILLION GUT BACTERIA RADICALLY ALTER THE SUGAR ENTERING BLOOD. The species in John are not the same as Susans.
She is correct that an attached glucose monitor is always telling your phone your daily level is
super educational. Your bacteria allow sugar to enter to enter low or high amounts of which bacteria are in the 10 trillion bacteria.
One reason medication levels can be low or high is that 10 trillion bacteria alter the amount going to the liver. So sertraline in one person on 250 mg might have a blood level common for someone on 125 mg. Or someone on 50 mg might have a blood level common for 200 mg, based in large part on the processing of the massive 10 trillion gut bacteria, also called the microbiome. Does the liver play a role in optimal dosing? Certainly. However, good academic research-oriented physicians never forget the role of the liver in the removal of substances.
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