Damaged Intestinal Villi

[paciencia]

Hello all.

I just received results back from my endoscopy procedure which was done in order to determine a cause for my symptoms (bloating/reflux/stomach and intestinal pain/poor digestion.) The results were mostly normal, showing only mild inflammation and blunted intestinal villi. My question is, is this likely to be the cause of all these symptoms? And if so, what is the best way to go about repairing the intestines?

 

[Hans]

Eliminating the foods that are causing the inflammation (such as grains, A1 milk, starches, lectins, PUFAs, etc.) in the first place and then using Triphala to repair the villi.
Repair can only take place where there is no inflammation. People with Celiac disease usually have a smooth intestine, little to no villi, due to chronic inflammation from gluten and starch.

 

[Tarmander]

google "inosine gut." May be helpful in your situation

 

[Ben.]

Triphala has been shown to restore the villi.

Eliminating the foods that are causing the inflammation (such as grains, A1 milk, starches, lectins, PUFAs, etc.) in the first place and then using Triphala to repair the villi.
Repair can only take place where there is no inflammation. People with Celiac disease usually have a smooth intestine, little to no villi, due to chronic inflammation from gluten and starch.

Hans, sorry if i necro this but when/how do you start implementing triphala?

After an initial improvement from avoiding inflammation provocative foods? 2 weeks maybe? Something specific you would look out for to asses when its time to use it?
I have a bottle laying around, didnt get to use/test it yet.

 

[Hans]

Hans, sorry if i necro this but when/how do you start implementing triphala?

After an initial improvement from avoiding inflammation provocative foods? 2 weeks maybe? Something specific you would look out for to asses when its time to use it?
I have a bottle laying around, didnt get to use/test it yet.

You can add the triphala immediately since it will help against inflammation as well and assist detoxification of the liver.
At the same time I'd eliminate problematic foods and keep on with that diet until your problems have been resolved. If you add potential problematic foods back in, then you might still remain in a slightly inflammatory state.

 

[LLight]

That's weird how digestion seems to be so hard to fix while we should now know all the possible causes and how to remedy them.

Is the problem due to a lack of digestive fluids (gastric juices, bile) or enzymes? This one could imply bad microbiota and inflammatory undigested proteins? Causes: infection, nutrient deficiency or functional issue like a blocked bile-duct?

As this is my current craze, here are somes citations from papers on betaine that I've read recently:

Dietary betaine accumulates in the liver and intestinal tissue and stabilizes the intestinal epithelial structure in healthy and coccidia-infected broiler chicks - PubMed

The aim of this experiment was to study the patterns of betaine accumulation into intestinal tissue, liver and plasma of broiler chicks with or without coccidial infection. The chicks were raised on a corn-based, low-betaine diet with or without 1000 ppm betaine supplementation and with or...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

P-259 The Protective Effects of Betaine Against DSS-induced Colitis

Background. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and debilitating condition of unknown etiology that is characterized by relapsing episodes of ulcerati

academic.oup.com

Betaine attenuates LPS-induced downregulation of Occludin and Claudin-1 and restores intestinal barrier function - PubMed

In conclusion, our research demonstrated that betaine attenuated LPS-induced downregulation of Occludin and Claudin-1 and restored the intestinal barrier function.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dietary Betaine Addition Promotes Hepatic Cholesterol Synthesis, Bile Acid Conversion, and Export in Rats

It is widely reported how betaine addition regulates lipid metabolism but how betaine affects cholesterol metabolism is still unknown. This study aimed to investigate the role of betaine in hepatic cholesterol metabolism of Sprague-Dawley rats. Rats were ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I've also read how oxytocin and vasopressin could be involved in increasing "gastric and duodenum motility via OTR" (in rabbits) and regulating the phasic contraction of the gallbladder during the interdigestive period, which is thought "to be important in stirring the bile, facilitating the bile concentration and preventing the gallstone formation" (still in rabbits). I had also previously read how vasopressin could be involved in bile flow control in rats.

There are also studies during Ramadan showing how gastric acid pH is increased (but the study results might be biased because of all the habits that change during Ramadan).

Moral of the story: don't drink too much or at least between meals (and try to increase intermeal time?) and supplement betaine (which is itself an osmolyte which helps with dehydration)?

Intermittent dry fasting + betaine

(+ probably vitamin K2 which could help against IBS Active thrombin produced by the intestinal epithelium controls mucosal biofilms).