Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

CIRS 4 | From Pooping Pants to Pain Relief_ The Surprising Benefits of Tyramine!

2 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A doctor explains how bile-sequestering drugs like Welchol interrupt the liver's recycling of toxins, using a baseball analogy. Patients reported fewer headaches, reversed autoimmunity, and less joint pain, though constipation is a common side effect that needs managing.

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Everybody was pooping their pants. And so they got cold starting and their headaches went away and their autoimmunity reversed and their joint pain got better. And he was like, there's something to this. So basically, the way I explain patients is it's a pitcher and a catcher. Your liver is the pitcher, to use a baseball analogy. And the colostarmine or the colecephalam, AKA well, call is the catcher. Otherwise you get that enterohepatic recirculation that you were describing. So there's a polarity that, that develops. And like a magnet, negative, positive, it claps together and then you poop it out, assuming you're pooping. Side effect of these medicines, constipation. So you gotta make the patient's guts working.