Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

CIRS Episode 1 | The Mysterious Health Benefits of Cholestyramine_ Unraveling the Unexpected

26 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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A YouTube video exploring unexpected health improvements reported by people taking cholestyramine—greater energy, less joint pain, clearer skin, reduced brain fog and anxiety—and investigating the cause. The speaker links these benefits to prior exposure to the aquatic microbe Pfiesteria in the Pocomoke River via contaminated fish, suggesting cholestyramine may be mitigating toxin-related effects.

But I have more energy, but my joints don't hurt anymore, but my skin cleared up, but I don't have brain fog, but I don't have anxiety. And the list would go on and on. And he knew that cholestyramine clearly could not do all these things. It made no sense that this was doing this. So it piqued his interest, and he took it a step further. And as he dug deeper, deeper, it turns out that these individuals were being exposed to Pfiesteria in that fresh body of water, the Pocomoke river, from these kind of poisoned fish, essentially.