boulardii is a yeast and therefore untouched by antibiotics, it serves as a placeholder, saving the seats on the bus for the good bacteria post antibiotic. (Find out why specific bacteria are vital to our overall health and well-being at Good Bacteria Welcome.) This originally appeared as The Candida Connection in the May 2020 print issue of Experience Life.
doi: 10.1210/jcem
Unlike GLP-1 receptor agonists, which are synthetic pharmaceutical drugs, the therapeutic peptides used in functional medicine work by supporting the bodys own physiological processes rather than overriding them
It can take one to four days for a PPI to reach its full effect
Lab monitoring matters Standard practice is baseline labs (IGF-1 plus a thyroid panel), repeat at week 6, and again at week 12
These include kinase inhibitors, tau aggregation inhibitors, tau immunotherapies, antisense oligonucleotides that inhibit tau production, agents that promote autophagy-mediated degradation, and tau-targeted PROTACs