More real life stories
Brian
— In BreathHelp4U@yahoogroups.com, pattycake127@… wrote:
>
> Good morning Brian - Your story is mine. Your reference to society’s
> attitude towards obesity suggesting they just eat less when it is in fact
> sometimes genetic, just like for the ones of us here who have tried everything it
> probably is genetic also. Whether it be Trimethylaminuria or something else.
>
> A thing I thought about again recently that I have not been able to find
> anything written on since I originally read it years ago is the liver vein
> defect. If any doctors or researchers read these boards would someone please try
> and find out about the research I remember reading?
>
> I have the book I just can’t get to it, it is in a huge storage unit behind
> hundreds of boxes. It was a good sized Prevention Magazine hard back medical
> encyclopedia. Two chapters dealt with the issue of halitosis. One chapter
> talked about low stomach acid allowed bacteria to overgrow causing bad breath
> the other chapter talked about the mesenteric vein in the liver being
> smaller than normal causing restricted blood flow and cleansing. It was especially
> bad when these patients got stressed. But the explanation was the vein
> defect caused bad breath. But no recommended treatment it was just identified as
> the culprit.
>
> They mentioned several documented stories. If back in the early 70s this
> was in a medical book the research was done in the 60s. But no more research
> into this mesenteric vein being smaller than normal affecting blood cleansing?
> I don’t understand that.
>
> Your (our) story is sad but it was good to read it helps me to know others
> live the same horror story and they are intelligent normal people who do all
> the right things yet we live with this nightmare.
>
> Take care, Patty -