Unconjugated Bilirubin Articles

Unconjugated Bilirubin Articles:

Friendly Flora Inhibits Bilirubin-Induced Digestive Damage

Your body recycles all of its red blood cells over a six week period. During this process heme is released from your red blood cells in your spleen and converted to unconjugated bilirubin. For a variety of reasons (which I will explain shortly) a person can wind up with too much of this compound in their digestive tract, which promotes highly inflammatory damage to the lining of your digestive tract. This has become known as the “leaky gut,” wherein toxic compounds in your digestive tract leak back into your circulation and cause multiple health problems. In a new study a strain of friendly flora, called Lactobacillus plantarum, was shown to offset the digestive damage of unconjugated bilirubin.

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