Peter Attia· MD
i've discovered with my wife that the gut is a source of infection by varicella's osteovyrus which is the virus of chickenpox and shingles and so shingles of the gut can occur that can be very very serious
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i've discovered with my wife that the gut is a source of infection by varicella's osteovyrus which is the virus of chickenpox and shingles and so shingles of the gut can occur that can be very very serious
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when it re-arises even if it gets killed by the immune system it's killing nerve cells and so you get diseases such as pseudo-obstruction in which the gut loses the ability to work and just becomes totally paralyzed or if the virus emerges and gets into the mucosa the gut can perforate