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Hey, everyone, today I had back on the show, Larry and Belinda Wern.

Now, they are with clear passage and had been on the podcast a few years ago now to discuss adhesions

or formation of scar tissue in the abdomen and pelvis that can cause things like

recurring sebo, abdominal pain, and constipation amongst a few others. And this was a very insightful follow-up with them.

Now they have published two additional papers since the last month they were on. If you remember

back, they've published a myriad of papers in peer-reviewed journals. Now they have one in one

of the most prestigious journals, the World Journal

of Gastrometorology, in addition to another case that it was also published in a peer-reviewed

journal. So the long story short here is prior surgery, prior abdominal trauma, or even something that seems as innocuous as just some

prior inflammation in your gut or your pelvis can cause scar tissue to form that impedes

the movement of food, can slow things down, cause overgrowth or ostensibly dysbiosis, abdominal pain,

distension, bloating, and even constipation. And this may not come up, typically, usually will not

come up on traditional imaging other than perhaps the finding of the intestinal lumen, the space

in the garden hose that is the lining of your intestine, may be slightly narrowed due to some

of this scar tissue formation.

So this is something that really piqued my curiosity even further, amongst other things,

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