Evidence-Based Information and Analysis
Laurel FitzhughA visually normal stomach can hide significant damage—only systematic gastric mapping (updated Sydney protocol) reveals the true extent of atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, and cancer risk. This article gives the information you need to get the correct testing.
Anemia has multiple causes. The cofactors that affect it are interactive, individual, and context-dependent. Anemia merely indicates that blood isn’t carrying enough oxygen; it is not a disease in itself. Treating it without first identifying the underlying cause is a common source of treatment failure and, sometimes, actual harm. Part 1: Types of Anemia Type … Read more
Pernicious anemia is known for damaging the spinal cord, but B12 deficiency can also injure small nerve fibers, causing burning, tingling, and nighttime itch that standard nerve testing won’t catch.
The Constitutional Systems Model This category documents a single, ongoing case of mechanistic research: my own. I live with a multi-system condition that spans rheumatoid arthritis, gut dysbiosis, pernicious anemia, cerebrovascular disease, and autonomic dysfunction. For years these were managed as separate diagnoses, each with its own specialist and its own treatment logic. They are … Read more
Constitutional CNS: Cumulative Neurological Damage and Autonomic Regulatory Failure Laurel Fitzhugh — Status: Draft, working document Laurel Fitzhugh presents with a decades-long multi-system clinical picture that has been managed as a collection of separate diagnoses. The central fact of the neurological picture is cumulative, ongoing damage to the central nervous system, expressed most consequentially as … Read more
Overturning Citizens United is only one step toward limiting money in politics. A constitutional amendment will not fix money in politics by itself. It only removes a legal obstacle. The actual limits, disclosure rules, and enforcement still have to be written and passed by the same Congress that depends on the current system remaining broken. Two … Read more
A practical guide for renting a room in your home, especially when children live there.
This page collects published research, endoscopic images, and video showing Necator americanus (NA), the human hookworm, in the gastrointestinal tract. Its primary purpose is visual: to provide examples of what adult NA can look like during endoscopy and make the original sources easy to find. Adult Necator americanus are small worms that attach to the … Read more
Extraction has been a recurring theme throughout American history, and it’s never had a clean knockout. Here we are again.
Inflammation elevates ferritin and hides true iron deficiency. This summary covers how clinicians diagnose ID in CKD, heart failure, liver disease, and rheumatologic conditions, and when oral iron gives way to IV.
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