Studies have shown minimal peptide breakdown even after a decade of minus eighty storage
But that delicate structure, so carefully preserved, is also incredibly vulnerable when its time to wake it up
Prominent features include epithelial barrier dysfunction, delayed or accelerated gastrointestinal transit due to abnormal function of smooth muscles, dysfunctional enteric nervous system and/or immunity, gut microbial dysbiosis, bile acid malabsorption, and alterations in the gut-brain axis (812)
Is it possible that one cause of protracted symptoms is that benzodiazepines remain in the body even after months, lurking perhaps deep in such tissues as brain and bones
As with anything related to hormones, metabolism, and fertility, the answer is rarely one-size-fits-all