Posted on 11/04/2023 11:22:17 AM PDT by aimhigh
A common microbe found in sewage, marine sediment, soil, and the GI tracts of pets and farm animals may play a defining role in multiple sclerosis, according to a new study. The findings, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggest that a toxin produced by certain C. perfringens bacteria may be the long sought-after trigger that degrades the blood-brain barrier and kicks off the relentless inflammation and brain cell degradation characteristic of MS.
“If this is the environmental trigger for MS, we can now start talking about a vaccine, monoclonal antibodies, or some other therapy,” says Rashid Rumah, co-author of the study and a physician scientist in Vincent Fischetti‘s lab at Rockefeller.
Rumah thought of one potential culprit. “The bacteria C. perfringens, often found in sheep, makes over 20 different toxins,” he says. “Its epsilon toxin has been known to break down the blood-brain barrier and cause MS-like symptoms in sheep.” In the hopes of further exploring epsilon toxin as a possible environmental trigger for MS, Rumah joined Fischetti’s lab in 2008.
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I sure hope the person who sorts through the sewage to find these goodies gets paid very well.
The culprit most likely is caused by sheep feed. Heavens knows what is added to the supplements.
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Amazing issue found:
“Then, with the help of PCR, the team demonstrated that humans with MS have much higher levels of epsilon-toxin-producing C. perfringens in their guts than the general population: 61 percent of MS patients tested positive, versus 13 percent of healthy controls and MS patients carried over 1000 times more of the bacterium in their gut than healthy, asymptomatic carriers.
In a quick search, it looks like select probiotic cultures can curb this infection, in broiler chickens.
B. subtilis is available in some cultured milk items, but more commonly found in probiotic supplements.
I couldn’t identify research done with human cells, but I’d start taking B. subtilis, if I had MS. It’s effectively harmless, in that form.
there is also the theory that the MS causing bacteria is related to oral care
Does ivermectin kill this bacteria?
Nano silver kills bacteria in the mouth.
You may not want to do that. A pro-biotic oral regimen may be preferable.
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Natto uses this bacteria.
Lot of articles of late on bacteria or viruses causing chronic disease.
I think most of the time they are an effect of the condition, not a cause. Look to xenobiotics, and their removal first, then see what happens to the microbiome.
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