[decimon]

Ping

[Nachum]

great news

[dalebert]

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A little background. The GI tract has between 300-1000 different types of bacteria. Of these, 30-40 take up almost all the space. The flora are very interactive with our other microorganisms, our viruses, our immune system, our DNA and many of the parasites we used to be infected with, but no longer are.

The immune system developed all sorts of protections against these parasites, but since they no longer inhabit us, the immune system can be confused, and start to attack our bodies in several ways.

An even greater unknown are the viruses that inhabit our GI tract. Vast in type and number, the majority of them are bacteriophages, that attack bacteria, and thus also strongly impact the system.

But figuring out all these interactions, and how they function in the several completely different GI floras we have in our lifetimes is going to be decades, or more, in the discovery.

[diamond6]

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[grey_whiskers]

As Michael Ledeen says in another connection, "Faster, please."

Cheers!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Looks like this will not help Clostridium difficile. Too bad — nasty disease.

[FreeKeys]

Thank you for posting that. I have forwarded the article to a suffering friend.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Thanks, bookmarking.

[anglian]

Bacteria, Bowels and Health
Most people do not understand that we live in a sea of bacteria. There are bacteria, and related organisms called Archea, at the bottom of the sea and probably deep into the earth. The vast majority of these bacteria do us no harm and, in fact, some are necessary for health and even life. For example, if a patient has been taking antibiotics for several weeks, their blood clotting may be seriously impaired. This is because vitamin K is manufactured in the gut by bacteria, which are killed off by antibiotics.

Our bodies are a complicated ecosystem full of flora. In fact, the bacteria outnumber our own cells by 10 times. There are around 10 trillion cells that make up the human body, and we have around 100 trillion bacteria cells in our digestive tracts.

“Patients coming in for simple surgeries, like hernia repairs, who had not been on antibiotics and who had not been around hospitals, had a stool sample taken. That stool specimen was mixed with a malted milkshake and given to the colon surgery patients.” http://abriefhistory.org/?p=2695

[hennie pennie]

So... if it's MODIFIED, it is no longer "natural" and thus can be patented, right?

Was the NAME of the new geneically modified acidophillus ever mentioned?

WHY would it be superior to the UN-modified, natural version -- which doesn't CURE these diseases????