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To: nickcarraway

It’s amazing how much research is occurring on good intestinal bacteria. Unfortunately, it isn’t profitable enough for drug companies to pursue.


2 posted on 07/15/2021 11:25:11 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: aimhigh
Unfortunately, it isn’t profitable enough for drug companies to pursue.

If its not a pill or treatment they can sell for sky-high prices and have medicare/medicaid pay for it, they definitely are not interested. In fact, they will work to denigrate and suppress it.

9 posted on 07/15/2021 11:30:11 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: aimhigh

Thats a shitty thing to say


23 posted on 07/15/2021 11:54:39 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: aimhigh

I’ve read the Russians have a bank of such intestinal bacteria for fecal transplants. The rationale as I remember reading is that this is just in case there a drug resistant bacteria that can’t be stopped by any known antibiotic. Fecal transplants work in a different way than antibiotics and thus would be able to accomplish the same thing. I am not aware if the USA or other western countries have something similar.


26 posted on 07/15/2021 12:11:22 PM PDT by BJ1
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To: aimhigh

“Yet”

This isn’t rocket science (the OP). Dysbiosis is, IMHO, a comorbidity.

Big pharma, not coincidentally, is hard at work developing a cure-all they can patent while, ironically, AMA doctors twiddle their thumbs in blatant disregard for gut health and its role in the immune system.


27 posted on 07/15/2021 12:26:17 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: aimhigh

I’ve had c-diff twice both after hospital stays for diverticulitis. Was given Vancomycin. Luckily it worked. Fecal transplant was next if it didn’t.


30 posted on 07/15/2021 1:02:09 PM PDT by PeachyKeen
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