Posted on 01/24/2022 5:41:47 PM PST by DoodleBob
For years an obscure doctor hailing from Australia’s hardscrabble west coast watched in horror as ulcer patients fell so ill that many had their stomach removed or bled until they died. That physician, an internist named Barry Marshall, was tormented because he knew there was a simple treatment for ulcers, which at that time afflicted 10 percent of all adults.
In 1981 Marshall began working with Robin Warren, the Royal Perth Hospital pathologist who, two years earlier, discovered the gut could be overrun by hardy, corkscrew-shaped bacteria called Helicobacter pylori. Biopsying ulcer patients and culturing the organisms in the lab, Marshall traced not just ulcers but also stomach cancer to this gut infection. The cure, he realized, was readily available: antibiotics. But mainstream gastroenterologists were dismissive, holding on to the old idea that ulcers were caused by stress.
Unable to make his case in studies with lab mice (because H. pylori affects only primates) and prohibited from experimenting on people, Marshall... ran an experiment on ...himself. He took some H. pylori from the gut of an ailing patient, stirred it into a broth, and drank it....Back in the lab, he biopsied his own gut, culturing H. pylori and proving unequivocally that bacteria were the underlying cause of ulcers.
Marshall recently sat down with Discover senior editor Pam Weintraub in a Chicago hotel... The man The Star once called “the guinea-pig doctor” can now talk about his work with the humor and passion of an outsider who has been vindicated. For their work on H. pylori, Marshall and Warren shared a 2005 Nobel Prize. Today the standard of care for an ulcer is treatment with an antibiotic. And stomach cancer — once one of the most common forms of malignancy — is almost gone from the Western world.
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If you could, please correct the article date to April 8, 2010. Thank you.
My doctor said of Barry Marshall, “You can hear them clank together when he walks down the hall.”
A brilliant, courageous doctor.
Ah, The Lancet. They sure inserted a foot with their covid fail.
and the cause of the overrun of h. pylori is LOW STOMACH ACID. When the acid is low, which is in most of us; in fact there really is no such thing as HIGH stomach acid, bad bacteria can flourish. When this happens, the bad bacteria causes bloat which opens the sphincter at the top of the stomach, allowing acid to come into the esophagus making people believe they have high stomach acid.
Big pharma is as wicked as it gets as the biggest selling drug annually is antacids.
It is a good idea, if you do not have an ulcer (yet) to supplement with HCl to replace stomach acid. This will help break down your food and RE nourish you (because your nutrients can then breakdown and absorb)
And the Sun revolves around the Earth. Experts say...
Bkmrk.
I remember that incident.
The medical community is stuck in concrete.
They do NOT want to hear anything that goes against the narrative.
They did it as far back as Semmelweis when all he asked them to do was wash their hands.
And nothing has changed in hundreds of years.
He said that he read a huge number of medical Journals every day.
One stereotype of homeschoolers was that we are a bunch of right wing business-lovers.
I saw more homeopathic, natural food, borderline hippie/back-to-earth sentiments in homeschoolers than otherwise. Supporting capitalism doesn't mean supporting corporatism.
I agree.
I noticed that, too.
Lots of free spirits amongst homeschoolers.
As a recent patient for Stage 3 Stomach Cancer, I might chime in.
I had no ulcer symptoms. While stomach cancer is less frequently found in the west than is colon cancer there are still about 27,000 cases a year as I understand it. It was a major cause of elderly cancer death in the early 20th century in the west but has declined at a rate of 1.5% per year the last decade. Smoked and cured meats are as much a factor as h. pylori in the minds of most researchers although a solid causal relationship is not yet found.
I was not a big antacid user and had no symptoms until I began experiencing some anemia which I did not get diagnosed as early as I should have — I thought it was just age and not enough cardio. Tell your doctor everything you experience and don’t think you know it all. This tumor was probably inside and growing for over ten years.
Gastric cancer can easily spread to the abdominal cavity and easily jump over to the LIVER, the PANCREAS, the spleen and 25 +/- lymph nodes in the abdomen.
Four chemical cocktail of infusion chemo, followed by full stomach and related lymph node removals, followed by another course of chemo leaves me alive and tumor free, for now but few are that fortunate. Side effects with such strong chemo are extensive and various but I am alive and active in my 70s.
I devote most of a chapter to this story and use it relentlesly to denigrate the ‘status quo’ (aka ‘the science is settled’).
Great story, but few can wrap their head around it and its ramifications.
Even fewer know the outcome almost 20 years later.
Worse, I literally met a 20-something kid when I was doing my insurance insanity segue. He said he’d just come from the hospital. He looked ashen and was doubled over in pain. He told me his symptoms: Absent something more serious, it had all the hallmarks of a bad ulcer. Know what the ER gave him?
Prilosec. smh
Similarly the standard treatment for diverticulitis is an aerobic and an anaerobic antibiotic. I used to get hit 6 or 7 times per year.
I eventually started rubbing 2 brain cells together and figured out I should create a war in my large intestine and chase the bad bacteria away with some good bacteria.
I started eating yoghurt (with live and active cultures) several times per week. I also drink Kefir now that it is commonly available. The only time in the past 10 years I’ve had a problem has been when traveling and unable to keep up a healthy diet. (maybe 3 times in 10 years)
My First Sergeant at Army Basic Training:
“I don’t HAVE ulcers, I GIVE ulcers!”
Ping
Would say something clever but frankly can’t stop chuckling at this.
Thanks for shutting me up. Finally.
Why didn’t he just get in the Tardis and go back to before he drank it?
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