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New Research Links Irritable Bowel Syndrome to Reduced Bacterial Diversity
Scitech Daily ^ | MARCH 8, 2023 | By AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY

Posted on 03/08/2023 12:52:53 PM PST by Red Badger

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a common gastrointestinal disorder that affects the large intestine. It is characterized by symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea.

According to a team of Korean researchers, individuals with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) have a decreased diversity of bacteria in their intestines compared to healthy individuals. This is the first study to establish a clear connection between IBS and a reduction in gut microbiota diversity. The findings were published in the American Society for Microbiology’s journal Microbiology Spectrum.

Normally, “More than 10,000 species of microorganism live in the human intestine,” said corresponding author Jung Ok Shim, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul. Disruption of the microbiome of the human gastrointestinal tract can trigger IBS. Typically, IBS causes bloating, diarrhea, and stomach pain or cramps.

Previous studies of gut bacteria in patients with IBS have been controversial, with inconsistent results, due to small sample size and lack of consistent analytical methods used among these studies, said Shim. The investigators combined their own dataset with 9 published, shared datasets, encompassing 576 IBS patients and 487 healthy controls, analyzing them with a “unified data processing and analytical method.”

The researchers found that the gut bacterial community is less diverse in IBS patients than in healthy people, said Shim. Additionally, the abundance of 21 bacterial species differed between IBS patients and healthy controls. However, the findings were not statistically significant in the pediatric cohort due to a small sample size.

The investigators proved that the disturbed gut bacterial community “is associated with IBS, though this does not mean that the relationship is causal,” said Shim. “Functional studies are needed to prove whether the change in gut micro-organisms contributes to the development of IBS.”

Even though IBS is a common disorder, its pathogenesis remains unknown, and as yet there is no effective treatment strategy. “Based on the epidemiological studies of IBS patients, altered gut microbiota was proposed as one of the possible causes of IBS,” the researchers write. “Acute bacterial gastroenteritis can cause chronic, asymptomatic, low-grade intestinal wall inflammation sufficient to alter neuromuscular and epithelial cell function.”

“Gut Bacterial Dysbiosis in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: a Case-Control Study and a Cross-Cohort Analysis Using Publicly Available Data Sets” by Gun-Ha Kim, Kihyun Lee and Jung Ok Shim, 18 January 2023, Microbiology Spectrum.

DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02125-22


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: gastro; gitract; ibs
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1 posted on 03/08/2023 12:52:53 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I had this problem in the 90s. Yogurt was the answer.


2 posted on 03/08/2023 12:54:34 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: rdl6989

On a side note, I am really beginning to hate the word “diversity.”


3 posted on 03/08/2023 12:55:53 PM PST by Skwor
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To: Red Badger

I was expecting this to be a Babylon Bee article.


4 posted on 03/08/2023 12:58:54 PM PST by cantfindagoodscreenname (I really hate not knowing what was said in the deleted posts....)
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To: Red Badger

“Lack of diversity”

I just KNEW it! It’s our strength, even in the old poop chute.


5 posted on 03/08/2023 12:59:19 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: rdl6989

Congratulations

Drinking yogurt or beer reduces excess retinol. I think excess retinol causes intestinal problems.


6 posted on 03/08/2023 1:00:06 PM PST by TTFX
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname

I was expecting references to the “South Park” fecal transplant episode.


7 posted on 03/08/2023 1:00:48 PM PST by Publius
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To: Skwor

Is it “triggering” you? hahaha


8 posted on 03/08/2023 1:03:45 PM PST by Red6
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To: Red6

*golf claps* Good one :)


9 posted on 03/08/2023 1:04:53 PM PST by Skwor
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname

Babylon Bee can’t compete with reality............................


10 posted on 03/08/2023 1:06:09 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Employ Michelle O to test people’s poop for diversity.


11 posted on 03/08/2023 1:08:39 PM PST by libh8er
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To: Skwor

My 1st thought also. IBS is now considered racist?.......after hearing somehow equestrian helmets are, I wasn’t gonna be surprised


12 posted on 03/08/2023 1:08:43 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

Kombucha eliminates the problem


13 posted on 03/08/2023 1:12:17 PM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Red Badger

Butt, butt, homosexuals often have this affliction. GBS I believe I saw it called.

Are they not “diverse” enough?


14 posted on 03/08/2023 1:13:08 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Red Badger

I gave my Dad sodium butyrate for a neurological disease closely related to ALS. And his IBS disappeared! I looked it up and, yes, it helps lots of people with IBS.

It’s a substance good gut bacteria produce when they are all happy and in harmony. It is also found in small amounts in butter from pastured cows (hence name of butyrate), but Dad hated butter with a passion and needed the higher amount from supplements anyway. It smells funky if you break a capsule open (ewww), but sure worked for him.

And this was before I discovered live culture frozen yoghurt (he never could get more than one spoonful of any regular yoghurt down, not even the sweet custard style).


15 posted on 03/08/2023 1:15:40 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: doorgunner69

GBS?

Gay Butt Syndrome?.................


16 posted on 03/08/2023 1:17:21 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: CatHerd

interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Sodium_butyrate


17 posted on 03/08/2023 1:23:53 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: CatHerd

I would think kefir might be good for this as well.


18 posted on 03/08/2023 1:31:57 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Red Badger

Crap-O-Rama.


19 posted on 03/08/2023 1:35:43 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: rdl6989

In the Western world, most fat people are malnourished.

Between:

herbicides
fungicides
pesticides
artificial preservatives, aromatics, colors
GMO
HFCS to substitute for real sugar (your body is OK with fructose but not in mass quantities)
fertilizers and depleted soil
hormones
antibiotics
irradiation
pasteurization
homogenization
bleaching
using oil to substitute: example sliced cheese and cool-whip, or margarine for real butter
the limited biodiversity because of mass agra (they narrow down the options)
the premature harvesting of fruit
putting salt in everything
putting a sweetener in everything
using foaming agents
animals eating foods they would never eat: cows eating fish meal for example - last I checked, cows naturally eat plants.
animals held in unsanitary and/or unnatural environments (chicken)
force feeding animals

We have food that looks, smells and tastes good, but it’s crap. Yes, I love Orios too, but there is no redeeming value to them except for extreme caloric density.

Subway is the perfect example. People go there because they think it’s healthy. Indeed the sandwich might be marginally better than a BigMac, but not much. The chips might be marginally better than fries, but not much. And the drinks are the same.

Fake cheese (hydrogenated oil), foaming agents in the bread, hormones and antibiotics in the meat, fake colors, cellulose so the shredded cheese doesn’t stick together (your guts don’t like it when you eat wood), HFCS and phosphoric acid in the drinks, fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides used in the veggies...

You are buying food which has the APPEARANCE of being healthy, just like an electric car has the appearance of being zero emissions... But it’s all BS.

We have managed to create an industrial system for food production where it meets all the FDA and USDA requirements, but it’s actually extremely poor quality.

IMHO, our horrible food supply is at least a contributing factor to many of the illnesses we have today: diabetes, heart and kidney diseases, gout, IBS, possibly some of the skin and allergy conditions...


20 posted on 03/08/2023 1:36:11 PM PST by Red6
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