(privately, I popped a gut laughing so hard)
Posted on 09/21/2024 8:13:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Researchers have discovered that food antigens like milk proteins help keep tumors from growing in the small intestines.
Food antigens are the source of allergic reactions to foods.
Ohno previously reported that food antigens activate immune cells in the small intestines, but not the large intestines.
In the new study, researchers tested whether food antigens suppress tumors in the small intestines.
The team began with a special kind of mouse. The mice develop tumors throughout the small and large intestines.
The first experiment was fairly simple. They fed these mice normal food or antigen-free food and found that the ones that got normal food had fewer tumors in the small intestines.
Next, they added a common representative antigen called albumin—which can be found in meat—to the antigen-free diet.
When the mice were given this diet, tumors in the small intestine were suppressed just as they had been with normal food. This means that tumor suppression was directly related to the presence of antigen.
The diets also affected T cells in the small intestines. Mice that got the plain antigen-free diet had many fewer T cells than those that got the normal food or the antigen-free food with milk protein.
These findings have clinical implications. Similar to antigen-free diets, clinical elemental diets include simple amino acids, but not proteins. This can help people with gastrointestinal conditions.
According to Ohno, "small intestinal tumors are much rarer than those in the colon, but the risk is higher in cases of familial adenomatous polyposis, and therefore the clinical use of elemental diets to treat inflammatory bowel disease or other gastrointestinal conditions in these patients should be considered very carefully."
Elemental diets are sometimes adopted as a healthy way to lose weight and inflammation. The new findings suggest that this could be risky.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Interesting!
(privately, I popped a gut laughing so hard)
Ohno!
Apparently I failed reading comprehension, it seems the title says meats and milk are good for you but the report doesn’t really say that or what? It looked like they fed the first mouse two different things and the same thing didn’t happen. So what’s the point? Other than that I’m all for raw dairy and red meat. Guess what govt, influenced by big pharma,wants you to do? Eat less dairy and red meat i.e. Get cancer so we can treat it
We need allergens to keep immune cells in our small intestine.
Using only amino acids or predigested foods, as a few diets may do, is harmful for this purpose.
They fed these mice normal food or antigen-free food and found that the ones that got normal food had fewer tumors in the small intestines.
It should specify they fed one group normal food and the other group antigen-free food.
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