For those interested in reading - I meant to post this over here a while ago but it slipped my mind.
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I thought this was a remarkably well written piece:
www.curecrohnsdisease.com/thecause.phpThe piece he has written provides some answers, thoughts and of course opinions on many of the questions we all ask/talk about
on here - Autoimmune or not Autoimmune? Is Dysbiosis perhaps the cause or is it an effect of the disease? What about
the role of an abnormal reaction to normal bacteria within the instal tract? What about
genetic predisposition? ..... and so on.
To be clear this was written by Dr. Chiodini - I'm pretty darn sure he was the first person to ever isolate MAP from a Human and infect a Goat (i think it was) where the goat went on to develop disease. But back then I'm not sure if they could tell it was MAP for sure and well, there was a lot of controversy over the whole thing. It was a very long time ago. At some point he decided that he felt MAP (the animal form) was not the cause of Crohn's. He was also the president of the Paratuberculosis foundation for a long time. He retired and then came back out of retirement recently.