Edbar said...
DBwith UC,
Not confusing or misleading at all. Straight from the medical dictionary:
An antibiotic is a chemical substance produced by a microorganism, which has the capacity to inhibit the growth of or to kill other microorganisms.
So bacteria produces antibiotics. There is even research on this same topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKcWz_0Oc8
You make my point, and continue propagate the confusion. Also, LOL, UTube and research in the same sentence. LOL.
There is a common usage of antibiotics, which means things that kill bacteria. The original/majority of antibiotics were obtained from fungi. They have discovered other plants/organisms that produce chemicals that kill bacteria, and the ones that kill mostly bad bacteria while not hurting the host have generally been developed into medicine. Synthetic, sometimes inorganic, substances that kill bacteria have also been discovered. Some fall into the category of antibiotic, while others (like sulfa drugs) stay outside. Bacteriocins are proteinaceous toxins produced by bacteria to inhibit the growth of similar or closely related bacterial strain(s). They are typically considered to be narrow spectrum antibiotics.
At any rate
you are making the error of confusing a thing with something the thing produces. Imagine, people produce dictionaries; therefor people ARE dictionaries. See how silly your logic is?
Your error also means you are making the further error of
reducing a thing to one thing it does, when like probiotics, it is actually doing several things. I believe these two errors are unhelpful, and easily remedied by more careful phrasing and vocabulary. I have pointed this out to you several times, including the recent thread on whether there had to be an unidentified bacterial cause of UC. Your persistence in an ignorant posture is puzzling. I speculate you have an agenda to suppress all but one line of discussion.
FT therapy is a form of probiotic therapy. Probiotic therapy is believed to be helpful in FOUR major ways. 1) management of pathogenic bacteria by restoring the balance of good bacteria and competing for resources (food, space) against the pathogens.
2) some strains of probiotic bacteria produce various bacteriocins, which are toxic to some other (hopefully pathogenic) bacteria, and this is an additional method of managing pathogenic bacteria.
3) some probiotic bacteria, via chemicals on their cell membranes, seem to have an immunomodulatory property, that blocks inflamation and autoimmune processes.
4) probiotics seem to promote greater integrity (less leakiness) of the mucosal lining, either directly through adhering to the mucosa, or through stimulating mast cells to move up to the outer layer of the mucosa.
When you insist that FT=antibiotic (i.e., probiotic=antibiotic, IMO confusing) you essentially ignore the 3rd and 4th ways probiotics/FT help, and possibly dismiss the 1st way too - because
you focus only on the 2nd way.
It is my speculation that you are insisting on speaking/labeling imprecisely because it is your agenda to ignore all the evidence for various causes (e.g., viral, nocotine, genetic, food) of UC that are being studied and to essentially throw a tantrum insisting that we only think of UC as a disease caused by an unidentified pathogenic bacteria.
Bottom line FT IS NOT antibiotic. FT is a form of probiotic therapy, which
among other therapeutic mechanisms, has some antibiotic effect in the form of narrow-spectrum bateriocins.
Even if it should be shown that the only truly important benefit of probiotics is the 2nd way (i.e., bacteriocins), FT/probiotic will still not be an antibiotic, but rather a byproduct of the bacteria in FT will have an antibiotic effect.