katarzyna said...
I agree with you Gerasim. I was also reading some studies and Europeans with Jew ancestry are more prone to UC as well, which I have in my DNA.
InSoFla no longer posts here because the same 4 users continue to harass her whenever she posts, but she's done enough good on these forums and benefited so many people (see the LDN threads).
I'm anxious to ever really post anything that can be considered holistic or "pseudo-science" to this forum because of that. Too many people have issues with making their words seem as if they are trying to intimidate the person into either a) believing the person's "ideology" is hogwash or b) making their belief the only true answer. I want to explore ideas outside of modern medicine as I feel that is all BS. Even the greatest drug that cures has side effects. You don't get that with eating right i.e. unless you are allergic or something along those lines; it will also take longer for you to heal. I look for a support forum open to all ideas not one that I have to watch what I say.
I take it most of us are adults and are fully capable of making our own decisions. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing anything down anyone's throat. Unfortunately, there are those who feel that deviating from mainstream treatments is pseudoscience, when the reality is far different from that. I can't even begin to count the number of cooked studies on biologics, statin drugs, mesalamines. In the words of Jeffrey Smith, pharmaceutical companies have psuedoscience down to a science. We have to be our own scientists and investigate these things because no one is going to hold our hand, most certainly not doctors.
As far as I know, there isn't a single person who mentioned that the efficacy of a probiotic like mutaflor is the same and better in some respects than mesalamines. The side effect profile is virtually zero and it's worth taking because many people do have issues with mesalamines. It's even effective at treating UTIs better than antibiotics, by virtue of it's ability to overcrowd pathogenic bacteria, in vitro. I feel like it's my duty to get the word out on matters like these because so many people have paid the price with the higher tier drugs. There's also a reason the FDA banned mutaflor, but it's more of a financial/bureaucratic one. After careful investigation, I found out it had zero to do with safety issues. People have lost their lives to biologics, but there isn't a single documented death to mutaflor. This is something I wish my doctor told me a while back when I was getting serious hair loss with mesalamines.
As far as statin drugs are concerned. Anyone taking them is being conned. There's no other way to put it. There's a coalition of doctors forming in UK and they are voicing their concerns and complaints about
it. It's gaining significant traction there if anyone is following the news at all. Over here, not so much because crestor commercials continue to dominate mainstream television. Give it another 5-10 years and we'll see progress in that department, but until then it's going to be a misdirection campaign. There is enough evidence to show that they do virtually nothing, both in terms of primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Further, a study showed that eating something like an apple peel had the same antioxidant effect.
Read the Cochrane Collaboration evaluation of all the "best" statin studies. This is a premier group that sorts out medical issues to home in on reality. Their conclusion of the effectiveness of statins is this:
If 1,000 at risk individuals take 1,825,000 statin pills for five years, 18 total events (some fatal, some not) will be avoided. For an individual it means taking 1,825 pills over five years to reduce your risk of having an "event" by less than half of one percent per year. Hardly what one would expect if elevated cholesterol were "causal". As my endocrinologist said, "Well of course, If you present data THAT way, nobody would take statins."
In the end the results and only the results matter. Nothing else. Every single day there's enough evidence accumulating on not just probiotics, but prebiotics as well. Sciencedaily, NPR, HumanFoodProject - these guys are the real heroes in getting the word out. For example, Jeff Leach, the head of the human gut project doesn't eat gluten for a reason. Because he's the most science oriented person heading that project, he's not just some clown who eliminates foods for nothing. There are studies linking modern wheat to serious inflammation and neurotoxicity. Some doctors like David Perlmutter have capitalized on this already known problem and he's just getting rich off it, which is pretty funny to me. He's just saying what we've known about
it all along, while making exorbitant amounts of money doing it.
Many seem to forget there's another component to bacteria and they have to be fed with the proper foods. When the large scale study linking a damaged microbiome to crohn's disease came out just recently, most of us just shook our heads in shame because it's something people have known for decades - Dr. Sidney V. Haas revolutionized it in his practice, but Elaine Gottschall is the one who wrote a book on it and saved many from surgical outcomes.
I'm seriously done here. I don't think it's worth the time because some users will drag people down to their level. It's like I have to be depressed and comply because they are depressed and cynical about
everything. It's a joke to me now. If there's one request I could give to the admin, it would be to make my entire 8 year post history accessible to everyone because I was the exact same way for the longest time. I've learned that there's always light at the end of the tunnel. If anyone wants the best piece of hope on how diet can fix many issues, people need to look no further than
Terry Wahls and the way she beat MS. Going from a wheelchair and a death sentence to biking, dancing isn't a coincidence or an "anecdote" - it's reality.
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