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Posted 5/16/2014 1:47 AM (GMT 0)
Hi

I've just read some French articles about coal, people say it is very effective to absorb all the bad bacterias, toxins, virus, etc, in the gut, leaving good bacterias and nutriments at their place. Scientists have made studies about it on mice and rats and they showed it is working like that.

Did some of you already try this for their colitis ?
Posted 5/16/2014 1:13 PM (GMT 0)
There's another post on this. I believe you are referring to activated charcoal. Since UC is considered an autoimmune disease our problem is a misfiring immune system, not really bad bacterias, toxins, virus, etc, in the gut. While it may help certain individuals it probably isn't going to help most people.
Posted 5/16/2014 2:39 PM (GMT 0)
Do the search for activated charcoal...if it worked, we'd all be using it.

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Posted 5/16/2014 3:48 PM (GMT 0)
Yes I meant activated charcoal, sorry for my bad English.
Ok thanks for the feedbacks, it doesn't seem to be very effective.
Posted 5/16/2014 4:42 PM (GMT 0)
Has anyone here used it to know that it's not effective?
Posted 5/16/2014 4:59 PM (GMT 0)
Not trying to be disruptive but I think the answer is that if some had tried it and it worked really well, word would have spread like wildfire. I had considered it once but did not find enough evidence on it that I felt it was worth trying. I have seen an occasional person on here who has tried it but I don't think it has been to many. Don't remember what they said about it. I believe it is good to take for some things but I'm not bettin the farm that it is the next great treatment for UC. Maybe it could help some that don't have true UC but UC is an autoimmune disease and activated charcoal isn't going to reverse autoimmune disease. It might be possible to bring up some info using the search feature on this website.
Posted 5/16/2014 5:28 PM (GMT 0)
I actually bought for teeth whitening purposes and then I read up on it for colon use.lol
I think the UC being autoimmune is not 100% agreed upon yet?
Posted 5/16/2014 6:02 PM (GMT 0)
I've also read that some scientists were not so sure anymore about the autoimmune characteristic of UC. But who knows, they seem to be sure of nothing for the moment.
Posted 5/16/2014 6:12 PM (GMT 0)
I think it is agreed upon by a very huge majority of medical professionals, probably over 80%, if not higher. What other explanation can there be for many of the treatments centering around weakening the immune system?
Posted 5/16/2014 6:21 PM (GMT 0)
Like i mentioned in the other post, i used it for a few weeks while I was in my first flare and it didn't do anything (before i knew it was uc), so I've not used it since. Not too sure if it would help anybody who isn't flaring, my sister will take it for bloating/gas , but of course she doesn't have this illness, so I don't know lol Try at your own risk i guess
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