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Posted 5/30/2012 3:29 PM (GMT 0)
This article www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110420143620.htm indicates that people may have different gut types, meaning different types of predominant bacteria in their gut.
It would explain why certain diet mod. doesn't work for some people and yet works for others, and the same for Rx meds which never did anything for me (except enemas which were helpful).

One "cure" does not fit all.
Posted 5/30/2012 3:51 PM (GMT 0)
Reserch has figured out that us IBDers do have a different gut compared to non-IBDers so that speaks volumes for sure. RX meds don't help me either...I'm either allergic or non-responsive to them.
Posted 5/30/2012 6:10 PM (GMT 0)
Ima,

Thanks for posting.

Very interesting. I wonder if they went  further to correlate blood type to bacteria gut type?

Posted 5/30/2012 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
It sounds to me like gut bacteria is going to be the 'find' of this century, much like antibiotics were for the previous one.

The article makes so much sense and goes very much along with Metabolic Typing which proposes that different individuals thrive on diets with different macronutrient ratios.

I'm feeling so much more confident to trust my individual-ness after just a few weeks on these boards. Medicine is still too primitive to have definitive answers at the auto immune/chronic illness level

Thanks for posting this! Yay internet!
Posted 5/30/2012 11:25 PM (GMT 0)
It does potentially explain why there would be a strong scientific basis for many of the remedies (for example, dietary) we have individually found help us, but that evidence based studies fail to support those very remedies in studies, because they are using too big a sample pool to notice the effects- which are consequently labelled as pjrely anecdotal and irrelevant.
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