In China they find tap water protective for UC

Now this is interesting,in China they say tap water is protective for UC.
The first time I have ever seen that one.
Meaning it is untreated, as opposed to boiled,and that none pathogenic
bacteria in the tap water is having an immune modulating effect.

Go to my last link.
Chlorination in the USA started around 1908.

Would be interesting to see how much of the tap water in China is chlorinated,
or treated in some other manner.

Well well well,looks to me mostly untreated.

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/water.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/opinion/if-you-think-chinas-air-is-bad.html

Also would be interesting to find out when chlorination started in England
to see in timelines match up with the increase in IBD, in the span from
say 1890 to 1920.

Ask and you shall receive,interesting 1890 for England.
While correlation is not causation,I have to now start to become
much more interested in what might be going on here.
This is why I spend a lot of time on historical timelines.
http://humboldt.edu/arcatamarsh/chlorination.html

Here is a good history of IBD,best I have ran across.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...3780010103/pdf



China link.

My wild thought of the day.

Chlorination has probably saved millions and millions of people from infection,

yet it might be killing us.
Old Mike

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3607760/pdf/WJG-19-1827.pdf

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 2/1/2014 6:13:51 PM (GMT-7)

I've never used tap water for cooking anything, i always use low mineral spring water and still i have uc. As for China, there's currently a panic in Poland about everything that comes from China after it has been detected that almost all products from this country contain extremely dangerous cancerous toxins. There are dishones companies that sell tea which is a blend from "non EU countries" which in reality means "straight from China". Therefore i wouldn't drink their tap water either! When i was in India i saw people drinking water straight from the Ganges river while decaying corpses of dead people were flowing beside. The Ganges river contains special fagocytes that kill all possible bacteria, i always wonder why there are no extensive medical studies on these fagocytes.