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Posted 4/10/2014 1:26 PM (GMT 0)
FYI;

Old Mike

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-microbial-molecule-arms-immune-quell.html

Posted 4/10/2014 6:01 PM (GMT 0)
Interesting. I wonder if this has anything to do with my American Gut analysis which showed I had like 98% Firmicutes and close to zero Bacteriodetes, which should have been around 40%. This might be a very interesting path of treatment - working on increasing the body's anti-inflammatory response instead of working on decreasing the inflammatory response.
Posted 4/10/2014 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
I think I have some info on that in an old thread but so old I cant remember the name of it.
A possible additional route to this might be mushrooms,and other polysaccharides, glycans.
Old Mike
Posted 4/10/2014 9:08 PM (GMT 0)
Up pops Bacteroides fragilis again... Much like E-coli, Clostridium and a few of the others there's both good and bad strains of all these - or possibly all bad if the mucus barrier is missing.

In all the mucus papers fragillis is the most common on UC biofilm.

Enough to drive one mad though - thinking about all of it!

EDIT: Really glad to hear you're still doing well Gary... Keep at it!
Posted 4/10/2014 11:54 PM (GMT 0)
Was getting worse for several days in a row there at about the same time I decided to quit taking generic levsin. I was surprised because I really didn't think it did anything for me. I stopped it once before and got worse and then ordered some more. This time I panicked and reordered but decided to hold off taking it. I think I discovered why I was getting worse and it wasn't due to the discontinuation of that med. My wife had experimented and made a new dinner food which we ate on for several days. I figured it was higher in histamines so took a little bit more DAO than usual but that's when I started getting worse. The other day I had some more (it's good!) and I decided to take a whole lot of DAO and poof - I'm better again. Two days in a row now I have had extremely terrific days. I think a combination of things are helping me but I truly believe that the grape seed extract has done me more good than absolutely everything else I have ever taken over these almost 4 years.
Posted 4/11/2014 12:30 AM (GMT 0)
Don't know if you're interested or not OM but here is the same authors earlier paper on B. fragilis PSA.


The yin yang of bacterial polysaccharides: Lessons learned from B. fragilis PSA
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243960/
Posted 4/11/2014 6:28 AM (GMT 0)
garylouisville can you take supplements of Bacteriodetes? Did you try that if the tests show low?
Posted 4/11/2014 9:19 PM (GMT 0)
Tried searching for supplements of Bacteriodetes but couldn't find any.
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