soystud said...
I must say, I think Blaster works much better for this forum -
my question would be, does he tell us how to FIX the problem ?
He's kind of ambivalent to probiotics as most varieties, not including ones like VSL or floraster, are untested and not regulated well enough. He described the cure in the article
here if you are interested. To summarize it:
“It’s a proof of principle that restoring a normal intestinal ecosystem can cure an important disease,” says Dr. Martin Blaser, an infectious diseases specialist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, who was not involved in that study. “It suggests that if the microbial ecosystem is disturbed, and you can [fix] it, you could cure various diseases.” In other words, not just C. difficile....
Now that fecal transplant is increasingly accepted to treat C. diff, severe inflammatory bowel disease, including ulcerative colitis, is a candidate to come next, according to Dr. Ciaran Kelly, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. As our understanding of the human microbiome continues to grow, one day maybe hospitals everywhere will have a bioreactor such as the robo-gut, churning out powerful “super-probiotics” to treat a range of diseases. For doctors and patients, it can’t come fast enough.In other words, fecal transplants, breast milk, ferments, kefir, etc -- anything that restores normal biotica and pincers out the pathogens and bad bacteria, with FMT being the real mccoy as the article implies.