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Helicobacter pylori is blamed for increasing the risk of stomach cancer. My gastroenterologist treated me to get rid of it for this reason. That being said, si
by junto 11y ago
Helicobacter pylori is blamed for increasing the risk of stomach cancer. My gastroenterologist treated me to get rid of it for this reason.
That being said, since 50% of the world's population have this in their gut, I'm starting to get the feeling that modern medicine doesn't have the entire picture with relation to the microbiome and their are making drastic decisions based on half that story.
It seems increasingly likely that the delicate balance of bacteria inside the gut, or more specifically its imbalance, is closely linked to a variety of autoimmune diseases.
The long term consequences of antibiotics, highly processed foods and sugars, alongside the corn phenomenon is not understood and could well be changing is for the worse.
- mkskm 11y agoThe man who first made this connection with H. Pylori, Martin J. Blaser, thinks the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Blaser#Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Blaser#Research He has a book on it too, “Missing Microbes”. It’s sad how much dogma there is in the medical community.
- junto 11y agoInteresting. Thanks for sharing that.
- tim333 11y ago>doesn't have the entire picture I think it's pretty early days still in figuring what's going on. Until fairly recently they only had a pretty hazy guess what bacteria were in you. Apparently less than 1% of gut bacteria can be cultured outside the body. Things are changing recently with cheap gene sequencing and big data analytics. I think they basically take a sample, mush it up, run it through a gene sequencer and use computer algorithms try to make some sort of sense of the data. The Human Microbiome Project (2008-2013) calculated there are more than 10,000 microbial species in humans. Quite a lot to look at.