Major breakthrough in understanding IBDs

[Zizzle]

It's all about our gut bacteria, as I've always believed, but apparently the bacteria aren't attacking our colon or leaking into our bloodstream creating an immune attack on the bacteria themselves. Instead, certain strains release antigens that burrow into our gut lining and cause inflammation!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 212012.htm

I think probiotics can help by crowding out these problematic strains!

[Erica P-G]

Wow- this statement practically says it all...a bacterial protein :-0


"The research showed that the contents of the particles included a bacterial protein that causes inflammation. According to the scientists, a drug that blocks this protein might help prevent vesicles from leaving the gut and contributing to IBD."

I wonder if our food or the 'right' food would help block any of those proteins (once we were well ofcourse).

Erica

[Lilja]

I didn't understand much of the article.

I thought that bacteria, if they are not pathogenic, are good for us as they disintegrate damaged cells and participate in the regenerating processes in our bodies.

Is this article about pathogenic bacteria, or do the article claim that good bacteria transform into bad bacteria?

Lilia

[tex]

Well, it's an interesting article, but over the years I've seen so many articles that propose various mechanisms for the origins of IBDs (many of them based on gut bacteria), that it's a little difficult for me to get very excited about another article along the same lines. Now if someone were to actually prove that bacteria x, y, or z is actually (and indisputably) the cause of IBD, then they might capture my attention.

Notice that the caption under the image says (in part):

the tiny particles released by this bacterium may help initiate inflammatory bowel disease

There are a heck of a lot of things that have shared that claim (that they may help initiate IBD) over the years.

Tex