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by James Bogash
Inflammatory bowel disease and laterality: is left handedness a risk?
This is kind of an FYI article. I have no theories as to why being left handed make increase risk of inflammatory bowel disease. And it really wouldn’t matter because this would definitely be a risk factor that you could not change.
Gut — Abstracts: Morris et al. 49 (2): 199
by James Bogash
New cytokine treatment for inflammatory bowel disease
This is another potential therapeutic use of beneficial bacteria to help with human health. As you read through these updates and article after article regarding probiotics and their beneficial effect, hopefully you will begin to see the potentially devastating effects that irresponsible use of antibiotics can have on our overall health.
by James Bogash
The Long-term Benefit of Surgery on Quality of Life in Patients With IBD
Okay…where do I start with this one?? Patients with inflammatory bowel disease can be managed very effectively using functional methods and natural approaches. But you have to have an inkling of how the GI tract functions before you can address IBD in this manner. Probiotics are one of the key tools used, and yet few gastroenterologists could adequately describe what they are, let alone the benefits to the GI tract. The idea that surgery can improve the quality of life in IBD patients sheds some light on just how ineffective the conventional treatments for IBD are.
The Long-term Benefit of Surgery on Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
by James Bogash
Lymphoma, inflammatory bowel disease and immunosuppression
The idea of long term immunosupression to manage a chronic disease has always concerned me. This article reviews the concern, to include the use of the new TNF-alpha receptor blockage medications, of increase risk of lyphoma. Many, if not all, cases of inflammatory bowel disease can respond wonderfully to functional medicine concepts and lifestyle changes. The increased risk of cancer with these therapies that suppress the immune system is opposing Mother Nature, and the downstream effects of this are beyond our current knowledge.
Synergy : Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 15 (8), 1101-1108
by James Bogash
Can calprotectin simplify the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome?
Calprotectin is a marker for inflammation of the GI tract and is suggested in this study as a fecal marker to differentiate IBS from inflammatory bowel disease. While this is an easy and effective way to differentiate, I have a problem with this article referring to IBS as a non-organic disease. I would much rather have researchers refer to IBS as a functional disorder. By labeling it as a non-organic disease I envision a condition that is psychogenic in origin, which I do not feel that IBS is. It may be flared by stressful situations, but that hardly constitutes a psychogenic illness.
Entrez-PubMed
by James Bogash
Mucosal Flora in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
This article suggests that patients with IBD have a decreased ability to keep bacteria from growing along the mucosal layer of the gut. A few things to consider here. First, this article does not suggest it, but I would consider the makeup of that flora incredibly important as to the manifestations of the disease. Second, I have seen in several Crohn’s patients that yeast infiltration plays a major role in symptoms. Maybe it is possible that IBD patients have decreased ability to fight off bacteria at the mucosal layer. Maybe in these patients it is incredibly important to maintain high levels of non-pathenogenic bacteria (probiotics) and avoiding lifestyle behaviors that alter that balance negatively…
Gastroenterology — Abstracts: SWIDSINSKI et al. 122 (1): 44
by James Bogash
Antibiotics increase functional abdominal symptoms
Much evidence, both experimental and anecdotal, point to alterations in the physiology of the GI tract as causative factors in IBS. Impaired digestion, poor diet and abnormal/pathogenic flora are all easily modified factors. Antibiotics greatly alter the balance of the flora in the GI tract, favoring the overgrowth of yeasts. Probiotics should follow EVERY course of antibiotics. I really think that antibiotic resistance is the least of our concerns with antibiotic use–alterations in GI physiology and subsequent systemic alterations are much more common and immediate.
by James Bogash
Reduction in diversity of the colonic mucosa associated bacterial microflora in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease
With a switch to a more “sterile” envrionment, we have been oblivious to the concurrent destruction in normal bacterial flora and the role they play in our health and disease. Although they have many other functions such as vit B12 production and detoxifying exogenous chemicals, a major purpose they serve is purely protective: they are territorial and secrete compounds such as lactic acid that inhibit the growth of many other organisms.
Gut — Abstracts: Ott et al. 53 (5): 685 –
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