New study - gut bacteria

[lawra]

A new study has found that gut bacteria may be the cause of autoimmune diseases and this suggests treatment is possible with antibiotics and vaccines. Sounds promising. Fingers (gently) crossed medicalnewstoday.com/articl...

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[helixhelix]

Over the last few years there's been a lot more interest in the links between gut bacteria (microbiome) and diseases - although there's been investigation into it for many, many years. That has also been the basis of all the leaky gut diets to help control our disease.

Personally from all I've read I think that eventually this will lead to a better understanding of the differences between people's disease and more individual ways of controlling it. I don't think it will be as simple as a "one vaccine for everyone" and RA no longer exists.

I've just had my microbiome tested, and am working my way though all the information to work out what it means...but so far it looks pretty normal compared to others of my age & sex, despite me having RA and taking a shed load of drugs, as I have a hugely long list of different bacteria sharing my body with me!

[roseyx in reply to helixhelix]

Hi Helix

How did you go about having your microbiome tested ?

[BenRees21]

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Was gonna post this!

[Hidden in reply to BenRees21]

Interesting too Ben, cheers. I'd rather take antibiotics than methotrexate or all the other crap we put in our systems 😄

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Agree with helix; this idea's been around for while: Dr T M Brown 1940s. Read The Infection Connection K M Poehlmann, when first diagnosed. I think it's a really interesting idea as seems wrong to me immune system would just start attacking healthy tissue for no reason. I think he advocated antibiotic treatment. Be great if they found cause/cure. Thanks for posting, really interesting.

[Ruth12345]

Interesting reads, thank you ☺

[hawker955]

Lawra,

It was suggested 20 years ago that a high wheat diet encourages the proliferation of bacteria called Klebsiella in the gut and that the antibodies to these increasing bacteria also attack the spinal bone leading to an association with spondylitis in the spine. I've never seen any more about this though.