One of the biggest new stories in medicine is the relationship between the gut bacteria, also known as the microbiotome, and your health.
In previous posts I have mentioned how changes in these germs can increase risk for:
- Obesity
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Melanoma
Now more provocative information has been published.
Microbiotome can affect your response to Cancer Chemotherapy:
In an immune therapy for Melanoma, researchers found that only in the presence of a certain gut bacteria would the therapy be able to cure the cancer!
Anthony L. Komaroff, MD Reviewing Snyder A et al., Science 2015 Nov 27; 350:1031
Also, stool transplants (frozen capsules of stool bacteria) has become the most effective treatment for a potentially fatal colon infection (Clostridium).
The medical has been responding to this news - antibiotic use has decreased by about 25% between 2000 and 2011 in the US,
Thomas Glück, MD Reviewing Frenk SM et al., J Antimicrob Chemother 2015 Oct 12
Look for more news as we learn more about the unique relationship between gut microbiotome and disease. One day forms or probiotics will become adjunctive or primary treatment for many diseases!
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