Archives for January 2019

Our Gut ~ The Enemy Within

Bacteria found in the small intestines of mice and humans can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response, according to a new study.

The researchers also found that the autoimmune reaction can be suppressed with an antibiotic or vaccine designed to target the bacteria, they said.

The findings from Yale University, published in Science, suggest promising new approaches for treating chronic autoimmune conditions, including systemic lupus and autoimmune liver disease, the researchers said.

Gut bacteria have been linked to a range of diseases, including autoimmune conditions characterized by immune system attack of healthy tissue.

To shed light on this link, a Yale research team focused on Enterococcus gallinarum, a bacterium they discovered is able to spontaneously “translocate” outside of the gut to lymph nodes, the liver, and spleen.

In models of genetically susceptible mice, the researchers observed that in tissues outside the gut, E. gallinarum initiated the production of auto-antibodies and inflammation — hallmarks of the autoimmune response.

They confirmed the same mechanism of inflammation in cultured liver cells of healthy people, and the presence of this bacterium in livers of patients with autoimmune disease. Read Full Report

“Reported by The Times”

“A daily dose of baking soda could help patients with chronic kidney disease avoid having to undergo dialysis,” reported The Times . It said that research has found that sodium bicarbonate can dramatically slow the progress of the condition.

The newspaper said that patients given a small daily dose of sodium bicarbonate over a year, had only two-thirds of the decline in kidney function experienced by people given usual care.

This randomised controlled trial found that people with both chronic kidney disease and metabolic acidosis (low blood bicarbonate/high blood acidity) benefited from oral bicarbonate supplements over a two-year period.

The study has some shortcomings, but provides strong evidence that these supplements could be used in treatment. The researchers have called for further research to confirm their findings.

LONDON NHS Trust research.

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The wonders of Sodium Bicarbonate which the drug companies do not want you to know…..

“Sodium Bicarbonate is the monosodium salt of carbonic acid with alkalinizing and electrolyte replacement properties.

Upon dissociation, sodium icarbonateforms sodium and bicarbonate ions. Ion formation increases plasma bicarbonate and buffers excess hydrogen ion concentration, resulting in raised blood pH.”

“Also indicated orally to provide symptomatic relief of upset stomach associated with hyperacidity.

It may also be used in the treatment of the symptoms of peptic ulcer disease. /Included in US product labeling/”

“Oral sodium bicarbonate is indicated to reduce uric acid crystallization as an adjuvant to uricosuric medication in gout. /Included in US product labeling/”

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Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease: study

A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say.

They have some of the first evidence of how the cheap, over-the-counter antacid can encourage our spleen to promote instead an anti-inflammatory environment that could be therapeutic in the face of inflammatory disease, Medical College of Georgia scientists report in the Journal of Immunology.

They have shown that when rats or healthy people drink a solution of baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, it becomes a trigger for the stomach to make more acid to digest the next meal and for little-studied mesothelial cells sitting on the spleen to tell the fist-sized organ that there’s no need to mount a protective immune response.

“It’s most likely a hamburger not a bacterial infection,” is basically the message, says Dr. Paul O’Connor, renal physiologist in the MCG Department of Physiology at Augusta University and the study’s corresponding author.

Mesothelial cells line body cavities, like the one that contains our digestive tract, and they also cover the exterior of our organs to quite literally keep them from rubbing together.

About a decade ago, it was found that these cells also provide another level of protection. They have little fingers, called microvilli, that sense the environment, and warn the organs they cover that there is an invader and an immune response is needed.

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Astrology and Your Health

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