Thu, Mar-05-09, 22:37
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Posts: 5,160
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Plan: Weston A. Price, GFCF
Stats: 165/133/132
BF:?/12.7%/?
Progress: 97%
Location: Philadelphia
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Slightly offtopic, but I think you might find this interesting. I noticed an article on Hyperlipid about endotoxin. Apparently there's a new theory about why we get overgrowth of harmful organisms after a course of antibiotics:
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot....-endotoxin.html
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The concept is very simple, you kill off the susceptible commensal bacteria in the gut and resistant pathogens have no competition, so they have a field day and superinfection causes severe problems for the unlucky patient.
Simple, straightforward and wrong.
It turns out that the immune system, that is the innate immune system (of course), continuously monitors the contents of the gut by looking at endotoxin production. Lots of bacteria mean lots of endotoxin and an active, on-guard innate immune system. Kill off 99% of your gut bacteria and exdotoxin production drops. The innate immune system goes on vacation and clostridium difficile gets in and wipes out your granny.
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