are you aware that higher vitamin d status helps fight H Pylori infection?
are you aware that
higher magnesium intake helps fight H pylori infections.
Are you aware of the role of probiotics in fighting H Pylori?
High intake of selenium, beta-carotene, and vitamins A, C, and E reduces growth of Helicobacter pylori in the guinea pig.
The efficacy of Helicobacter pylori eradication regimen with and without vitamin C supplementation.To raise vitamin c in plasma levels and keep it raise you have to understand the half life of vit c is 30mins. So knowing this you need to use TIME RELEASE forumulations ONLY. Anything else is pouring money down the loo. You also need to plan one taking 500mg every 4hrs through the day with a double time release dose before going to bed.
The hypothesis that H pylori colonization might confer protection against various other infectious diseases has recently been of interest. In support of this concept, a recent study has shown that another chronic infection (latent herpesvirus) conferred resistance to infection with 2 bacterial pathogens in a mouse model.
Several studies have suggested that H pylori protects against diarrheal diseases, although this relation has not been consistently observed.
Mechanisms for protection might include production of antibacterial peptides by H pylori or the host, activating the immune system as an adjuvant, competition for niche, or hypergastrinemia leading to maintenance of gastric acidity throughout childhood.
Recent studies in West Africa, where tuberculosis is endemic, have indicated that H pylori–positive persons are less likely to reactivate latent tubercular infections.
By providing partial protection against infectious diseases common in childhood, there would be strong selection for the presence of H pylori.
If H pylori increased morbidity or mortality because of other infectious diseases, then there would have been a very powerful selection against its presence. As the incidence of childhood infectious diseases declines, so too would the positive selective pressure for maintenance of H pylori in human populations.
The introduction of clean water supplies, improved sanitation, and less crowding into human populations have resulted in a decreased incidence of lethal diarrheal diseases; these changes would be expected to result in reduced H pylori transmission and reduced selection for maintenance of H pylori.