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To: oldberkeley who wrote (42374)	10/28/2014 4:31:49 PM
From: Robohogs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52153

No, he would not do the surgery himself. He would simply give the person vitamin D instead. Come on, get with the program! Lol. Jon

To: oldberkeley who wrote (42374)	10/28/2014 4:37:42 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 52153

LOL Why would you think that? All doctors are salesmen. Most surgeons are realist still hopefully naive. How long ago did they believe bacteria could not survive in the human gut? When did knee surgeons discover a new ligament? This new ligament was written up by a surgeon 150 years ago. Surgeons describe new ligament in the human knee Date: November 5, 2013 Source: KU Leuven Summary: Two knee surgeons in Belgium have provided the first full anatomical description of a previously enigmatic ligament in the human knee. The ligament appears to play an important role in patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. Now adays if your smart enough to eat shit you may live disease free. I believe this treatment will work for all auto immune disease.. Popping Frozen Poop Pills Can Stave Off Dangerous Bacterial Infections 11,234 1 George Dvorsky Profile Follow George Dvorsky Filed to: MEDICINE SCIENCE POOP PILLS FECAL TRANSPLANTS CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE MICROBIOME POOP 10/14/14 6:00pm Share to Kinja Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Go to permalink EXPAND 1 Fecal transplants are an effective way to combat C. difficile infections, but they're typically delivered by enema or a tube down the digestive system. Not pleasant. But thankfully, scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital have now made the healing powers of poop available in pill form. Fecal transplants work by revitalizing healthy intestinal microbial activity. Essentially, by introducing uncontaminated microbes from a donated stool sample (typically from another family member), doctors have shown that a healthy intestinal microbiome can be re-established. Trouble is, the delivery mechanism leaves much to be desired. Typically, fecal transplants are done by snaking a tube down the nose and into the stomach. But getting the tube down is not easy, and there's always the chance that the patient will gag and vomit, increasing the risk of inhaling the fecal matter. Which got researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital wondering if a poop pill could serve as a viable alternative. Karl Engelking from Discover Magazine reports: The pills...start with stool from healthy donors in a saline solution. The contents are filtered to extract helpful bacteria, and the cocktail is then piped into pill capsules and subsequently frozen. Patients pop the pills straight out of the freezer, where they can be stored for up to 250 days. In a small and preliminary trial, the pills cured the diarrhea symptoms in 19 out of 20 people with mild to moderate C. difficile infections. Each patient popped 30 of the pills over a two-day period, and their bowel movements fell from a median of 5 per day to 1 per day eight weeks later. Fourteen of the 20 patients were cured after the first two-day treatment, and five others — sicker than the rest — were cured after a second two-day, 30-pill treatment. Further, not a single participant showed adverse side effects due to the pills. Researchers published their findings Saturday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Now, the team from Boston isn't the first to put poop in pill form, but they are the first to test its efficacy. Much more at Discover Magazine, New York Times, and NRP. Read the entire study at JAMA: " Oral, Capsulized, Frozen Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Relapsing Clostridium difficile Infection". Image: Hohmann Labs Having read about Gary Null and his experience and Dr. Reed and his study from the 1930s, I thank Dr. Reed everyday as I take my D3.