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Clostridium difficile

Horizon on allergies

28/08/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  12 Comments

I have to admit to turning on last night's Horizon programme on allergies with a bit of a sinking heart – expecting the usual perfectly worthy but not really helpful selection of talking heads. But indeed not! Led by the wonderfully avuncular but authoritative Prof. Graham Rook, …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Environmental Issues, Food, Food/Health PolicyTag: allergies: Modern Life and Me, bacterial population of the gut, BBC Horizon programme, Caesarean sections, clostridia cocleatum, Clostridium difficile, Fecal Microbiota transplants, FMT, Foodsmatter, Horizon on allergies, importance of good bacteria, John Scott, microbiome, microbiota, over use of antibiotics, parasite, parasites and the immune system, Professor Graham rook

FMTs (otherwise known as poo) to be treated as a drug

20/08/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  5 Comments

Over the past several years there has been a growing interest in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – the 'transplantation' of healthy-bacteria-filled faeces from a well person's gut  into the guts of those suffering from a range of inflammatory digestive and bowel conditions whose …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, Food/Health PolicyTag: American Gastroenterological Association, bowel bacteria, bowel flora, Clostridium difficile, complexity of the microbiome, Crohn's disease, faecal transplants, faecal transplants not patentable, FDA's Public Health Service, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, FMT, FoodsMatter on FMT, healthy bowel bacteria, Investigational New Drug (IND) applications, John Scott, microbiome, Second Genome, synergistic relationship of the microbiome, Ulcerative colitis

Poop Tales

09/01/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Although I am writing this on a Sunday morning, I trust that you will not actually read it until after you have enjoyed your Sunday lunch... But although your initial reaction may be – 'ugh, gross...' – I do suggest that you read on! It was, of course, John Scott, the parasite …

Category: UncategorizedTag: Clostridium difficile, Conventional medicine, Digestive conditions, John Scott, The Scientist, Thomas Borody

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