Ulcerative Colitis Stories – Colitis Symptoms, Colitis Diet, Colitis Information

Below is an email from Bill who doesn’t have UC, but has provided some EXCEEDINGLY VALUABLE information for all of us living with ulcerative colitis. Please read first what Bill wants to make clear to everyone: “Feel free to share any information I have provided with the proviso that you mention that I am not [...]

Here is the write up from Part 6 of the meeting with Les. -Diet -Gut Bacteria – immune system – the hygiene hypothesis(if you haven’t heard of this yet, you will be fascinated) Les: … There isn’t a direct comparison, for example that if you eat this food, its going to have a direct affect [...]

Video 5 From the Interview Meeting with Les covers: Ecoli and Inflammatory Bowel Patients Good bacteria in IBD patients The immune system reactions to good/bad bacteria Bacterias that can actually talk to our immune system and turn them down Probiotics Les: There are studies which have used techniques similar to the ones I’ve used which [...]

The bacteria communities or gut microbes in the people did make a rapid shift after antibiotics were taken. Also, Les notes that the gut microbes (bacteria) a few days after finishing the antibiotics did shift back to a state close to where they were before the antibiotics.

Here’s Les again going into detail about what gut bacteria feeds on, how it thrives, and how the antibiotics affected it. He talks towards the end of the the video about some of the effects the antibiotics had on the patients’ gut bacteria.

A review of how Les examined human stool samples to examine the bacteria before during and after taking antibiotics (Part 2, has some review from part 1)

This post is Part 1 on Gut Bacteria. Les who is a microbiologist just published an incredible study on antibiotics and gut bacteria, this is the video from the beginning our the meeting…

What the heck is going on in our gut?  It seems that one of the answers is: “Millions of reactions per hour”. So, I wanted to let everyone know that next month I will be meeting with a leading scientist in the field of Micro-Biology and Immunology to learn more about the gut and to [...]