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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?smid=pl-share
...we don't have enough or the right kind of bacteria in our guts.
...we don't have enough or the right kind of bacteria in our guts.
I've been with FM a long time. Iw as told it's my sex, my diet (vegetarian organic), my age, my psychology, EBV, XMRV (NOT!), so on and so on....
We are very complex critters, I'm glad htey're enthused about this, but really, show me a large well-designed double-blind study of fecal transplants in FM patients (and I mean at least 5000 people), and IBS patients, and so on... B/c while serotonin is important, a healthy gut hasn't stopped anyone having FM or depression, so ti's not that simple IMHO. Bio and chem labs were my love back in the day, and it's no shock to me that a disturbed gut disturbs the rest of us (witness celiac patients) but honestly, I'm not hopping on this band wagon any more than I did XMRV or DNA or EBV or the rest. FM has subtypes that science hasnt' yet categorized, and may even so always be a problem caused by multiple factors not just one or two.
There. THat almost didn't get deleted.
One woman's humble opinion.