Re: Probiotics in PSC pilot study

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THanks Barb.Please take care of yourself and Ken. I know we are all thinking of you and thatyou should be thinking at all of the support group is amazing.All my best wishes for Ken to start getting good news.LeeI'm sorry if this has already been posted, I'm having a bit of trouble keeping with up posts.

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The study says it doesn't help, but they only evaluated clinical

symptoms for a period of a month. Maybe that's enough time, but it

seems to me that if the goal is life extension then the real benefit

might take longer to show itself. Just a thought.

I've been on a really good probiotic for a few years now; it totally

cleared up my colitis so any benefit for the PSC is just gravy though,

for the record, I can't say I've seen any improvement on that front.

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> IBD in 90% of PSC patients, suggesting that substances originating

> from the inflamed gut may damage the biliary tree......

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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18679073

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> Barb in Texas

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