Re: Helicobacter (was amalgams~ my experiences)

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Christa wrote:

> I am reminded of theory years

>ago that circulated the medical community about what caused

>ulcers.

>For the longest time we always kept hearing about diet and stress

>being the possible cause...until one doctor finally proved...by

>using

>himself as a guinea pig....that stomach ulcers were caused by a

>specific pathogen. Diet and stress only made the symptoms

>worse...but they were not the cause. I am beginning to wonder if

>something similar may be going on here.

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I think you may have misunderstood. The helicobacter bacterium is

indeed present in many stomach ulcers, but it is not necessarily the

cause, just as eliminating this microbe may not cure the ulcer.

Sorry

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IRA L. JACOBSON

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