More subjects? Damn.
My aunt has Crohn's disease.
For some reason her immune system is destroying her intestines.
She has had multiple operations to remove fucked up sections of intestine and colon tissue. What little bit is left is riddled with holes and fissures. These fissures are like scar tissues that connect one peice of intestine to another so when something is moving around in there it tugs and pulls and really hurts a lot.
She has had to have a permanent colostomy bag attached to her side because she doesn't have enough guts to make it to her asshole anymore.
To slow the progress of this doctors put her on immune system depressing drugs to stop her body from eating itself. Well you kind of need your immune system. So the doctors put her on all kinds of other drugs to do the job of her defunct immune system.
She can't work, she can't even go out shopping. She spends every day of her life on her couch watching television and taking her drugs.
I've grown used to moans and groans of crippling pain that prevents you from moving around normally.
It's a good thing she has the colostomy bag because sometimes she's not able to get up and walk to the bathroom anyway.
On top of all her other drugs she is also taking numerous anti-depressants and pain killers, some prescribed some not.
Her life is pretty much fucked up and it's not going to get any better.
I was doing research on Crohn's disease to see if any new breakthroughs were in development. I found a few treatments that looked promising but one thing I found really caught my eye.
Some cows have a disease called Johne's disease.
You take the intestines of a cow with Johne's disease and my aunt's intestines, put them side by side and they look the same.
Turns out Johne's disease is the cow version of Crohn's disease.
Johne's is caused by Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis that actually gets inside the cells of the intestinal wall causing the cow's immune system to attack those cells.
This bacteria gets into the cow's milk and can survive commercial pasteurization.
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"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is capable of surviving commercial pasteurization, when there are more than 10 bacteria per millilitre in raw milk."
N. Sung, Applied and Environmental Microbiology: 64(3), Mar 1998.
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"Of 77 milk samples (taken from cows with Johne's disease), 11.6% were culture-positive (contained M. paratubercolosis)."
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1992;30(1):166-171
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Also Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis can cross the species barrier and infect and cause disease in human beings, according to J Herman Taylor of the British Medical Journal (Feb 1998.315)
And here's probably the most shocking peice of information and pretty much the clincher for me on this issue.
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"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis RNA was found in 100% of Crohn's disease patients, compared with 0% of controls."
D. Mishina, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA :93: September, 1996
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That stuff only makes it into about 11.6% of milk samples taken from infected cows. That's just the infected cows so infected milk in the grocery has got to be pretty rare, yet ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of Crohn's patients in the National Academy of Sciences' study had been infected with it. Whereas NONE of the control group had the bacteria.
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"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was isolated from tissue taken from patients with Crohn's disease and is implicated in the etiology of this disease."
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1993, May 31(5)
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Now, do we see any kind of warning on milk jugs?
"Warning this product may cause your intestines to rot away while you shit in a bag and pump yourself full of drugs just to keep your shitty pain filled life"
That's pretty fucked up.
For some reason her immune system is destroying her intestines.
She has had multiple operations to remove fucked up sections of intestine and colon tissue. What little bit is left is riddled with holes and fissures. These fissures are like scar tissues that connect one peice of intestine to another so when something is moving around in there it tugs and pulls and really hurts a lot.
She has had to have a permanent colostomy bag attached to her side because she doesn't have enough guts to make it to her asshole anymore.
To slow the progress of this doctors put her on immune system depressing drugs to stop her body from eating itself. Well you kind of need your immune system. So the doctors put her on all kinds of other drugs to do the job of her defunct immune system.
She can't work, she can't even go out shopping. She spends every day of her life on her couch watching television and taking her drugs.
I've grown used to moans and groans of crippling pain that prevents you from moving around normally.
It's a good thing she has the colostomy bag because sometimes she's not able to get up and walk to the bathroom anyway.
On top of all her other drugs she is also taking numerous anti-depressants and pain killers, some prescribed some not.
Her life is pretty much fucked up and it's not going to get any better.
I was doing research on Crohn's disease to see if any new breakthroughs were in development. I found a few treatments that looked promising but one thing I found really caught my eye.
Some cows have a disease called Johne's disease.
You take the intestines of a cow with Johne's disease and my aunt's intestines, put them side by side and they look the same.
Turns out Johne's disease is the cow version of Crohn's disease.
Johne's is caused by Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis that actually gets inside the cells of the intestinal wall causing the cow's immune system to attack those cells.
This bacteria gets into the cow's milk and can survive commercial pasteurization.
------------------------------------------------------------
"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is capable of surviving commercial pasteurization, when there are more than 10 bacteria per millilitre in raw milk."
N. Sung, Applied and Environmental Microbiology: 64(3), Mar 1998.
------------------------------------------------------------
"Of 77 milk samples (taken from cows with Johne's disease), 11.6% were culture-positive (contained M. paratubercolosis)."
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1992;30(1):166-171
------------------------------------------------------------
Also Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis can cross the species barrier and infect and cause disease in human beings, according to J Herman Taylor of the British Medical Journal (Feb 1998.315)
And here's probably the most shocking peice of information and pretty much the clincher for me on this issue.
-------------------------------------------------------------
"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis RNA was found in 100% of Crohn's disease patients, compared with 0% of controls."
D. Mishina, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA :93: September, 1996
--------------------------------------------------------------
That stuff only makes it into about 11.6% of milk samples taken from infected cows. That's just the infected cows so infected milk in the grocery has got to be pretty rare, yet ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of Crohn's patients in the National Academy of Sciences' study had been infected with it. Whereas NONE of the control group had the bacteria.
--------------------------------------------------------------
"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was isolated from tissue taken from patients with Crohn's disease and is implicated in the etiology of this disease."
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1993, May 31(5)
--------------------------------------------------------------
Now, do we see any kind of warning on milk jugs?
"Warning this product may cause your intestines to rot away while you shit in a bag and pump yourself full of drugs just to keep your shitty pain filled life"
That's pretty fucked up.