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GUT INSTINCT perhaps its time to change the focus

We’re all familiar with the term “gut feeling”. As it turns out, the term may be more apt than we realize. In recent years, research has increasingly identified the role the gut can have on mood and behavior, leading many scientists to refer to the gut as the “second brain”. Now, for the first time, researchers have found conclusive evidence that conditions such as anxiety can originate in the gut instead of the brain.

http://www.tbyil.com/Anxiety_in_the_Gut.htm

Wait for it…Oh dear its pooh well thats what the guts about I guess,I like the humour interjection in this snippet  read on and smile.

I’m not making this up.

A few years ago, John Gillies had trouble picking up his grandchild. He would stand frozen, waiting for his Parkinson’s disease to relinquish its hold and allow him to move. Then in May 2008, Gillies was given antibiotics to treat constipation, and astonishingly his Parkinson’s symptoms abated. What on earth was going on?

Thomas Borody , a gastroenterologist at the Centre for Digestive Diseases < http://www.cdd.com.au/ > in New South Wales, Australia, put Gillies on antibiotics because he had found that constipation can be caused by an infection of the colon. “He has now been seen by two neurologists, who cannot detect classic Parkinson’s disease symptoms any more,” says Borody.

Borody’s observations, together with others, suggest that many conditions, from Parkinson’s to metabolic disorders such as obesity,might be caused by undesirable changes in the microbes of the gut. If that is true, it might be possible to alleviate symptoms withantibiotics, or even faecal transplants < http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827911.100-taboo-transplant-how
-new-poo-defeats-superbugs.html > using donor faeces to restore the bowel flora to a healthy state.

Yes.  Poop transplants.

To test a possible link between the gut and Parkinson’s disease, Borody and neurologist David Rosen of the Prince of Wales Private Hospital in Sydney are embarking on a pilot study, hoping to recruit people with both constipation and Parkinson’s. The plan is first to treat them with antibiotics and eventually with faecal transplants. They hope both faecal transplants and antibiotics will treat gut infection and hence Parkinson’s.

Rosen is cautious: “I wouldn’t for one minute be suggesting that this is the next cure,” he says. But the idea that Parkinson’s could be caused by bacteria dovetails with work by neuroanatomists Heiko Braak and Kelly Del Tredici at the University of Ulm in Germany.

There is no one more devoted to finding a cure for Parkinson’s that yours truly.  I’ve undergone experimental brain surgery as part of a clinical trial looking for new and better ways to treat, reverse, and perhaps cure Parkinson’s.

But no.  No.  No.

No poopyplants for Billy!

Slate magazine takes a look at this phenomenon from a non-parky poop POV.

The donor takes a stool softener the night before and then gives a full morning bowel movement to the recipient, who takes it to a doctor for screening. It’s important to make sure that the sample doesn’t contain any parasites or other pathogens, such as hepatitis, salmonella, or HIV. Once the transplant material has been cleared, the doctor mixes it with saline to make about a pint of liquid with the consistency of a milkshake. This is pumped into the patient’s colon using a colonoscope or endoscope, or siphoned into the stomach via a nasogastric tube. (The latter method is considered more dangerous, since there’s a chance feces will end up in the lungs. Colonoscopies carry their own risk of bowel perforation.)

Eeew.  I will never look at a chocolate malt the same way again!

The Slate article continues…

And then there’s the do-it-yourself crowd. All you need is a bottle of saline, a 2-quart enema bag, and one standard kitchen blender. Mike Silverman, a University of Toronto physician who wrote up a guide to homespun fecal transplants for the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, says it’s entirely safe to do the procedure this way, provided that a doctor gets involved at some point to screen the donor sample. He felt he needed to draw up the instructions because administrators at his hospital wouldn’t allow their doctors to perform a procedure that hasn’t been validated in a large, peer-reviewed study.

My recommendation?  Don’t try this at home.

Am I saying this won’t work?  Nope.  Not saying that.  Just saying that if you come after me with the idea of putting someone else’s poop in my colon, you’d better bring some ropes, some sedatives, and a lot of strong friends to hold me down.

See, fact of the matter is, I’m already irritable — even WITHOUT the Parkinson’s disease.

I take shit from NO ONE!

written by parky pundit link below

http://www.wellsphere.com/parkinson-s-disease-article/fecal-transplants-might-cure-pd-no-sh-t-and-i-mean-that/1343322

January 23, 2012 - Posted by admin | Parkinsons Disease | cause, gut