Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND See book keywords and concepts | | As suggestive as the animal studies are in linking ulcerative colitis with carrageenan, and despite the increased consumption of carrageenan in Western diets, there appears to be no correlation between human consumption of carrageenan and development of ulcerative colitis at this time. No lesions of IBD were observed in healthy human subjects fed enormous quantities of degraded carrageenan.40 However, differences in intestinal bacterial flora are probably responsible for this discrepancy, as germ-free animals do not display carrageenan-induced damage. | Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts | As suggestive as the animal studies are in linking ulcerative colitis with carrageenan, no lesions of IBD were observed in healthy human subjects fed enormous quantities of degraded carrageenan.31 However, differences in intestinal bacterial flora are probably responsible for this discrepancy, as germ-free animals do not display carrageenan-induced damage either.
The bacteria that has been linked to facilitating the carrageenan-induced damage in animals is a strain of Bacteroides vulgatus. |
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