jaym1212

Question for Randall and others: I was wondering how inulin compares
to sweet dairy whey in improving gut flora, especially for a diabetic.
Does lactose raise blood glucose more than inulin? Is lactose better
for acidophilus? Is inulin better for bifidobacteria? Would you
recommend taking both whey and inulin? Are bifidobacteria better then
acidophilus since mother's milk primarily transfers bifidobacteria and
not acidophilus? Is whey as acceptable for persons allergic to
homogenized/pasteurized milk and cheese?

Having experienced good results with FiberChoice, an inulin based
fiber supplement, I have been looking for less expensive, bulk
quantity, pure inulin powder without other sugars. Inulin is a
prebiotic that helps improve gut flora by feeding bifidobacteria. To
my surprise, ORAFTI recently began selling high DP (>23) inulin
directly to customers by calling 610-889-9828.

1 lb of Raftiline HP-Gel $10
3 lb of Raftiline HP-Gel $17

http://www.orafti.com/orafti/oraftia...line&Raftilose

Does anyone know of a better source for high DP inulin?

ranhub11

Good question. I don't know. I do know that i don't get along with dairy. Or
should i say my p doesn't. I do do better with sweet whey (proflora) then with
out it, p wise.

I wouldn't mind finding out. If i could get my hands on a few killo's of
chicory root extract,
http://www.aloha.com/~craven/chicory.jpg


Thanks for the tiP!

Prices don't look to far outa line either.

&maincat=OurProducts&cat=Raftiline&Raftilose


I'm glad to see the socratic method is alive and well.


Bravo! Your telling (sorta) not selling.
Jaym1212 sets the bar higher. Will the
inulin prove as helpful?

Gotta love it!


randall

jxstern

So, that's not a typo?

http://www.stonyfield.com/Wellness/I...tiveHealth.cfm

Hmm.

J.

ranhub11

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/14/he...ted=1&ei=5070&
en=8d63b5a9acddacb5&ex=1097640000

or try,
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont...1c20brody.html

While p is mitigated more so in the small intestines from my studies, the
large
does also have its effects.

Yet by keeping the downstream, so to speak, large intestines in good order, one
does
a body good. Immune wise of course. randall

ranhub11

Wrong word completely. Talk about a tyPo. Cooked up with TNF is more like it.


Butt why,

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/?newsid=13404

Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases

Ghent – Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for
Biotechnology (VIB) at Ghent University are joining the fight against
chronic intestinal disease with a genetically modified bacterium
(Lactococcus lactis). The modified bacterium is able to produce
medication right in the intestine. This is often the crux of the
problem: a number of medicines are presumed to be effective, but until
now it has been impossible to get them into the intestine in a simple
manner. The researchers have shown that the genetically modified
bacterium is able to manufacture the potential medicine, Trefoil
Factors, in the intestines of diseased mice.

A typically Western disease

Chronic intestinal inflammations, such as Crohn's disease, are
occurring with increasing frequency, striking young adults in
particular. In an advanced stage of such inflammations, patients can
eat only via catheters.

Crohn's disease has been on the rise in recent years: it is estimated
that in Western Europe 2 persons in 1000 suffer from it. This
typically Western disease appears almost exclusively in the
industrialized world, and more often in cities than in the country.

Genetically modified Lactococcus

In its natural form, the Lactococcus lactis bacterium is a house,
garden, and kitchen bacterium. Dairy product manufacturers use large
quantities of the bacterium to ferment milk when making hard cheeses.
The VIB researchers came up with the idea of using the bacterium as a
producer of a remedy for intestinal inflammations. They placed the DNA
with the code for a potential medicine inside the DNA of the
bacterium. The genetically modified bacterium could then produce the
therapeutic protein itself. In 2003, the VIB researchers succeeded in
having the Lactococcus manufacture the anti-inflammatory agent IL-10.
The IL-10 bacterium shows great promise in the battle against chronic
inflammations and is now being tested on patients.

Klaas Vandenbroucke and his VIB colleagues, under the direction of
Pieter Rottiers and Erik Remaut, took the earlier research further and
placed the mouse gene with the code for mouse 'trefoil factors' (TFF)
into the Lactococcus. TFF play an important role in the protection and
healing of the epithelium - the inner wall - of the stomach-
intestinal system. They also play a role in the construction of the
stomach-intestinal tract. This structural function ensures that TFF
never arrives in the intestine through oral administration, because
along the way it attaches itself somewhere in the stomach-intestinal
tract. This was also demonstrated in the tests on mice with acute
enteritis: oral administration of TFF had no effect, but rectal
administration did. Still, neither of the two methods of
administration could match the impressive recovery of the mice
following oral administration of the TFF bacteria.

The researchers also used the TFF bacteria to treat mice with chronic
enteritis, which proved to be successful as well. This research
confirms the findings from the earlier VIB research (under the
direction of Lothar Steidler and Erik Remaut) concerning the
therapeutic action of IL-10 bacteria. Thus, this method of working
with genetically modified bacteria offers promising prospects for the
treatment of both acute and chronic intestinal inflammation, and it
can potentially be extended to other therapeutics as well.

Given that this research can raise a lot of questions for patients, we
ask you to please refer questions in your report or article to the
email address that VIB makes available for this purpose:
patienteninfo@vib.be. Everyone can submit questions concerning this
and other medically-oriented research directly to VIB via this
address.

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What does iL-10 do for psoriasis?

Unskews the Th1 and clears you uP!!!

Have at it if you wish, http://groups.google.com/groups?q=iL-10+psoriasis&hl=en