Natural H. Pylori Treatment and a Brief Overview of its Ill Health Effects & the Scientific Debate About Whether its Eradication Would Necessarily be Good for Us
An H. pylori infection is not exactly a death sentence, but it can still have nasty consequences. Over the past decade H. pylori has repeatedly been in the focus of scientific research. It has been linked with gastric carcinoma (Parsonnet. 1991; Huang. 1998). The summary of odds-ratio of a 198 meta-analysis by Huang et al. for example shows increases of cancer risk of 92%, 124% and 81% in infected patients for all studies, cohort, and case-control studies, respectively. The meta-analysis also found that "H. pylori–infected younger patients have a higher relative risk for gastric cancer than older patients with odds ratios decreasing from 9.29 at age ≤29 years to 1.05 at age ≥70 years." (Huang. 1998). But cancer is only the "worst case" scenario, when it comes to the potential (ill) health effects of being infected with H. pylori. You can learn more about the gut & your health at the SuppVersity Bugs Dictate What You Crave Sweeteners & Your G...
