Crohn's Disease: A gift from the dairy industry?

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Crohn's Disease: A gift from the dairy industry?


Crohn’s is a terrible, painful and often embarrassing condition that can involve any component of the digestive system. In 1996 the Director of the National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease said that the best way to describe Crohn’s to someone not suffering from the disease was to have them remember their worse stomach flu and then imagine living with it every day.

In essence Crohn’s takes place within the immune system and attacks the lining of the gut, causing swelling and inflammation. Symptoms can be from mild to severe and include uncontrollable diarrhoea, stomach pains, vomiting and excruciating pain during digestion.

Although not yet accepted as fact, leading specialists are beginning to think that Crohn’s may be caused by exposure to dairy products coming from cows suffering with Johne’s Disease.

Even Kennedy Dalziel, the Scottish surgeon who was first to clearly describe Crohn’s guessed at this in 1913 when he wrote in the British Medical Journal 25 October 1913:1058-70) that the characteristics of Crohn’s and Johne’s disease were:

"so similar as to justify a proposition that the diseases may be the same."

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Crohn's Disease: A gift from the dairy industry?
Crohn’s is a terrible, painful and often embarrassing condition that can involve any component of the digestive system. In 1996 the Director of the National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease said that the best way to describe Crohn’s to someone not suffering from the disease was to have them remember their worse stomach flu and then imagine living with it every day.

In essence Crohn’s takes place within the immune system and attacks the lining of the gut, causing swelling and inflammation. Symptoms can be from mild to severe and include uncontrollable diarrhoea, stomach pains, vomiting and excruciating pain during digestion.

Although not yet accepted as fact, leading specialists are beginning to think that Crohn’s may be caused by exposure to dairy products coming from cows suffering with Johne’s Disease.

Even Kennedy Dalziel, the Scottish surgeon who was first to clearly describe Crohn’s guessed at this in 1913 when he wrote in the British Medical Journal 25 October 1913:1058-70) that the characteristics of Crohn’s and Johne’s disease were:

"so similar as to justify a proposition that the diseases may be the same."

Now, decades later, it has been determined that cows with Johne’s Disease infect their milk with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis which, it appears, can infect humans that ingest these products and create irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s Disease. The Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1992;30(12):3070-3073 said,

"It is reasonable to conjecture that M. paratuberculosis may be responsible for some cases of Crohn's disease."

Later that year they went on to say,

"Of 77 milk samples (taken from cows with Johne's disease), 11.6% were culture-positive (contained M. paratubercolosis)."

And then in 1993 they added,

"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was isolated from tissue taken from patients with Crohn's disease and is implicated in the etiology of this disease."

And then, in February 1998 J Herman Taylor said in the British Medical Journal,

"Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis crosses the species barrier to infect and cause disease in humans."

And, N. Sung, Applied and Environmental Microbiology: 64(3), Mar 1998:

"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is capable of surviving commercial pasteurization, when there are more than 10 bacteria per millilitre in raw milk."

D. Mishina, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA :93: September, 1996:

"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis RNA was found in 100% of Crohn's disease patients, compared with 0% of controls."

In The Paleo Diet, Loren Cordain postulates, and gives one indicative example, that a return to the original hominid way of life is an effective answer for Crohn’s sufferers. The woman in his example experiences a almost immediate 90% reduction in symptoms and after two years claims to be completely symptom free.

In his book, Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World is Making Us Sick (P. 174), Noel Boaz says:

“People who eat normal, non-western diets do not get either ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. These are diseases of civilization, and they have a high environmental causation component to them.”

While Crohn’s may be caused by a one-off exposure to infected milk products, it appears that ongoing suffering can be reduced or ended by living in accordance with our bodies' original design specification. This means, of course, a diet of lean meats and unprocessed plant foods combined with a rational amount of exercise.

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