UpstairsImagination2
UpstairsImagination2 t1_iu8hj02 wrote
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No, that's not how the immune system works
UpstairsImagination2 t1_iu8heau wrote
Reply to comment by UpstairsImagination2 in Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis by geoxol
Not that her symptoms didn't improve from the antibiotics, I'm just suggesting that this mechanism isn't plausibly why they improved
UpstairsImagination2 t1_iu8hap9 wrote
Reply to comment by ChronicWombat in Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis by geoxol
That may be the case, but it doesn't follow that a course of antibiotics, implying reduction in certain species of gut bacteria, would immediately (if at all) reduce levels of the antibodies that cause rheumatoid or other autoimmune diseases.
UpstairsImagination2 t1_iu8hm7f wrote
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