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anonymous

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I have a question about a theory I heard once....How many of you actually have ever had a "gastrointestinal infection", stomach flu, bacterial, whatever. I am not talking about stomach problems from not digesting, pancreatitis, or drinking too much. An actual stomach flu, think hard!

As far as I can think back I had never had one, there is a theoretical CF reason for this, I am just interested in what you say!



Luke 29/cf and immuned to GI infections
 
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anonymous

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the theory is that CF "evolved" in Europe back in the day when intestinal infections were killing everyone, cholera and such.
We have a choloride shift issue, what happens when you get a bug in your gut? You get diarreah. It isn't the bug that does it neccessarily, it is the bodies reaction to it. The body attempts to "flush" it out...ours doesn't it just harbors it. So we have the bug, just none of the bodies side effects. That is why CF is a normally a caucasion disease.

An interesting side note, people that have sickle cell anemia are "immuned" to malaria, sickle cell is a genetic hemoglobin dysfunction that typically only effects african americans, no doubt evolving in countries where malaria is prevalent!


Luke
 
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