Gut microbe H.pylori might curb multiple sclerosis risk....

[MSUK]

Gut microbe H.pylori might curb multiple sclerosis risk in women

A common gut microbe might curb the risk of developing multiple sclerosis—at least in women—suggests the largest study of its kind published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

If confirmed in other studies, this might prove the hygiene hypothesis, the premise of which is that childhood infections help to prime and regulate the immune system and ward off autoimmune and allergic diseases in later life, say the researchers......... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/bacteriaandviruses