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To: neverdem
In the meantime, you'd be surprised what fresh aloe flesh can do in similar situations.

My local supermarket has big leaves of aloe for just 99 cents.

Now that's medical value!

No doubt the sugars in aloe work the same.

Maybe that's what gave them the idea.

3 posted on 08/22/2009 1:45:31 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: norraad
No doubt the sugars in aloe work the same.

Maybe that's what gave them the idea.

"Now, microbiologist Simon Carding of the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, UK, and his team have engineered the gut bacterium Bacteroides ovatus to carry a gene that encodes the therapeutic protein keratinocyte growth factor-2, which has a crucial role in maintaining and repairing the intestinal lining. Crucially, the protein is expressed only when the bacteria are fed with xylan."

My guess is that the aloe works directly as an anti-inflammatory, IMHO.

5 posted on 08/22/2009 2:06:11 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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