MTL_t3k t1_iu99gai wrote
Interesting that neither the words 'food' nor 'diet', the means by which the bacterial composition of the gut microbiome is created and can be altered, appear even once in the linked blog post. The word 'treatment', however, appears 4 times.
The role of diet in rheumatoid arthritis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142028/
Suppose it is easier, and not to mention far more profitable, to come up with a 'treatment' than to address the obvious source of the problem.
im_just_another_guy t1_iu9gjw4 wrote
They discovered a new species of bacteria that contributes to arthritis. It would be a separate research project entirely to learn what sort of foods and diets contribute to people acquiring the bacteria.
Understanding how the disease begins is the first step to treating it, and ultimately preventing it. There is nothing sinister here, this is the incremental progress that needs to happen in medicine.
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