For decades, people diagnosed with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis have been told the same three things: the disease is genetic, autoimmune, and ultimately idiopathic—meaning nobody truly knows what causes it. But does today's scientific literature actually support those conclusions?
Josh explains how the very terminology of those 3 words "genetic", "autoimmune", "random" is actually based on misinterpreted or ignored science, and that the narrative of it being impossible to fix, stops people from bothering to look. In this episode, he breaks down the history, the studies and the science to prove that bowel disease is not what they say it is.
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
Challenging the genetic theory of IBD
Questioning the autoimmune classification
Environmental and lifestyle risk factors
Historical evolution of IBD research
Genetics vs. gene expression (environmental influence)
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