Australians Lead the World in Gastroenterology

Two Australian physicians, Robin Warren and Barry Marshall, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that ulcers are caused by a bacterium called “Helicobacter pylori,” and not by stress. Dr. Robin Warren and Dr. Barry Marshall currently work in Perth, Australia.

One of the first doctors to seriously consider the work of Drs. Warren and Marshall, who just won the Nobel Prize for reporting that a bacterium, and not stress, caused ulcers, was Dr. Thomas Borody. In fact, Dr. Borody was one of many who filled out an application recommending Drs. Warren and Marshall for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Dr. Bradley Hennenfent interviewed Dr. Borody about his role in treating “Helicobacter pylori,” as Dr. Borody was one of the earliest to treat “Helicobacter pylori” with antibiotics and may have been the first doctor to cure an infected patient. Dr. Borody invented Heliac, the first triple therapy for “H. pylori.” One could say that Drs. Warren and Marshall found the bugs, but that Dr. Borody found the drugs – the treatment. “Something he is so modest about it’s almost impossible to get him to admit,” says Dr. Hennenfent.

Dr. Borody says that, “There are two ends to the digestive system. At one end inflammation and ulcers are caused by ‘H. pylori,’ while at the other end there is the terminal ilium, where inflammation and ulcers also appear. Crohn’s disease occurs there.”

Dr. Borody believes that in a similar vein as “H. pylori” causing ulcers in the duodenum, “Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis,” also called MAP, is the main cause of Crohn’s disease, for which he has developed a novel “Triple Therapy.” In fact, Dr. Borody has partnered with a company called Giaconda Limited, and the company’s website says that, “Giaconda’s products are primarily underpinned by the scientific rationale that many gastrointestinal conditions are caused by infection.” It’s noteworthy that “Giaconda has a patent portfolio position consisting of 20 granted patents and a further 19 patents applied for ....” Giaconda’s portfolio includes products for Constipation predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome, resistant Helicobacter pylori infection, Hepatitis C, and Crohn’s disease.

“What’s your final thought on this topic?” Dr. Hennenfent asked.

"We have learned the paradigm, wherever there is inflammation, look for infection," says Dr. Borody.

Dr. Borody currently resides and works in Sydney, Australia, where he runs the Center for Digestive Diseases and the Probiotic Therapy Research Institute. He has a particular interest in resistant “H. pylori,” Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Dr. Hennenfent is founder of the Human Microbes Project, which will use modern DNA and RNA technology to discover every microbe that lives in human beings or on human beings — bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasite — and will lay bare the genes, architecture, morphology, metabolism, toxins, manufacturing processes, and proteins of all such microbes. Unfortunately, the Humans Microbes Project has been turned down for funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Google Foundation isn’t “accepting grant requests.”

Dr. Hennenfent is author of “Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery” (Roseville Books, 2005), a bestselling book for Biblio Distribution, and he previously authored, “The Prostatitis Syndromes.” Dr. Hennenfent co-founded the Prostatitis Foundation (www.Prostatitis.org), founded the Epididymitis Foundation (www.EpididymitisFoundation.org), and founded the Acoustic Neuroma Foundation (www.AcousticNeuromaFoundation.org). Dr. Hennenfent also penned a reality TV show called, “Presidential Contender.”

The Human Microbes Project can be contacted via fax at 206-350-1242, or via the website www.HumanMicrobes.org.

URLs:
www.HumanMicrobes.org
http://vianet.net.au/~bjmrshll/ (Barry Marshall’s Home Page)
www.RosevilleBooks.com
www.PresidentialContender.com
www.SurvivingProstateCancerWithoutSurgery.org
www.Hennenfent.com
www.FecalTransfusionFoundation.org