Yeah, I agree Ya Noy, I take everything I read with a grain of salt. One thing I have learned since being sick for the last 9 years with so much stuff is that everyone who has a disease, it is going to effect each person differently,and may even have a different cause.
I also believe that there are several different things than can cause intestinal inflammation. Could be a bacteria for one person and could be a virus for another but these people may all still be diagnosed with having some sort of IBD. Like for instance I was diagnosed with IC( interstitial cystitis) of the bladder back in 2006. I went to several specialists trying to get help and pain relief to No avail. They could not tell me what causes IC, but they told me they were sure it was not a bacteria. Well I suffered for three years in agony, literally praying to die because of the pain. I mean imagine your bladder feeling like it had a third degree burn in it and then pour some acid on top. That is what my bladder felt like. It was awful. Well then all the bladder infections started( or should I say, they started being seen on some of my urine cultures). I finally had one doctor who I seen in a walk in urgent care no less and she knew more about IC than the uro I was seeing!!! She said that I had to be on an antibiotic for at least 6 weeks or longer and then had to be on one low dose from then on. Well after being on the medication two weeks low and behold I felt SOOO much better, better than I had felt in the three years since getting the IC at that point. I was concinved that my IC was caused by a bacteria from that point on. Even my regular doctor said she thinks it is some sort of bacteria that is hidden( biofilm) than it cannot be picked up on our primitive routine cultures all the time. I have since also met different IC sufferers who also have responded to antibitoic therapy. But yet some women who did the antibitoic therapy, it did not work at all, in fact some got worse on it. So ya see, even though some researcher said that IC is NOT caused by a bacteria, well I am sorry, he is wrong in my case and in many others! But for some some women with this disease the cause may be entirely different. Some women's IC is caused by Mast cells. It is just so different for everyone...
Just like with crohns, I think everyone is different and there can be many people who have crohns and it's cause and nature in going to be very different in a lot of people. That is why some meds work for some people and for others it does not. And like I said, I also think that some people may be running around out there with a diagnosis of crohns due to inflammation in the bowel, but they may have something entirely different. There are so many things that can make us sick. They just dont know, doctors and even the best researchers just do not have the knowledge. The body is just too complex.....
So when I read research papers, I think it is great, I mean I am always up for learning and reading new ideas and opinions, but that is all it is and nothing is written in stone when it comes to ANY chronic illness.....