Guest guest Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 > >---------- > The whole discussion of whether or not there could be a " coating " on the gut wall got me curious, so I did a little (not a lot) of digging. Anyway, I came up with some interesting pics of bacteria clinging to the gut walls. I guess people are studying this too! http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=550698 They only show a few cell colonies clinging to the walls of the intestine, but the description in the group of " sheets " of thin stuff coming off made me think of our toilet, which, since it has well water which is full of bacteria and no chlorine, commonly gets sheets of bacteria sloughing off (when I'm not in housekeeping mode, anyway). I'm not trying to come up with any new theories here, just hypothesizing. Remember the urban legend about eating black pepper, it sticks to your intestine? Some funeral director swore they saw it in cadavers, and banned black pepper for that reason. THAT seemed like the biggest hooey I'd ever heard, until I read in the Merck manual about some condition that, in fact, looks like black pepper stuck to the inside of the intestine. I used to dismiss the urban legend of " black pepper stuck in the intestine " (which some funeral director swore they saw in corpses, so banned bl Heidi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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