Curing Allergies With Stomach Ulcer Bacteria
3,963 views · Published 11 May 2015 · 8:54 · Indexed 17 October 2026
Channel: Journeyman Pictures · 2015 · News & Politics
Allergy Pill (2014): Can stomach ulcer bacteria really offer a cure to our allergy epidemic? For more journeyman science watch our playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5iXbPX7d_oTP47c9C3kArQ0 For more on today's top news: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5gyYNkhTOmpP-3AKawhjkdv Subscribe to Journeyman for daily uploads: https://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information: http://www.journeyman.tv/68617/short-films/allergy-pill.html In the western world there's an epidemic of allergies. Are our lifestyles too clean and bug free? Two Nobel Prize winning professors are revealing how stomach ulcer bacteria H Pylori could be our cure. How can a common germ "that lives in the stomachs of more than half of all humans on earth" be the answer to the West's growing allergy problem? Because it is no longer common enough. Most people in the western world don't have the bug but do have allergies. So Professor Barry Marshall is reintroducing the ulcer-causing bacteria to help prevent allergies in a generation that he says is "too clean" for its own good. ABC Australia, Catalyst - Ref 6447 Journeyman Pictures brings you highlights from the cutting-edge science series, ‘Catalyst’, produced by our long-term content partners at ABC Australia. Every day we’ll upload a new episode that takes you to the heart of the most intriguing and relevant science-related stories of the day, transforming your perspective of the issues shaping our world.
