Not sure, but I do know one thing. When helping out in a...

Not sure, but I do know one thing. When helping out in a historical project on coronial reports, I noticed the rate of death from 'colitis' and variations was shockingly high, particularly in disadvantaged, stressed individuals who were by definition, probably already immuno-compromised. It seemed people died from complications and poor nutrient uptake. It was a study in human misery.*

The incidence of gastric disorders is probably a lot higher than is currently detected, for a range of reasons.
One problem is that it's extremely difficult to properly diagnose what is actually going on in the gut, in terms of competing micro-organisms as a recent program on ABCTV catalyst demonstrated. They ended up testing the faecal samples for the DNA of the microbes and found a much more accurate result than going on live faecal sampling alone.

You'd have to assume we're on the verge of a completely new way of looking at the human body, as a coherent whole, rather than reductionist isolated views. People dismiss 'holistic' medicine as hippy dippy stuff, but it's symbolic of much more profound and systematic analysis that needs to occur. In the future we might well look back on this era as a turning point.

This is an emerging and fascinating area, particularly in relation to the links with mental health or what has been euphemistically referred to as the mind/body connection, and used to belt up many suffering patients with vague judgemental nonsense like 'psychosomatic'. The reality may be much more prosaic than assumed.

BTW Canada seems like a candidate for low Vitamin D levels and the correlation with low Vitamin D and various disorders, including cancers is also growing. Which reminds me...Winter is coming!

(* and btw I think it's human misery that SI and the team at MSB is focused on reducing. It's not the demands of hedge funds and traders, confounded as those groups are by this mentality...lol).