That the owner who can read the electronic edition of yesterday's Corriere della Sera .
According to this newspaper an Israeli called Raanana Shamir, a pediatric gastroenterologist at the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Tel Aviv, offers the food used by astronauts in their space travel as an alternative therapy to steroids helping pediatric patients to achieve long remissions of this chronic disease (Article published recently in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, says that 60-70% of patients obtained a remission of symptoms in only 6-8 weeks).
As a result children do not suffer side effects such as malnutrition or stunting. Nutritional therapy in Israel seems to be successful, although it recognizes that Shamir still do not know the real cause of why it works.
Shamir wants to convince the medical community that nutritional support "of the astronauts" may have a role, at least in children, as first-line treatment of Crohn's .
However, the Italian experts consulted by the Corriere della Sera think "There are too many doubts about its real effectiveness", in particular why the same treatment does not have the desired effect in adults.
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