One of the session’s speakers studied ACPA-positive individuals who didn’t develop RA. Do sugars and gut bacteria hold the clues? “There is a shift in cytokine expression at some point. Something changes the machinery for glycosylation in these ACPAs,” says Dr. Silverman. “Antibodies may become inflammatory because those individuals develop a leaky gut. It’s like a ticking time bomb—traced to an event in the intestines. There may be practical things we can do in food, medicines or probiotics to shift that process.”
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