Dr. Gilles R. G. Monif’s book, “The Prevention and Therapy of Crohn’s Disease,” dissects out the enigma of Crohn’s disease. Since the disease’s formal recognition, those working in the medical field have considered Crohn’s disease to be a disease. Its label of being an autoimmune disease had had a mind paralyzing effect.
In his book, Dr. Monif discusses the connection between MAP (Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis), adulterated milk and milk-based products and Crohn’s disease. The book contributes to our understanding of how, using its adulteration of milk as its bridge to humans, a bovine pathogen, created a disease that has become a global pandemic affecting nearly five million individuals. Understanding the events that combine to produce Crohn’s disease stands to open new avenues to treating and averting the serious consequences associated with Crohn’s disease.
This book, “The Prevention and Therapy of Crohn’s Disease,” provides a fresh perspective on more than Crohn’s disease. In identifying the potential consequences of an infectious disease agent occurring in the absence of acquired immunity, this book opens the door for potential discovery in the pathogenesis of other diseases currently labelled and treated as being autoimmune causation.