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I have wondered about a gut-bone marrow connection myself, as I have a 20 year history of gut problems and now suspected MDS. Entirely feasible that there could be a toxin produced by bad bowel bacteria that could affect the health of bone marrow, as do other drugs.

I have googled this quite a bit, there doesn't seem to be much research being done on it :-(

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8244153 IBD/MDS
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...3780050206/pdf IBD/MDS
http://synapse.koreamed.org/Synapse/...kjp-49-107.pdf MDS/Crohns
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=705879 MDS/Crohns
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0031171 probiotics

Wishing you all the best