tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post7753541626297949734..comments2023-11-30T00:29:08.106-08:00Comments on Animal Pharm: Wheat: Would You Give Your Kids Crack?Dr. B Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-5700213127723124452010-06-29T16:00:40.972-07:002010-06-29T16:00:40.972-07:00There is an exorphin in colostrum, a polyproline p...There is an exorphin in colostrum, a polyproline peptide similar to those from gluten, which helps to regulate the newborn's immunity. This is why breastfed babies are less prone to allergies.<br />This peptide was previously known as transfer factor; extracted from bovine colostrum, it is currently being marketed as a cure for conditions, like autoimmunity and low immunity, which gluten is known to cause. So it seems we are hardwired to respond to exorphins, which is why gluten peptides are so devastating.<br />The most basic lifeforms have endorphin receptors.Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-19810206114490789752010-06-29T15:55:17.913-07:002010-06-29T15:55:17.913-07:00If you think that the hormone receptors are meant ...If you think that the hormone receptors are meant to run on the "real deal" chemicals and, in the case of insulin, a given supply of substrate, then introducing floods of "counterfeit goods" undermines the economy; the "genuine goods" factory has to reduce production in the face of unfair competition.<br />But we're talking about pharmaceuticals, not fashion items, and using the counterfeits comes with a price. The negative, downregulation effect is the same as for an excess of a real hormone, but the positive, agonist effect is not comparable, and the receptor functions in a subtly different way. In the case of insulin, it's the excess of the sugar substrate that distorts hormone levels and receptor numbers. I guess this applies to cannabis and anandamide receptors too.<br />I recommend "Molecules of Emotion" by Candace B. Pert, about her work on endorphin receptors; she explains how opioids come to disrupt mood and behaviour by first flooding, then downregulating and shrinking receptors. She has a great insight - "The body is the unconscious mind". <br />I think that gluten exorphins have this effect on various nutrient receptors, causing imbalance and deficiency of various amino acids, minerals and vitamins. The exact nutrients affected probably depends on genetics. But magnesium seems to be universal.<br /><br />2 more famous celiacs - Nathan Leopold (of Leopold and Loeb); Clayton Weatherston (murderer famous in NZ.). Finding Celiacs in criminal history is like shooting fish in a barrel.Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-47726820348503187662010-06-29T07:53:41.408-07:002010-06-29T07:53:41.408-07:00hopeful geranium,
I've wondered about radiati...hopeful geranium,<br /><br />I've wondered about radiation, cell phones and microwaves... That's a nice link.<br /><br />Do you think our brains are hard-wired for endorphins for survival? Enkephalins play a large survival role in hibernating animals. We as humans seem to have really mixed up our cannabinoid and endodorphin systems! Our bodies are built to have complex positive and controlling negative feedback loops. It never surprises me now that resistance at the receptor levels occurs to shut or blunt hormone cascades and pathways. Thank you for your insightful comments and thoughts!<br /><br />GDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-85127398882604306652010-06-02T16:55:47.487-07:002010-06-02T16:55:47.487-07:00I've just read a book "the molecules of e...I've just read a book "the molecules of emotion" by Candace B. Pert, who discovered the endorphin receptor. Her description of the receptors and ligands helps to explain how opiates and exorphins interfere with both mood and digestion. If the body is flooded with exorphins (and prolamines are longer-lasting that endorphins because of the proline bonds), over time the receptors get smaller, and fewer are made, because they need to become less sensitive. It is a similar process to insulin resistance. Now, receptors (and endorphins) are made from protein, so a high-protein diet will help rstore normality; this is how low-dose naltrexone works too, by stimulating the creation of more receptors and more endorphins.<br />Perhaps LDN is just acting as an antidote to exorphins when it helps to cure auto-immune dieasses and cancers?<br />The book also explains in detail, from the inside, why so many good scientific findings never become medical reality. It's certainly not an evidence-based process.Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-24277940162387509182010-06-02T16:44:05.532-07:002010-06-02T16:44:05.532-07:00I mean, for 10 cents you can buy a tiny magnet tha...I mean, for 10 cents you can buy a tiny magnet that is nonetheless powerful enough to outperform the Earth's gravitation pull at its surface, where the pull is strongest!<br />You might be interested in this research into cellphone radiation<br />http://www.lef.org/newsletter/2010/0112_Cell-Phone-Radiation-Alzheimers-Disease.htm?source=eNewsLetter2009Wk51-2&key=Article&l=0#article<br /><br />the evidence is that cellphones can treat and prevent alzheimers disease! The only obvious difference that might exist between the mouse and the human is the mouse can synthesise ascorbic acid, which might play a role in modulating the effect of the radiation. However, the existence of AD itself seems proof of the essential similarity between the species.<br />That is interesting about Darwin. I came across something similar in a biography of W.S. Gilbert; he was dying of asthma, gout and angina when, on a trip to Egypt, someone recommended a paleo diet - fish, fruit and raw veg - which completely turned his health around. The gout indicates too much red meat and port as well.Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-69026456853816330152010-06-02T06:36:20.589-07:002010-06-02T06:36:20.589-07:00hopeful geranium,
Thank you for your thoughts. &#...hopeful geranium,<br /><br />Thank you for your thoughts. 'electromagnetic energy is exponentially more powerful' YES. I'd agree. We probably don't entirely have the technology to harness or understand. I think yogi's and Qi experts in asia do. Some healers utilize EMF especially in neurotoxin protocols I've come across.<br /><br />The lunar cycle explains why we get the 'crazies' in the pharmacy when the moon is full *haa!*<br /><br />Opiates cause dysphoria as well as you described, some synthetics more than others. Your experiences are interesting.<br /><br />I think you are dead on about Darwin *smile*. I'm reading his biography -- his morbidly obese father was probably celiac as well. Darwin suffered from abdominal migraines -- migraines are silent celiac disorders -- yet was perfectly in a state of excellent health while living amongst the hunter-gatherers in South America... nice thoughts and thank you, GDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-60686588380073626342010-05-23T15:28:56.785-07:002010-05-23T15:28:56.785-07:00People who've not been addicted to opiates may...People who've not been addicted to opiates may not understand how exorphins make us feel bad as well as good. The endorphin receptor is dynamic; it functions differently with differrent ligands. Endorphins and enkephalins are the prefered ligands. An exorphin or morphine pushes endorphin out of the receptor and switches it on in a subtly different way, because its shape is not exactly the same, so the receptor conforms differently. This may be pleasant to people whose endorphin is already low, and very unpleasant to a healthy person; many people's first experience of morphine is horrible; many people become chronically addicted to opiates that actually make them feel terrible most of the time; it becomes an obsessive - compulsive disease. If it was pleasant, no-one would want to stop. Also, I have known many people who become classically hyperactive on opiates, myself included (and animal tests show increased muscular activity) so the link between gluten and ADHD makes sense to me. Opiates may be sedating in the presence of pain and especially shock, when one does sleep it is deeper because of the respiratory changes, and addicts are often very tired, but for a great many addicts the effect is not really "narcotic" at all. Perhaps people get addicted to opiate drugs in the first place if the effect is more pleasant than that of the exorphins like gluten that they are already hooked on.<br />If they have endorphin instead of exorphin in their receptors, opiates are not so pleasant in comparison and they are less likely to persist. <br />Just an idea.Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-22306992750437011652010-05-23T15:10:45.761-07:002010-05-23T15:10:45.761-07:00"Just at the tides of the Moon in the upper a..."Just at the tides of the Moon in the upper atmosphere of Earth cause the measured lunar daily magnetic variation, so the tides of the planets in the magnetosphere, amplified by magnetic bays and estuaries [of the Sun] cause some of the variations of the magnetic filed that have already been detected but not yet studied in any detail. I propose that these variations [are] linked to...particular lines of force of the geomagnetic field that are 'in tune' with a particular planet...acting on the nervous system of individuals with the inherited characteristics associated with that particular planet...This, then, explains the Gauquelin planetary heredity effects." [p. 147]. Thus the author offers us a falsifiable scientific theory of neo-Astrology. To help appreciate this feat, remember the electromagnetic basis of our nervous system and the statistical association of high-tension lines (or cell phones) with cancer incidence. <br />- from an Amazon review of Astrology - the scientific evidencePuddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-4510681122272946952010-05-23T15:08:15.531-07:002010-05-23T15:08:15.531-07:00I have a book written by a radioastronomer called ...I have a book written by a radioastronomer called "Astrology - the Evidence of Science" by Percy Seymour. The angles of the 4 major planets plus sun and moon cause significant fluctuations in the earth's electromagnetic field at angles that equate to the trine, square, opposition and conjunction of the astrologers.<br />Many arguments used against astrology are only semi-scientific at best. The progression of the equinoxes, for example, Astrologers throughout history have revised the traditions whenever their study of their human subjects is at variance. In Crowley's Book of Thoth you can see this process at work; he is just drawing character portraits if his friends and enemies! No astrologer today uses mediaeval or even Elizabethan references.<br />Another argument is that the gravitational pull of the doctor that delivers a baby is greater than that of the planets. But everyone knows that gravity is the weakest physical force (it takes the whole of the earth just to hold you down, and many creatures fly); electromagnetic energy is exponentially more powerful.<br />If astrology is a science, then it can be done badly, well, or innovatively well. I could "prove" that nuclear science is nonsense by asking a baseball team to design a reactor, or by asking a nucear physicist to construct a nuclear anti-gravity device. It is only the reasonable claims of a good astrologer that need testing. And as these lie mainly in the field of psychology, itself largely a pseudo-science today, scientific validation is not going to be a simple process. <br /><br />Charles Darwin is my candidate for an historical celiac.Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-20803288109449699412010-05-21T16:46:46.704-07:002010-05-21T16:46:46.704-07:00Hey Hopeful Geranium,
Thank you for your comments...Hey Hopeful Geranium,<br /><br />Thank you for your comments. Exactly -- I hear that all the time that dairy is 'constipating' (just like narcotics and other opioids).<br /><br />I never believed EMFs but since they are implicated in cancer (living near powerlines, wearing cellphones, police holding radar speed detctors) the science is definitely growing.<br /><br />-GDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-57330648749420429232010-05-19T17:08:54.015-07:002010-05-19T17:08:54.015-07:00Anyone who eats cheese to control intestinal motil...Anyone who eats cheese to control intestinal motility (flatulence or diarrhea) is using these opioids just like someone else might use codiene or lomotil. (It should be "would you give your kids smack?"). Cheese doesn't produce significant amounts of BCM-7, so this is some other, perhaps more benign exorphin. Some protein foods may contain benevolent exorphins - fish and chicken would be my best bets.Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-15147958314696951032010-05-19T17:03:19.189-07:002010-05-19T17:03:19.189-07:00Re: Oprah, horoscopes work just as well for people...Re: Oprah, horoscopes work just as well for people born in New Zealand, so much for the Vit D hypothesis. Animals can navigate by electromagnetic fields (think of a turtle returning to the beach and date of its birth, or an eel) the sun's EMF affects earth's EMF, the main planets (venus, mars, jupiter, saturn, plus the moon) affect the sun's EMF and/or its influence on Earth's EMF. This is all hard, quantifiable science.<br />It is hypothesised that the fetus/unborn is exquisitely receptive to EMF because of few sensory distractions. Once born it is "deafened" to EMF but seems to be imprinted with the last EMF pattern it "heard" (relating directly to time and place), just as we remember the last song we heard once the radio is turned off, even if we were not listening to it while it was on, and it plays through our head until we hear another song.<br />I don't pretend to understand how this influences moods, emotion, ambition, etc, but I am sure that the science exists for a real, non-occult influence of these 7 stars, and it will be understood better as time goes on.<br />The movements of these planets are predetermined, without surprises, so their place in the zodiac and relationships at any time later on is really just a simple matter of time-keeping.Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-18125449172922644912010-01-11T20:49:47.660-08:002010-01-11T20:49:47.660-08:00Thanks for your comments.
How do you explain the ...Thanks for your comments.<br /><br />How do you explain the below? Also those with wheat intolerance (which is a great and growing part of our global population) have not only a 'leaky gut' but typically leaky brains as well. Reduced dopamine, increased prolactin ('moobies'), and opioid/exorphin effects may be implicated. It is definitely a strong reaction for particular individuals -- going gluten-free can be like inducing narcotic withdrawal. Won't kill anyone but is severely uncomfortable; and blockable by Nalaxone.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16510320?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=7" rel="nofollow">Quantification of Gluten Exorphin A5 in cerebrospinal fluid by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15698850?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=8" rel="nofollow">Gluten exorphin B5 stimulates prolactin secretion through opioid receptors located outside the blood-brain barrier.</a>Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-69516208273417829462010-01-11T18:25:40.497-08:002010-01-11T18:25:40.497-08:00The opioid peptides found in wheat are too large t...The opioid peptides found in wheat are too large to cross the blood-brain barrier. Although they can effect the gastro-intestinal tract and other organs, they will not give a morphine like highAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-80486551808216254092010-01-02T12:30:21.410-08:002010-01-02T12:30:21.410-08:00http://has20birds.gaia.com/blog/2008/5/bifidus-inf...http://has20birds.gaia.com/blog/2008/5/bifidus-infantis<br /><br />Now that I know a lot more about hypothydroidism and hyperestrogenism, I see the connection between candida and breast cancer more clearly and I wouldn't recommend masking the symptoms with probiotics. They do provide a tremendous relief, but I concur that the problem is better solved by modifying your diet and being more gentle with your body than by finding something that allows you to continue pushing things to the extreme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-91299243692553779032008-10-20T20:30:00.000-07:002008-10-20T20:30:00.000-07:00Steve,It's a amazing how a paleo shift in food ind...Steve,<BR/><BR/>It's a amazing how a paleo shift in food induces such wonderful health benefits, eh?<BR/><BR/>PSA elevations are related to high omega-6 consumption, vit D and fish oil deficiencies and WHEAT/GRAINS... and all the studies back this up. Sometimes it's frustrating to hear when conventional medicine fails to enlighten us regular folks.<BR/>Right now all the 'with it' programs are jumping on board as well -- b/c the results are like yours -- SPECTACULAR health recoveries.<BR/><BR/>--Weight Watchers CORE (no wheat, no bread, no rice, minimal legumes/fruit)<BR/>--high end gyms like Club Sport in California<BR/>--elite gyms CROSSFIT.com<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your story!! I wonder what the muscle kitchen is?Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-86966866575804541052008-10-20T19:47:00.000-07:002008-10-20T19:47:00.000-07:00When my PSAs tripled in a year's span (and to avoi...When my PSAs tripled in a year's span (and to avoid getting a perhaps needless biopsy), I opted for homeopathy and rigorous diet shifts. All monitored and prescribed, 'natch. The upshot was new awareness of some insidious allergies and food sensitives, particularly lactose (dairy), gluten (wheat), corn and (caffeine) coffee. Duh.<BR/><BR/>I don't miss them at all and the coolest changes have been happening: I stopped snoring and I don't have nearly as much sinus activity now. I'm a very happy camper without them. <BR/><BR/>Steve Perkins, The Cooking Buff for The Muscle KitchenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-14064719081007672372008-06-04T13:48:00.000-07:002008-06-04T13:48:00.000-07:00Precisely! And we could probably find parallel cur...Precisely! <BR/><BR/>And we could probably find parallel curves for ALL chronic conditions related to the wheat and HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) consumption as well!<BR/>--autoimmune disorders<BR/>--diabetes Type 1 and Type 2<BR/>--heart disease<BR/>--heart failure, diastolic dysfunction<BR/>--fertility<BR/>--cancers, incl adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, gastric cancer (which Peter/Hyperlipid wrote about recently)<BR/>--autism<BR/>--et cetera<BR/><BR/>-GDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-6685060846506513832008-06-04T10:52:00.000-07:002008-06-04T10:52:00.000-07:00Dr. BG, One of the things I noticed while poring ...Dr. BG,<BR/><BR/> One of the things I noticed while poring through USDA data on food consumption trends in the US is that during the last 30 years (obesity epidemic), we've been consuming more and more processed wheat products (+40% or so). Also more sugar (+15% or so). <BR/><BR/>We've also begun eating several hundred more calories a day total, if the NHANES data are to be believed. All from carbohydrate. I've been tossing around the idea that wheat and added sugar pervert our natural hunger regulation mechanisms, leading to the higher calorie intake. More carb + damaged insulin system + excess calories = weight gain.<BR/><BR/>It irritates me how people say "we're fatter because we're eating more calories". Why are we eating more calories? That's the real question. I think people are reluctant to acknowledge it's not simply a matter of will.<BR/><BR/>I just discovered your blog; I like it.Stephan Guyenethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09218114625524777250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-70150928594811254492008-06-03T20:59:00.000-07:002008-06-03T20:59:00.000-07:00Certainly more and more about VDR polymorphisms (a...Certainly more and more about VDR polymorphisms (and other receptors too -- like PPARdelta etc) and the minor, unique differences in our genetics almost predetermines where in the spectrum our phenotypes will be after certain triggers... like... <BR/>--high carb diets +/- high fat diet<BR/>--sunlight deprivation +/- stress (STRESS=high cortisol-steroid-depleting situation)<BR/><BR/>I bet later they will find IBS/GI disorders will be some certain type of polymorphism and asthma some other derivative (I haven't searched; perhaps it's already been done esp by the drug companies R&D). <BR/><BR/>For Grave's I know that only certain VDRs are associated in Japan and Taiwan where it is apparently better studied than here (b/c they're probably 20yrs more vitamin D deficient than us in the U.S. since they 'prize' lily-white porcelain skin).<BR/><BR/>ALL drug companies are 'racing' to find the blockbuster vit D analogue that doesn't kill or cause toxic hypercalcemia. You can find VOLUMES on PubMed for this endeavor. Because vitamin D immunmodulates EVERYTHING...<BR/>--fertility<BR/>--autoimmune d/o's<BR/>--cardiovascular dz<BR/>--strokes<BR/>--diabetes<BR/>--dyslipidemia<BR/>--obesity<BR/>--asthma<BR/>--preeclampsia<BR/>--hypertension<BR/>--kidney failure<BR/>--you name it -- !!<BR/><BR/>The problem with 'fake' synthetic vitamins (or hormones including estrogen or progesterone) is that they unfortunately do not bind and accept our receptors 'naturally' for those with VDR polymorphisms.<BR/><BR/>I need to find the editorial and I'll post later, but in Canada (where they literally put vit D in the water -- mandatory drops in the winter) a researcher found the synthetic vitamin D (ergocalciferol) caused WORSENING of diabetes and glycemic control in Indo-Asians (??wtf). This subpop likely has consistent VDRs for a certain polymorphism. So instead of providing therapeutic benefit (which vit D has uniformly shown to do in TYP and in the literature -- it's better than ACTOS), for this subpop, vitamin D actually caused metabolic derangement. Natural vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) and sunlight should not do this (unless they are the subpop of vampires *he heeh* j/k). (actually I guess it could be possible -- but never heard of anyone 'allergic' to their own homemade endogenous vitamin D-- or estrogen for that matter....)<BR/><BR/>THANKS for sharing your thoughts!<BR/><BR/>-GDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-81053924584961574842008-06-03T11:15:00.000-07:002008-06-03T11:15:00.000-07:00Dr. B.G.Yes, absolutely that is interesting about ...Dr. B.G.<BR/><BR/>Yes, absolutely that is interesting about you and your sister. Thinking about it for me, I was born in May and mom most likely would have been living in foggy Oregon during most of the time I was in the oven. (I was born in Georgia but only stayed for two weeks - back to Oregon after that. That must have been a fun car trip for my parents! Dad was in Georgia being prepared for his year long all expenses paid south east Asian vacation provided by the army.) I'm the only one in my family with the stomach condition or any major health issues for that matter. And I was the only one raised in a cooler climate. Mom, dad, and sister were born in mountain desert towns or San Jose, Ca. <BR/><BR/>This goes to your new post, thought to mention I heard over the weekend that a larger European company is in the process of making a "unique" vitamin D to sell. I know one of the scientist working on it, and have a decent opinion of him. He will be sure the product works, but of course the company will most likely want to sell it at a premium. I mention this because if the company does bring this D to the market place, they will also be marketing the importance of having adequate vitamin D circulating in the body to the public, which will be good. Maybe they will do additional research. The scientist that mentioned this to me loves his research.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-55646212324514118632008-06-03T10:05:00.000-07:002008-06-03T10:05:00.000-07:00Anne,Yes, absolutely, I am 100% gluten free and lo...Anne,<BR/><BR/>Yes, absolutely, I am 100% gluten free and loving it! I don't even miss my morning english muffin anymore. <BR/><BR/>Citrus seems to be the largest problematic food for me but being gluten free seems to help the gut also. Being gluten free helps mentally for certain along with improved cholesterol #s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-21638641449001266332008-06-03T08:17:00.000-07:002008-06-03T08:17:00.000-07:00Thanks for your TMI comment! So your tolerance fo...Thanks for your TMI comment! So your tolerance for gluten is strengthened probably by some improved mechanism of immunemodulation with vitamin D, ie plenty of sunshine? That makes a lot of sense to me. I've pondered it as well -- my mom was hidden indoors in the frigid Nebraskan winter before I was born in April. Oprah had a piece once about astrological signs being related to seasons and VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY. So I was probably born vitamin D3 deficient and subsequently I'm the only with asthma (slightly autoimmune) in my family. Whereas my other sister was born in October -- she was conceived during maternal Vitamin D deficiency, and she has had Grave's and eczema (no asthma whatsoever). Interesting, huh?<BR/><BR/>-GDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-44128500687718679012008-06-03T05:52:00.000-07:002008-06-03T05:52:00.000-07:00Anonymous, I hope you are listening to your body a...Anonymous, I hope you are listening to your body and avoiding gluten and dairy and all the other foods. One does not have to have celiac disease to be made ill by gluten. Doctors are no longer able to ignore all of us with non-celiac gluten sensitivity. <BR/><BR/>Dr. Fasano, who runs the celiac program at the U of MD, said: "Many patients report that their symptoms resolve once they embrace a gluten-free diet even when celiac disease has been ruled out. Growing clinical evidence, still awaiting rigorous validation studies, suggest that these cases may be related to gluten sensitivity, a new form of food reaction. Preliminary data presented this year suggest that this form of disease may be related to activation of the innate immune system without the involvement of the adaptive immune response." http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/573934<BR/><BR/>I am not going to wait for this "rigorous validation". I have been gluten free for 5 years and have enjoyed better health that I ever had in all my life. <BR/><BR/>It is not unusual for those of us with celiac/gluten sensitivity to have multiple food intolerances. There is some evidence, as our bodies heal by removing these foods, we MAY be able to add SOME(not gluten) back in again.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16655747133135789559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-31514265199354794312008-06-02T14:29:00.000-07:002008-06-02T14:29:00.000-07:00I believe it! To add to your comments about a lac...I believe it! To add to your comments about a lack of EPA/DHA and vitamin D being involved in celiac formation or possible other intestinal issues - I've thought about this because I grew up first in sunny California and later lived in Florida. As a kid I had little to no stomach problems. It wasn't until I moved to the frozen mid west that I developed my stomach condition. <BR/><BR/>When I discovered fish oil my stomach issue quited down significantly. Strangely, if I take fish oil capsules, I can eat the offending foods and not have major stomach symptoms. (exceptions being pumpkin seeds and macadamia nuts which for what ever reason make me seriously ill.) I get sick, but instead of a gut attack, I become fatigued, muscles hurt, loose color in my face, etc. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, more info. than you wanted to know, but found that interesting what you mentioned about utero exposure. Mom is a notorious junk food lover.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com