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Mags wrote:Katy--was thinking of you, too. I hang out at ScienceBlogs a lot, and some epic troll was hijacking a thread on Pharyngula about how absolutely awful the Uni of York was. He made a fun chew toy until PZ finally put him in the dungeon. It was the one about psychopaths, if you want to take a look.
Uni of York is known for being quite snobbish (it's in the top... I think, 10 uni's in the UK). I don't actually like the university campus, it's very 60's although they have just doubled the size of the campus.
I shall go have a look now. :)
'The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.' Horace Bushnell
Obviously, I'm naturally lazy, and a world-class procrastinator.
You, Sir, are the opposite of lazy!!! Although it is sometimes said that 'workaholics' work flat out to get stuff done so they can then relax. (Of course being driven and/or a perfectionist means that stuff is never "done" so the work goes on and on).
Anyway, I digress. I think, as Sara suggests, that one book appealing to both audiences would be good. A detailed and learned appendices would check-mate the 'intellectuals' who would attack it is amateur and superficial. (I.e. provide the ammunition to refute a PR onslaught from the vested interests that peddle the status-quo).
I would love to go and visit my GI with such a book!
The discussion about gluten affecting nerves, including nerves in the gut, might explain why I wasn't suffering horribly (though it is still surprising that I had normal-ish seeming digestion). I'm particularly curious about this notion, because the past few days I've been 'feeling' my insides (nothing dramatic, but uncomfortable), which alarmed me that I was about to realize a new and dramatic food intolerance. But that hasn't happened... so maybe the gut's own nervous system is just gradually coming back on line?? It's just speculation, but this and several of the ideas presented there are interesting in light of the incredibly varied history and range of symptoms that make celiac and other gluten intolerant syndromes so prone to misdiagnosis by presumably well-meaning practitioners.
I think that some of us might never have had our gluten-induced illnesses 'bloom' into full-onmicroscopic colitis, if the earlier warning signals had been identified correctly. Imagine what it must be like to have other, less-obviously food-related symptoms.
Sara, I had a bit of "uncomfortableness" last night after cooking and eating at home which was unusual for me. No D or anything but just kind of an ache in my gut (possibly fresh mozzarella in a caprese salad?). I quit gluten last October and that has seemed to take care of most of my issues. I am kind of in a holding pattern at this point, waiting to see if something else surfaces....especially casein which tested high for me. I'm sure hoping not!
