Hi All,
Luce found the article below, that suggests that gluten and the associated intestinal permeability and toll-like recpters can contribute to liver injury for individuals who are gluten sensitive. Damage to the liver can, of course, lead to all sorts of complications, since the liver is the primary line of defense against toxic substances in the body.
http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/PI ... 5/fulltext
This article is pretty technical, so if you want to read just a brief comment about it on the celiac site, here is that link:
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=1332
Tex
Gluten Sensitivity and Liver Damage
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Gluten Sensitivity and Liver Damage
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Very interesting. As we go along, we seem to be finding out how incredibly dangerous gluten can be to so many organs and systems when one is sensitive to it. Scary, but at least there is a way to minimze damage.....the GF diet.
Tex, do you think this applies to lectins, too, or is it just specific for gluten?
Thanks for sharing.
Love,
Polly
Tex, do you think this applies to lectins, too, or is it just specific for gluten?
Thanks for sharing.
Love,
Polly
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
Polly,
I hadn't even considered that possibility, but lectins are indeed known to contribute to intestinal permeability, and they appear on many lists of known causes of leaky gut syndrome. If that is indeed the case, then Dr Fasano's research aimed at suppressing zonulin production may someday lead to a solution for virtually all our digestive problems.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract
On the other hand, look at how certain lectins can be utilized to help repair the mucosa in a damaged intestine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract
It seems that everything has to be complicated. Sigh.
Love,
Tex
I hadn't even considered that possibility, but lectins are indeed known to contribute to intestinal permeability, and they appear on many lists of known causes of leaky gut syndrome. If that is indeed the case, then Dr Fasano's research aimed at suppressing zonulin production may someday lead to a solution for virtually all our digestive problems.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract
On the other hand, look at how certain lectins can be utilized to help repair the mucosa in a damaged intestine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract
It seems that everything has to be complicated. Sigh.
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I've been wondering about something for a long time and at the risk of appearing to be on my soap box; do you think that gluten is good for ANYBODY?
Dave, who has no symptoms of gluten intolerance, who has gone weeks without eating gluten and then having gluten with no ill effect, claims I've stolen his thunder. Which means he used to be the loudest farter at work and now he isn't. He hardly ever farts. Does that mean he's better off without gluten?
Love, Jean
Dave, who has no symptoms of gluten intolerance, who has gone weeks without eating gluten and then having gluten with no ill effect, claims I've stolen his thunder. Which means he used to be the loudest farter at work and now he isn't. He hardly ever farts. Does that mean he's better off without gluten?
Love, Jean
Be kind to everyone, because you never know what battles they are fighting.
Intersting. My husband's liver values were elevated in 2001. We did the Zone diet and they came down which was more or less gluten free. Then we were eating gluten again and they were elevated. He was off gluten for a good chunk of time while he was healing his colitis, but he ate it again for several months at the end of last year and early this year. Now he's been off it again since we got the results of Dr. Fine's tests in March. His values are now high normal, but at least they are in the normal range!
Celia
Celia
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