Alzheimer's and gluten (from my medical pay site Ivanhoe)
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Statins are pretty scary, Lesley, and they are a fairly new drug that the drug companies who rule the world now are recommending for high blood pressure, but there is another drug, a beta blocker, that has fewer side-effects and as good or better results and that is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propranolol
My husband began to take Propranolol about 6 months ago. His doctor is an MD and an ND and she was very leery of the statin drugs, so she prescribed Propranolol for him. He has hypertension, inherited from both parents (who are/were textbook medical case studies for gluten intolerance, IMO). He was recently found to be GS and went off gluten at about the time he started taking Propranolol and his last 2 tests for Cholesterol and hypertension since he's been on this drug are remarkably better.
His nephew is supposed to be GF, but at 22 they can't monitor what he eats and he eats everything. He has some form of autism and he will likely never be able to live on his own because of his disability. His father (my husband's brother) and his sister are GF, and his mom just had a bout with an intestinal disorder that I would, knowing what I do now, take as a serious warning that she also has GS. Despite that all her kids are now GF, and doing much better, she is in her 80's and still isn't shitting herself like we are, so she still isn't GF and will probably die of a heart attack. I'm still working on her, but it's hard to give up our "poisons"
Propranolol is a drug that anyone with hypertension should start with, IMO. It doesn't have all the side effects of the statins that cost 5X as much $ or is even a drug that most Dr's. nowadays are probably even aware of, as they are being led to prescribe drugs to their patients by the drug companies. I'd be really interested in hearing Polly's feedback on this.
The drug companies are truly w/o conscience. They scare the hell out of me. If I'd taken the drugs I'd had prescribed for me in the years prior to finding out I was GS, I might still not know I am GS.
My husband began to take Propranolol about 6 months ago. His doctor is an MD and an ND and she was very leery of the statin drugs, so she prescribed Propranolol for him. He has hypertension, inherited from both parents (who are/were textbook medical case studies for gluten intolerance, IMO). He was recently found to be GS and went off gluten at about the time he started taking Propranolol and his last 2 tests for Cholesterol and hypertension since he's been on this drug are remarkably better.
His nephew is supposed to be GF, but at 22 they can't monitor what he eats and he eats everything. He has some form of autism and he will likely never be able to live on his own because of his disability. His father (my husband's brother) and his sister are GF, and his mom just had a bout with an intestinal disorder that I would, knowing what I do now, take as a serious warning that she also has GS. Despite that all her kids are now GF, and doing much better, she is in her 80's and still isn't shitting herself like we are, so she still isn't GF and will probably die of a heart attack. I'm still working on her, but it's hard to give up our "poisons"
Propranolol is a drug that anyone with hypertension should start with, IMO. It doesn't have all the side effects of the statins that cost 5X as much $ or is even a drug that most Dr's. nowadays are probably even aware of, as they are being led to prescribe drugs to their patients by the drug companies. I'd be really interested in hearing Polly's feedback on this.
The drug companies are truly w/o conscience. They scare the hell out of me. If I'd taken the drugs I'd had prescribed for me in the years prior to finding out I was GS, I might still not know I am GS.
Resolved MC symptoms successfully w/L-Glutamine, Probiotics and Vitamins, GF since 8/'09. DX w/MC 10/'09.