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Could someone who knows how to post links go to the Huffington Post and look in their Healthy Living section for an interview with Fasano and Leffler on gluten sensitivity and celiac? I'm a dope when it comes to that.
Suze
Hi Suze,
Is this what you are referring to?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sz-berg/c ... 70781.html
Tex
Is this what you are referring to?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sz-berg/c ... 70781.html
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.
WOW!
I wonder if my GE has read this? And my personal physician. I need to send them the link.
This seemed weird to me:
" One of the interesting -- and surprising things -- about gluten sensitivity is that it seems to be less related to the intestinal permeability -- leaky gut -- that characterizes celiac disease."
I must have had this all my life. I had 4 miscarriages, and difficulty carrying my 3 kids. All sorts of things are explained!
I wonder if my GE has read this? And my personal physician. I need to send them the link.
This seemed weird to me:
" One of the interesting -- and surprising things -- about gluten sensitivity is that it seems to be less related to the intestinal permeability -- leaky gut -- that characterizes celiac disease."
I must have had this all my life. I had 4 miscarriages, and difficulty carrying my 3 kids. All sorts of things are explained!
Yes, Tex, that's it. I thought people might be interested, FWIW.
I have read most of your book. Great job! Still "digesting" it, LOL, but in my personal history, I absolutely can't discount the role of the long term stress of my teaching career plus my mother's long illness (along with meds--NSAIDS, antibiotics, Chantix) in the development of my LC. Thanks for your dedication to the MC cause.
I have read most of your book. Great job! Still "digesting" it, LOL, but in my personal history, I absolutely can't discount the role of the long term stress of my teaching career plus my mother's long illness (along with meds--NSAIDS, antibiotics, Chantix) in the development of my LC. Thanks for your dedication to the MC cause.
Suze
Dr. Daniel Leffler wrote:Gluten sensitivity is a disorder where people have symptoms related to gluten exposure that may be indistinguishable from celiac disease but does not damage the intestine or result in abnormal antibody production. Whether gluten sensitivity is more related to celiac disease or irritable bowel syndrome is unclear, though most investigators currently favor the latter.
They're never going to give Dr. Fine his due, are they?Dr. Fasano wrote:There are currently no evidence-based tests to measure biomarkers for gluten sensitivity. The Center for Celiac Research is currently conducting very promising research to develop a reliable evidence-based test.
Gloria
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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Lesley and Gloria,
We have to remember that both those guys are still dragging their feet and just aren't ready to admit that they've been wrong for so many years. They are handling this the same way that USDA does when they make crop reports — they update the information base in incremental amounts every so often, instead of spilling the bad news all at once, in order to provide some measure of damage control (to their reputations). And since they are professional snobs, no, they will probably never admit that Dr. Fine successfully developed and patented tests that accurately and reliably detect non-celiac gluten sensitivity over a decade ago. They choose to remain professionally ignorant, which IMO, is a rather childish trait.
Christine,
Yes there is definitely damage to the villi of the small intestine in the form of lymphocytic infiltration (and the resulting inflammation), but villus atrophy rarely occurs unless the patient has one of the celiac genes. In order to promote their agenda, they are selectively interpreting the term "damage" to refer to gross (visible) damage only (while ignoring all the damage that's visible under a microscope).
Tex
We have to remember that both those guys are still dragging their feet and just aren't ready to admit that they've been wrong for so many years. They are handling this the same way that USDA does when they make crop reports — they update the information base in incremental amounts every so often, instead of spilling the bad news all at once, in order to provide some measure of damage control (to their reputations). And since they are professional snobs, no, they will probably never admit that Dr. Fine successfully developed and patented tests that accurately and reliably detect non-celiac gluten sensitivity over a decade ago. They choose to remain professionally ignorant, which IMO, is a rather childish trait.
Christine,
Yes there is definitely damage to the villi of the small intestine in the form of lymphocytic infiltration (and the resulting inflammation), but villus atrophy rarely occurs unless the patient has one of the celiac genes. In order to promote their agenda, they are selectively interpreting the term "damage" to refer to gross (visible) damage only (while ignoring all the damage that's visible under a microscope).
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.
