propos of 'other grains' Zetrique, wouldn't it be sensible in a personal trial of withdrawal of certain foods to just simply exclude ALL monocotyledon products in the first instance.
True, but for someone like me who has a history of this and already has (tested verified) intolerance to many foods, it is important to take every precaution possible. It would also be a shame to go to unnecessary effort attempting to live a "normal" life in society to take out foods that help obtain nutrition and calories after having already been forced to give up so many foods.
To be more clear, I had the food IgG test done and a 1 year follow up along with biopsy. The theory as described fit into my situation. As I eliminated the most problematic foods, many other food antibody levels went down as the gut improved.
I still try to avoid all grains because they appear to worsen my quality of health from an observational point, but I also have confirmed through testing that there are foods that cause me great problem despite not physically feeling or noticing them doing so. Avoiding all grains is difficult. Also, many industries use the same silo's, transportation, and facilities equipment for multiple food processes. The reason for testing is for intolerant, have a severe immune response or people concerned about optimal health to make sure none of the foods from what they consider trusted sources is cross contaminated with a trigger against their immune system and interrupting their protocol.
Additional research and confirmation through testing can also help us make future decisions on GMO's by empowering the public and academic research.
Perhaps one of the most important reasons to do this test is it lends to real evidence, a reminder, how important it is and motivation to stay away from certain foods in the name of my survival and health-span. This is true for me, or even someone who doesn't think they have a problem with certain foods.
2) Of course, the gut has to be leaky for large molecule undigested proteins to pass into the blood stream.
Could you please clarify this statement?
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Your post is a good case summary of why I think this is such an important topic for the medical world. Species evolving to exploit a niche food source in the environment comes into play. If you take any organism out of it's "natural" environment it is prone to disease. The "paleo" diet world attempts to understand this but is still lacking. Research into our genetics that give us the enzymes and metabolic pathways plus our gut bacteria assisting in the break down of foods is vital to proper nutrition.
As you have most likely heard the case, some human races such as Northern Europeans have more of the ability to digest lactose and dairy products into old age. Then another related example is you have primates being one of the only mammals that doesn't have the pathway to manufacture their own vitamin C. Getting down to the real specifics and personalized diet of someone based on their lifetime environmental exposure history, the microbiome and immune system they inherited prenatal, their genetics, and their ancestry, I believe can really optimize their health and that is one of the most exciting areas of research to me which evidence supports could greatly reduce the healthcare problem in the world.
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I don't know if you caught the part but Tom O'Bryan has contributed to coming up with a digestive enzyme that people can take
before they consume a meal that has any chance of having wheat in it for those who really can't tolerate the proteins. Don't get me wrong, I am not an advocate for pills and man made foods or enzymes. That's just a band-aid to the root problem but it helps us in our health and understanding in the mean time.
An example of this kind of stupid thinking is that in recent news, other ignorant researchers have come up with enzymes that you now take in order to digest the wheat and GMO gains. This is being touted as a wonderful miracle for people with celiac disease. So basically people are happy that a company that most likely produced a food to give them the autoimmune response is now able to help manage that disease. This is likely to be another profitable pathway for companies that patent foods. They can now patent GMOs, patent the pesticides to grow them, and then patent the enzymes you need to consume the foods. That in itself might not be that bad if it were not for slowly taking over being incorporated into nearly the entire global food supply (staple food) giving people no choice.
While this might contribute to human understanding, I disagree with this being put into practice on society that has no choice but to be a guinea pig, manipulated, and significant profit and power are involved. It only answers a tiny part of the puzzle for nutrition and preventing disease that shouldn't have been there in the first place.