Enterolab

[flxmanning]

I went to the web site for this, but still do not quite understand the whole thing. Are the results really more accurate than those that you can get from your doctor?

[AndreaB]

We had our family tested by enterolab. None of us showed symptoms of Gluten Intolerance/Celiac. Enterolab is more sensitive in that the antibodies are present in the intestinal tract long before they are readable in the blood. I like them because, although we weren't showing symptoms, my oldest son has mild malabsorption. Who knows how sick the 3 of us would have gotten before the conventional tests showed anything. Since we weren't sick, we would not have been referred for blood work. I asked my doctor and she would have done it based on a few past obscure things but I had already been very gluten light for 1 1/2 months and had read that that could throw off the results. You can be gluten free when you do the enterolab test, so you don't have to stay on the gluten filled diet if you have symptoms that are making you sick.

[Nancym]

I just heard Dr. Fine lecturing at the celiac group in San Diego. I think he's bloody brilliant and very brave. It takes medical practices a long time to change, and Dr. Fine's findings are going to cause some painful reevaluation of what people are eating every day and assuming to be healthy. I don't know if you remember the hoopla surrounding the discovery that a bacteria call H. Pylori caused most ulcers... an Australian researcher discovered that. It was totally dismissed in the US for 10 years, because the assumption was that bacteria couldn't survive the hostile, acidic environment of the stomach. Finally, enough other people confirmed the first guy's research they couldn't dismiss it any longer. Even then though, it took a concerted effort for the NIH to reeducate all the doctors about the cause of stomach ulcers.

So, now we have a finding about wheat and the fact that 30% of people develop antibodies to it. It is a number that is far, far bigger than anyone ever considered. I think he'll probably suffer a lot of controversy. But it is pretty hard to argue with the evidence he's collected over the years.

I wish they'd list where all Dr. Fine will be speaking because he shouldn't be missed. I understand so much more now than I ever did.

[mle-ii]

I just heard Dr. Fine lecturing at the celiac group in San Diego. I think he's bloody brilliant and very brave. It takes medical practices a long time to change, and Dr. Fine's findings are going to cause some painful reevaluation of what people are eating every day and assuming to be healthy. I don't know if you remember the hoopla surrounding the discovery that a bacteria call H. Pylori caused most ulcers... an Australian researcher discovered that. It was totally dismissed in the US for 10 years, because the assumption was that bacteria couldn't survive the hostile, acidic environment of the stomach. Finally, enough other people confirmed the first guy's research they couldn't dismiss it any longer. Even then though, it took a concerted effort for the NIH to reeducate all the doctors about the cause of stomach ulcers.

So, now we have a finding about wheat and the fact that 30% of people develop antibodies to it. It is a number that is far, far bigger than anyone ever considered. I think he'll probably suffer a lot of controversy. But it is pretty hard to argue with the evidence he's collected over the years.

I wish they'd list where all Dr. Fine will be speaking because he shouldn't be missed. I understand so much more now than I ever did.

The story goes with the H. Pylori that he took some ammount of the bacteria and ended up getting an ulcer just to prove his point.