Dr. Fine From Enterolab

[lonewolf]

I only got to go to half of it, but was really happy to get to see Dr. Fine in person. After hearing him speak and seeing his presentation, which included research done by many others, I believe he is on the "up and up". I was a bit skeptical after reading everything here. A friend went with me and was very interested. She is a dental hygienist and actually went through most of nursing school, so she has a medical background and she thought it was all fascinating. She's going to experiment with a gluten-free diet for her family after the presentation. (Her daughter has an auto-immune thyroid condition and her husband has some issues too.)

He actually agrees that the gene test isn't necessary because almost everyone has two gluten sensitivity genes - common opinion here on this board. He is using the gene information in his research apparently - that's the last piece he's trying to finish up before it's published.

Just thought I'd share my observation. I know a lot of people here are leery of Dr. Fine and Enterolab, but after my morning I have a lot of respect for him.

[AndreaB]

Thank you for posting this Liz.

We found out we all have at least one celiac gene from his testing. I'm still waiting for his publishing as well. I wonder if we'll have access to it, or if they'll annouce it when it is published.

[Judyin Philly]

thanks for posting liz

looking forward to him publishing.

judy

[burdee]

Thanks, Liz. I plan to attend Dr. Fine's presentation at the Bellingham GIG meeting on Monday night (6:30-8:30 pm). I want to personally thank his for founding his lab. When I suspected I had celiac disease I had suffered too much excruciating pain for too long to consider eating gluten for another day, much less 'gluten loading' for a blood test to tell me what I already knew. However after I abstained from gluten for a couple of months I STILL had problems. So I decided to do the Enterolab full panel of tests (gluten antibodies, casein antibodies, malabsorption, Ttg and celiac gene test. Even after 2 months of what I thought was strict gluten abstinence, I tested positive for everything except malabsorption (probably because I had taken digestive enzymes before taking the Elab tests). I previously thought I had 'lactose intolerance' and used lactaid tablets. So I was glad to discover I actually had dairy (milk) or casein intolerance. Without Elab tests I probably would have just kept trying to get well by avoiding gluten, but never considered casein.

I would like to hear Dr. Fine's speech, but I'm already convinced that Enterolabs helped me recover after years of misdiagnoses from my own HMO docs and guilt that I thought I caused my symptoms by bad eating habits. Well I guess that was partly true. Eating gluten, dairy, soy, eggs and cane sugar were pretty bad for me. LOL

BURDEE

[Gentleheart]

Anybody know Dr. Fine's speaking itinerary? Sure would like to hear him, but I'm not close to any large metropolitan areas.