Afib

[jim123]

Has anyone read or know of a relationship between the onset of afib and untreated celiac disease. The reason I ask celiac runs in the family mom, brother and his kids. Recently I strarted fighting afib and drugs that help regulate the nerve activity going to the heart has been unsucessfull. I have always noticed that I do fell better when I avoid gultin and the light bulb when on.

[veggienft]

Yeah, I've experienced Wolf-Parkinson-White Vfib, and lately I've picked up some athlete's

brachycardia. This should be no surprise from a disease which is capable of such nerve damage that it's

implicated in autism, Schizophrenia, ALS and multiple sclerosis.

Humans replace most damaged tissue, but not nerve tissue. The body attempts to repair damaged

nerve cells, and the body protects nerve tissue with three membrane layers .........the lining of the

small intestine, capillary walls, and nerve myeline sheaths.

Gliadin is the active protein in gluten. Gliadin is an exorphin. It mimics the body's own endorphin.

Nerves have special endorphin receptors which gliadin can plug into, and cause damage. The presence

of gliadin in the gut causes the body to produce a body protein called zonulin. Zonulin opens the gut-

blood membrane, and passes the stomach contents into the blood. But after zonulin is in the blood, it

also opens capillary wall and myelin sheath membranes. That allows gliadin direct access to plug in and

damage nerve tissue.

Some of the most exposed nerve tissues are at transduction boundaries. Recent capsaicin experiments

on rodents showed type 1 diabetes to be linked to inflamation of transduction nerve endings in the

pancreas.

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And celiac disease is a cause of type 1 diabetes. I only wonder how many autoimmune diseases of other

organs have the same celiac-relationship.

I would bet real money heart-electrical-disease is one.

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[ravenwoodglass]

Has anyone read or know of a relationship between the onset of afib and untreated celiac disease. The reason I ask celiac runs in the family mom, brother and his kids. Recently I strarted fighting afib and drugs that help regulate the nerve activity going to the heart has been unsucessfull. I have always noticed that I do fell better when I avoid gultin and the light bulb when on.

I was severely impacted nerve wise before diagnosis. As the other poster mentioned celiac does do a number on them. In my case nerves have grown back, I have leg reflexes again that I lost in childhood, but it has been a long slow process.

If you need to be gluten free and you are not then your blood is carrying the antibodies into all your body systems not just the gut. This can lead to inflammation of any organ, including the heart. Do please get yourself back on the diet strictly, please, your body really will thank you.

[Di-gfree]

I didn't have a clue what afid was, but seeing 'Wolf-Parkinson-White' caught my attention. Seemingly, I'm the only one in my immediate family with celiac. But, one of my brothers has WPW, and had the operation for it years ago. He doesn't seem to have any other symptoms of celiac (at least digestive); but I see there is a connection.

[veggienft]

.....oops, I linked a follow-up diabetes experiment. Here's the experiment which implicated nerve

inflamation in diabetes:

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......Dr. Dosch had concluded in a 1999 paper that there were surprising similarities between diabetes

and multiple sclerosis, a central nervous system disease. His interest was also piqued by the presence

around the insulin-producing islets of an "enormous" number of nerves, pain neurons primarily used to

signal the brain that tissue has been damaged.

Suspecting a link between the nerves and diabetes, he and Dr. Salter used an old experimental trick