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Ok, I've been reading a lot more about zonulin and what I've read thus far is pretty darn amazing. Of course we all know by now that Zonulin causes these tight junctions, the barrier from the contents of the GI to the other side of the cells, to open. It appears that in folks with celiac disease and even treated celiac disease folks that the tjs are...

Is there any science or research behind these cleanses? Colon, liver, etc? Fasting, absolutely I've seen some research and see the benefit. As for cleansing, I've not seen anything yet that leads me to believe that there is any basis in fact here. After having the ultimate colon cleanse (prep for a colonoscopy) I didn't see anything that even...

What do you mean by feeling bad? What are your symptoms? As far as how long, 3 months seems like too long for withdrawal symptoms, but this isn't something I know much about. Here's more on what I'm taking about: Open Original Shared Link

And here's another. Why do folks get depressed or sad during the fall/winter? Is this physical or mental?

Open Original Shared Link Full text here: Open Original Shared Link I don't agree, but that's ok. All you proved to me was that Drs know how to cover up problems by taking care of the symptoms with drugs. Something I already know. Plus this is all subjective, perhaps folks just gave up on therapy because they weren't being...

So which is it? Chicken or the egg? Am I sick because I'm depressed or am I depressed because I'm sick? How about admitting that both are valid reasons. Not in in all cases are both the case, but you can have one without the other. I'm not pulling this out of thin air, just do a pubmed search on sugar malabsorption and depression for example. I DO...

And here's some further evidence for problems of blood testing for Celiac: Immunoglobulin A autoantibodies against transglutaminase 2 in the small intestinal mucosa predict forthcoming coeliac disease. Open Original Shared Link Endomysial antibody-negative coeliac disease: clinical characteristics and intestinal autoantibody deposits. Open Original...

Exactly, who knows what ranges are really valid. I was thinking about another example of this the other day when looking at calorie formulas. Who's to say that someday down the road we find out that gluten or some other food pathogen causes malabsorption in the majority of folks, so those numbers for calories (or some other measurement) are higher that...

Haven't seen this here yet, so I thought I'd post this. I was doing some research on zonulin and came across this document: Open Original Shared Link Haven't examined all the science/research, but a quick look at a few parts of the science look very sound. Mike

I have no proof (yet) but given that Gliadin is a substrate for tissue transglutaminase as is Soy it sure does sound like there is potential. Open Original Shared Link

Honestly I was terrified about the procedure and a bit about the outcome. Turns out the prepwork was the most terifying part in the end. (Ha ha, pun intended ) The outcome was not quite what I wanted as it turned out to be a rare disease (Lymphocytic Colitis) of which we know very little. But it did turn out for the positive. I found out that gluten...

Thanks! Gotta figure out how you found those. I couldn't figure out a very good query for finding them. So here we show that anti-ttg is not specfic. So therefore we should throw out these results using the same line of thought on stool testing. Clearly something we should NOT do. But again I'm going to bring this up as no one has really commented...

Actually it would be a large mistake to tell people who had depression, neuropathy, diarrhea, asthma, pneumonia (and 99% of these are not related to celiac) who removed gluten from their diet and got better that gluten wasn't the problem. Just like it was a huge mistake to tell folks with Ulcers that it was all in their head and that if they had less stress...

Exactly, which is why (I remarked on it in an earlier post) I found the studies showing that certain pathogens (one was a fungi and the other was a virus, that both look like gliadin) weren't the cause of Celiac quite laughable. They said because pathogen A only showed up in X% of cases it wasn't a trigger, others said that because pathogen B only showed...

You have DQ3 subtype DQ8 (the 0302) and you have DQ1 subtype DQ6 (the 0601). Or in other words DQ8 and DQ6.