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  1. Jestgar
    I've never seen this either, but I've also never bothered to look it up. I'm just exploring alternative explanations which seem to me to be more plausible than "Celiac leads to other autoimmune disorders" What if, instead of saying that the gliadin induced antibodies attack a specific organ, what if they can set off an event that causes antibodies to...
  2. Jestgar
    I would say that gluten is not the trigger. To continue with the current example. A person has some slight pre-disposition to develop Addison's. Not an "Addison's gene", just some diffuse weakness/improper signalling/whatever within the endocrine system. If nothing goes wrong in their health, they never develop it. If they also have Celiac's, any antibodies...
  3. Jestgar
    Invalid argument. Gliadin is the antigenic protein and gliadin is excreted in breastmilk. Chirdo FG, Rumbo M, Anon MC, Fossati CA. Presence of high levels of non-degraded gliadin in breast milk from healthy mothers. Scand J Gastroenterol. 1998 Nov;33(11):1186-92. What if you say this differently. What if you say "12% of Celiacs developed...
  4. Jestgar
    This is a curious disorder. I have absolutely no intestinal symptoms and I sometimes wonder, if it hadn't been for my boss's observation and this board, would I have continued to develop worse and worse neurological sympts? Scary thought
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    Gluten (or maybe it's gliadin) does pass through breast milk...
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    Thanks, ladies.
  7. Jestgar
    I don't know, though. I think that's the big question. (Keeping firmly in mind that everyone is different...) Do people start making autoantibodies that never show up? Or do they only occur if symptoms are ignored (or not understood to be symptoms) and gluten is continuously eaten? Would you have developed these problems anyway? Would they have...
  8. Jestgar
    I'm curious about the need for a bone scan. I've just assumed that I'm vitamin/calcium/iron deficient and have taken steps to increase these and I think most people on the board do the same. If a bone scan shows that your bones are more porous than they should be is there anything you can do about it?
  9. Jestgar
    Maybe some people feel like crap and start searching for answers before damage/autoimmunity is triggered. For other people maybe they feel bad only after the damage has occurred. The only way to test this would be to find someone who feels bad when they eat gluten, but without damage/autoimmunity and convince that person to keep eating gluten for 6-8 years...
  10. Jestgar
    Thanks guys. I don't know why I was having such a mental block on this. Bringing stuff is easy enough, and I did eat before I went, but I also like to educate people and since about half the group is MDs that may as well realize that a gluten free diet isn't a hardship, I'd rather they try to accomodate me. (Although they're all lung doctors...still...
  11. Jestgar
    Don't we all have an eating disorder? Just not one we chose or can be counseled out of.
  12. Jestgar
    Maybe someone should freak out about this. Teaching this kind of behaviour to children is also inappropriate and a parent might find out about this sort of thing and shut you down.
  13. Jestgar
    Hi everyone, I just spent most of the day at a conference for which breakfast (breads and grapes), snacks (pretzels) and lunch (pizza and two salads with croutons pre-mixed in) was served. As I sat there eating my plates full of grapes (which make you have to pee a lot, btw) I started wondering what would be good gluten-free food to have at conferences...
  14. Jestgar
    Ok, I've only made it through the first six references of "the chemical bases of the various AIDS epidemics..." and none of these are available on line because of their age, but the couple with available abstracts do not suggest that the authors have drawn the conclusion that duesberg has from their data and in fact in the last one, Beral et al, 1990, in...
  15. Jestgar
    I was wondering about this time line too. I haven't looked up anything, but two examples come to mind. You need a tetanus shot every 7-10 years to maintain immunity. It is said (but I don't know if proven) that everyone over 35-40 is no longer immune to small pox because none of us that got the shot were ever exposed to small box to get "boosted". ...
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    Oh Yeah! This was the other thing I was going to rant about! Since polymorphisms tend to travel in groups, but without a perfect association, I think it's entirely possible that the DQ2/8 marker is just that, a marker. (Still an active part of the disease, but not the cause.) What if the actual cause of the disease is a different gene that has not...
  17. Jestgar
    The answer is yes, it's possible, but not likely. But these differences did come about by mutation. It just takes time (and maybe plagues of any sort) to weed out the ones that don't work. The reason we can't fight it is because it infects our lymphocytes and destroys the cells that we use to fight with. Thanks Fiddle-Faddle, I had been...
  18. Jestgar
    Ya know, I don't know. I guess my question would be is there really a non-celiac gluten intolerance? or is it really not-yet-celiac gluten intolerance? Since this really isn't an experiment you could do, I'm not sure there will ever be a real answer. You can always test it yourself. Try gluten after a few years and see if you have the same reactions...
  19. Jestgar
    I have friend who's doing the same thing and I am very open about the future dangers of untreated Celiac and casually mention them, or at the very least, raise my eyebrows when she has a beer. I doubt she will ever take her health seriously, for a variety of reasons, and so my choices are: 1. keep being mildly annoying and hope she'll clue in 2. give...
  20. Jestgar
    Does this thought worry anyone else? Do you think that current "gluten free" products from companies that have gluten products will be less safe?
  21. Jestgar
    I just read a paper that addresses one aspect of this. From Gianfrani et al. JI 2006, 177:4178-4186 p 4184 "Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that gliadin specific Tr1 cells (a type of T cell) are recruited to/differentiated in the inflammed intestinal mucosa during the acute disease..." "...they must remain in the treated mucosa as long...
  22. Jestgar
    From the same paper: The results do not, however, support the hypothesis that prior exposure to Ad 12 is implicated in the pathogenesis of coeliac disease.
  23. Jestgar
    Sorry, I didn't say that very clearly. You probably have a combination of your parents genes. So your haplotype or genetic complement is different from either of your parents. There are, however, certain spots that are more likely to undergo a single base-pair change when the egg or sperm are made. So you don't change over your lifetime, but you might...
  24. Jestgar
    I have only a vague understanding of the HLA system and I'm finding even the terminology hard to hang on to since everyone seems to be using a variation and I haven't spent enough time looking things up. What I do study is the innate immune system which has some overlap in proteins and results, but I study the genetics of it in blood which is not nearly...
  25. Jestgar
    Maybe so, but 40% of the population carries the same HLA genotype and not all of them develop Celiac. Not sure if this link will work, but it's a nice review. Open Original Shared Link The molecular basis of coeliac disease Journal Clinical and Experimental Medicine Issue Volume 6, Number 2 / June, 2006
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