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guy goes into the doctor’s office and says, “Doc! It hurts when I do this.”
Doc says, “Then don’t do that!”
I always thought that was just a silly “Hee
Haw” gag until I studied chronic heath conditions. So what if there are genes involved -- it seems to me that usually there is
something you are doing to further hurt yourself.’
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Avionics, Electrical Engineering and Manufacturing
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Gluten Intolerance is a fascinating collision between a perfectly good defense
against a common virus and a cheap food for the masses.
Author's Update Nov 2005: Thank you for
your interest! I could apologize for the incompleteness of some of the
pages, but it is really meant to be an open notebook after all. There is
still a lot of maintenance and new material I want to add as I can steal time
from the family…
Introduction
“You’re not a doctor – so what the heck do you know.” I used to say to people who would try to inform me about gluten intolerance. Or I’d say, “You’re a quack.” if the speaker was a doctor. Now that I have, in spite of all that, finally discovered the source of forty years of nagging health problems, it seems those shoes are on my feet. (so call me Saul…)
The pages in this site are my open notebook of information I have
collected and essays I have written as I, a skeptical engineer, finally
accepted the theory and began to figure out certain common chronic
health problems. This is the
information I needed to convince myself.
I have created this site to help me communicate what I have learned to
friends, acquaintances and complete strangers, and to encourage others to study
their food and their own health, whether they may be gluten intolerant or not.
I have here some links to Celiac Support Sites. But I also have here information that has been very useful to me that I didn’t find on those sites – but to learn how to do the diet, please see the Celiac Support Sites. I hope you have a chance to go over my site. If there is something here (or missing) that causes you to still doubt that gluten intolerance is real and common, please drop me your reasons by e-mail.
Disclaimer
The purpose of this website is to provide and share an introduction to
the incredibly broad scope of the previously under-recognized health problems
of Celiac Disease, gluten intolerance, and gliadin sensitivity. It does not substitute for competent
and informed medical diagnosis and treatment. I highly recommend anyone with medical conditions to discuss
their condition and management with their family physician and appropriate
specialists. I have no responsibility
for the accuracy or applicability of information referenced here and I make no
representation that any material herein is subject to medical review; rather
the intent is that you be encouraged to personally study the referenced medical
studies. Don’t take what I have found
to your doctor – take what YOU find!
Site Directory:
Just how common is it, anyway?
A who, what, where, why,
when, and how of Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance
The Basic Factors of Gluten Sensitivity and Celiac Disease
A Glossary of common but confusing and unevenly used terms
Annotated List of Symptoms and Health Problems
F.A.Q: REAL Frequently Asked Questions
about gluten!
Essays, Tips, and Advice regarding diagnosis and treatment of
Celiac Disease
Links to Neurological Studies, other Research Articles,
and Celiac Web Sites
Acknowledgements
I thank my wife for her patience with my experimental diets and for her
telling me when I finally found the right one. (“Why are you buying all those
gluten-free cookbooks?” I asked. She
answered, “Because you are much better to live with, now!”)
I am indebted to Craig Brown for his friendship, guidance, and
experience with Celiac Sprue, as well as his assurances that I’m not crazy,
very.
I thank Bob Pease of National Semiconductor for certain inspirations to educating myself in my own health and for
encouragement in making this web site.
My Goals
How can one, in a single conversation, hope to discuss the scope of
gluten intolerance, gliadin sensitivity, and Celiac Sprue? How can one picture the world’s most heavily
consumed food, a veritable symbol of health and plenty, as the world’s least
tolerated grain?
There are three main points I hope to communicate with my gluten web
pages and links:
First, Gluten Intolerance has been assumed by doctors to be rare, but
it has been recently proven to be common.
This fact significantly changes what we thought we knew about the
relationships between gluten and many common chronic health problems.
Second, Gluten Intolerance does have many symptoms, most of which don’t obviously involve the
gut. Gluten is likely to cause
noticeable symptoms in other parts of the body first, often the brain and
nervous system. Sometimes, such injury
can go on for a long time before it becomes very noticeable.
Third, if you are truly reacting to gluten, conventional serum tests
and biopsies can be more likely wrong than right, especially earlier in your
life before you have strong symptoms and real damage is done.
Quick Gluten Research Tips
· In searching for information
of relationships between Celiac Disease, Gluten Intolerance, and other symptoms
and conditions, try including forms of “gliadin antibodies”, “anti gliadin”, and
“antigliadin” in your Internet search criteria. This will help screen out millions of commercial sites and
help narrow your search to recent studies.
Try such searches as ‘diabetes gliadin antibodies’ and ‘gliadin ataxia’.
· When you find an Internet
article that interests you, search the Internet for the titles and authors of
research papers referenced by that article.
This is a good way to find other web sites that reference the same
papers and that could also match your particular interests.
· When looking at Celiac web
sites, if you see any name of condition you don’t recognize, you ought to
search the Internet to learn about it – you may be surprised what you learn
about yourself or relatives. Too often,
medical papers use the most technical terms for conditions that have common
names.
Hey, Calontir!