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At last, Dr. Mercola weighs in on gluten sensitivity. He has been a long-time proponent of eliminating all grains and fructose, but now he's looking at conditions caused/aggravated by gluten specifically. This is an interesting look at the link to ADHD.
The Link Between Celiac Disease and ADHD
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... _DNL_art_2
BTW, I didn't realize rice contains lectins?
A Gluten-Free Diet May "Cure" ADHD: Dr. Mercola
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Hi Zizzle,
I read the article, but I didn't see any new or compelling evidence to substantiate what he said. It seemed as though he was pretty repeating the same information that so many others have presented.
Or did I miss something? I too, believe that gluten is implicated, but where is the scientific evidence? No one seems interested in doing a truly definitive study that would lay all doubts to rest.
Regarding lectins: not only do all plants contain lectins, but all food contains lectins. In fact, every living creature on the planet, contains lectins, including humans. We can't avoid them all. The best we can do is to try to avoid the worst ones.
Tex
I read the article, but I didn't see any new or compelling evidence to substantiate what he said. It seemed as though he was pretty repeating the same information that so many others have presented.
Or did I miss something? I too, believe that gluten is implicated, but where is the scientific evidence? No one seems interested in doing a truly definitive study that would lay all doubts to rest.Regarding lectins: not only do all plants contain lectins, but all food contains lectins. In fact, every living creature on the planet, contains lectins, including humans. We can't avoid them all. The best we can do is to try to avoid the worst ones.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I agree he does not present anything new. I was just excited he presented it at all. He has a huge following and I've been waiting for him to address gluten sensitivity. I guess he's on the GF bandwagon now. 
I have trouble with his advice to avoid all grains and fructose. It's just not possible for most people. But maybe he hopes his all or nothing advice will at least get people to cut down? I dunno.
Now if he would stop promoting raw milk as a cure for everything that ails us, I'd be even more satisfied. Even if I could tolerate casein, I'm not sure I would drink it, unless I knew everything about the cow that produced it. Raw milk is readily available in Guatemala, but most non-indigenous people boil and process it before drinking. I'm encouraging my parents to try it raw and see how they feel, if they know how the cow is pastured and raised.
I have trouble with his advice to avoid all grains and fructose. It's just not possible for most people. But maybe he hopes his all or nothing advice will at least get people to cut down? I dunno.
Now if he would stop promoting raw milk as a cure for everything that ails us, I'd be even more satisfied. Even if I could tolerate casein, I'm not sure I would drink it, unless I knew everything about the cow that produced it. Raw milk is readily available in Guatemala, but most non-indigenous people boil and process it before drinking. I'm encouraging my parents to try it raw and see how they feel, if they know how the cow is pastured and raised.
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I have a friend with celiac who has a cow. She claims that her children and others who drink it don't react to it. I don't see how raw milk would differ in the quality of casein or lactose, but I'm pretty ignorant about it. I have been too brainwashed by the establishment to even take a swallow.
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Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Pasteurization does to milk, what antibiotics do to the body - it destroys the good bacteria along with the bad. But more than that, it destroys all of the enzymes, including lipase, (needed for fat digestion), and phosphatase, (which is there to facilitate the absorption of calcium), so as a result of pasteurization, the calcium in milk effectively becomes unavailable. Pasteurization leaves a pretty much benign drink, with only a fraction of its original benefits.
Tex
http://wewantorganicfood.com/2008/01/26 ... nutrients/Pasteurization
Pasteurizing milk destroys beneficial bacteria along with the bad ones and destroys enzymes essential for nutrient absorption. Pasteurizing milk destroys all its phosphatase; this is essential for the absorption of calcium, and calcium works with Vitamin D, not only available through sunshine but is an essential nutrient in raw cream. Nature packaged a superb design for human sustenance in milk as it comes from the cow with all original essential nutrients — so long as it is not pasteurized. Heating any raw food destroys the active enzymes, so lipase (an enzyme unique to milk and needed to complete digestion of fats) is blasted along with many other essential nutrients that pasteurization destroys.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.