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I think autoimmune disease is caused by a lack of pancreatic enzymes that digest proteins and DNA.
For instance, celiac is caused by an inability to digest gluten. Gluten is a protein. Studies show however that when the gluten is properly predigested with the use of fungal protease (protease are pancreatic enzymes that digest protein) celiac patients had no toxic effects. Bread used to be made with sourdough starter instead of modern yeast. The sourdough yeast broke down the gluten and made it easier to digest.
The study entitled “Sourdough bread made from wheat and nontoxic
flours and started with selected lactobacilli is tolerated in celiac sprue
patients” showed that even someone with celiac disease can eat bread with
no toxic effects, as long as the bread is properly fermented. In the study,
sourdough bread was made from 30% wheat and a mixture of oat, millet,
and buckwheat flours. The bread was fed to 17 patients with celiac disease
with no negative consequences. However, when the same 17 patients
were fed the bread make with baker’s yeast, 13 patients showed “a marked
alteration in intestinal permeability.”
In an additional study entitled “Safety for patients with celiac disease of
baked goods made of wheat flour hydrolyzed during food processing”
celiac patients were fed a 60-day diet of baked goods made from wheat
flour manufactured with sourdough lactobacilli and fungal proteases. They
also experienced no ill effects.
Recent very definitive spinal tap studies in fibromyalgia and CFS found 732 abnormal proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid of CFS and fibromyagia patients. The number one protein finding was a PROTEASE imbalance. There was no viral, bacterial or genetic finding.
In lupus, the lack of DNase1 has been determined to be a "causative factor" of lupus. When this enzyme is removed in mice, the mice got lupus, when it is genetically modified, lupus was the result. DNase1 is a pancreatic enzymes that breaks down dietary DNA.
The following information came from this site on MS. http://www.nhfw.info/multiple-sclerosis.html
Uric Acid and Gout
So who does not get MS? This is perhaps the biggest clue to MS of them all. Generally, people with gout. According to one paper, a review of 20 million patient records found the ailments appear to be almost mutually exclusive.
MS patients have low levels of uric acid and as a result they are far less likely to get gout. Uric acid is the final breakdown product of dietary DNA. If you lack DNase1 and protease, you would not be able to break down dietary DNA and you would have low levels of uric acid.
Every symptom of every autoimmune disease can be traced directly back to these missing enzymes. It doesn't matter what the symptom is; hypothyroidism, ANS dysfuntion, low vitamin D, white matter lesions, depression, etc. Every symptom can be traced directly back. Even unusual symptoms, such as nacolepsy, can be easily explained.
Lupus, celiac, fibromyagia and CFS have been proven to be directly connected to the inability to digest proteins. Think of the symptoms being manifested in these diseases. They overlap and are identical to most of the symptoms in all autoimmune disease. In addition, as the MS site stated, the fact that MS patients don't get gout is perhaps the biggest clue to MS of them all. We can easily trace this "clue" directly back to DNase1.
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I think that all of these so called separate diseases are really just symptoms of one disease-PEDD (Pancreatic Enzyme Deficiency Disease.) So type 1 diabetes would certainly fit in. Exocrine and endocrine pancreatic insufficiency are commonly found in autoimmune disease. For instance, celiac disease has a very strong connection to type 1 diabetes. Gluten is a protein, so a lack of protease and DNase1 would also result in an inability to digest gluten. Here is some information from my book on pancreatic insufficiency, celiac disease and type 1 diabetes.
"Direct evidence of the involvement of the pancreas can also be found in CD. In the study entitled “Is exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in adult coeliac disease a cause of persisting symptoms” researchers concluded, “Low faecal elastase is common in patients with coeliac disease and chronic diarrhoea, suggesting exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.”
Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency is the inability to properly digest food due to a lack of digestive enzymes made by the pancreas. For exocrine pancreatic insufficiency to occur, pancreatic disease or damage must be severe. “Ninety percent of the pancreas must be damaged in order for exocrine pancreatic insufficiency to set in,” states Frank Gress, MD, a professor of medicine and chief of the gastroenterology and hepatology division at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. “There has to be a widespread pancreatic disease process that causes damage over time.”
“The pancreas has two main jobs,” states Dr.Gress, “It produces enzymes to help digest foods — particularly fats and carbohydrates — into smaller molecules that can be absorbed, and it releases the hormones insulin and glucagon, which help regulate blood sugar. When food isn't broken down into small enough molecules, it can remain in the small bowel, where it can draw in water and cause diarrhea, one of the primary symptoms of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.”
In an additional study entitled “Pancreatic endocrine and exocrine changes in celiac disease,” researchers concluded, “In summary the endocrine and exocrine function of the pancreas may be impaired in celiac disease and their pathogenesis may be closely linked.”
The impairment of the endocrine function in CD, which is responsible for insulin release, would explain the connection CD has to diabetes. Type I diabetes occurs at a rate of about 0.5% in the general population, but at a rate estimated at 5-10% among celiacs."
I checked your profile and saw that you also have hypothyroidism. Here is how an inability to digest proteins would lead to hypothyroidism. Pancreatic enzymes called protease break down proteins we consume and release essential amino acids. One of the essential amino acids found lacking in autoimmune disease is phenylalanine. Phenylalanine breaks down into tyrosine and tyrosine breaks down into both of your thyroid hormones.
