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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 635.x/full
Live probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis bacteria inhibit the toxic effects induced by wheat gliadin in epithelial cell culture
http://probiotics.org/bifidobacterium-lactis/
The probiotic we've all been looking for??
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Sounds promising, but I assume it would give us trouble if we are dairy intolerant ??? I have tried a few probiotics, including S. Boulardii, but have always had major reactions :(.Bifido Lactis is present in raw milk and is used as starter culture for cheese, cottage cheese and butter milk. It is also found in certain plants.
If you decide to try this Zizzle, I'll be curious about how you do.
Love,
Kari
"My mouth waters whenever I pass a bakery shop and sniff the aroma of fresh bread, but I am also grateful simply to be alive and sniffing." Dr. Bernstein
Before you throw caution to the wind, note that this is just an in vitro study, and not in vivo research. Also, it's not the first time such mechanisms have been investigated. From their list of references, for example, this was published over 4 years ago:
Research groups all over the world are trying to make one of these techniques work well enough to get approval for a marketable "drug", but the problem is that most of them concentrate on the alpha gliaden peptide, and there are almost a hundred more gliadins and glutenins that we also react to, in wheat, rye, barley, and oats. My advice is, "don't hold your breath".
Tex
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17494108RESULTS: AN-PEP accelerated the degradation of gluten in the stomach compartment to such an extent that hardly any gluten reached the duodenum compartment.
Research groups all over the world are trying to make one of these techniques work well enough to get approval for a marketable "drug", but the problem is that most of them concentrate on the alpha gliaden peptide, and there are almost a hundred more gliadins and glutenins that we also react to, in wheat, rye, barley, and oats. My advice is, "don't hold your breath".
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.