I went to a seminar last Friday on the Complexities of Gluten Sensitivity.  It was one of those experiences where you are glad on one level to know the information, but on another level you wish you could ignore it and have it all go away.

Let's review the highlights.

1. Most people and doctors think of gluten sensitivity as equal to Celiac disease of the colon and intestine.  Fewer than 1/3 of the cases of gluten sensitivity affect the gut.  The number one target for gluten sensitivity is the brain.  It is involved in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Psychiatric illness, Depression, ADD and ADHD, Migraine, Palsy, Huntington's, and numerous brain inflammatory diseases.

2. Other popular targets are the bones, producing osteoporosis, osteopenia, and Rheumatiod arthritis.  Gluten triggers attack of the pancreas producing type 1 diabetes.  It induces obesity in children.  It hits the thyroid producing Hashimoto's disease (the most common thyroid disorder.)  It can induce miscarriages, infertility, and menstrual problems.  It also triggers auto-immune diseases that attack our own hormones, stomach, skin, nerves, and even the nucleus of cells which then triggers cancer.  The impact is huge.

4. The testing methods currently used today fail to correctly diagnose most gluten sensitive people.  You can have gluten sensitivity without having the gluten sensitive genes (HDLAQ genes - 1/3 of Americans have this gene).  And the one immune test used today for gluten sensitivity only checks for one the dozen different immune reactions discovered so far.  You could have any one or any combination of reactions and never be discovered with the current alpha-gliadin test.

5. You can also have problems with a byproduct of gluten breakdown called gluteomorphins.  These are highly addictive proteins that affect the part of the brain that responds to heroin and morphine.  In fact, it is this addictive property of gluten that is why gluten is put in practically every processed food - to get you addicted to the food to increase sales.

7. One of the causes for this tremendous increase in sensitivity is what is being done to grains in the processing.  In order to make the flours more soluble in water or milk the flours are being deamidated.  These deamidated proteins are ten times more reactive then regular "natural" gluten.  Genetic modification of our grains is also a major cause of the increasing sensitivity in the population.

9. Even if we avoid all gluten sources and cross reactors, if the damage to the gut has produced Leaky Gut Syndrome, nothing gets better until we heal the gut first.  Leaky gut causes us to become allergic to almost everything we eat.

As you can see, this is a load of not nice information.  At this point it is looking like more than half of the population is gluten sensitive.  The old tests miss most of the sensitive people.  Unfortunately the old tests are still accurate for those people that tested positive (so I am still on the hook.)  Up until 2 weeks ago there has not been a commercial laboratory for testing all these different types of gluten sensitivity.  This information has only been available to researchers.

The good news is that there is a lab that has just opened in Arizona called Cyrex Labs that physicians can use to order the tests necessary for finding out if their patients have gluten sensitivity as the hidden cause behind their many physical and mental health issues.  I have just signed up with them as a provider and will soon have the ability to order these tests.  If you would like to check them out go to Cyrex labs.

Treating gluten sensitivity starts with 100% avoidance of gluten and gluten cross-reactors.  Gluten sensitivity is not the same thing as a wheat allergy.  Allergy responses only last a few days.  Gluten sensitivity is an autoimmune inflammation reaction in which the gluten acts like a lit match to a forest.  Once the fire gets started it can take 8 months or more for it to settle down.  That is why that piece of cake for you birthday is not ok.  One bite can set you back for the better part of a year.

Further treatment of gluten sensitivity involves the use of DPP IV protease enzymes to help you digest any tiny amounts of gluten that might sneak into your food as "natural flavors" or as flour dust in the factory that is making your so called gluten free foods.  This does not make it ok to eat gluten, but it will help slow down the inflammatory response to unintended micro exposures.  GlutenFlam is the product that does this at the office.

Certain flavonoids and flavonols have been discovered to help quench the immune system fire.  Some of these are still largely unknown in the nutrition world, but the fellow that was teaching the seminar has gotten Apex Energetics to create a couple combinations of these for fighting brain inflammation such as NeuroFlam (at the office.)

Lastly is the issue of healing Leaky Gut.  This is a complex story all on its own.  In fact I am signed up to take another seminar just on that topic in another week.

While all this information is the kind of stuff we would like to just bury our heads in the sand about, the serious consequences will still hit us and destroy our health.  Some people will simply ignore this and continue to eat whatever they want while their bones crumble and their brains cease to function.  These are the people that eventually fill our hospitals and convalescent homes.  I would love to be able to eat whatever I want, but I am not willing to pay the heavy prices to do so.  Feeling good and staying functional is important to me, more important than that chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.  I get it that one of the main reasons I want the ice cream is to cover up the bad feelings that are the direct result of other things I have eaten.  Poisonous foods are addictive.  When we eat them it makes us feel bad.  We try to blame the feelings on work, or mate, or the economy, or whatever, but it really is mostly the food blocking our brains from solving our other issues.  And when we don't eat them we feel bad because we start going into withdrawal.  We just have to white knuckle our way through the addictions and get off the junk.

The odds are that most of you are gluten sensitive.  Folks that aren't don't have the aches and pains that send them to their doctors and Chiropractors.  Find out through testing, because if you are not sensitive, you will save yourself a huge load of work.  But if you are, then get off the grains and sugars as the first step.  We can work together to make this journey a successful one.    

Good Journey,

 

 

david@fairoakshealth.com

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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