When the intestinal lining is damage by gluten,
your overall health is damaged. Your immune
system is activated to prevent further intestinal
damage causing your overall response to other
body crisis to diminish. Your ability to fight off
other diseases is diminished. Your ability to absorb
nutrients from your food is reduced leading
to nutritional deficiencies.
How does gluten create so many problems in
the body? As gluten moves into the intestine, it
is digested and broken down into small protein
molecules - peptides (which consist of 2-3 amino
acids bound together) and free amino acids.
Amino acids are the basic building blocks that
make up protein. Once digestion is complete,
peptides and free amino acids easily move into
the intestinal wall cell structure and then into
your blood stream. This is what happens in a
healthy person.
Over many years of eating gluten, the intestinal
cell structure deteriorates. Digested protein no
longer passes through the cells walls but passes
between cells and into the blood. These holes in
the intestinal walls is what is known as “leaky
gut syndrome”.
Because of the existence of these tiny holes in the
intestinal wall, harmful substances can pass into
the blood and settle into your organs and cells
causing irritations and damage. Your intestinal
wall is no longer a barrier keeping out unwanted
substances from your blood and body.
Undigested foods can now enter your body creating
food allergies. Toxins from various foods
- dyes, preservatives, food additives, artificial
flavors - can now enter you blood stream. Pathogens
such as bacteria, worms, fungus and viruses
can also enter your body and invade your organs.
When this happens, you will slowly come down
with a variety of symptoms and illnesses that you
cannot attribute to anything specific.
Absorption of undigested proteins is a major
threat to the health of your organs and to your
immune system. It is estimated that up to 40%
of all people have some intestinal damage from
eating gluten and are passing undigested proteins
into their blood stream.
There are some of you that do not have the enzymes
to digest gluten. Those of you have what is
called “gluten sensitivity.” Those of you that have
the enzymes to digest gluten are not as prone
to celiac disease and have less damage to your
intestinal wall.
So what are the foods that you should be eliminating
from your eating habits?
• wheat starch, wheat grass, wheat germ oil,
wheat triticum
• bread flour, brewer’s yeast, bran, brown flour
• oats, oat straw,
• baking powder, edible starch, germ, gum base,
dextrin
• malt, rice malt,
• rye, spelt, kamut, wheat, bleached flour,
couscous, pearl barley, bulgur
• soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, shoyu, miso
• durum wheat triticum, semolina, semolina
triticum
• beer
• blue cheese
One natural remedy for Celiac is Cardamom,
which is found in India. It has been used successful
in treating Celiac disease in children.
For women, celiac has been found to be associated
with osteoporosis, since the intestinal walls
are compromised and absorb Calcium poorly. To
overcome this make sure you take magnesium
and Vitamin B12 to increase your absorption
of Calcium. Or better yet find some form of
ionic calcium and magnesium and use them as
a supplement.
Not all is known about the effects of gluten on
your body and how it creates illness. What is
known is that gluten is responsible for celiac
disease and many other diseases that result from
having celiac.
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