I lean towards science so I'll take your word for it on that one.
MS is getting worse but I'm still functioning .....MOSTLY ! thank you for asking Meathead
Dan
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Get well my Jersey friend,
Cardiologist Dr. William Davis is a New York
Times #1 Best Selling author and the Medical Director of the Wheat Belly Lifestyle Institute and the Cureality.com program.
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2013/10/gliadin-the-universal-human-poison/The list of autoimmune conditions that have been associated with wheat, thereby gliadin, consumption is formidable:
Erythema nodosum
Fibromyalgia
Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
Glomerulonephritis
Gluten encephalopathy
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Hemolytic anemia
Hypogammaglobulinemia
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
IgA nephropathy
Interstitial cystitis
Juvenile arthritis
Lupus (SLE)
Meniere’s disease
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
Multiple sclerosis
Myositis
Narcolepsy
Neutropenia
Optic neuritis
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Autoimmunity is the process describing an immune response waged against our own organs. The complex collection of mechanisms consisting of T and B lymphocytes, antibodies, and others, meant to provide protection against viruses, bacteria, and other body invaders, is misdirected against proteins of the body’s organs, such as liver, pancreas, thyroid, or brain. Autoimmune conditions now affect 8% of the American population–it is increasingly looking like diseases of autoimmunity are out of control.
Dr Alessio Fasano was recently awarded the Linus Pauling Award, the highest award from the Institute for Functional Medicine, for his pioneering work on deciphering the role of the gliadin protein of wheat in triggering disruption of the normal intestinal barriers, a process that appears to underlie an astounding proportion of autoimmune conditions.
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/11/nervous-breakdown/immediately began searching for alternative treatments on the internet. I became acqainted with adult stem cell advancements. I jumped from link to link and listened. It was then I believed that I had multiple sclerosis. I made an appointment with a neurologist. I had MRI’s from my lumbar spine to my brain. There were lesions found (scar tissue). The doctor wanted me to begin to inject pharmacueticals. I told him I was more interested in the regenative side of medicine and wasn’t keen on living my life on pharmacueticals.
I did more research and found out about Functional Medicine. I went to a neurologist who also practised Functional Medicine. He is the one who told me about the book Wheat Belly. When my test came back, I was very gluten-sensitive. So I go from a recommendation of pharmacueticals to taking all natural supplements and eliminating gluten.
Occasionally I will have an episode that lasts for 5 seconds and then disappears. But I used to have them 3-6 times a day. All I did was take supplements and eliminate wheat.
Given what we know about this process, i.e., probable cerebellar ataxia from wheat gluten (actually gliadin), there are likely many, many thousands of other people just like Mark who struggle for years without a correct diagnosis, prescribed antidepressants, drugs for neuropathic pain, or just resigned to a future of increasing disability, inability to work or exercise, walkers, wheelchairs, diapers, and eventually complete reliance on others for conducting even the most basic daily activities like emptying bowels and eating.
