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Whats New 2004
Coeliac disease-the great
imitator
In the 17 May 2004 edition of the Medical journal of
Australia, Dr John Duggan, a physician in Hamilton, New
South Wales states that Western civilisation owes
much of its foundation to a strange molecular
rearrangement of the chromosomes of the wild grasses in
the Middle East to produce a high-protein, high-yielding
grain-wheat-with six sets of chromosomes.
This enabled the nomads to settle down with some
assurance of a regular food supply.
This progress came at a price.
Gliadin the principal wheat protein leads to the
production of cytokines which cause tissue damage
and
produce antibodies to gliadin.
Thus was born coeliac disease.
Dr Duggan goes on to state that coeliac disease
is associated with so many clinical disorders including
reflux, depression, schizophrenia fatigue, baldness,
dermatitis, recurrent mouth ulcers, irritable bowel
syndrome, iron deficiency, psoriasis and a host of
others. Blood
tests, which measure gliadin, endomysial and
transglutaminase antibodies are suggestive of the
presence of coeliac disease. In my practice I routinely
measure gliadin antibodies on all my patients with
ongoing health problems and if these are elevated then
simply avoiding gluten can often lead to major
improvements.
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