Celiac Disease Myth - Roger Mason
Celiac disease, or gluten intolerance, is a widely promoted myth. The truth of the matter is that this
is a very rare condition- if it exists at all. Wheat allergies are very rare. Almost
no one in America
eats rye and barley. All this talk about “gluten intolerance” and “gluten free
foods” is ridiculous. Another scam to sell overpriced "gluten-free"
foods. This is very difficult to diagnose, and cannot be diagnosed with
certainty. The current diagnostic tests are just not reliable at all. The media
has pushed this, as if it is some kind of epidemic. Only about 1 in 133 people even possibly have this. Please note the word, “possibly”. The figure
may be much lower- more like 1 in 200, or less. Or not at all. Many studies
have confirmed this, especially the University of Maryland in Baltimore (Archives of Internal Medicine v 163, 2003) That figure may be
far too high, as you just cannot definitely diagnose this conclusively. It is
true that all digestive diseases have increased dramatically in the last fifty
years, especially irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Poor digestion is epidemic in Western societies, due to our
hideous diets. Our 22 feet of small intestine are affected. The common symptoms
are diarrhea, abdominal pain, flatulence, physical weakness, and weight loss.
Same as IBS. The diagnosis is basically guesswork, and really only verifies you
have a digestive problem. Do not get a biopsy, as it is expensive, painful,
invasive, unnecessary, and harmful. Yes, there is a genetic factor here, but it
really is for weak digestion, and not necessarily gluten intolerance at all. Many
people really have irritable bowel syndrome, and not gluten intolerance. Maybe
all of them. Exotic tests like serum
antigliadin antibodies and antiendomysial antibodies are just not specific
predictors. Impaired digestion results in damaged intestinal walls or “leaky
gut syndrome”. Here, one has multiple unknown food allergies. No food allergy test on earth works.
That’s a fact. None of them are accurate. One thing you can do is buy seitan
(say tan) from a health food store, and
eat just one ounce of it to see if you react. It is the purest form of gluten.
People with any of these serious digestive issues are far more prone to most
diseases, and live shorter lives. Your digestive system really is the heart of
your health and immunity. Read the article Good
Health Begins with Good Digestion. Do this program for one year for
dramatic results.
For god’s sake, we eat twice the calories we need, we eat
twice the protein we need, and we eat eight times the fat we need. Most all those fats are
saturated, artery-clogging animal fats. We eat 160 pounds of various sugars we
don’t need at all. We are overfed and undernourished. Our food is refined,
preserved, and chemical laden. We eat a mere 1% whole grains, when we should be
eating 50% whole grains. Is it any wonder so many people have digestive
problems? Stop wondering.
Have you noticed most all the “gluten-free” products are
overpriced junk food? Gluten-free cakes, gluten-free cookies,
gluten-free pies, gluten-free donuts, gluten-free cupcakes, gluten-free
muffins, gluten-free pizza, and just more crap. Do people think they are going
to get well eating that kind of stuff? It's a gluten free SCAM folks. A study (Alimentary Pharmacology v 32, 2010)
proved they were far more nutritionally deficient than controls. People who
claim to be gluten intolerant eat meat,
dairy, eggs. poultry, refined foods, and lots of sugar. What is the big deal
here? If you think you are gluten intolerant, just stop eating wheat, barley,
and rye (also kamut, triticale and spelt). How many people do you know that eat
barley and rye with any regularity? That means you just avoid wheat for, say,
one month, and see if you get better. You can find many healthy, whole grain
baked goods that do not use wheat, including bread, rolls, tortillas, and
pastas.
Again, they have no proof at all that they are, in fact,
gluten intolerant. The current tests are just not reliable at all. The ones who
claim this rarely have the proven symptoms.
The real issue here is that people who think they are gluten
intolerant certainly do have a digestive issue like IBS. This is rather easy to cure naturally. Read the article Good Health Begins With Good Digestion. Read my book Zen Macrobiotics for Americans. Eat only macrobiotic foods. Eat
lots of brown rice, oats, corn, buckwheat, and millet. Eat lots of beans and
legumes. Eat lots of cooked green and yellow vegetables. Limit fruit to 10% of
your diet. Eat 10% seafood if you want. Limit any raw foods to 10% of your diet,
as they are harder to digest than cooked foods. Eat two meals a day. Fast one day a week on water. It is very important you fast every week
to give your digestive system a chance to rest and heal. Join our two day
monthly Young Again International Fast if you like. If you are under 40, take the Supplements for Younger People (read the
article with the same name) and add glutamine. If you are over 40 take all the
supplements recommended in the Zen Macrobiotics book and the article Serious Supplement Program. Buy bulk
glutamine and take 1 tablespoon a day for a year. You can take ½ tablespoon AM
and PM. Take two capsules of (200:1) aloe vera for a year. Take FOS and
acidophilus twice a day AM and PM. Our acidophilus is refrigerated, has 6
billion units per capsule, with 8 different strains. Only use refrigerated
acidophilus.
Do not concentrate on healing your digestive system;
concentrate on healing your whole body. Holistic medicine is whole body
medicine. Treat your whole body, and your digestion will improve dramatically
very shortly. The celiac epidemic is a myth, but digestive disorders really
are an epidemic. You can cure these disorders with a total program of diet and
lifestyle. Cure yours naturally without drugs or surgery. Celiac diseases and
gluten intolerance is a very rare condition. The epidemic of gluten-free
products is merely another way for criminals to make money from stupid people.
Another media creation of a crisis that doesn’t exist.
You will see serious
neurotic obsessive-compulsive behavior with people who claim to be gluten
intolerant. Talk to any of them and you'll immediately see they are terminal
obsessive-compulsive neurotics. Published studies prove this. Supposed celiac
patients have a very neurotic psychological profile. Their whole lives seem to
revolve around avoiding gluten. They see gluten in everything! They think all
their health problems are due to gluten, even though they don’t eat any. They
claim even the tiniest amount of gluten will put make them deathly ill. A
Russian study (Terapevitcheski arkhiv
v 80 2008) looked at people of all ages who claimed to be gluten intolerant.
They found them to be mentally ill! “The celiac patients demonstrate
social-psychological maladaption
in the form of situational and personality anxiety, and
moderate depression. Their psychic component of health suffers more (viability,
social functioning) than the physical one (physical performance, scales of
pain, and general health”. Their mental health was far worse than their
physical health in plain English. Another stunning study (Journal of Affective Disorders v 99, 2007) at the famous Karolinska
Institute found celiac patients suffered far more from depression that normal
subjects. Doctors at the University
of Torino (European Journal of Gastroenterology v
15, 2003) just came out and said celiac patients need “psychiatric
intervention”! Doctors at the University of Naples
(Psychosomatics v 45, 2004 said
celiac disease may be associated with changes in personality that may interfere
with patients adaption to living.” In plain words they are DYSFUNCTIONAL! At University of Chapel Hill doctors said their mental
problems far exceeded their physical ones (Digestive
Diseases v 55, 2010). At Catholic University in Rome
( Hepatogastroenterology v 43, 1996)
the researchers found high levels of anxiety and depression in celiacs.
Pediatricians at the University of Catainia in Italy (BMC Pediatrics v 11, 2011) found children with supposed celiac
symptoms to be highly neurotic overall with increased “emotional and behavioral
problems.”
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