Re: Age 40 was: the cause(s) of gluten sensitivity

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> >

> >Not JUST gluten though, but gluten and a GS gene that has

*expressed*.

> >Without the expressed gene one doesn't get GS, as I understand

it. So the

> >other common denominator is a trigger - something that causes the

gene to

> >express itself. Now, perhaps in the case of *some* folks that

could be

> >simply too much gluten? I don't know. But I find it interesting

that my GS

> >genes seemed to have expressed at a time when I was consuming a

lot LESS

> >gluten than I previously had and at around age 40.

>

> See, the " age 40 " thing is classic. Mine started at age 40 too.

Though I

> was also pregnant at the time! About half the folks in the gluten

intolerance

> group I'm in first had symptoms at age 40, though in retrospect

they

> realized some previous problems were likely gluten related.

> Heidi Jean

I did not discover that I am gluten sensitive/intolerant until age

51 and I diagnosed myself. After suspecting it based on an article

about a " new blood test " and reading the symptoms, I stopped eating

gluten and after 2 weeks was feeling so much better. Over this last

year (I'm 52 now) I have found more and more of the things I thought

were unrelated or just " normal " are/were symptoms. I went to the

Stanford U conference on celiac last October and saw a presentation

about " classic celiac " and " silent celiac " . The thing that leaped

off of the screen at me was a picture of a 4 year old in a bathing

suit - that huge bloated baby belly is something that " in the know "

pediatricians look for (now). I went back and looked at my baby

pictures - yeah - even at 8 I had that belly - my folks used to

tease me about it - even as they gave me cookies and sandwiches and

homemade bread.

It takes something like 10 years average to get a CELIAC diagnosis

in this country and that is if you are a " classic " celiac -

malnourshed to the point of emaciation and with belly pain for that

whole time and going from doctor to doctor. And that does not

include the people who are " just gassy " . Who know when the " gene

expressed " ? How many years does it take for the intestinal track to

finally just not heal? And meanwhile my thyroid has been trashed

(that showed up when I was in my 20's with my first baby - I just

was not producing enough milk - Synthroid helped that - and I think

the milk before that may have been dependent on the circulating

prolactin that is high in celiac children (and adults??))

And migraines, and " psoriasis " and arthritis and ....

But I thought they were all unrelated and did not have anything to

do with the " staff of life " .

Connie