A medical hypothesis...or hypotheses...

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After reading all the literature that has just come out about gluten

ataxia, I have a new hypothetical understanding about the vaccines

and how they affect our kids, and why the GFCF diets and/or are

helpful...in addition to all the obvious stuff about mercury

poisoning that we know already.

1. The primary site of mercury excretion in the poisoned individual

is in the BILE.

2. The bile is excreted, full of toxic mercury, into the SMALL

INTESTINE.

3. The poison then destroys the normal enzyme systems of the small

intestine, which are found in the delicate brush border of the

villi. It is not necessary to cause villous atrophy as in celiac

disease to do this.

4. The child on a normal American diet continues to consume gluten

in wheat, rye, barley and casein in milk, cheese etc. But the enzymes

that should break these down into amino acids are weak or missing

entirely after being destroyed or inactivated by the mercury in the

bile. There may also be trouble digesting other foods, such as

lactose, fats, or sucrose. Chronic diarrhea, constipation or

malabsorption may ensue, and may cause insufficient absorption of

essential fatty acids or fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin A or

vitamin K.

5. One or both of the following occur:

a. The gluten and casein are broken down incompletely into the

opioid peptides that cause the child to act as if drugged with a

narcotic. (This is an older suggestion for why these diets work, and

has some substantiation.)

B. The lining of the intestines is damaged in a way similar to

celiac disease, and autoantibodies to the enzyme tissue

transglutaminase then are produced. These autoantibodies further

damage not only the intestinal lining, but also the Purkinje cells of

the cerebellum. This affects the developing vestibular functioning

of the brain and accounts for many of the sensory integration

dysfunction symptoms that we see in our kids. Dysarthria is also seen

in individuals with gluten ataxia, which means that it could also

affect speech. Purkinje cells are damaged in autopsies of autistic

individuals.

6. The mercury also has an effect on immune function and makes the

children more vulnerable to subsequently given live virus vaccines

and infections. This would account for latent virus infections with

chickenpox and measles vaccines affecting the cranial nerves or the

intestines, for example. The cranial nerves are involved with

hearing, speech, swallowing, and nearly all the systems our kids have

difficulty with.

7. The intestinal permeability that is produced by 5B, above, also

gets into a vicious cycle with yeast and intestinal dysbiosis. This

affects the neurotransmitters that we now know are produced in the

gut as well as the brain.

8. Because of the problems with oral sensory and motor function as

well as intestinal reactions to food, and anxiety based on inability

to communicate, some children develop severe food aversions. This

creates a vicious cycle with inadequate nutrition affecting development.

9. Often the persons around the child, especially in educational or

therapeutic settings, fail to distinguish between a child who is

sick, reacting to foods, brain-injured, doesn't understand, or

simply frightened, and one who is " oppositional " or unwilling to

comply. This leads to a destruction of basic trust, which causes

more withdrawal and another vicious cycle. The parents can often

play a large role in interrupting this cycle if their child can learn

to trust them, at least. Note that this is the only non-biological

factor in all of this noxious cycle of events.

For those of you who may be interested in the medical literature,

look up articles by M. Hadjivassiliou, MD, et. al. in Neurology,

2006:373-337, and in J. Neuro Neurosurg Psychiatry, 2003,

74;1221-1230., and Neurology 2002;58:1221-1226.

Those references are for the gluten ataxia and its treatment and

serological associations. The other ideas came from my reading over

the past two years, and our experience with Ben. Any researchers out

there that want to test any of this, feel free...I'm not claiming any

of this as intellectual property...just my ideas.

Benny's fecal antigliadin IgA was 24 (normal 0-9), and his antitissue

transglutaminase and fecal anti-casein IgA tests were also positive.

He was and is greatly helped by the enzymes, but now after one week

on a strict gluten free diet he is potty trained, and incredibly

improved with respect to vestibular functioning--all of a sudden

willing to go on the carousel, the boat rides, the Tower Ride at

Silver Springs...AND balance himself on an adult toilet. All of this

he refused to do at all before.

Thanks for letting me put together my thinking on this.

Peace,

Kathy E.

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