The theory behind the 'allergic/immune' response is that the gut has
become permeable to 'foreign' stuff (not just proteins by the way, my
daughter mounts an immune response to sugar) -- the 'leaky gut'
syndrome. That's how the foreign stuff gets into the body instead of
being properly metabolized into constituent parts (monoglycerides, amino
acids, etc. )and once in the body sees the stuff as 'non-self.'
Generally speaking if a person stays completely away from the offending
food for at least three months, the gut gets a chance to heal and then
the person can often eat some of the food occasionally. The grains are
suspected of often being the culprit in the original 'leaky gut' as well
as sugar and other simple carbs, which tends to really throw off the
normal flora protection.

Liz

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> Todd > ...in Neanderthin, Ray Audette makes much of the "foreign protein" theory, which goes beyond just allergies.  At first, this theory seemed plausible, but the more I thought about it, the less believable I found it.  The body's definition of "foreign" is "not self," and in that sense--the *only* sense in which the term has any clean meaning at all--beef protein is as foreign as wheat protein.
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> There is a sense in which this is true, that beef protein is as foreign as wheat protein.  No ingested protein should survive the digestive process and remain even partially intact in the bloodstream.  But these peptides do in fact get in there due to the "leaky gut" caused by wheat.  I don't know if the beef proteins then cause much damage in circulation -- perhaps that the true cause of some folks' allergic reactions to beef.  What I do know is this: The wheat germ agglutinin wreaks absolute havoc when gets into the bloodstream because it rather unfortunately resembles so many self proteins that the body gets confused and attacks itself.  Voila! Autoimmune disease.
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