Hi Jean-Louis,

You wrote,
> Chlamydia produces a sexually transmitted disease [...]
> 
> ??! The connection between Chlamydia and grain consumption is not clear
> at all from the text¿¿¡

My apologies  -- that was really a confusing message I sent, dashed off in
a hurry this morning.

What I SHOULD have said, was that the mechanism of "molecular mimicry," in
which a "trespassing" molecule (foreign to the body's immune system)
"sneaks" in by "mimicking" the size and shape of one of the body's own
molecules, is the same mechanism responsible for reactions of the human
immune system to the foreign proteins present in grains. 

I thought it might be interesting to see that the Chlamydia bacteria also
uses this same mechanism, and, that yeast evidently contains proteins that
(for some reason useful to yeast cells) mimick prions.

The way I wrote it, it certainly sounded like there's a connection between
Chlamydia and grains, or Chlamydia and grains and Mad-Cow Disease. lol.
(There may be, but these studies certainly did not investigate this :)  ).

Anyway, thanks for the clarification.

Love Liza

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