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The following info shows up in the following website.

"[In cd]The body lacks a particular digestive enzyme, intestinal
glutaminase, that can digest gluten products"
http://thyroid.about.com/library/weekly/aa012201a.htm

Now I have not come across this info before.  Any hard data to verify
this?

On the flip side of the "why" of celiac is the discussion surrounding
zonulin.  Zonulin is a hormone that regulates the permeability of the
intestines (maybe one of many?)  (Lancet April 2000) and is found to be
abnormally high in unmanaged  cd. I have not seen any reference to this
in all of the discussions on this listserv since I began subscribing(a
year ago???).  Any discussion now?

Can we speculate and dream about managing our zonulin levels while we
ingest gluten?  Now that would be a cure!  I know this sounds too simple
and it probably is but dreaming is possible isn't it?  Actually since I
face a much stricter diet than a gf one each day, at this point I would
be very happy to just be gf.

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Barb

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