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Because many of you follow what Ron Hoggan has to say on gluten-related topics, I asked him if he'd mind my posting the following directly to the list. He kindly agreed. In a few days, I shall also post a summary of answers to my question about whether people have gluten triggers worse symptoms, specifically vomiting,  after a time on the GF diet.

Mary B.
NYC

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> From: Ron Hoggan <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: January 20, 2011 9:42:40 PM EST
> To: Mary Brown <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Summary: Vomiting as a symptom.
> 
> Hi Mary,
> Since diagnosis, I sometimes get a burning sensation on my tongue and at the corners of my mouth. I wondered about it until I saw a journal article where a celiac patient had a raw lesion on his tongue from a candy that contained gluten. 
> 
> As for your question to Dr. Green, I would argue that you had adapted to gluten in the same way that Hans Selye describes his animal studies in which they adapt to all kinds of severe physical stressors. Although they initially appear ill, these animals soon pick up and appear quite normal, except that their life spans are substantially shorter than control animals living without the severe stress.  He described the process (which I repeated in Dangerous Grains) as the general adaptation syndrome, and characterized its stages as 
> alarm (initial illness, usually seen in infants when they first eat gluten) adaptation (how we pick up and live apparently normal lives) exhaustion or collapse (when we fall prey to any of the many illnesses that can follow years of gluten-induced illness).  I     believe that our stronger reactions after a period of gluten avoidance result from losing our adaptation to gluten. We then go back to the "alarm" stage when exposed to gluten again. 
> 
> I think that a fair criticism of the medical profession in general is that they too often look for psychosomatic illness when they can't make sense of symptoms. It is a most unfortunate facet of New Age thinking.  I'm increasingly skeptical about psychosomatic illness so we could likely spend too much time debating that issue. :-)
> 
> Best Wishes, 
> Ron 
> Ron Hoggan, Ed. D.
> Royal Roads University, Continuing Studies
> co-author: Dangerous Grains ISBN: 978158333-129-3 www.dangerousgrains.com
> 
> author: The Iron Edge: a complete guide for meeting your iron needs ISBN: 978-0-9736284-4-9 http://tiny.cc/ironedge
> 
> author: Smarten Up! ISBN: 978-0-9736284-3-2 www.smartenup.info                 
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> editor: Journal of Gluten Sensitivity www.celiac.com     
> 
> editor/co-author: Cereal Killers  http://tiny.cc/s7neg
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