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I am new to the list, new to celiac disorder, and gluten intolerance and am
currently enjoying a kind of rebirth following my recent elimination of
gluten from my diet.  I have not been biopsied, and don't plan to be.  I
already can feel the difference being gluten free makes to me.  I don't I
would qualify as a celiac as I never had any severe physical symptoms.  I
learned about a year and a half ago that I was caesin intolerant.  Recently I
learned from my coffee addiction that I might be gluten intolerant as well.
I noticed that if I had bagels and coffee my blood sugar would drop
precipitously.  I noticed that when I skipped the bagels or just had fruit...
no real blood sugar drop.  So I suspected wheat.  I have eliminated wheat and
feel clearer, cleaner, stronger and like I am really getting energy from what
I eat.  It is a new feeling.  I like it.
 
I have been following the list and I read the New York Times article on the
brain-gut connection yesterday and I got an idea from it that I want to
float through the list. The article says that the gut produces endorphins,
opiate-like peptides.  Dr. Reichelt says that caesin and gluten also contain
very similar peptides.  Is is possible that that gluten/caesin intolorence
is a condition that interferes (due to an auto-immune type reaction) with
the gut's production of endorphins... hence the gain of equanimity following
the elimination of gluten and caesin from the diet?
 
Is this an idea that has been tossed around?
 
John Wynhausen