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This is from an Easy Health Options e-newsletter. I wonder if it has any
implications for celiac disease or gluten sensitivity?
Avoid this temptation to save your health
August 26, 2014August 22, 2014
<http://easyhealthoptions.com/avoid-temptation-save-health/>  | Carl Lowe
<http://easyhealthoptions.com/author/carllowepl/> 
If you're out with your friends on a Saturday night and partying hard,
there's a common temptation you must avoid if you want to protect your
health. Otherwise a toxic barrage can quickly infect your blood.
Weekend events often involve voluminous amounts of food and alcohol. But a
study <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24828436>  at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School shows that a single night's overindulgence in
alcohol can produce dire effects on your digestive system, your immune
system and your health.
The alcohol doesn't merely make you woozy and unable to drive home. It
compromises the walls of your intestines so that bacteria can enter your
bloodstream from your gut. That results in higher levels of bacterial toxins
circulating in your blood. The toxins, known as endotoxins, can stimulate
the body to manufacture immune cells designed to give you a fever, boost
inflammation and damage your tissues.
"We found that a single alcohol binge can elicit an immune response,
potentially impacting the health of an otherwise healthy individual," says
researcher Gyongyi Szabo, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of medicine. "Our
observations suggest that an alcohol binge is more dangerous than previously
thought."
Binge drinking is generally defined as a man downing five or more drinks in
a space of two hours or a woman having four or more drinks in that period of
time.
The Massachusetts research team performed blood tests on about two dozen men
and women who drank enough alcohol to become inebriated. They found that the
binge drinking caused a rapid boost in the blood's endotoxin levels.
Endotoxins consist of toxins that form a section of bacterial cell walls.
They are released in the blood when the bacterial cells are destroyed.
The researchers also found that people in the study had bacterial DNA in
their bloodstreams. That came about because harmful bacteria had traveled
through their intestinal walls.


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