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>Date:  Sun, 10 Mar 1996 13:09:07 -0700 (MST)
>From:  "Ronald Hoggan, Queen Elizabeth High School" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Hi Susan,
>You are certainly welcome. May I suggest that you contact Don Wiss, and
>ask him to e-mail you his file on mental health and nutrition.
>
>Thank you for your kind words about my paper.
>
>I have a cousin who has variously been diagnosed with schizophrenia and
>manic-depression. I suspect the problem to be more widespread in my
>family, but no formal diagnoses have ever been made. If you look at
>Sturgess, et. al. "Differential upregulation of intercellular adhesion
>molecule-1 in coeliac disease" CLINICAL EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY, vol.82,\
>pages 489-492, 1990 There is some implicit evidence for gliadin attacking
>the inter-cellular adhesion molecule.
>
>Then, if you look at Tortora & Anagnostakos in PRINCIPLES OF ANATOMY AND
>PHYSIOLOGY, sixth edition, Harper & Row, N.Y., 1990  and check the index,
>'cause I don't have the book handy, they say that the build-up of plaques
>in the bloodstream requires an injury to the wall of the vein or artery,
>then the build-up begins.
>
>If we allow gliadin peptides into the bloodstream, via crypt hyperplasia,
>and they attack the adhesion molecules that hold the vein & artery walls
>together, then that might be the cause of the injury that leads to
>cholesterol plaque. If I'm right, current conventional wisdom is treating
>many cardiac patients inappropriately. Instead of lowering cholesterol,
>they should be focussing on getting the gliadin peptides out of the diet
>and blood.
>
>If I am right, your suspicions are well grounded.
>
>Best Wishes,
>Ron Hoggan