Thank you Ron for sharing us the excellent essay from Dr Kenneth Fine. That 
deepened our knowledge about
celiac issue greatly.

Hanni





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Hoggan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: Gluten sensitivity (was Re: Good article on eating)


> Hi Michael,
> Thanks for the great questions.
>
>> From: michael raiti
>> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 2:01 PM
>>
>> 1.  Once a person has leaky gut can it be healed?  If it is healed
>> then if that person consumes gluten will they still have problems?
>
> Maybe. It depends on the HLA markers on their white blood cells. There is
> also the question of how long the memory cells last in those without the 
> HLA
> markers of susceptibility (42% of Americans have them). Kenneth Fine gave 
> an
> excellent talk on this subject. The transcript is at:
> https://www.enterolab.com/StaticPages/Frame_Resources.htm
>
>>
>> 2.  Are there other foods besides gluten-containing grains that
>> contain multiple glutamine sequences?
> Perhaps, but I don't recall seeing as many as in the gluten sequences and
> Martin Kagnoff made the specific point that this problem is specific to
> gluten grains.
>>
>> 3.  Besides avoidance of gluten are there any foods or supplements
>> shown to be beneficial in reestablishing the epithelial junctions.
>
> Because zonulin was just discovered a few years ago the research is still
> very new and relevant information is limited.
> One pharmaceutical company is developing a drug that clones receptors for
> zonulin. The development name is AT1001. Because it remains in the
> intestinal lumen and just attaches the free zonulin, this should provide 
> the
> necessary opportunity for the barrier to re-establish. It isn't available
> yet, and it does nothing for those who want to continue to eat gluten
> regularly. I wrote an article on this topic for the Winter 2006 issue of
> ScottFree Newsletter. It is available online.
>
> Again, thanks for the excellent questions.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Ron
>
>