Todd > ...in Neanderthin, Ray Audette makes much of the "foreign protein" theory, which goes beyond just allergies.  At first, this theory seemed plausible, but the more I thought about it, the less believable I found it.  The body's definition of "foreign" is "not self," and in that sense--the *only* sense in which the term has any clean meaning at all--beef protein is as foreign as wheat protein.

There is a sense in which this is true, that beef protein is as foreign as wheat protein.  No ingested protein should survive the digestive process and remain even partially intact in the bloodstream.  But these peptides do in fact get in there due to the "leaky gut" caused by wheat.  I don't know if the beef proteins then cause much damage in circulation -- perhaps that the true cause of some folks' allergic reactions to beef.  What I do know is this: The wheat germ agglutinin wreaks absolute havoc when gets into the bloodstream because it rather unfortunately resembles so many self proteins that the body gets confused and attacks itself.  Voila! Autoimmune disease.
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