<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> >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