Posted on 01/22/2024 9:10:43 PM PST by ConservativeMind
A team has discovered that a diet containing wheat can increase the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS). This is due to the amylase trypsin inhibitors (ATI), natural proteins in wheat, while the gluten proteins did not influence the inflammatory reaction.
The studies confirm that diet and gut health can influence the course of chronic inflammatory diseases, including MS. What is special, is that a specific ingredient can promote this inflammation.
Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system.
Amylase trypsin inhibitors (ATI) are natural proteins found in cereals such as wheat, barley and rye.
As the scientists have discovered, the ATI proteins promote existing inflammatory processes in organs such as the liver or lungs and, what's new, even in the central nervous system. As a result, ATI proteins can exacerbate symptoms of MS.
The team's initial study in an animal model showed that a diet containing 25% wheat markedly worsened the symptoms of MS compared to an otherwise identical but wheat-free diet. These results could also be reproduced with a minimal amount of ATI proteins (0.15% of the feed weight), but not with a large amount of gluten proteins (5% of the feed weight).
The team was then able to confirm the results from the animal model in a clinical pilot study. Patients with moderately severe, mildly active MS took part in this study. One study group followed a wheat-reduced diet for three months, while the other group continued their wheat-containing diet.
After three months, the groups switched to the other diet for a further three months. The MS patients reported significantly less pain during the wheat-free diet. Fewer inflammatory immune cells were also measured in their blood.
"Our studies show a wheat-free diet can reduce the severity of MS and other inflammatory diseases," says Professor Schuppan.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
The Native American diet was far more diverse than you seem to imagine. Of course, before Europeans arrived the typical life span was around 35 years. So their longevity, may not be the best argument for a more traditional diet.
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A lie. I didn’t say the American diet wasn’t diverse. I said it didn’t have wheat. It didn’t.
From "The National Indian Council on Aging, Inc. (NICOA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by members of the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association who called for a national organization focused on the needs of aging American Indian and Alaska Native elders."
Are you going to call them liars as well?
You might want to take a look at the following article:
https://lifeandthyme.com/food/white-sonora-wheat-carries-the-legacy-of-native-american-farming/
Your response glaringly fails to contain the word “wheat” or reference any other related grain. So doubling down on your lie doesn’t help your cause. It merely magnifies it. Go ahead. Wrap yourself on your uncle’s flag again.
Maybe you could point out where I said anything about Native American’s eating wheat... other than the article that I linked to in my last post. Also, I would like you to find another post that you have seen where I mentioned that my grandmother’s brother was a Pearl Harbor survivor. I am sorry that I have challenged your irrational fear of eating wheat, but you do have a very nasty tone.
.....said the challenger/liar.
He seems quite defensive about it, loaded with sources from the ‘experts’ who oversaw the EXPLOSION of diabetes and obesity. Anyway, I’ve done PLENTY of research and know enough not to trust ANY official source as they’re almost always (perhaps always) COMPROMISED by Special Interests (ADM anyone?)...
You are delusional. Please look over my posts and copy and paste the part(s) where you believe that I lied. If this is the way that you argue in person... it is not hard to understand why your friends do not pay attention to your “warnings”.
Yes, I am sure that your “research” indicated that this was all caused by a couple slices of dry toast in the morning. It obviously had nothing to do with the pound of bacon and cheese that accompanied the evil whole wheat bread, and it was buns on the two Big Macs for lunch that made it worse. Sitting in front of a computer and/or a TV all day until “dinner” was also not a contributor to the problem. Our society's problems are obviously all about a couple slices of whole wheat toast in the morning and the buns on the Big Macs. /s
On a positive note; I am glad that you and Nagant found each other.
thanks....bkmk
Yep, there’s a hidden agenda there. If a person feels better not eating wheat then there’s that person’s proof. It’s spreading, and that seems to be a big problem to some seemingly uninvolved people.
Exactly, the changes to wheat from 50 years ago are MASSIVE. All one has to do is compare the grain size to see the differences, no need to see the difference.
The obvious question is whether humans can properly handle the new grain. From everything that I’ve seen, the answer is a CLEAR NO, despite having Weight Watchers, a government telling them how to eat healthy, gyms all over the place, assholes filling our streets with bicycles...none of which we had to deal with 50 years ago, when people were MUCH HEALTHIER.
Nonsense. MS is a wastecan disease probably not a disease at all but rather a series misdiagnosed auto immune diseases. And, certainly not caused by wheat.
People were much healthier 50 years ago? Really?
You know I have never had a problem with wheat.
recently I have noticed that I have episodic eczemalike breakouts.
Seems to happen when I eat wheat.
I have just purchased some pure wheat without additives or chemicals to try to make a loaf of organic bread to see whether my reactions have anything to do with the sprays or chemicals or make up of the wheat.
I cannons eat canned corn because of the chemical used in removing it from the cob. Not the corn, the chemical
FWIW
“People were much healthier 50 years ago? Really?”
Have you seen the per-year plots of diabetes and obesity rates, or seen films of American crowds from back then, or heard what the US military says about the condition of potential recruits?
It’s day versus night.
Bob, I realize what you are reacting to. But I was an adult 50 years ago and people were not really very healthy. 45% of the US population smoked tobacco. And for the most part people weren’t diagnosed with cardiac issues, they just up and died from their first and only heart attack. And, we did not have so many tens of millions of persons of color to skew the obesity and fat people diseases as we do now. Still, there has been a 35% reduction in US mortality rate between 1970 and 2020.
Many (perhaps most) of the heart attacks were due to trans fats, another horrible food introduced used big-time back then. As to smoking, that was voluntary and even 50 years ago people knew it was bad.
The problem I have is a guy defending today’s wheat in the same way that Big Pharma defends their Covid ‘vaccine’ and the tobacco companies claimed that smoking was fine for people.
Anyway, as shown by most people postings here, the word is out regarding today’s wheat.
I think most people want an answer to why momma got MS. Its the same for Alzheimers. Was it the corn syrup or the highly processed food? Everyone wants a reason.
Its sad to see loved ones disabled by a mystery disease that seemingly can’t be diagnosed or treated. I’ve known MS patients that claim diagnosis and 20 years later no change, and also MS diagnosis for persons wheel chair bound and fading away really fast.
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