Alpha Nutrition Health Education

Celiac Disease Study Guide 

A Prototype of  Delayed Pattern Food Allergy

 Book of Gluten.

Celiac Nutritional Rescue

What is Celiac Disease?

Cereal Grains & Gluten

Food Allergy

Celiac Rescue

GIT Permeability

Immune Mechanisms

Diseases Related to Celiac Disease

Dermatitis Herpetiformis

Celiac Disease & Cancer

Tests for Celiac Disease

Celiac Rescue Starter Pack

The Book of Gluten

Immune responses to gluten, the proteins found in cereal grains are a common cause of disease. The gastrointestinal tract is the primary target organ; however systemic disease is an important consequence of cereal grain ingestion in many patients. We think that the people diagnosed with celiac disease are a sub-population of a much larger group with gluten allergy.

Often, an assortment of related whole-body problems accompanies celiac disease. We think the related problems are typical of delayed pattern food allergy and use celiac disease research information to create a model of food allergy. Celiac patients have increased gastrointestinal permeability and demonstrate the whole-body effects of food allergy, including brain dysfunction, arthritis, and inflammatory lung disease.

The celiac patient should seriously consider complete diet revision, not just gluten exclusion in an effort to avoid problems downstream from their GIT. A list of related disorders resembles the list of disorders reviewed in the working hypothesis - delayed pattern food allergy!  Diabetes, thyroid disease, purpura, anemia, rheumatoid arthritis, sacroileitis, sarcoidosis, vasculitis, lung disease, myositis, eye inflammation, and schizophrenia are all linked to gluten intolerance. These associations suggest a tendency to immune hypersensitivity diseases and a possible role for food antigens in causing systemic autoimmune disease.

In their review of these associated disorders, Mulder and Tygart repeated the basic ideas that can explain the prolific ability of of gluten to cause disease downstream from a disordered gastrointestinal tract. They stated:

"Patients with (celiac disease and) selective IgA deficiency often have circulating antibodies to food proteins; they also have circulating immune complexes, suggesting that absence of an intestinal IgA barrier might allow the absorption of antigenic material from the gut. Antibodies to some of the antigens might cross react with the host's self components and might indirectly produce autoimmune disease."

A striking association is that celiac disease predisposes patients to the eventual development of lymphoma. If this relationship is re-stated as "cereal grains cause cancer" the implication is more easily understood. 

There is evidence that strict adherence to a gluten-free diet long term will reduce the incidence of lymphoma. Anti-gliadin antibodies are most commonly found in the immune complexes, associated with major systemic disease. A T cell-mediated or type IV reaction to gluten is likely the major cause of the gut lesions and increased permeability to gluten and other food antigens leads to whole-body consequences.

Recommendations: The Alpha Nutrition Program is gluten-free and is recommended as the diet revision strategy for anyone with diagnosed celiac disease, or any person with symptoms suggestive of gluten allergy.

Self -Help: The diet revision program is explained in enough detail in the Alpha Nutrition Program Manual  that an intelligent, well-motivated person can follow the steps outlined.  

Consider ordering the Gluten Rescue Starter Pack - you will receive the Alpha Nutrition Program manual, the Book of Gluten and a 500 Gram bottle of Alpha ENF. Study the manual, try  the formula and then decide if and when you are ready for a food holiday. You can order the starter pack with a course option so that you can correspond with a tutor for 2-3 weeks and have help getting started.