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Gluten Sensitivity in the WSJ

Linda — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:36:03 +0000

Linda’s comments: It is difficult for me to understand why more doctors don’t understand how bad gluten is? If they can’t label them with Celiac disease, then what, you can eat gluten….NOT…. Chronically ill patients even healthy patients for that matter, needs to get gluten out of their lives….They also need to stop eating GMO FOODS…..

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

WSJ says the new epidemic is gluten sensitivity and it is different than celiac disease but is now being blamed for multiple common symptoms. It is not easy to live gluten free since it seems to be everywhere. See The Gluten Connection by Shari Lieberman and others on Amazon.

As this Mayo doctor suggests, something is “triggering” this new epidemic. I believe it could be GMO foods changing bowel flora and leading to leaky gut. I take my Beyond Fiber and a good probiotic like Kyodophilus 9 every day!

This article can add years to your patients lives since unless they have diagnosed celiac disease most have no idea what gluten is doing to their health even the brain!! This article can wake patients up to the importance of the food in my F.I.G.H.T. program, as most patients have one or more foods that are blocking their recovery and dairy and wheat avoidance are at the top of my suggested dietary changes in any chronically ill patient. But, without this kind of documentation, most patients will not comply.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://drhyman.com/gluten-what-you-dont-know-might-kill-you-11/?utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=drhyman%20newsletter%20issue%20#17&utm_term=Get+the+story

Excerpt:

Gluten: What You Don’t Know Might Kill You
Dr Mark Hyman

SOMETHING YOU’RE EATING may be killing you, and you probably don’t even know it! If you eat cheeseburgers or French fries all the time or drink six sodas a day, you likely know you are shortening your life. But eating a nice dark, crunchy slice of whole wheat bread–how could that be bad for you? Well, bread contains gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, rye, spelt, kamut, and oats. It is hidden in pizza, pasta, bread, wraps, rolls, and most processed foods. Clearly, gluten is a staple of the American diet. What most people don’t know is that gluten can cause serious health complications for many. You may be at risk even if you don’t have full blown celiac disease. I want to reveal the truth about gluten, explain the dangers, and provide you with a simple system that will help you determine whether or not gluten is a problem for you.

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB40001424052748704893604576200393522456636.html?mod=djempersonal

Excerpt: Wall Street Journal
•HEALTH JOURNAL
•MARCH 16, 2011
Gluten sensitive? Here’s why
By Melinda Beck

Lisa Rayburn felt dizzy, bloated and exhausted. Wynn Avocette suffered migraines and body aches. Stephanie Meade’s 4-year-old daughter had constipation and threw temper tantrums.

All three tested negative for celiac disease, a severe intolerance to gluten, a protein found in wheat and other grains.

But after their doctors ruled out other causes, all three adults did their own research and cut gluten—and saw the symptoms subside. A new study in the journal BMC Medicine may shed some light on why. It shows gluten can set off a distinct reaction in the intestines and the immune system, even in people who don’t have celiac disease.

Fiber & Cardiovascular Health with Comments from Linda, Dr. Gordon

Linda — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:32:31 +0000

Linda’s comment: This is all part of the FIGHT protocol…however, I do take other things added to this like a good probiotic, etc., etc., etc.

Dr. Gordon’s Comments: You are not taking enough fiber to keep your intestinal flora happy unless you are on Beyond Fiber. With the epidemic of food sensitivities today just consuming a great probiotic is not enough, as you must feed the new flora. I hope you will learn more about stabilized rice bran with artichoke and EDTA, as found in Beyond Fiber!

This has the ideal ratio of soluble to insoluble fiber, and since everyone on treat is detoxing heavy metals everyday of their life while on my FIGHT program please learn to stop enterohepatic reuptake of toxins! You must have active detoxing fiber content in the intestine 24/7. I do that with my Power Drink and Zeolite. My Power Drink includes MACA, which is an ideal GLUCOSINOLATE, doing much more than broccoli does, as this also stabilizes hormone levels in men and women. It also includes Organic Greens, Beyond Fiber and BioEn’R-G’y C along with daily zeolite, ACZ to start then ZeoGold.

I hope you warn patients who are not responding to your programs that the devil is in the details. Without the above they risk just moving the heavy metals from the right eye to the left eye!

There is no substitute for more fiber but this is not cellulose or psyllium, this is based on the most nutrient dense food you can find, Stabilized Rice Bran. This is providing Beta Sitosterol and nutrients like gamma oryzanol, octocosinol etc, as well as high levels of inositol and other B vitamins, as nutrients while acting to help toxins keep moving out of the body. My patients understand all this because they see the acne and bad skin clear up within weeks so they stay on the Power Drink and will not go without the added fiber.

Let’s remember TOXINS NEED TO BE ESCORTED all the way OUT OF THE BODY, not just to the liver and then dumped into the intestine! With all the toxins I know I breath and consume daily I will not go more than 12 hours without a slightly heaping tsp of all the above in 12 ounces of fluid to keep me protected from a toxic world.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://www.nhiondemand.com/hsjarticle.aspx?id=958&utm_source=NHI+OnDemand+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=3dc63070d1-HSJ_Dec7_2010&utm_medium=email

Excerpt:

Cardiovascular disease or heart disease is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels (arteries and veins). There are several risk factors for cardiovascular disease that are essentially immutable. These are older age, male gender, and a family history of CVD. Additionally, three major risk factors identified include cigarette smoking, dyslipidemia (high cholesterol), and hypertension. Other identified factors associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease include physical inactivity, sleep problems, diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, excessive intake of alcohol, thrombotic and fibrinolytic factors, elevated homocysteine levels, certain infections and inflammation, exogenously administered estrogens and androgens, certain psychosocial factors, increased fasting glucose. and frequency of migraines. The synergism of the presence of multiple risk factors must also be considered.

Dietary fiber is a general term that refers to a wide variety of compounds from plants that are resistant to the digestive enzymes produced by humans. Because dietary fiber is resistant to digestive enzymes, it is not broken down or absorbed, which means it does not provide calories or energy to the body. In general, high fiber diets are associated with significantly reduced risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all cause mortality. It is generally recommended that Americans should strive to achieve a total dietary fiber intake of 25 to 30 grams/day, which should preferentially come from foods, not supplements. However, dietary surveys indicate that dietary fiber intake among adults in the United States averages about 15 grams/day, or approximately half the recommended amount.

Probiotic research needed to fulfill gut health potentia

Linda — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:13:46 +0000

Linda’s comment: Probiotic are extremely to those of us with chronic illness, especially Lyme patient’s….. Guy Montague-Jones is right, as probiotics are needed to fulfill gut health potential. Over the years I have tried many probiotics and finally found one that I like. Plus, it doesn’t have to be refrigerated…. www.researchednutritionals.com When you go to the website, you will find you need to purchase their products through a doctor. I’m working on that right now. Please check back, as I have a doctor who I am working with that will give his code, so that you can order direct from the company. The name of the probiotic I take is “Prescript-Assist Pro” and it is excellent.

Regards, Linda

http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Probiotic-research-needed-to-fulfill-gut-health-potential

By Guy Montague-Jones, 02-Dec-2009

Probiotics should be considered as living drugs rather than “simple good bacteria” in order to become effective treatment options for IBS, according to Joseph Haddad, medical director of Institut Rosell-Lallemand.

Following a recent seminar on probiotics and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), hosted by Institut Rosell in London ahead of Gastro 2009, Haddad gave NutraIngredients.com a progress report.

Delegates at the seminar, which focused on the potential of the Lactobacillus plantarum 299v strain, were agreed on the potential of probiotics to treat IBS, but acknowledged that more work is needed to develop effective treatment strategies.

Probiotic potential

Haddad said a lot of scientific work has been done on the therapeutic potential of some specific strains. This work, Haddad, said: “Is now starting to draw a lot of interest from the medical community, which is very promising.”

The medical attraction of adapted probiotics is that unlike traditional drugs, they may not only treat the symptoms of IBS, but also the cause.

However, the development of a consensus on treatment strategies is still some way off.

Haddad said consensus building is a very long process, beginning with initial clinical evidence that is then reviewed and discussed by the specialist community, who ask for more clinical evidence. And finally, after many years, a consensus can emerge and some common guideline scan be defined.

“Many probiotics are not even at the first stage of this process,” said Haddad. When it comes to IBS, he identified three areas where more work is needed.

1. All IBS mechanisms are not completely elucidated yet.

2. Not all probiotics have the same therapeutic potential so it is very difficult to determine the perfect bacteria for IBS.

3. Even though probiotics have been known and used for a very long time, a therapeutic approach with probiotics is still considered innovative in the medical community.

Recommendations

To help build a treatment consensus, Haddad said more in vivo clinical trials are needed in order to validate in vitro data. This will allow those promising strains that are most effective in alleviating abdominal pain and discomfort to be recognised as truly efficient.

As for the probiotics industry, Haddad said it needs to invest more in R&D and state-of-the-art clinical trials to find out and support the most efficient strains. He said: “Some companies are already well positioned, but overall a lot of investment is still required.

“The challenge is really to demonstrate that the industry is not dealing with ‘simple good bacteria’ but that probiotics should be considered as living drugs, backed up by strong clinical evidence.”

Beyond Fiber

Linda — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:41:55 +0000

Linda’s comments:

I have tried over a dozen Fibers over my lifetime and Beyond Fiber is the best one I have found. This is a Fiber that even healthy folks need to be taking. There is no way you can eat enough Fiber in our daily diets, especially Fiber that does what the Beyond Fiber does. Those Lymies with leaky gut or intestinal problems will benefit from this great Fiber. As we are detoxing the Beyond Fiber carries the toxins out of our body at a rapid pace.

Many Lymies have used other Fibers, but when they switch to the Beyond Fiber they have better results.
I’m now on a full scoop, TWICE daily…..it also appears to be enhancing the Probiotic I take, which is very important for those with chronic illness. This FIGHT program is a blessing to those of us who are dealing with Lyme and other chronic illness.

Angel Huggzzz
Linda
Stabilized Rice Bran in Beyond Fiber is KEY to my “POWER DRINK” based detox program. Recent studies have documented a role for stabilized rice bran (SRB) in treating diabetes and arthritis in addition to its detox benefits. Stabilized Rice Bran is available in the Longevity Plus product, Beyond Fiber. This product is a key part of my life time detoxification program. Beyond Fiber also includes artichoke extract from Germany, as an advanced form of Inulin, which has a much larger molecular structure than FOS, which I do not use. This also lowers Candida count while supporting healthy flora as a vital probiotic. The product also includes EDTA, and with the stabilized rice bran, you have one of the most nutrient dense foods available anywhere. It includes gamma oryzanol and Octocosinol and beta sitosterol and inositol and other B Vitamins. It is one of the ingredients in my POWER DRINK along with my Organic Greens and Maca and BIOE’NR-G’Y C, bid with 8+ ounces of any healthy fluid.

Now we are learning that SRB not only acts as a great fiber when combined with the artichoke extract so you have the ideal ratio of soluble to insoluble fiber for optimal assistance with toxin removal but now you have documentation that you are also providing vital anti-inflammatory benefits. This research has documented that some of these benefits are because SRB inhibits several key inflammatory enzymes. Thus you now have scientific explanation for the reports in the literature about SRB being helpful in Diabetes and Arthritis, but now we have the mechanism of action for these benefits.
However, SRB in my mind is crucial to supporting healthy intestinal flora and thus in reducing leaky gut and lowering the tendencies to food sensitivities. If you treat everyone with a detox program, as I do, Beyond Fiber should be a standard part of your management of most patients. We have also seen research that SOLUBLE fiber can help carry out toxins so with a world of toxic patients, many of whom have excessive levels of inflammation, it seems that Beyond Fiber should be a part of many patients supplement program.
I usually start with small doses of even 1/2 tsp for a few days, as there will be some gas and stool changes in many at first, particularly if you are ingesting the SRB along with some of the other detox ingredients in my POWER DRINK.

If you believe, as I do, that most of us require a daily probiotic then
with the SRB, you will be providing key PREBIOTIC support to whatever
probiotic you choose. If you should also be lowering the total body burden of heavy metals, then using either Beyond Chelation-Improved alone or with the ZEOLITE products, there will be stool changes and some increased frequency and looseness to bowels for a time, from 2 weeks to 3 months depending on how aggressively you choose to increase the levels of the “power drink”. I usually want most patients over about 4+ weeks to have gradually increased their intakes of Fiber and other power drink ingredients to hopefully 1 level tsp of each. Then, over time raise that to a slightly heaping teaspoonful or more of all 4 ingredients. It is not essential to go to 1 tablespoon doses, as this is really a life time program and hurrying it along with higher dosages does not seem to be that useful.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19627211

J Med Food. 2009 Jun;12(3):615-23.

Pro-inflammatory enzymes, cyclooxygenase 1, cyclooxygenase 2, and 5-lipooxygenase, inhibited by stabilized rice bran extracts.

Roschek B Jr, Fink RC, Li D, McMichael M, Tower CM, Smith RD, Alberte RS.
HerbalScience Group LLC, Naples, Florida 34110, USA.

Rice bran, the outer bran and germ of the kernel and a by-product of rice milling, is rich in phytonutrients but has been underutilized because of lipid content instability. New methods for the processing of rice bran have yielded a stabilized form that is increasingly used in foods and dietary supplements. Recent studies have documented a role for stabilized rice bran (SRB) in treating diabetes and arthritis, although little is known of the bioactive compounds that impart these health benefits. Here we characterize the chemical composition of three extracts of SRB and identify the functional bioactives contributing to the inhibitory properties against three key pro-inflammatory enzymes (phytonutrients, COX2, and 5-lipoxygenase [5-LOX]) that control the inflammatory cascade involved in impaired joint health, pain, and arthritis. One extract (SRB-AI) demonstrated significant COX1 and COX2 inhibitory activities with 50% inhibitory concentration (IC(50)) values for COX1 and COX2 of 305 and 29 microg/mL, respectively, but no 5-LOX inhibition. The second extract (SRB-AII) inhibited COX1, COX2, and 5-LOX with IC(50) values of 310, 19, and 396 microg/mL, respectively. The third extract (SRB-AIII), a blend of SRB-AI and SRB-AIII, inhibited COX1, COX2, and 5-LOX with respective IC(50) values of 48, 11, and 197 microg/mL. Analysis of the extracts by direct analysis in real time time of flight-mass spectrometry revealed that SRB-AI, SRB-AII, and SRB-AIII contain over 620, 770, and 810 compounds, respectively. Of these, 17 were identified as key bioactives for COX and/or LOX inhibition. These SRB extracts have applications for functional foods and dietary supplements for control of inflammation and joint health.

PMID: 19627211 [PubMed – in process]