Gluten

September 28, 2007

Brain Awareness: Milk Addiction – Withdrawal is Real

The name of the two peptides with links here for further review [noting that authorities don't yet completely agree on this phenomenon] are casomorphin [a milk peptide] and gliadorphin or gluteomorphine [two names for the opioid peptide arising from partially broken down gliadin portion of the gluten protein in wheat.
August 24, 2007

Celiac Notes: Opiate Withdrawal from Gluten and Casein?

You might want to warn gluten sensitive, celiac and casein sensitive patients about this very odd and painful clinical phenomenon: Withdrawal after stopping can be painful, exhausting, and depressing, with weakness, anger, and brain fog.
August 13, 2007

Why We Overlook Celiac and Gluten Sensitivity

This is the first in a series of celiac and gluten sensitivity reports taken directly from an interesting series of posts by Dr Scot Lewey, a gastroenterologist who "gets it" with gluten sensitivity. and regularly reports on the downstream psych and neurological effects.
June 23, 2007

Celiac Disease: Bowel and Brain Symptoms

Celiac Disease is more than simple bowel disorder: Leaky gut is a bowel disorder downstream from an associated array of multiple problems associated with gluten sensitivity. Many of those clinical presentations look like psych issues.