Re: Just got Celiac diagnosis

To go further on the mercury point, an excerpt from my notes!

"Dipeptidyl-peptidase IV (DPPIV), used in the digestion of casein and gluten, an enzyme highly sensitive to mercury and organophosphate xenobiotics."

Further on the subject, from a search on google:

http://www.cqs.com/immune.htm

"A direct mechinism involving mercury’s inhibition of cellular enzymatic processes by binding with the hydroxyl radical(SH) in amino acids appears to be a major part of the connection to these allergic/immune reactive conditions(15-23). For example mercury has been found to strongly inhibit the activity of xanthine oxidase and dipeptyl peptidase (DPP IV) which are required in the digestion of the milk protein casein(15,16,19,20,22), and the same protein that is cluster differentiation antigen 26 (CD26) which helps T lymphocyte activation. CD26 or DPPIV is a cell surfact glycoprotein that is very susceptible to inactivation by mercury binding to its cysteinyl domain."

"Studies involving a large sample of autistic and schizophrenic patients found that over 90 % of those tested had high levels of the milk protein beta-casomorphin-7 in their blood and urine and defective enzymatic processes for digesting milk protein(24,25,27), and similarly for the corresponding enzyme needed to digest wheat gluten(24,26)"




I'm getting more and more convinced that mercury is at the root of many uncurable diseases. That thing disrupts so many things in the body, killing the natural antoxidant agents, the immune system, wreaking havoc in many enzymatic processes. It could also have a synergetic action with other heavy metals and toxins causing oxidative stress.

I've read a book by Dr. Ray D.Strand titled "What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You", that doctor is using antioxidants to help with a lot of conditions, such as Crohn's disease, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome. It's very interesting how he tells how he was converted from being a conventional doctor who tough that "a good diet will provide everything that is needed" to what he is now.