Re: lectins, Duane's notes

oh, boy, hospital food again ;>
Nice article Duane. As a further "proof of concept" in the real world, I found this webpage, in the belly of the beast so to speak, also interesting:
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap43.html

Although I am wary of scares and olympic conclusion jumping, the questions that I am left with:
1. what common proteases might best attack the "bad" lectins digestively ( pepsin, pancreatic, papain, bromelain) or systemically (i.e. anti inflammatory serrapeptase, bromelain, nattokinase, lumbrokinases) vs just higher stomach HCl
2. carbohydrate decoys, what size (DOP) is really best mono-, di- vs 10-30 vs 100-1000? and compositional effects ie. ~6 structural components vs 2-3 in normal prebiotics.
3. how else might this interact with various approaches where differences may imply real biochemistry differences i.e. if healing crow / SCD are sometimes actually working with some other combination of problems
4. anything specific to restoring the gut's sialic acid "shield" or just back to empirical nutrient trials
5. how to assess / id Genetically-Modified food levels at the grocery store, more interested now

"But the sialic acid molecules can be stripped off by the enzyme neuraminidase, present in several micro-organisms such as influenzaviruses and streptococci. This may explain why diabetes and Rheumatoid Arthritis tend to occur as sequelae of infections. " and CFS, FM, MS, IBS, SIBO(?), leaky gut etc...

"It has been engineered into transgenic tomatoes for its fungistatic properties,18 so we can expect an outbreak of tomato allergy in the near future among latex sensitive individuals. "
see http://www.owenfoundation.com/Health_Science/GM/Pusztai_Science_GM_Food.html

from Duane's BMJ paper "lectins discharge of histamine from gastric mast cells"
in the blood, vitamin C neutralizes histamine to 5-hydantoin [ http://www.jpands.org/vol9no3/clemetson.pdf ] how about some Ca- or H- ascorbate powder instead of so much rice starch?

GM crops could give new meaning to the word "delectable" ;>