Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: interesting article on wheat

A bit misleading article.

For example in the section "How Wheat May Sabotage Your Mental Health" they reference a study about multi-episode schizophrenia. The study does not say that gliadin caused schizophrenia - it only says that there increased antibodies to gliadin. They may share some immunologic features of celiac disease, but their immune response to gliadin differs from that of celiac disease. The study concludes "Furthermore, we could not determine whether the antibodies to gliadin contribute directly to the symptoms of recent-onset psychosis or schizophrenia."

The authors of the study couldn't establish a causal relationship between antibodies to gliadin and schizophrenia yet Dr. Mercola claims there is. Very strange!

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