I have a lot of people asking me if AD (Autoimmune Disease) is treatable by being gluten free, and I always say yes… In today’s world most illness can be treated with a proper diet, but also depending on the severity of the illness.  More and more Doctors are opening their minds to a more natural way of treating illnesses, like the Naturopathic Doctors who have been treating their patients for years.  Not many people want to believe that most of our foods are Genetically Modified Foods (GMO) at a seed source, but this is true. To view source Click Here .   I’ve done a lot of reading in my past-time during these past 7 years about GI (Gluten Intolerance)/Celiac and I have come to the conclusion that most of our illness are related to our foods and types of food we eat.   I believe everything is connected, the foods we consume that are genetically altered  which could have an effect on us down the road and then past down to our children through our genes.  If our food products are sprayed with a chemical compound that kills insect, and food (seed source) are being genetically altered to withstand certain environmental changes, then we eat it, will it have an affect on us?  These are some of the question I am trying to figure out, but the logic behind it is to clear for me.  Here is some information on the  protein gene causing allergies and illness, Click Here to view source. ”Techniques such as immuno electrophoresis, enzyme-linked immuno assays and Western blotting allow Health Canada scientists to detect allergenic proteins in food such as peanuts, tree nuts, milk and soy products, thereby complementing DNA-based methods aimed at detecting characteristic markers and protein/peptides in food.  As well, various in vitro models, such as steroid receptor assays, are used to identify and characterize endocrine-disrupting chemicals in foods. The reporter gene transfection assay is another biotechnology-based tool; its purpose is to determine the effects of chemical exposure on gene expression.”

There is another post on my blog that goes into more detail with a video clip about AD, click here to see.  There are many reason to become GF or stay away from the dirty dozen which are a list of vegetables and fruits that have a high pesticide absorption.   The  proof  is there you just have to find the right source to confirm  your own justification.   Just remember you can always stay sick and complain or do something about it and see the changes, what do you have to lose.

Mother Nature News To Justify My Statements.

A quote that scares me from Einstein which has a direct link to what I mention below.

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live."

Scientists have been frightened and mystified by reducing numbers of bee populations in the North America and other parts of the world.  I wrote about this a few years ago when I was free-lancing for a local magazine here in Ottawa, and now a few years later we finally have a clue of why bees are disappearing.  They have suspected that pesticides are playing a major part, but their experiments have yielded conflicting and ambiguous results.  To read the full story Click Here.

“I personally would like to see them not being used until more research has been done,” said David Goulson, an author of the bumblebee paper who teaches at the University of Stirling, in Scotland. “If it confirms what we’ve found, then they certainly shouldn’t be used when they’re going to be fed on by bees.”

In my opinion it is a combination of pesticides and GMOs,  which I feel relates to this whole article.

• Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
• Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
• Addison’s disease
• Agammaglobulinemia
• Alopecia areata
• Amyloidosis
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis
• Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
• Autoimmune angioedema
• Autoimmune aplastic anemia
• Autoimmune dysautonomia
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Autoimmune hyperlipidemia
• Autoimmune immunodeficiency
• Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
• Autoimmune myocarditis
• Autoimmune pancreatitis
• Autoimmune retinopathy
• Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP)
• Autoimmune thyroid disease
• Autoimmune urticaria
• Axonal & neuronal neuropathies
• Balo disease
• Behcet’s disease
• Bullous pemphigoid
• Cardiomyopathy
• Castleman disease
• Celiac disease
• Chagas disease
• Chronic fatigue syndrome**
• Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
• Chronic recurrent multifocal ostomyelitis (CRMO)
• Churg-Strauss syndrome
• Cicatricial pemphigoid/benign mucosal pemphigoid
• Crohn’s disease
• Cogans syndrome
• Cold agglutinin disease
• Congenital heart block
• Coxsackie myocarditis
• CREST disease
• Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
• Demyelinating neuropathies
• Dermatitis herpetiformis
• Dermatomyositis
• Devic’s disease (neuromyelitis optica)
• Discoid lupus
• Dressler’s syndrome
• Endometriosis
• Eosinophilic fasciitis
• Erythema nodosum
• Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis
• Evans syndrome
• Fibromyalgia**
• Fibrosing alveolitis
• Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
• Glomerulonephritis
• Goodpasture’s syndrome
• Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA) see Wegener’s
• Graves’ disease
• Guillain-Barre syndrome
• Hashimoto’s encephalitis
• Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
• Hemolytic anemia
• Henoch-Schonlein purpura
• Herpes gestationis
• Hypogammaglobulinemia
• Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
• IgA nephropathy
• IgG4-related sclerosing disease
• Immunoregulatory lipoproteins
• Inclusion body myositis
• Insulin-dependent diabetes (type1)
• Interstitial cystitis
• Juvenile arthritis
• Juvenile diabetes
• Kawasaki syndrome
• Lambert-Eaton syndrome
• Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
• Lichen planus
• Lichen sclerosus
• Ligneous conjunctivitis
• Linear IgA disease (LAD)
• Lupus (SLE)
• Lyme disease, chronic
• Meniere’s disease
• Microscopic polyangiitis
• Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
• Mooren’s ulcer
• Mucha-Habermann disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Myasthenia gravis
• Myositis
• Narcolepsy
• Neuromyelitis optica (Devic’s)
• Neutropenia
• Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
• Optic neuritis
• Palindromic rheumatism
• PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus)
• Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
• Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
• Parry Romberg syndrome
• Parsonnage-Turner syndrome
• Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
• Pemphigus
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Perivenous encephalomyelitis
• Pernicious anemia
• POEMS syndrome
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Type I, II, & III autoimmune polyglandular syndromes
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Polymyositis
• Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
• Postpericardiotomy syndrome
• Progesterone dermatitis
• Primary biliary cirrhosis
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis
• Psoriasis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Pyoderma gangrenosum
• Pure red cell aplasia
• Raynauds phenomenon
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Reiter’s syndrome
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Restless legs syndrome
• Retroperitoneal fibrosis
• Rheumatic fever
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Schmidt syndrome
• Scleritis
• Scleroderma
• Sjogren’s syndrome
• Sperm & testicular autoimmunity
• Stiff person syndrome
• Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
• Susac’s syndrome
• Sympathetic ophthalmia
• Takayasu’s arteritis
• Temporal arteritis/Giant cell arteritis
• Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
• Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
• Transverse myelitis
• Ulcerative colitis
• Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
• Uveitis
• Vasculitis
• Vesiculobullous dermatosis
• Vitiligo
• Wegener’s granulomatosis (now termed Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA)

**NOTE Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue are listed, not because they are autoimmune, but because many persons who suffer from them have associated autoimmune disease(s)

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