Re: GFCF, Autism, Schizophrenia study - more support for GFCF

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I think there is definately a connection with mental disorders and

what you eat or maybe what your bodily breaksdown and asborbs

properly or improperly. My sister has recently been diagnosed with

panic disorder and also has IBS. I keep telling her that she should

try going GFCF to see if some of her symptoms clear up, but she won't

listen. It is also interesting to note that her son has asthma and

is very hyper. He drinks milk constantly. Interesting.

> Autism and Schizophrenia: Intestinal Disorders

>

> Nutritional Neuroscience, An International Journal on Nutrition,

Diet

> and Nervous System, June 2000, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 1-16(16)

> Cade R.; Privette M.; Fregly M.; Rowland N.; Sun Z.; Zele V.;

> Wagemaker H.; Edelstein C. Departments of Medicine, Physiology,

> Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

> 32610-0204, USA

>

> Abstract: We examined Dohan's hypothesis that schizophrenia is

> associated with the absorption of " exorphins " contained in gluten

and

> casein. In addition, because of the work of Reichelt et al.

> (Reichelt, K.L., Saelid, G., Lindback, J. and Orbeck, H. (1986)

> Biological Psychiatry 21: 1279–1290) and et al.

(,

> Trav, A.L., Barreiro Marin, P., Galvez, Borrero, I.M., del Olmo

> Romero-Nieva, F. and Alvarez, A. (1994) Journal of Nervous and

> Mental Disease Aug; 182(8): 478–479), we carried out similar

studies

> on a group of children with autism. In both syndromes we found

similar

> patterns of peptide containing peaks (Ninhydrin positive) after

> molecular screening with Sephadex G-15.

>

> Immunoglobulin assay of IgA and IgG against gliadin and casein in

> serum was done. High titer IgG antibodies to gliadin were found in

> 87% of autistic and 86% of schizophrenic patients and high titer

IgG

> antibodies to bovine casein were found in 90% of autistic and in

93%

> of schizophrenic patients. High titer IgA antibodies to gluten or

> casein were found in 30% of children with autism while in

> schizophrenic patients 86% had elevated IgA antibodies to gluten

and

> 67% to casein; some normal children and adults have these

antibodies

> but only in trace amounts. When schizophrenic patients were treated

> with dialysis or a gluten–casein free diet, or both (Cade, R.,

> Wagemaker, H., Privette, R.M., Fregly, M., , J. and Orlando,

J.

> (1990) Psychiatry: A World Prespective 1: 494–500) peptiduria and

> Brief Psychiatric Rating Scores fell while abnormal behavior

> diminished.

>

> A gluten–casein free diet was accompanied by improvement in 81% of

> autistic children within 3 months in most of the behavior

> categories. Our data provide support for the proposal that many

> patients with schizophrenia or autism suffer due to absorption of

> exorphins formed in the intestine from incomplete digestion of

gluten

> and casein.