SV: large pupils?

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I don't know about the pupils-to-metals corellation. The pupils-to-peptides

corellation is, on the other hand, well established.

If you want to read about this, I've appended below an extract from

http://www.advimoss.no/gfcf_results .

Yours sincerely

Jørgen Klaveness

> large pupils?

>Has anybody heard of a child's pupil size being related to any

>metals (particularly mercury) in their system?

>Davo

http://www.advimoss.no/gfcf_results/html/pupil_size.htm

7 Eyes / Pupil size:

7.1 Theory

One initial effect of morphine is to constrict the pupils in the patient's eyes.

Small pupils is one of the signs of possible morphine affection. Large pupils

can, on the other hand, be a sign of chronic withdrawal reaction from opiate

substances. The body adapts to the opiates, and when the dose is kept constant

OR reduced, the pupils will tend to be bigger than normal.

Since the GFCF diet theory is based on the assumption that gluten and caseine

gets converted to opioid peptides, it would be natural for these patients to

have pupils bigger or smaller than the population average, at least for parts of

the time.

Small pupils would be a sign that the body has recently been able to increase

its supply of bioactive peptides. Large pupils would either mean that the

supply has recently been restricted OR it is a sign that the body has not yet

unadapted completely from the opiate effect.

Our experience can serve to illustrate this. When we first became aware of the

opiate connection, his pupils were very big. It took him five years to get his

eyes back to normal. During much of this time, he had small, constant supply

of gluten. This, and any diet accidents underway, will of cours make it a lot

harder for the body to unadapt.

7.2 Measuring the pupil size

Test simplest form of test involves the patient and two other persons.

a) Person 1 observes while person 2 and patient look the same way, preferrably

under varying light conditions.

Person 2 observes while person 1 and the patient look the same way in the

same manner.

c) Person 1 and 2 compare their impressions.

7.3 Our experience Before starting the diet.

When we discovered our son's anomaly, we went back through every photo we had of

him and looked for pictures where he and some other person were looking the same

way. We found two from before 18 months of age, both showed constricted pupils.

After that, every picture that could be used, showed larger than normal pupils.

7.4 Our experience On the diet

Later, when we started observing our son's pupils systematically, we fond them

very variable. Sometimes they would be significantly enlarged, sometimes they

would appear normal. The time between " normal " and " enlarged " observations

could be fairly short.

Mood had something to do with pupil size. Under otherwise similar conditions, a

soft, mellow mood and peaceful conditions would produce larger pupils.

Stressful conditions made for smaller pupils.

Light conditions should be varied: The difference between our son's and other

people's pupils appeared to be bigger in medium light condition. In poor light

or very strong light, the difference was less remarkable.

Small pupils were extremely rare. We would always interpret this as a sign that

he has ingested something he shouldn't have had, some time during the last 2-96

hours. " Smaller-than-his-own-average " pupils could perhaps be interpreted in

the same manner, but we don't know: There are many unknown factors here.

During the first year on the diet, our son's pupils were enlarged almost all the

time, with hardly any " normal " observations. Later on, the frequency of " normal

size " pupils would increase, but after 5 years, they were still significantly

enlarged more than 50% of the time. All through, they have nearly always been

the same size right and left.

Periods with consistently large pupils have, however, been the periods of

increased restlessness and reduced contact: All in all they are " bad periods " ,

which we'd like to (but can't) forget.

We have a story about this. Our son's teacher knew there was some connection

between his large pupils and his condition. One morning about seven years ago,

he had his first bad slip (56 spoonfuls of oatmeel porridge and milk). We were

very interested to see if there were any consequences, and we warned his teacher

to look out for trouble. She answered happily that no, there was no trouble,

" today his pupils were rather smaller than normal " . They stayed small (varying

between normal and constricted) for four days. During this stage, he was fairly

calm. He was clearly not doing as well as he used to, still he was not very bad

either. There was no play, he was " difficult " , but we got along. Phase 2

started after four days. His pupils went back to very big, and his behaviour

deteriorated to an astonishing degree. It lasted for 3-4 months, probably due

to repeated exposure. (Our security had become lax, after the first year on the

diet: We'd become adapted to his calm and collected way of behaving. Today, we

very rarely see effects of a slip-up more than 4 weeks after).

Interestingly, our son's pupils have only become consistently " normal " during

the last 2 years. 2 years ago, we discovered that " gluten free " wheat starch

was not " gluten free " in the technical sense. He had, probably, been getting

3-4 grams og gluten per week during the first 5-6 years of " gluten free " diet.

(Within 4 weeks of removing this supply, we were able to put away his night

diapers).

7.5 Interpretation

Our tentative interpretation of the long and short term connection is that

SHORT TERM

A stressful environment makes the child increase the production of endorphins

and other similar peptides. This explains the tendency for relative reduction

pupil size in stressful conditions, and a greater likelyhood of enlarged pupils

under relaxed conditions.

LONG TERM

In periods with lots of stress, the constant supply of endorphins and similar

peptides causes habituation and a relative long term increase of pupil size.