Catch the beginning of this story here:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-2/

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-3/

And hidden sources of MSG here:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/

Is it worth it to ingest these excitotoxins?

Hardly!

Now that you know, will you keep feeding processed food and diet drinks to your children?

Will you keep eating it yourself?

Remember if you eat any kind of packaged, processed food or eat out at restaurants, you will be eating MSG. That’s another reason that I advocate eating whole foods, meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds and whole grains. Especially if you prepare it yourself, you will avoid eating toxins, brain killers.

Even if you ask the restaurant personnel if there is MSG in their food and they say no, you probably will still be eating it. They are not lying to you, they just do not know about all of the hidden sources of MSG in food. See this list for other names or sources of MSG in food.

Diet drinks contain aspartate. In the liquid form this excitotoxin enters the blood stream more rapidly. “Sugar-free” mints usually contain aspartate. Try substituting mints made with xylitol which helps prevent tooth decay.

Try substituting stevia, an herb, as a sweetener in tea or other drink. Mix fruit juice and sparkling water for a drink refreshment occasionally, maybe for special holidays or celebrations. Fruit juice is still a concentrated sweet that is hard on the body’s metabolism and sparkling water like any carbonated beverage upsets mineral balance in the body. Mostly drink pure water.

Congratulations on taking charge of your health. Continue to look for hidden toxins in your food. Take charge and keep your family healthy for all of your lives.

If you want to know a whole lot more about excitotoxins, read Dr. Blaylock’s book, Excitotoxins, the Taste that Kills, copyright 1997 with an update at the end. Although fairly technical writing in parts of the book, the information on the normal functioning and development of the nervous system is fascinating. And the research and information about excitotoxins is eye opening.

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… and that’s the end of the Excitotoxin story for now.

Blessings,

Dr. Jo

Review the previous articles here:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-2/

And hidden sources of MSG here:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/

How much processed food and diet drinks or candies or mints are you eating on a daily basis?

If that’s your main diet, you are ingesting a heavy load of excitotoxins. You will have trouble finding prepared foods without MSG. It may not say MSG on the package label because there are a lot of other tricky names for MSG or substances containing MSG. So beware, check out this page for the other names for MSG.

Those diet drinks contain aspartame – known as NutraSweet or Equal. Those liquid forms zap that excitotoxin to your brain. How many brain cells have you killed today?

Also, some of us are more sensitive to the effects of ingested toxins than others. I call us the “canaries”, since we exhibit the adverse effects of these toxins more quickly than others do. So we can warn the rest of society to avoid these poisons. Miners took canaries into the mines to warn them of toxic fumes because canaries succumbed to the toxins before the miners could detect them. But if the miners stayed too long they would also die from the fumes. Take your lessons from the miners. Avoid excitotoxins like the plague even if you do not feel the adverse effects immediately after ingestion.

Dr. Blaylock presents evidence that some individuals may be more susceptible to the brain cell damaging effects of excitotoxins than others. Some may not have as much capacity to pump the excess glutamate out of the brain cell. Others may have some defect in part of the blood brain barrier. The damage to neurons progresses over many years before people start to show the signs of Alzheimer’s Disease, ALS, Parkinson’s, etc. The problem lies in how to know if you are susceptible to brain damage from excitotoxins. At this point there is no way to know, so why expose yourself to unnecessary substances that could cause such devastating consequences?

In summary,

Excitotoxins over stimulate the brain cell neurons, causing them to die. (They are stimulated to death.)

The most common excitotoxins in our diet are MSG (mono sodium glutamate) and aspartate (aspartame, Brand name NutraSweet or Equal)

Almost all processed (canned, packaged) food contains some form of MSG even if MSG is not mentioned in the list of ingredients. MSG goes by many other names.

MSG adds flavor to dead, lifeless packaged food.

Even food in health food stores contains MSG or its equivalent. I have yet to find a bouillon cube that does not contain it. Read labels carefully and beware of other names for MSG.

Aspartate mixed with another amino acid, phenylalanine gives a sweet taste to food or drink without adding calories. Thus it’s found in almost all “diet” drinks and “diet” food.

Our precious babies’ and toddlers’ (future leaders, scientists, creators, artists, inventors, etc.) brains are much more susceptible to the toxic effects of excitotoxins than are adults.

Excitotoxin damage to a child’s brain may not show up until years later when they begin to talk or read exhibiting difficulty with speech or dyslexia or even behavior disorders. In late adulthood degenerative disease like ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Disease or other degenerative neurological disease may manifest from excitotoxin damage done to neurons over a life time, beginning in childhood.

Pregnant women – Dr. Blaylock (and I agree) recommend totally avoiding aspartate, aspartame, NutraSweet, Equal during pregnancy. It’s a good idea to avoid all forms of MSG too.

And next in this series:

Is it worth it to keep eating these toxins?

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-4/

Blessings,

Dr. Jo

You will find part 1 here:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/

And hidden sources of MSG here:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/

Turns out the original assumption that glutamate supplied energy to the brain was almost right. But rather than supplying energy to the brain glutamate, aspartate and several other amino acids carry nerve messages from one nerve to another and are thus known as neurotransmitters. With proper regulation and in the right concentration and balance these amino acids function as vital transmitters of information that regulates bodily functions.

Some of Us Are More Susceptible to the Adverse Effects of Excitotoxins

To protect the brain from toxins or toxic levels of nutrients the blood brain barrier keeps some substances from entering the brain and allows others to pass through. However, the blood brain barrier may malfunction in persons with a stroke, brain tumor, head injury, infection or degenerative disease. Some areas of the brain never develop a barrier system including the hypothalamus, pineal and a few other areas. Thus they are more vulnerable to the effects of excitotoxins. Damage to the hypothalamus causes malfunctioning in the hormonal system.

Since the developing brain of an infant or child gradually develops an effective blood brain barrier, their brains are more vulnerable to damage caused by ingested toxins.

Throughout our lives, but especially in the developmental years our amazing brains are always changing and repairing themselves, wiring and rewiring through trillions of nerve fiber pathways. This process, called plasticity, makes the brain infinitely more complex than a computer. What an amazing organ.

Of all the neurotransmitters glutamate plays the most important part in the brain development of the fetus and the plasticity in the adult. In experiments on animals too much glutamate can cause the brain to be miswired. If MSG and aspartate (NutraSweet) pass from what mama has eaten into the fetus in the womb, baby’s brain may be miswired.

Because the brain at birth is still going through an extensive rewiring process, newborns and toddlers who are fed these excitotoxins are at very high risk for abnormal brain wiring.

Also, the brain develops in a certain sequence of events with critical timing of each sequence. Over stimulation with excitotoxins “may severely interfere with this delicate process and possibly lead to learning disorders, emotional illness, or even major psychological disease later in life.”

The critical period of brain development occurs from the first week of conception to six or seven years old. Dr. Blaylock suggests that the effects of excitotoxin damage during this critical period may be subtle, manifesting as a slight dyslexia, or more obvious as outbursts of uncontrollable anger. More severe cases may result in autism, schizophrenia, seizures, and cerebral palsy or episodes of violence and criminal behavior in later years. There’s no proof that excitotoxins cause these conditions in humans, but these behavioral changes have been observed in animals exposed to excitotoxins.

In animal experiments the dose of MSG needed to damage the developing nervous system in baby animals is only one-fourth of the dose needed to damage the adult animal nervous system.

Pregnant women frequently eat large doses of MSG and other excitotoxins in their food. According to one study restaurants add as much as 9.9 grams of MSG to a single dish, enough to cause brain damage in experimental animals. In soups or other liquids, MSG is absorbed much faster and more completely, causing higher blood levels of MSG and greater toxicity to the brain. Maybe that’s why I stopped eating restaurant or canned soup. I just do not feel good after eating it.

And there’s more to this story:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-3/

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-4/

Chat with you later,

Dr. Jo

If you found out that your daily meals contain a chemical additive that could cause brain damage in your children?

If evidence indicates that this chemical could affect how your child’s brain forms and develops.

If the damage caused by this chemical might not show itself until your child was older, manifesting as learning or emotional difficulties.

If this chemical damaged the part of the brain that controls hormones, resulting in hormonal imbalances later in life.

If this chemical might aggravate or even precipitate degenerative diseases of the nervous system and brain such as Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s disease, ALS, and Alzheimer’s disease.

So begins the book Excitotoxins, the Taste That Kills, by Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, MD a practicing board-certified neurosurgeon with a profound understanding of the structure and function of the brain and nervous system.

What Dr. Blaylock discovered is too important to your health and the health of future generations for it to lie hidden. That’s why I feel you must know about it.

This article emphasizes the Excitotoxin MSG. But keep in mind that the very popular artificial sweetener aspartame (also known as Nutrasweet, Equal, and the new form Neotame) also acts in a similar manner to over-stimulate brain cells to death.

Why do food manufacturers add MSG to our processed food?

For the taste of it!,

You see, Japanese cooks discovered a sea weed, “sea tangle” or kombu that made their dishes of food taste delectable. Eventually the Japanese isolated this flavor enhancing ingredient as MSG – Mono Sodium Glutamate – and turned it into a worldwide multimillion dollar empire.

After World War II American food manufacturers discovered MSG and started adding it to processed food (which is often rather bland tasting without additives). Now it’s a huge lucrative industry in the United States. In 1972 262,000 metric tons of MSG was produced in America.

Until the 1960′s few people suspected that MSG could be harmful to our health. Most scientists assumed that glutamate supplied energy to the brain.

So MSG continued to be added to food in huge amounts and also to baby food. Then Dr. Olney, MD a neuroscientist at The Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis in 1967 discovered that specialized cells in a very critical area of the brain, the hypothalamus, were destroyed after a single dose of MSG. Despite a long fight with the FDA and food manufacturers Dr. Olney and others finally succeeded in banning MSG from infant food.

However, other food additives can have similar effects as MSG and still be found in infant and toddler’s food. These foods have been called excitotoxins by neuroscientists. Neurons (nerve cells) in the brain exposed to these substances initially become very excited, firing rapidly until they become completely exhausted. “Several hours later these neurons suddenly die, as if the cells were excited to death.” The name excitotoxins seems appropriate.

What is the basic composition of excitotoxins?

Excitotoxins found in nature are all amino acids including glutamate, aspartate and cysteine. Add a sodium molecule to the glutamate and you have mono sodium glutamate. But the toxic part is the glutamate, not the sodium.

You also ingest these amino acids when you eat a natural whole food protein source. However, in natural whole food these amino acids come in balanced proportions, so that none of them induce high blood levels of any individual amino acid. When MSG is added to processed food, glutamate is concentrated and induces high blood levels which can allow higher levels of glutamate to enter the brain.

Be wise – become familiar with the other names for MSG:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/

For more of this cover-up info read on:

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-2/

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-3/

http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-4/

Blessings,

Dr. Jo

“As discussed previously, the glutamate manufacturers and the processed food industries are always on a quest to disguise MSG added to food. Below is a partial list of the most common names for disguised MSG. Remember also that the powerful excitotoxins aspartate and L-cysteine are frequently added to foods and according to FDA rules require no labeling at all.

Additives that always contain MSG: (from reference 492 in Excitotoxins, the Taste that Kills)

Monosodium Glutamate

Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein

Hydrolyzed Protein

Hydrolyzed Plant Protein

Plant Protein Extract

Sodium Caseinate

Calcium Caseinate

Yeast Extract

Textured Protein

Autolyzed Yeast

Hydrolyzed Oat Flour

Additives that frequently contain MSG:

Malt extract

Malt Flavoring

Bouillon

Broth

Stock

Flavoring

Natural Flavoring

Natural Beef or Chicken Flavoring

Seasoning

Spices

Additives that may contain MSG or excitotoxins:

Carrageenaan

Enzymes

Soy Protein Concentrate

Soy Protein Isolate

Whey Protein Concentrate

Protease enzymes of various sources can release excitotoxin amino acids from food proteins. (Reference 493 in Excitotoxins)”

Reading through that list frustrates me. How can we ever really know what’s in that processed food. As for me, I choose to avoid all processed food, especially if it has any of those ingredients in the label. I have often wondered why an ingredient list specifically delineates certain spices (like garlic, oregano, etc.) and then generically lists “spices”. Now we know that may be a way to hide MSG in the food.

I thought you might like to know how hydrolyzed vegetable protein is made.

From Excitotoxins: Hydrolyzed vegetable protein – made from vegetables high in glutamate. “Extraction (Hydrolysis) involves boiling them in a vat of acid, neutralizing with caustic soda and then collecting the brown sludge which is dried. This processes produces a brown powder high in three know excitotoxins – glutamate, aspartate and cysteic acid which the body converts to cysteine. Additional MSG may be added to this brown powder. Also adding particular amino acids will give it a beefy taste useful in barbeque sauces and fast foods. Other amino acids give it a creamy taste that enhances the flavor of soups, salad dressings and sauces. Besides containing excitotoxins this hydrolyzed vegetable protein contains several known carcinogens (cancer causing substances), unregulated by the FDA.” Doesn’t that make you want a big glop of it in your food?

For more in depth information about Excitotoxins, read Dr. Blaylock’s book, Excitotoxins, the Taste that Kills, copyright 1997 with an update at the end. Although fairly technical writing in parts of the book, the information on the normal functioning and development of the nervous system is fascinating. And the research and information about excitotoxins is eye opening.

The short answer – they all elevate your blood sugar too much! Sugar and bad fats are your worst enemies. When we’re told to stop eating sugar, we think, “Oh, I can’t eat table sugar (cane or beet sugar)”, so we look for a substitute. We think that agave syrup, honey, molasses, maple sugar, date sugar, etcetera must be ok.

No – they all still elevate blood sugar too much which leads to lots of degenerative diseases.

So if all of those calorie containing sweeteners ruin my health, I’ll switch to artificial sweeteners.

Don’t we all wish it was that easy, that a safe artificial sweetener actually exists? Unfortunately, the artificial sweeteners have their health hazards too.

First let’s review Splenda, a popular artificial sweetener on the market now.

Production of Splenda:  (also known as Sucralose)

Splenda begins as sugar molecule which is glucose bound to a fructose molecule. To convert it to the synthetic chemical Splenda the manufacturers add 3 molecules of chlorine to it.

So why would we want to eat chlorine? The Merck Manual and OSHA list chlorine as a possible carcinogen.  We filter our tap water to remove the chlorine and other chemicals. Doesn’t seem to make much sense to remove chlorine from one source and eat it from another.

In the 5-step process of converting sugar to Splenda it finally becomes a fructo-galactose molecule, which doesn’t occur in nature so our bodies cannot metabolize it.  Splenda does have calories, but we just cannot utilize them. Except for some folks who can absorb up to 15% of the Splenda, depending on a person’s metabolism.

In research studies Splenda affected animals adversely:
Reduced growth rate in newborns and adults at levels above 500 mg/kg/day
Decreased red blood cells – - sign of anemia (at levels above 1500 mg/kg/day
Decreased thyroxine levels (thyroid function)
Mineral losses (magnesium and phosphorus)
Decreased urination
Enlarged colon
Splenda animal studies continued:
Enlarged liver and brain
Shrunken ovaries
Shrunken thymus above 3 grams per day
Enlarged and calcified kidneys
Increased adrenal cortical hemorrhagic degeneration
Increased cataracts
Abnormal liver cells

To find out how Splenda affects you:
Eliminate all artificial sweeteners for 5 days
Then eat at least 3 servings of Splenda per day
Listen to your body.
Does it feel different than when your body was cleansed of all artificial sweeteners?

Even if you do not notice any acute adverse affects BEWARE! What happens to the 15% absorbed? The long term effects are totally unknown. Only 6 research trials were studied in humans and the longest one only lasted 3 months, hardly long enough to get any idea of the long term risks of ingesting Splenda.

Splenda looks more like DDT than sugar to your body. It’s in the chlorocarbon class of chemicals. DDT and PCBs are also chlorocarbons.

Dr. Bowen, MD, a physician and biochemist who survived aspartame poisoning says this:
http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/bowen.html
“By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly into our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective insecticides and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to prevent bacterial decomposition.”
Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation of other toxins: “Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver’s metabolic cells, and destroy them.”
On his website Dr. Mercola reports that people eating Splenda have reported these symptoms:
Depression
Anxiety
Stomach pain
Migraines
Diarrhea
And more

Personally I have never eaten Splenda. I just do not trust man-made chemical products. I use a little Stevia (an herb) to sweeten herbal teas and other food occasionally. Xylitol in small amounts may be ok and can help prevent tooth decay.

The less sweets we eat, the less we will crave that sweet taste and the healthier we will be.

For more detailed information about the possible adverse affects of Splenda on the human body, refer to these websites:
http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/bowen.html
http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/research-adverse.html

Blessings
Dr. Jo

Avoiding lectin-containing food can be difficult but highly rewarding in the measure of health you gain and the measure of pain and disability that you prevent.

Foods that contain the most problematic lectins include:

                All cereal grains, especially wheat, but oats, rye, barley, spelt, corn, rice, and even some of the other non-gluten grains may contain lectins in high enough quantity to cause problems

                Dairy products

                Soy

                Legumes

                Nuts

                Seeds

Remember folks, white flour is refined wheat. For some reason people only think of wheat as whole wheat. Anything made from the whole wheat grain is still wheat.

Besides the obvious sources of wheat in our diet, these ubiquitous wheat products in our food supply hide in our food in many processed forms such as:

                Soups, soy sauce, candies, cold cuts, and various low-fat or non-fat products.

If you are only eliminating wheat as your first step, you will need to be sure to check the labels before you eat it.

Also watch out for malt, starches, hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), texturized vegetable protein (TVP) and natural flavoring. Some pharmaceuticals, vinegars and alcohol can also contain gluten and/or lectins.

Since many foods other than wheat also contain problematic lectins you may need to try a:

 Lectin elimination diet

Stop eating all suspect lectin families for 7 days. That means you do not eat:

                Grains as listed above

                Dairy

                Legumes, especially soy

                Nuts and seeds

Be sure to read labels so that you aren’t consuming a part of the lectin family hidden in a food.

Notice which of your symptoms subside. Are you thinking more clearly? Does your gut feel better? Are those muscle or joint pains gone or improved? Is your headache gone? If any symptoms improve then you have eliminated a culprit food.

Next you will want to start testing the foods you have been avoiding to find the culprits.

So, on day 8 reintroduce only one lectin group at a time to see if it causes your symptoms again.

If you want to test dairy then eat milk, cheese and sour cream on day 8 only. Then on day 9 and 10 avoid dairy as well as the rest of the lectin containing foods above. Listen to your body for 2 days. Is your bowel acting up again? Did the headache, joint pain, muscle pain or any other miserable symptom recur? If so, now you know that dairy products are a problem for you.

When all of your symptoms go away after the flare from the dairy food, test legumes by eating a variety of  them such as soy, kidney beans and peanut butter that day. Then avoid legumes and the rest of the high lectin foods for 2 days and listen to your body. If it talks to you again, you know you’re on the right track to finding your food culprits. If your body continues to feel fine, then you can keep legumes in your diet.

Avoid over eating any food you are tolerating though so you will continue to tolerate it well.

Continue testing the other lectin groups one at a time and listen to your body.

In summary, here’s how to use the lectin elimination diet:

                Avoid all the lectin groups for seven days or until your symptoms subside.

                Then eat a variety of food from one lectin group for 1 day.

                Next avoid that lectin food group for 2 days and listen to your body.

                If symptoms flare, wait until they subside.

                Then test the next lectin group in the same pattern.

If symptoms flare, remove that food group from your diet for 6 months. At the end of that 6 month period eat it and wait 2 days to see if symptoms recur. If you still feel good, then you may be able to once again eat from this lectin group.

Perhaps you developed difficulty digesting it because of taking anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, aspirin, etc, or because of an infection. Now your gut has healed and can tolerate that lectin food group.

But be careful to never over eat any one food so you will continue to digest it well.

IF you still don’t tolerate that lectin food group, then retest it in 6 months. If you react again, you may need to avoid it totally.

Some additional challenges for those with severe symptoms:

Rheumatic or arthritic problems have been associated with the nightshade family, so you will also need to eliminate that group as you test.

Nightshade group of foods to avoid:

                Tomato

                Potato

                Eggplant

                Pepper

What’s left to eat?

That’s a common question since we’ve just eliminated the most common foods in the modern diet. But actually there are a lot of wonderful, delicious, satisfying, colorful foods left to eat. You just need some coaching to learn to prepare and eat them joyfully.

That’s where Dr. Jo’s Natural Healing Cookbook comes to your rescue with the Get Healthy Eating Plan. Use it as your basic eating plan since it already eliminates the most common problematic lectin food. If your symptoms don’t completely go away after 7 days on the Get Healthy Eating Plan, eliminate the legumes and night shade family.

If you still have symptoms, eliminate even the non-gluten grains. Then add the lectin food groups back as described above until you have discovered your very own healthy eating plan for life that suits your uniquely-you body.

Enjoy your newly discovered health freedom.

Blessings,

Dr. Jo

Also, wheat intolerance and/or other food sensitivity may have put many folks in mental institutions. And what do they get fed while in those mental institutions? Right, lots of wheat.

Many years ago one of my patients sat across from me in my office and told me her story. As a child she had been abused and by age 12 she wound up in a mental institution. Her learning skills were severely limited and she was quite deficient in math.

She languished in that mental institution for years until her compassionate sister learned of the accomplishments of Dr. Jonathan Wright in helping folks overcome severe health problems through nutritional expertise and uncovering their food sensitivities or intolerances.

When this patient, now in her fifties, stopped eating the food that her body could not tolerate, she began to recover. Her foggy thinking began to clear up. She felt much better, lost weight and had more energy.

Best of all she was able to function in society again. She lived with her sister and took care of running the household including mastering math well enough to take care of the family checkbook and finances.

Her story brought tears to my eyes then and still does today. But her victory as an over comer still thrills me today. Her story should give us all encouragement to look for those hidden sources of substances that damage our health.

One of those sources may be a food or foods that we eat constantly day in and day out, even believing that those foods are really good for us.

Food can damage our bodies via several different mechanisms. We easily recognize acute allergic reactions like eating shell fish and immediately developing a rash or throat swelling or other life threatening or irritating symptoms.

If our reaction to a food occurs one to two days after eating it, it becomes more difficult to recognize. That reaction may still be mediated through the immune system and so be labeled a delayed allergic response.

But food can damage our tissues via non-allergic responses as well and some interesting, fairly recent research has revealed that lectins in wheat can induce severe tissue damage to our intestines, brain and other tissues.

For years I have noticed that wheat may profoundly affect the functioning of the brain in some people, causing irritability, grouchiness, negativity, depression and even severe reactions like tantrums and angry reactions. At that time I thought that the brain was the target organ of an allergic reaction.

Now I am realizing that the lectins in wheat or other grains from the grass family (oats, barley, rye, spelt, kamut and even rice) may be the greater problem since lectins can cross the blood-brain barrier and attach to the nervous tissue causing damage.  Could avoiding food containing lectins prevent such disorders as mental illness and senile dementia and other degenerative conditions?

It seems to me it’s worth a trial off of the high lectin food to see if we notice any changes. Wouldn’t it be a shame to suffer so much from simply eating a food that doesn’t agree with our bodies?

The majority of us have great difficulty digesting and breaking down these extremely small tough substances in wheat.

Then they slip into the tissues and accumulate there inducing inflammation, a reaction of our bodies to foreign substances. This chronic inflammation leads to damage to tissues which manifests as a painful, debilitating disease process.

Do you have an “itis” problem, like arthritis, tendonitis or bursitis? Any disease label that ends in “itis” refers to inflammation. Could that “itis” be due to constantly ingesting those damaging lectins in wheat and other grains? Possibly.

Other disease processes may also be linked to lectins including: atherosclerosis, hypertension, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, adult onset diabetes and obesity.

To help understand the lectin problem better, read these articles too:              

What Are Lectins?

Do Lectins Affect you?

Blessings,

Dr. Jo