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Accumulating medical evidence has found that gluten can directly damage your brain and your nerves! You are invited to read the evidence for yourself in this book. Medical research shows that gluten reactions are linked to ataxia, migraine, ADHD, autism, depression, epilepsy and psychiatric disorders. This nerve damage can also wreak havoc in your gut. 
This is alarming. Yes, gluten can damage your brain. Have you ever wondered why you crave for another hunk of bread? What if a food that you were eating every day was slowly eroding the function and the ability of your brain. Surely you would want to know what that food was! Well, that food is gluten! Eating gluten is linked to ataxia, migraine, ADHD, autism, depression, epilepsy, mood and psychiatric disorders. Gluten also can disrupt your brain’s regulation of your gut – this can cause mayhem in your bowel. Gluten-sensitivity is a brain disease! Read the evidence that has been collected from the medical literature.
This book is "full of it!"Yes! This book is full of it! It is packed full of content that links gluten symptoms to brain and nerve damage. It is overflowing with information on gluten-sensitivity and the gluten syndrome.
ISBN 978-0-473-10407-8 (192 pages)
The title “Full of it!” is to capture the varied reasons for writing this book. It refers to our diets being full of gluten; to the world being full of gluten-sensitive people; to the medical practitioners who are so sceptical of adverse reactions to gluten; to the enthusiasm of people who are feeling vibrant again on a gluten-free diet; and to those who are brimming with hope that the problem of gluten has now been recognized.
The shocking truthThe shocking truth about gluten is that it is a food that is causing tremendous damage – but unrecognized. Gluten grains have become our staple diet. The quantity of gluten in our food has been steadily increasing. And official Health Policies endorse gluten grains as the foundation of our food pyramid.
But, all of the time gluten is sapping the energy and wellbeing of countless millions. And, as yet, the medical profession is turning a blind eye to gluten’s wider problems whilst focusing all of their attention on the narrow problem of coeliac disease.
Can gluten damage your brain?Searching questions usually provoke yet more questions. Answers can be hard to find. The big question that this book probes is: “Can gluten grains damage your brain?” I believe that the answer to this question is a resounding “Yes!” I have come to this conclusion by the abundant circumstantial evidence from my observations of my patients who are gluten-sensitive. I have pondered the next questions: “Why do they have such an array of symptoms from gluten?” “Why do they recover so quickly when gluten is removed?” And “Why do they deteriorate so rapidly when only tiny amounts of gluten are eaten?”
Gluten toxicityOver the last fifty years, there has been a slow evolution of the understanding about gluten toxicity. But each time that a new clinical investigation has been developed this new information is merely added on to the current theory.
Seldom is the whole concept re-examined. To this end, the focus of gluten has unwaveringly been on the small bowel. This is because coeliac disease is generally considered to be a gastro-intestinal disease, with some unexplained peripheral symptoms. Coeliac disease (also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy) is defined as bowel damage caused by the toxicity of gluten in susceptible people. Recent population studies around the world show that it occurs in about one in every one hundred people.
One in ten affected by glutenI now challenge this narrow perspective. I have described the clinical features of a much wider condition – that of gluten-sensitivity. I have calculated that gluten-sensitivity affects about one-in-ten people. Others claim that it is even more common. In my opinion, gluten has now been recognized as the cause of a vast amount of chronic ill health.
The purpose of this book is to submit a hypothesis that provides a universal model of gluten-sensitivity. I believe that gluten-sensitivity is a brain and nerve network disease.
Read this book to find out why. CONTENTSForeword by Ron Harper 7
About the author 13
Full of it! 15
The hypothesis 17
So what is new? 17 Gluten is it!1. Gluten is it! 21
The problem with gluten 23
Gluten – invading your food 24
Problem symptoms have been officially “hidden” 26
How big is the problem? 29
More voices in the wilderness ? 30
Is it addictive? 32
Gluteomorphines 33
Leaky Gut 35
The zonulin story 35
Leaky gut problems 37
2. What is gluten-sensitivity? 39
Gluten-sensitive problems 41
The ten target organs 42
You cannot tell unless you test 44
Coeliac disease history 45
The great masquerader 47
An explanation about blood tests 50
Small bowel biopsy 56
Is there an epidemic? 57
3. Gluten grains 59
Hunter Gatherers 60
The origins of grains 60
Grasses and grains 61
Bread and fast-foods 62
The food pyramid 63
Acidophilus 64
The shocking truth 64
Struck by it!4. Your tummy brain 65
What is your gut doing? 66
Oesophagus 67
Stomach 67
Small bowel 70
Large bowel 72
What is your brain doing? 74
How does your brain control your gut? 74
Autonomic nervous system 76
Gut feelings 80
Fight and flight 82
5. Gluten strikes your brain 83
Symptom evidence 85
Gluten-brain connection reports 85
Neurological findings common 87
Poor response to gluten-free diets 87
Autoantibody damage 89
Gluten causing inflammation 90
Excitotoxins 91
Interfering with neurotransmitters 92
6. Headaches and migraines 93
Medical evidence 94
Brain blood flow 95
People tell their stories 96
7. Nerve damage and stunted growth 99
Neuropathy 99
Peripheral neuropathy 101
Motor neuropathy 101
Developmental delay 102
Autonomic neuropathy 105
Ataxia 106
Gluten-driven brain inflammation 108
Neurological dysfunction of unknown cause 109
Epilepsy 110
Stunted growth 111
Growth hormone suppression 111
The growth hormone evidence 112
Test all short children 114
8. Mood and behaviour 115
Lethargy, low energy 117
Angry 125
ADHD and learning problems 130
Autism 135
Depression 136
Psychiatric disorders 140
9. Tummy troubles 141
Gastro-intestinal motility disorder 143
Gastro-oesophageal reflux 144
Constipation and soiling 146
Diarrhoea and abdominal pain 152
Abdominal migraine 156
Got it!10. Got it! 157
Grains and your brains 158
Have you got it? 158
The critics 159
The criticisms 159
More answers to your questions 163
The gluten-sensitive patients 172
The storytellers 172
tTG results 173
IgG-gliadin results 174
IgA-gliadin results 175
Fantastic responses to gluten-free diets 176
Last words 177
Natalie’s brown bread recipe 179
References 181
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