In up-to-date years it appears there is a rising epidemic of citizen suffering from chronic digestive and autoimmune conditions. Food intolerance or sensitivities may lie at the root of the problem. Most people, together with doctors, have dinky clue how foods they eat may be contributing to their chronic illness, fatigue and digestive symptoms.
There are, however, a lot of clues in the curative literature and the lay public's experience about how foods are causing and/or contributing to the current epidemic of chronic illness and autoimmune disease. There are some diets being used by many citizen with varying success to enhance their health despite a general lack of iron clad scientific proof for their effectiveness. One of the clues to the cause and relief of food induced illness may lie in proteins known as lectins that are gift in all foods.
Animal and plant sources of food both include involved proteins known as lectins. These proteins typically have the capability to attach to sugars or carbohydrates on the surface of human cells. Some of these proteins can cause clumping of human red blood cells, a process that is called agglutination. The process of agglutination occurs when man receives the wrong blood type while a blood transfusion. In fact, red blood cell agglutination definite to each man or groups of citizen is the basis for testing for blood types. There is some data that blood types may affect how citizen write back to unavoidable foods though a blood type definite diet appears to have been disproven. The attachment or binding of unavoidable food lectins can set in motion a collection of cell definite effects. These reactions may mimic hormones or cause changes in cells. This is termed molecular mimicry.
Most plants include lectins, some of which are toxic, inflammatory, or both. Many of these plant and dairy lectin are unyielding to cooking and digestive enzymes. Grain lectins, for example, are quite unyielding to human digestion but well noteworthy for ruminants like cattle who have multi-chambered stomachs. Therefore, lectins are gift in our food and are often unyielding to our digestion and some have been scientifically shown to have indispensable Gi toxicity in humans. Others have been shown to be beneficial and maybe even cancer protecting. Either way plant and animal proteins are foreign proteins to the body and are dealt with by digestion and our immune law in a unavoidable or negative manner.
The human digestive law was created to handle a collection of plant and animal proteins through the process of digestion and elimination. Some plant and animal proteins or lectins are severely toxic to humans and cannot be eaten without causing death like those in Castor beans and some mushrooms. Other foods must be prepared before they are safe to be eaten. Preparations may include pealing, continued soaking and cooking like kidney beans. Other foods may be poorly tolerated because of a genetic predisposition or basic pre-existing food allergy or intolerance. Others are tolerated to some degree or quantity but not in large amounts or on a frequent basis. citizen who are intolerant to the milk sugar lactose, because of inherited or acquired insufficiency in lactase enzyme, may tolerate small amounts but may have severe bloating, gas, abdominal pain and cramps with explosive diarrhea when a large whole of lactose containing foods are eaten. Foods can become intolerable to some citizen after their immune law changes or gut is injured from an additional one cause.
Of the food lectins, grain/cereal lectins; dairy lectins; and legume lectins (especially peanut lectin and soybean lectin) are the most base ones associated with reports of aggravation of inflammatory and digestive diseases in the body and improvement of those diseases and/or symptoms when avoided. up-to-date explore by Loren Cordain PhD., has suggested that these lectins may effectively serve as a "Trojan horse" allowing intact or nearly intact foreign proteins to invade our natural gut defenses and enter behind the lines to cause damage well beyond the gut, generally in joints, brain, and skin of affected individuals. Once damage occurs to the gut and the defense law is breached the supervene is what some refer to as a "leaky gut". Moreover, many citizen who establish a "leaky gut" not only have gut symptoms such as bloating, gas, diarrhea, and abdominal pain but also other symptoms beyond the gut, or extra-intestinal symptoms. generally affected areas are the brain or peripheral nerves, skin, joints, and assorted body glands. With continued exposure of the gut by these toxic food lectins a persistent stimulation of the body's defense mechanism in a dysfunctional manner, occurs, i.e. Autoimmune disease.
Wrong types or levels of good and bad bacteria in the gut, or intestinal dysbiosis, may contribute to this process of abnormal stimulation of the immune system. explore supports the strong possibility that such stimulation may be accentuated by interaction of the bacteria with food lectins. It is believed by some that this may additional worsen gut injury and autoimmune disease. This latter view is gaining acceptance and recognition by doctors in one form as the hygiene theory. It is speculated that our gut bacteria have become altered by increased hygiene and over use of antibiotics and that this phenomenon may be playing a indispensable role in the rising incidence of autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, and chronic intestinal diseases like Crohn's disease and irritable bowel syndrome.
Lectins as a cause any way are largely being ignored in the U.S. Though the field of lectinology and lectins role in disease is more accepted internationally. Avoidance of unavoidable food lectins may be helpful in achieving health and curative of chronic gut injury. curative of a "leaky gut" and avoidance of ongoing abnormal stimulation of the immune law by toxic food lectins and bacteria in the gut is the basis for ongoing explore and probable success of some favorite diets such as the paleo diet, carbohydrate definite diet and gluten-free/casein-free diet. More explore is needed in this challenging but often neglected area. The Food Doc, Llc features a website http://www.thefooddoc.com that will provide doctor authored data on food intolerance, sensitivity and allergy such as lectin, gluten, casein, and lactose intolerance with dietary advice that will feature in the near future an online indication of illness appraisal and diet-diary.
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