Gluten as a cause of Epilepsy

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I just received the newesletter Health Alert, edited by Dr.Bruce West,MD.

Dr.West is a nutritionally oriented physician whose website

_www.healthalert.com_ (http://www.healthalert.com)

Gluten occurs in many grains particularly wheat,rye and barley.

 

Dr.West printed a letter from a patient as followws:

" Dear Dr.West,

How can I ever thank you enough for discovering that it is gluten that was

my enemy? I have been epileptic for more than 40 years. I suffered through

endless prescriptions that controlled my seizures, but left me half a person.

Then I came to you for headaches. You told me to eliminate gluten and I felt

better after just 48 hours. After a month, I still had no headaches.You

suggested that gluten may have been playing a role in my epilepsy, so I asked

my

doctor to slowly cut back the dose of my dilantin.

 

Well gluten wasn't playing a role in my epilepsy, it was causing it! After

six months I was finally free of that dreadful Dilantin. And now after 2 years,

I have remained seizure free. to say I am a new person is an understatement.

I am reborn. And to think, I lost almost 50 years of my life because no one

told me that gluten could cause epilepsy. Thank you from the bottom of my

heart. "

Rose Hardine,California

 

Dr.West points out that due to high technology manipulation of genetic

material, food processors have enhanced the gluten content of many foods. The

high

gluten content makes it possible to bake a delicious crunchy bread on the

outside and soft on the inside. Unfortunately the standard Medical tests for

Gluten sensitivity only turn up positive after the intestinal linings have been

all but destroyed. You need something more sensitive. Only a trial of the

Elimination of all gluten from the diet for 30 days will spot this sub-clinical

allergy. in order to eliminate all processed foods you will have to

eliminate all food that comes in a package or jar. This is the way people ate

before

the advent of our modern food processing industry.

Many people have allergies to gluten with varying symptoms including

cogestion, bronchitis, neurological and mobility problems. The Elimination diet

is

worth a try.

 

Arnold

 

 

 

 

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