Glands and Grains

We live in a world in which endocrine disruption–the disruption of endocrine gland function–is a growing health threat. Endocrine disruption can take many forms. It can take the form of thyroid disease provoked by industrial chemicals, such as perchlorates, the residues of synthetic fertilizers in produce. Or it could be provoked by the polybrominated dipheyl ethers flame retardants in your carpeting. Or it could be the triclosan in your antibacterial soap and hand sanitizer. It can also take the form of causing young girls to experience menstrual cycles and breast growth prematurely due to exposure to estrogens in commercial dairy products, herbicides, and plastics. It could involve disruption of pituitary gland function from the head trauma of a car accident. Wheat and, to a lesser extent, other grains exert their own form of glandular disruption. Among the ways that the muffin you had for breakfast or the pizza and beer you had last Friday can disrupt your endocrine gland function are: Gliadin-induced autoimmunity–When gliadin remains undigested in the human gastrointestinal tract (as it often does), it increases intestinal permeability via a cholera toxin-like mechanism worked out by Dr. Alessio Fasano and colleagues. This is a first step in triggering autoimmunity, such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis that impairs thyroid function, or autoimmune adrenal cortical destruction leading to impaired cortisol release, or the destruction of pancreatic beta ce...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Health Destruction by Wheat Endocrine Gliadin Thyroid Source Type: blogs