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In autism case that actually happened first. Parents began to restrict gluten out of the diets for kids with ASD and were adamant that this helped them a lot. T
by ramraj07 3y ago
In autism case that actually happened first. Parents began to restrict gluten out of the diets for kids with ASD and were adamant that this helped them a lot. The research community was highly skeptical and even derisive of this until they started finding real gut brain connection and proof in trials and mice studies. Hopefully parents of children who have such conditions can chime in and corroborate this history.
- mtsr 3y agoHave you got any citations for this? I’d be interested to learn about any more definitive results in this area.
- jadbox 3y agoFrom the studies I've seen, gluten doesn't really provide much sustenance to the microbiome and it tends to leak through the gut.
- alphazard 3y agoGliadin (Gluten) increases intestinal permeability through Zonulin[0]. This is true in all humans, independent of allergies or auto-immunity. It's unlikely that gluten itself has anything to do with ASD, it just exacerbates an existing predisposition to intestinal permeability. And so restricting Gluten is a reasonable intervention. The underlying cause is almost certainly dysbiosis, the microbiome continually modulating permeability in a way that is damaging to the host. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonulin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonulin