Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain? • Hacker News Board

Re: Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain?

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Post by tern » Sun, Oct 12, 2014, 10:34 PM UTC

drpre wrote: post #6

My girlfriend has Celiac's disease, and she was diagnosed about 3 months after we started dating. Before her diagnosis I often wondered if she had some sort of mental illness because she would always describe having out-of-body experiences where she subjectively witnessed herself doing things in third person. After she was diagnosed and went gluten free, there was an acute "rebound" phase where she had very painful r…

A daughter of a friend's family friend was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She was sent to stay with a sister in the country, where she went on a gluten free diet. The schizophrenia miraculously went away.

Re: Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain?

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Post by RankingMember » Sun, Oct 12, 2014, 10:46 PM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #4

jbinto wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That this is an opinion piece is made obvious by Betteridge's Law: > "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

I recall that "Betteridge's Law," which I see from the Wikipedia citations is a new and not particularly widespread idea, was promoted here in the Hacker News community by the site founder and former chief site curator, pg (Paul Graham). While I will agree with the proposition that many articles titled with a yes/no question invite the easy answer no, I don't think that is an invariant property of all such articles.…

I think it's more of a joke "law" meant to discourage lazy click-bait headline-writing.

Re: Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain?

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Post by kzrdude » Mon, Oct 13, 2014, 8:51 AM UTC

adamfeldman wrote: post #9

kzrdude wrote: post #5

Some suggest that avoiding gluten is a good idea with other autoimmune diseases too.

Could you point me to some sources? I'm very interested in this.

I will after work today.

Re: Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain?

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Post by kzrdude » Tue, Oct 14, 2014, 8:54 PM UTC

adamfeldman wrote: post #9

kzrdude wrote: post #5

Some suggest that avoiding gluten is a good idea with other autoimmune diseases too.

Could you point me to some sources? I'm very interested in this.

Sorry I am answering late.

One is this author suggesting removal of Gluten for MS: http://www.jandevrieshealth.co.uk/health_matters.asp?int_ser...

There is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20170845 but it is apparently controversial(?)

Re: Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain?

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Post by adamfeldman » Tue, Oct 14, 2014, 9:11 PM UTC

kzrdude wrote: post #14

adamfeldman wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you point me to some sources? I'm very interested in this.

Sorry I am answering late. One is this author suggesting removal of Gluten for MS: http://www.jandevrieshealth.co.uk/health_matters.asp?int_ser... There is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20170845 but it is apparently controversial(?)

No apology needed! Thanks so much for digging up some info. I have a family member struggling with an autoimmune disease and any bit of info I can work with is helpful.