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Here is a good reason to not eat grains..
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Does cereal damage your intestines?
May 04, 2009
Pintona, P, J Nougayredeb, J Del Rioa, C Morenoa, DE Marina, L Ferrierd, A Bracarensee, M Kolf-Clauwf and IP Oswald. 2009. The food contaminant deoxynivalenol, decreases intestinal barrier permeability and reduces claudin expression. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology doi:10.1016/j.taap.2009.03.003.
Synopsis by Negin P. Martin, Ph. D
A fungal toxin commonly found in grain and cereal food crops can damage human and animal intestines.
Our morning cereal may be setting us up for a fungus invasion that lowers the protective actions of the intestines, leading to illness or intestinal problems.
A new research study describes how one of these toxins can damage the intestinal tract by changing its defensive protein layer. These changes weakened the intestinal barrier and allowed more bacteria to cross through the intestinal wall.
The intestine acts as a first barrier to stop harmful material such as pathogens, toxins and toxic substances from entering the body.
This study reports how the fungal toxin deoxynivalenol (DON) can affect the intestines and potentially make people–and farm animals–sick. The results may help explain findings from other studies that show Salmonella infection accelerates in mice that are fed grains containing similar mycotoxins. The same protien changes observed in the study are also associated with colitis and have been found in dog intestinal cells exposed to bacteria.
Fungi toxins are called mycotoxins. They have minimal risk at low levels. However, too much of some can cause death, cancer, slow growth and disease resistance.
DON is one of the most commonly found mycotoxin of its kind in cereal and grain crops (wheat, barley, maize and their by-products) from Europe and North America. DON is associated with diarrhea, vomiting, internal bleeding and ultimately death. Long term, low dose toxicity has symptoms such as weight loss, nutrient absorption, neuroendocrine changes and immune problems.
Globally, exposure to mycotoxins is widespread. As much as 25 percent of the world's crop production is contaminated with fungal toxins known to be harmful to human and animal health.
In this study, a team of scientist from France, Brazil and Romania used several intestinal cell models to investigate the biochemical changes resulting from exposure DON. They also harvested organs from piglets and witnessed the weakening of the intestinal barrier following exposure for 2 hours.
The researchers found that less than half the amount of mycotoxins that are detected in raw cereals (as reported by US Federal Grain Inspection Service and European Union surveys) made the intestinal wall more permeable to large molecules and bacteria. The higher the dose the more damage was done.
© EnvironmentalHealthNews 2003-2004
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Do you know what happens when the intestinal wall is permeated?? You develop Leaky gut syndrome,where proteins,bacteria and gut flora enter the bloodstream setting off auto-immune responses in the body...Once the intestinal villi have been damaged they can never be healed..Every single time you eat grains,is like playing Russian Roulette with your body...But hey..What do I know huh?? Perhaps I'm completely wrong and all the research I've studied is wrong and the NIH,FDA and USDA have your best interest at heart by telling you to eat at least 5 servings of whole grains a day... |