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Old 04-02-2009, 09:03 AM   #144
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by glatt
The intestinal damage side of it is brand new to me and actually makes a lot of sense.
There are literally dozens of diseases that they're beginning to connect to problems with the digestive tract. The specific thing with autism (at least Minifob's brand of it) is that he also happens to have the inability to digest casein/gluten. A different person could be missing some completely different enzyme, so their hypothetical leaky gut would result in some other protein getting into their bloodstream that is known to cause, say, rheumatoid arthritis, or liver inflammation, or any number of things...
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