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If you are a practice member at Martone Chiropractic, you know that the nervous system is the master system that controls everything in the human body. You have also probably heard Dr. Martone mention how there are three systems in the body that are incredibly connected: the nervous system, the immune system, and the digestive system. You cannot affect one without affecting the other! The health of your digestive system IS the health of your brain, and vice versa.

There is nothing more frustrating as a chiropractic patient than receiving that perfect adjustment, and ‘losing’ it soon after. There are three lifestyle factors that cause this: trauma (sleeping on your stomach can be a minor trauma), negative thoughts, and toxins. Gluten is probably the number one toxin in our lives today.

What is gluten? Gluten is a protein found primarily in wheat, rye, and barley. Gluten is present in breads, cereals, flour, etc. Gluten is also a very effective and cheap binding agent, so it can be found in everything from ketchup to soy sauce.

The food we eat today is not the same food that our grandparents ate 60 years ago. Most of our grains are genetically modified, sprayed with tons of toxic chemicals, and sit in silos for a year or more before being processed and brought to our table. As a result of this, many people’s immune system has started to recognize gluten as an antigen (foreign invader) instead of food!

When you have chronic inflammation in your digestive tract, it breaks down your intestinal lining. This intestinal inflammation also leads to an inability for your body to absorb all the possible nutrients in your food.

Over time if this process keeps going, your intestinal lining starts to look like swiss-cheese. When this happens, different proteins enter your bloodstream that are not supposed to be there. This triggers a huge immune response and massive inflammation throughout your body. Over time, this will also break down your blood-brain-barrier, which is what keeps bad things out of your brain. Systemic inflammation also lowers your pain threshold (causing your body to perceive pain where it had not before).

If your blood-brain-barrier is broken down, the next step is inflammation in your brain. When the microglial cells (immune cells in your brain) are activated, they can be very difficult to turn back off. As a result, different parts of your brain become inflamed. Some symptoms related to this include: depression, anxiety, brain fog, and memory loss.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, on a molecular level, gluten looks similar to human tissue. When we chronically trigger the immune system in our digestive system by eating gluten, it is very easy for our overactive immune systems to accidentally ‘tag’ human tissue as an invader as well. If the genes that turn this process on are triggered, there is no going back; and you now have an autoimmune disease for life. The increased rate of autoimmune disease is one of the biggest problems in our health care system today.

Here are some common problems that may be related to gluten:

Chronic Pain

Fatigue

Brain Fog/Depression/Memory Loss

Hypothyroidism (90% of hypothyroid cases are Hashimoto’s, an autoimmune thyroid disease)

Diabetes (25% of Type II diabetes is now being recognized as an autoimmune disease)

Anxiety/Nervousness/Tics: Due to the production of Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase (GAD) antibodies, which is an enzyme found in key parts of the brain

Hair Loss (Due to the production of cardiolipin antibodies)

Rheumatoid/Psoriatic Arthritis

                                                                    Benefit
More Energy
Weight Loss (Avg 8 lbs)
Less Bloating
Better Sleep
Clearer Thinking
Less Pain
To List A FEW....

 
YOU ARE NOT A SLAVE TO YOUR GENES YOU ARE A SLAVE TO YOUR DAILY HABITS. IF YOU WANT GOOD HEALTH YOU HAVE TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFESTYLE.

I look forward having you sign up and start the New Year off right.

Dr. Peter Martone



P.S. Don't do this alone get other family members signed up. It is FREE it just takes commitment.

 
Def.  Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. :)

Aren't we all just a little bit crazy?