The future of functional medicine.

The future of functional medicine.

The Paelo diet is reaching a new level and becoming really fine tuned!

One of the things that makes every autoimmunity somewhat unique is the molecular mimicry. 

Molecular mimicry is also known as cross-reactivity. Every protein has an amino acid sequences. And if you have more than three amino acid sequences that are identical, then the antibody for one antigen can bind to another. So, for example, the part of the brain called the "cerebellum" has molecular mimicry with gluten. When a person makes antibodies to gluten, those gluten antibodies have structural similarity to bind to the actual cerebellum. Antibodies, when they bind to a tissue then signal immune cells like T cells to destroy them. So, you don’t really want antibodies binding to any of your own tissues of any kind because they’ve been turned on attacking in those specific tissues. So, foods and different antigens have been shown to cause molecular mimicry in autoimmune disease.

What they are now doing is bascially you find out which tissue antibody you have and then you find out which food cross-reacts with the tissue antibody.

In the near future, we’re going to have a very specific autoimmune Hashimoto’s diet and its beyond just gluten because many of the foods they found are within the Paleo diet, I only have a few bread crumbs to share..

Tuna cross-reacted, but only when raw, and when it’s cooked, it doesn’t cross-react. They found some foods that are high in iodine really cross-react with T3 and T4, but when they were cooked, there’s no cross-reactivity. Soy didn’t cross-react unless it was processed soy.

They also discovered latex was one of the most devastating exposures to Hashimoto’s people. 

After this a whole new type-1 diabetes diet will be coming out and this is going to blow away the glycemic index because most of the foods they found that cross-react with pancreatic islet cells are low in the glycemic index. 

The world of food and nutrition in autoimmunity has some great stuff coming in the next year.

To make an appointment with the author, Tessa Zangiacomi, Naturopath, Cranbourne Family Chiropractic and Wellness Centre, call 03 59984554 or visit us online as www.cranbournefamilychiro.com.au