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Do Dietary Lectins Cause Disease

Posterboy

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To All,

No more doughnuts brought up the topic of Lectins today so I thought I would start a topic on it.

Here is the research I am aware of ...20 years ago...it was controversial enough then to get a doctor fired over discussing this theory...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1115436/

It doesn't mean he was right...but it was concerning enough people felt unsettled/threatened over this topic....I would like to hear the forum members opinions...about whether he was right or not??? it would explain the cross contamination issues of eating things other than gluten that might be causing/mimicking a gluten reaction like someone who can't tolerate corn for example...celiac.com has done articles on this topic but some people might feel like commenting on an article ...that might more at ease discussing it as part of thread on related disorders/or further/other celiac research....

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