Celiac disease can be devastating to those who suffer from it, but evidence suggests that there is a natural plant treatment that can mitigate or even cure the ailment: cannabis.
People who have celiac suffer from autoimmune attacks on their small intestine after eating gluten, which can lead to pain and an inability to absorb nutrients, as well as diabetes, multiple sclerosis and cancer over the long term.
Gluten is ubiquitous in the Western diet and people who take pains to avoid eating it are still likely to consume some by accident on occasion, and even in small amounts gluten can lead to extremely painful and embarrassing episodes. Fortunately, marijuana may be able to help.
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A study published in the PLOS One journal in 2013 suggests that cannabis could play a key role in taming the ravages of celiac. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Teramo in Italy, took intestinal biopsies from celiac patients and looked at the cannabinoid receptors in the gut, which play a role in controlling inflammation and dysfunction. The results showed significantly more receptors in people with an active disease than those who had been treating it with at least 12 months of a gluten-free diet, leading the scientists to suggest that the data “points to the therapeutic potential of targeting [cannabinoid receptors] in patients with celiac disease.”
Anecdotal reports corroborate the study’s findings. Some patients believe that marijuana has actually helped them cure celiac outright.
“After only 6 months of using cannabis, my disease was essentially non-existent,” Matthew Distefano wrote for Reset. “I was hoping for just a relief from my persistent symptoms. In addition to my endoscopy results, my anemia, protein deficiency, calcium deficiency, and iron deficiency had all vanished. Essentially, I was cured.”
Dispensaries recommend indica strains of marijuana for treating digestive issues like celiac because they help relax the muscles. The Medical Marijuana Strains website suggests that buds from Arizonan Western Light Purp are effective for celiac specifically. Otherwise, looks for Indica strains such as Auntie Em, Blackberry, Black Domina, Bluberry, Chemo, Blue Fruit, G13, Mandala No. 1, Purple Kush, Ultimate Indica, Santa Maria, or Super Silver Hazethat, recommended for other gut disorders like irritable bowel syndrome.
The challenge, of course, is acquiring the cannabis legally. No medical marijuana states currently list celiac under their list of qualifying symptoms; however, in California doctors are permitted to prescribe marijuana for any condition they believe it will help. Celiac sufferer Jessica Deno notes on her Life of a Celiac blog that the disease therefore qualifies for multiple reasons.
“Marijuana ‘cools the gut,’ in which it slows down the muscle contractions that move food through the stomach and intestines and reduces the secretion of liquid into the intestines associated with diarrhea (one of the most severe symptoms of the disease),” Deno writes. “Marijuana also controls the muscle spasms associated with diarrhea. It also increases appetite and can offset the inefficiency in the Celiac’s ability to absorb nutrients from the food you eat.”
People with celiac who live in states that include chronic pain as a qualifying condition could also potentially gain legal access to medical marijuana. The rest of the country, however, is left with a choice of going to the black market for their medicine or simply avoiding the plant that may be the most effective celiac treatment of all.
MAJOR Correction: GLUTEN not Glucose
Cannabis can TREAT Celiac Disease, not cure it. You might want to look up the definition of cure next time you want to write all “sciency”, Aaron Case.
Or, you can try reading the *whole* article and read about people saying it cured them. Or, you know, full speed ahead dipshit.
The wording is still misleading. So far Celiac Disease cannot be cured, and it can give false sense of hope for people with celiacs. I should know, having my life progress stripped away essentially every 6th month, at a regular pace, for over 10 years.
They are researching new means to dampen / remove the reaction in the body. It won’t fully be cured as of yet, but it may help relief the issues which is trigged upon ingestion of the protein. There is a pill, and a vaccine in the making. Both looking promising. Maybe one day we can turn off the whole disease with DNA modification. We’re allowed to dream, right?
https://celiac.org/celiac-disease/future-therapies-celiac-disease/
Check that out!
Nice comment after reading 3 lines of the article: “After only 6 months of using cannabis, my disease was essentially non-existent,” Matthew Distefano wrote for Reset. “I was hoping for just a relief from my persistent symptoms. In addition to my endoscopy results, my anemia, protein deficiency, calcium deficiency, and iron deficiency had all vanished. Essentially, I was cured.”
Do doctors often keep this diagnosed disease from their patients?
Yes, they do. They never seem to consider it as a factor and there is no money incentive to diagnose it. It’s more profitable to go with the symptoms and try to treat those (often with brain damaging drugs) which is what they usually try to do. The average time it takes someone to figure out they have it is around 8 years.
What is the treatment now?
Funny site my first comment was liked by the site and all 3 of my questions haven’t been answered yet !
I was just diagnosed with Celiac’s last week. I am currently manifesting symptoms of MS, but they say I don’t have it. Apparently the full body imflammation and severe vitamin deficiency are my biggest concerns. I live in Colorado, but I don’t know anything about how to acquire the types of cannabis they recommend. Do I just go ask my MD for a perscription and take this to a local shop? I am supposed to be on a 100% organic diet right now so I assume that even the cannabis I use would have to be organic as well. Anyone out there have advice for me? Any help at this point in my life would be greatly appreciated.
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