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Meet the Controversial MIT Scientist Who Claims She Discovered a Cause of Gluten Intolerance
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Alternet
Posted: March 25th, 2014
http://www.alternet.org/food/meet-controversial-mit-scientis...
Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at MIT. Based in the universitys Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Seneffs focus is, according to her web page, the intersection of biology and computation. In recent months, Seneff co-authored two papers proposing a connection between the herbicide glyphosate and gluten sensitivity. Ari LeVaux: How is it that, in your opinion, glyphosate causes gluten sensitivity? Stephanie Seneff: Glyphosate is being sprayed on the wheat right before the harvest. This has become a more and more common practice among farmers. Gluten usually forms cross-mesh connections between different amino acids, and glyphosate would disrupt that because it would prevent the cross-mesh by binding to the gluten and causing the gluten to stay in the form that is known to be more allergenic. So we believe glyphosate causes the gluten to assume the form that is more allergenic. ALV: You think this applies to both Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity? SS: Gluten sensitivity [shares] features with Celiac disease, but its not as extreme. Other pathologies that are associated with [gluten sensitivity] that co-occur with Celiac disease could be explained through other ways that glyphosate disrupts physiology.
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