most hilarious wacked out theory I've heard on the Internet in AGES

[rm]

Remember yesterday when I posted that thing about the scam celiac bread?

http://thegfcfcookbook.blogspot.com/2009/12/every-celiacs-nightmare.html

Okay, now scroll down in comments until the "spy guy" starts talking about how intelligence agencies love people with celiac disease and why.

HAhahahahahaahahahah.

The Internet is so fucking WEIRD.

Comments

[marcmagus]

*snrk* WTF?

I still don't know all that much about the symptoms of celiac disease. If you don't mind, ignoring all the amazingly crazy [and, wow, his website is difficult to read], are the symptoms he's implying in any way connected to reality?

His definition of neuropathy is certainly not the same as the [ulnar] neuropathy I experience, although that could be due to lazy use of language and locality.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Because of malabsorption caused by intestinal damage, the symptoms celiac disease can cause can be quite varied, and it wouldn't surprise me if some forms of mental illness could result.

B12 deficiency can cause dementia and celiacs have problems getting enough B12. That said, I have no idea if what's meant by "dementia" in the deficiency bears any resemblance to what we're seeing here.

This guy just reads like a garden-variety crank, and it seems celiac is the least of his problems.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's relatively common for celiacs to have what some people term "gluten fog" in the sense that we feel a bit slow and stupid in a head cold (but without the sinus thing in some cases) sort of way.

So vaguely he's talking about something kinda related to symptoms, but the words are all wrong (because hey, I do have neuropathy issues too, and the thing he is talking about would not be those).

[marcmagus]

Is that similar to/the same as the "brain fog" reported by many sufferers of chronic pain and/or "fibro fog"?

I can't even conceive of the mind that can go from that to "that's kind of like hypnosis" to "that means you'll have super-memory while you're suffering it" while referring to poor short-term memory a moment later and not realize there's anything weird going on.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I suspect so. I don't have fibro, but a lot of people with celiac do, so it may in some cases quite literally be the same thing.