Category: Internal medicine/microbiology immunology

Cutting through the hype surrounding gluten

October 19, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

Did you know that one out of three Americans think that they are “gluten intolerant”. Of those 100 Million people, only 13 Million really have a medical problem caused by gluten.

Alessio Fasano, MD, director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, is the man who started all of the gluten hype back in 2003 with a paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Hoping to reduce some of the current “gluten hysteria,” he has written a book explaining what gluten is, who can and can’t eat it, and why. We interviewed him.

The Gluten Crazies are out of control and affecting menus in restaurants

April 26, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD

I was eating at a French restaurant recently, and the waiter asked me if I had any allergies, such as “gluten”. This greatly upset me, because the waiter was forced to asked this. Read more »

Surgical masks do work to prevent the spread of flu

Cardinal-Health-surgical-maskOctober 1, 2009- By Steven E. Greer, MD

Are billions of people around the globe foolish for wearing facemasks to protect against the flu? A portion of the mainstream media seems to believe so. They report that wearing a protective facemask is ineffective because the virus particle is so small that it passes right through. Read more »

Celiac disease is not reduced by breast feeding or delaying the introduction of gluten

October 19, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

Alessio Fasano, MD of Harvard discusses his 10-year-long study in children testing whether the delayed introduction of gluten into the diet reduced the eventual incidence of celiac disease. Dr. Fasano is most responsible for raising awareness of gluten intolerance after his 2003 NEJM and Archives of Internal Medicine papers were published.

Nortin Hadler, MD: the misleading use of relative risk statistics

Norton Hadler, MD, discusses the statistical ploy of using relative risk numbers, such as “A 30% reduction in….” rather than the more modest, clinically insignificant, absolute values.

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