Traditional medicine has determined that interferon should be a treatment for many with hepatitis C and MS. I could not more vigorously disagree, and I recommend to all my patients that we wean them off of these prescriptions.

Is interferon natural? Absolutely. Then what is the problem? Well, the problem is huge. When one forces a natural substance on the body to levels in which it has no ability to modify through normal feedback mechanisms, serious complications can and do result. I have certainly witnessed this in many patients who were prescribed interferon.

This Lancet report highlights yet another potential complication of interferon - precipitation of celiac disease.

Most of us should not be on wheat or gluten (wheat, barley, rye, oats and spelt) anyway, but it appears there is a particular problem if you are on interferon.

It is my experience that the majority of people have "preclinical" celiac disease. That is, they are eating wheat and it is causing damage to the lining of their gut and also causing immune dysfunction, but the symptoms are below the threshold of appreciation.

They can go for many years or even decades before they finally get up and shout as the full blown disease develops.

So the take home message is to find a qualified clinician who understands the root cause of disease so you can avoid taking potentially dangerous prescription drugs which have a great risk of causing more harm than good.

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