Monday, September 30, 2013

Positive Anti-Gliadins After Two Years of a Gluten Free Diet & Early Central European *Farmers* mtDNA?

I don't think so! :)

My maternal haplogroup is N1a, very rare for Europe (0.2%). My ancestry is 99.8 European on a standard 23andme estimate, 100 % on a speculative estimate.  One might say I have 50,000 years old mitochondria which were transmitted to me, from mother to daughter from the proverbial European Eve.

Nice! I like to combine that with my O/O Rh- blood type and marvel at my outlandish origins! :)

But scientists also say that, since this is such a rare haplogroup, it helps them determine early migrations. They found it in the ancient LBK pottery culture, among other places, so I keep seeing it associated with the Neolithic farmers who presumably came into Europe and replaced the old Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

A not uncharacteristic huge leap of my imagination led me to ask:

How come I am gluten sensitive then? Not only mildly sensitive, but after two years of being obsessively gluten-free, my tests still show positive for Anti-Gliadin IgG! So I must be picking up minute quantities of this stuff from cross-contamination and I keep making antibodies!

This makes me think their whole story is wrong, and Dieneke is right when proposing that
"So, it is just as likely that N1a may be indigenous to central Europe and the Neolithic was associated with some of the other 18 sequences that were found in the Linear Pottery sample. Indeed, if N1a turns out to be Paleolithic, then the conclusions of their study will be completely reversed, and the great decrease in frequency of N1a would indicate an almost complete replacement of Paleolithic people by Neolithic farmers."
I think am a true hunter gatherer at heart and cereal eating was never a forte in my lineage -- we merely survived it somehow.

So here I am, being bumped out of the genetic picture by hypothyroidism and autoimmunity, possibly brought about by gluten intolerance. So farmers still kick hunter-gatherer butt and I am an example thereof. Nice job, you morons! :)

Okay, fine, you cereal fed killers! We, noble Scythians who loved our grassfed meat and whatever Mother Earth graciously offered us, shall leave this planet to you! Do your disgusting intensive agriculture and pollute it all you want, we won't be on it anymore to witness the damage!