Re: redheads, celiac and opiates

In article <48e58be7$0$554$ec3e2dad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 katy <katysails@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Kofi wrote:
> >>> What did you do for the pain? 
> >> Took diphenhydramine and Tramadol and mostly zonked myself out...I 
> >> should also mention I have a high pain threshold..
> > 
> > Are you a redhead?  Have a redheaded parent?
> 
> I'm a brunette with heavy auburn highlights...mother brunette, father 
> black hair....I am olive skintone....

The mutation for red hair is a non-functional MC-1 mutation.  It's not 
necessarily dominant.  It prevents alpha-MSH from docking to its 
receptor (MC-1) and leaves opiates floating around longer in the blood.  
This results in greater analgesia when a burst of pain releases 
endogenous endorphins.  Redheaded women have the highests tolerance for 
pain, followed by redheaded men, followed by the rest of men, followed 
by the rest of women.  Since caesin and gluten are also processed into 
opiates when they're digested, I have a theory I wrote about a few years 
back that people who have this redheaded gene (and they wouldn't 
necessarily be pure redheads) would be more vulnerable to autoimmune 
problems revolving around gluten, caesin and other nutritional opioids 
(like rice, red meat and maybe spinach too) because the antigens would 
float around in these individuals longer before they broke down.  When 
you mentioned high tolerance to pain and a gluten problem, I played the 
probabilities and took a guess.