Re: redheads, celiac and opiates

Kofi wrote:
> 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.

That's interesting...I just always thought I was a syoic persoanlity 
type....