Dr. Tom O'Bryan has organized an on-line, free, gluten summit with 29 experts from around the world beginning Monday, November 11, 2013, and ending on Monday, November 18.

They are attempting to inform doctors and citizens alike of the dangers of gluten in relation to many health problems. You can get more information at www.theglutensummit.com.

It is necessary to register on line for this summit, but there is no cost involved. I am not connected in any way to the people putting on this event.

I'd be most interested in what Dr. Fasano and what Professor Hadjivassiliou have to say. We've discussed their research at length on Neurotalk, and for anyone interested in some depth on that subject, I highly recommend a session with JCC's The Gluten File (which can be linked to through the celiac/gluten section here).

The first series is online now. Was able to listen to three of them.

Professor Hadjivassiliou was interviewed today and talked about gluten and ataxia. I think I may have that myself, and here I was thinking my hesitency when I walk or climb stairs was because of my knee replacement.

It was too bad that the audio phone signal was not very good on the recording--between that and the good doctor's accent I had to listen to a number of parts a few times to figure out what he was saying.

Dr. H was for a long time considered an "out there" maverick for claiming that for many gluten problems took the form of neurological problems rather than gastrointestinal ones, and that such neurological presenters often had a distinct genetic immunological profile. As more and more research has been done, notably in the US and Italy, though, a lot of his ideas seem to be being borne out (one is reminded to peruse JCCglutenfree's The Gluten File for a lot of the links to papers/studies on this).

I had a hard time understanding him too. It did help that Dr. O'Bryan sorta summarized at the end of the topic. I did note that he said it takes a whole year of going gluten free for elevated anti-bodies to disappear. I don't think people want to give the GF diet that much time to work.

Dr. David Perlmutter, neurologist and author of a new book, "Grain Brain," said during an interview on the Gluten Summit that gluten sensitivity can cause tremors. I'm not sure how to pull that thread that was started the first few days in November up to the front or I would just add this to it.

Since the protein in gluten has the ability to breach the blood/brain barrier, I'm sure it can cause tremors, as well as ataxia (loss of balance), and many other neurological disorders. Several researchers are now adding dementia to the list.