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<blockquote data-quote="ann34+" data-source="post: 909235" data-attributes="member: 94348"><p>If you mean that a lot of your family has red hair, this is interesting, as when i went for celiac tests - as there is a lot of autoimmune disease in the family and i had certain symptoms - they commented on the very slight red in my hair, asked me about my family red hair history - 3 in the family had pure red hair - they then asked where that side of the family originated - East Scotland - and they said Celtic genes were thought to be linked with autoimmune disease. The tests were negative but it got me thinking - the red haired family members did not develop autoimmune diseases - but quite a lot of some of their descendants have - could this be a co-incidence, what has happened in other families with red hair?</p><p>after that i read up and came across one theory suggesting that traditionally gluten was not very common in a Scots diet, and that families moving to England due to hardship and famine many years ago - as mine did - would have changed diet and started more gluten which might be a trigger when someone had certain genes - this may by now have been discounted but i became gluten free anyway, just in case</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ann34+, post: 909235, member: 94348"] If you mean that a lot of your family has red hair, this is interesting, as when i went for celiac tests - as there is a lot of autoimmune disease in the family and i had certain symptoms - they commented on the very slight red in my hair, asked me about my family red hair history - 3 in the family had pure red hair - they then asked where that side of the family originated - East Scotland - and they said Celtic genes were thought to be linked with autoimmune disease. The tests were negative but it got me thinking - the red haired family members did not develop autoimmune diseases - but quite a lot of some of their descendants have - could this be a co-incidence, what has happened in other families with red hair? after that i read up and came across one theory suggesting that traditionally gluten was not very common in a Scots diet, and that families moving to England due to hardship and famine many years ago - as mine did - would have changed diet and started more gluten which might be a trigger when someone had certain genes - this may by now have been discounted but i became gluten free anyway, just in case [/QUOTE]
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