Detlef Schuppan, MD, Phd, is director of the Institute of Translational Immunology at Mainz University Medical Center in Germany. He is also Professor of Medicine at the Division of Gastroenterology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA. He had made major contributions in the fields of intestinal and liver diseases, examples are the identification of the autoantigene of celiac disease, tissue transglutaminase; discovery of wheat amylase-trypsin inhibitors as triggers of ATI-sensitivity; the new entitiy of atypical food allergies as major cause of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); key work in diagnosis and treatment of fibrotic diseases, especially liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, to name a few. He runs a lab with numerous well-funded research projects and world-wide collaborations. His outpatient clinic is unique and currently focuses on patients with complicated and often undiagnosed intestinal and liver diseases.

Kristin Gisbert-Schuppan, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst. She works in private practice and at the Institute of Translational Immunology at Mainz University Medical Center in Germany. Her research focuses on narrative and psychosomatic aspects of food-related and autoimmune diseases.

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Vorwort.- 1. Einleitung.- 2. Weizen, Gluten, ATI: Eine Einführung.- 3. Getreidebedingte Unverträglichkeiten: Einführung in die Immunologie des Darms.- 4. Zöliakie.- 5. ATI-Sensivität.- 6.: Laktose-, Fruktose- und Histamin-Intoleranz: überdiagnostiziert und von Patienten überbewertet.- 7. Klassische und atypische Nahrungsmittelallergien.- 8. Nicht immer ist es der Weizen.- 9. Innovative Versorgungsform: unsere Sprechstunde für nahrungsmittelbedingte Erkrankungen.-