Celiac Disease, Schizophrenia and MegaVitamins?

On the August 2009 issue of Scientific American, Alessio Fasano wrote an article that shed insights on Celiac Disease (CD).  CD is an disease due to indigestion of gluten which trigger the body to attack its own cells in certain individuals with a genetic predisposition.  Fasano argues that there maybe a significant number of people who may have a mild version of CD and goes undetected.  In such individuals, their intestine reacts to gluten and becomes inflamed.  Absorption become disrupted and malnutrition follows.  Such condition could cause a number of conditions, from anemia, osteoporosis, joint pain, to epilepsy and schizophrenia.

From a different source, Abram Hoffer et al  had been a big advocate of mega-vitamins to treat schizophrenia (in a practice proponents call orthomolecular medicine).  Many doctors had dismissed such treatment as quackery, that it does not pass double-blind trials, and that if mega-vitamins could cure schizophrenia, then there would be no need for anti-psychotic drugs like Risperidone and Haloperidole.

My speculation is that, perhaps, those that have mild Celiac Disease and suffers from malnutrition and develop schizophrenia may be the population that responds well to the mega-vitamin treatment.  Imagine every schizophrenia patient be checked for Celia Disease, and an elimination of gluten would actually cure them!  This would be especially good since many caring family member with mental illness are "forced" to dope them with medications since they often refuses to take them, claiming they are not sick.  But CD and gluten free diet would steer them into a completely non-stigmatized avenue to cure and remove the trust problem!