Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Anything to do with living a grain and dairy free life – truly gluten free! All grains have a form of gluten and some gluten-sensitives and coeliacs cross-react to those and other foods, which scuppers their healing.
What do you do if you need help to create an Autoimmune (grain, lectin, dairy free) diet which is low GL to help balance you blood sugar and you can't have garlic, chicken or fish? What if you need someone to give you a meal plan to help you find a way to lower your …
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Never heard of MCAS? No, not many have. But boy, once you know, it explains an awful lot of chronic illness that's not responding to usual interventions! here's the A-Z factsheet on MCAS for you. I will release the full, much more extended version, in a bit when I have just finished a few more …
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Whenever I come across one of the 'syndromes' such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, IBS, I always test for gluten issues - NCGS, not just coeliac disease - and I very often find it! Even if I don't test or it doesn't show up, I will normally advise a trial off gluten, dairy and often grains. …
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Christine and I have at last finished the latest TrulyGlutenFree (grain and dairy free) Supplement Master List update for you and I have now put it on the shop here in the TGF section to download. This really takes a lot of work, so please do use the trusted supplier links and send us a …
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Yay, we have been begging suppliers for a DAO enzyme supplement that doesn't contain the usual rice flour filler and Vitamin C derived from corn. SO frustrating they put corn into a supplement needed so much by sensitive people! Anyway, now we have found a vegan source. Made from legumes, so no good if you're …
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Quote of the week for you here, which just about says it all... “Maize is used as an alternative to wheat to elaborate foodstuffs for celiac patients in a gluten-free diet. However, some maize prolamins (zeins) contain amino acid sequences that resemble the wheat gluten immunodominant peptides… analysis indicated that other zeins contain similar sequences, …
Done this for years, but it went awol for a while, I now have the gluten gene test back in stock in the UK. I was the first person in the UK to do this and I'm still not sure you can get it easily now so I had the Gluten Free Society send me …
This is a question I get asked a lot. The short answer is 2-4 months. What?!!!! Yep. Here's Dr O from the Gluten Free Society explaining it for us...and then me suggesting a strategy to help shorten that! While you may feel better after a couple days following gluten exposure, there is a lot more …
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A great pictorial reminder here for us today from Dr O at the Gluten Free Society on which grains can still give jip to people trying to get well off gluten. These grains are cross-reactive to gliadin too (ie. you eat them and your body still thinks it is gliadin and reacts the same). This …
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Research out recently - albeit from a very small sample - suggests that people on a coeliac or gluten free diet would benefit from taking prebiotics and probiotics because their microbiome is short on healthy bacteria. This is no doubt the case for most on a restricted diet mainly, as the study suggests, because of …
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