Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Most people - and physicians - think gluten illness stops at coeliac disease and problems with the gut. That is a BIG mistake. Gluten related disorders including non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) are rife, certainly according to my clinical experience - and I must have tested at least 300 people by now for gluten reactivity. And …
For those of you with coeliac disease rather than being TrulyGlutenFree (ie. cross-reactive to other glutens in grains and dairy, see here), friend Alex's book will be a goodie for you. Check it out.
Updated free grain and dairy free supplements list
"inside the monolith of gluten avoidance lurk multiple, nuanced conditions" Elena Verdù, a gastroenterologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, president of the North American Society for the Study of Celiac Disease Love that quote! It's taken from this very long article in Science (shared by one of you on the FB group, thank you!) …
People very often imagine that all coeliac disease sufferers are the same. I can tell you from clinical practice that the symptoms in women and men do vary quite considerably. Here's a list I saw recently in an article which rather proves that point. Women may have infertility or problems with their periods as their …
Having said we would never update this TGF Master List again, Christine and I have updated it every few months and now decided to overhaul it completely! I realised it is now several years since I created the first version of this - and the research for that took me two years, so I worried …
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Excellent review for you today of mouth ulcers, what causes them and what we can do about them. I know many of you suffer with these painful mouth sores - a lot of us who have gluten related illnesses suffer with them - and I note this is indeed listed as one of the top …
Studies are coming out now about the use of more and more meat glue aka 'microbial transglutaminase' being a possible factor in gluten related disorders. I suspect it is both a cause of them and a reason why some do not heal. Are food additives causing celiac disease? Widely used 'meat glue' may be driving …
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Updated post with a bit more info... The first-line gluten test I recommend is the Cyrex Array 3, which looks for the traditional gluten proteins (gliadin, 33 mer) and the coeliac transglutaminase (Ttg2), plus importantly a lot of other markers the mainstream tests miss - and which I find come up positive a lot! In …
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As you have read in the Healing Series, I am working on the theory that chronic physical symptoms may have more to do with Pavlovian type conditioned behaviours and brain patterns repeating ad nauseum than with actual physiology gone wrong; that the problem is with the brain in some cases, not the body. I know …
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