Really great article here on how to plan ahead and cope if you are going on hols this year or even if you are a person living or travelling abroad for work. Full of tips and experience from Catherine that will help you stay safe: Travelling with allergies Not quite so easy for TrulyGlutenFree peeps …
Cyrex Launches Array 10 Multiple Food Immunity Screen
Cyrex has launched the long-awaited Array 10 multiple food immune reactivity screen this week and I have just added it to the shop for you. It has been designed by our fave immunologist Prof. Vojdani and the difference here mainly from other food antibody tests is that it includes allergens made from cooked food rather …
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Gluten Summit Speaker Series 2: Vojdani
The next article in my Gluten Summit speaker series is now out for your delectation! Here's the last one if you missed it. This time, I have focused solely on Dr Aristo Vojdani who explained in great detail about the immmunological processes going on in gluten related disorders (GRDs). I have done my best to …
The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant
Not for the faint-hearted this article, but here is a fab piece on faecal transplants - that's transplanting poo from one person to another to you and me. Why the heck would anyone want to do that?! Well, if you have recurrent C Diff infection, or indeed some other chronic GI issues, it's becoming a …
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Baby #Probiotics For #Food Intolerance and #Coeliac Disease
I have just posted a report on the Purehealth blog here about the fact that research is starting to bear us nutritionists out that early antibiotic exposure is a probable cause of later food sensitivity: Antibiotic exposure in the first year of life is associated with an increased risk of FA [Food Allergy] and may …
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Allergy and Intolerance Terms: Clear As Mud!
I spend much of my life explaining the difference between allergy and intolerance, why proteins are not the only antigens in food but all that are recognised in mainstream allergy medicine, why gluten intolerance is different to coeliac disease, why 'freefrom' doesn't mean it's free from everything you need to avoid and to be careful, what avoiding …
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Meat String Coated in Flour!
Well I never. One of you asked a question a while ago about whether I thought you could react to the string on roasting joints. New one on me, I said, but I have looked into it. I checked with my fave meat supplier Sheepdrove Farm (100% grass fed beef and lamb, 10% off if …
The Boy Who Can’t Eat Or Smell Food
C sent me this story today which is about a little boy with eosinophilic oesophagitis who reacts to almost all foods. As sad as the actually story is, just look at the comments underneath. Admittedly, this is a Daily Mail story and the comments on that website are renowned for being pretty awful, but as …
Potentially 23K Harmful Proteins in Wheat!
Here's a shocker for you: Because wheat is a hexaploid species (doesn't that sound creepy?), the byproduct of three ancestor plants becoming one, with no less than 6 sets of chromosomes and 6.5 times more genes than found in the human genome, it is capable of producing no less than 23,788 different proteins - a fact as amazing …
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The Importance of Bacteria to Immunity and Barriers
I just read a fascinating article here about the ongoing research of the so-called ‘human microbiome’, or gut flora in other words. There is some stunning research going on in this area, in the development of probiotics and even transplanting healthy faecal matter containing bacteria, viruses, fungi and all manner of things into unhealthy people …
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