Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
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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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 …
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!) …
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 …
About flipping time people started looking into the fillers that we find in many meds - and even some supplements, I'd say! It is the bane of many of our lives. Researchers in the US have recently published their warnings about the potential of these fillers for causing reactions in those sensitive to them. “Inactive” …
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Ooh, we could have told them this about 6 years ago at least couldn't we? However, it is nice to see published research backing up the fact that coeliac disease is not 'just' a gastrointestinal disorder; it affects us psychologically and neurologically too. And that's to say nothing of the people who have NCGS (non …
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Fascinating studies starting to come out about different non-gluten proteins possibly being (one of) the causes or at least exacerbators of gluten related disorders. The latest suggests that ATIs (amylase-trypsin inhibitors) - the stuff we've known for yonks block effective absorption - may yet turn out to be a major cause of NCGS (non coeliac …
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It's been 6 months since my last confession (or big post in the Healing Series anyway!). At that point, we were discussing brain retraining techniques to add to our calming-amygdala strategies and I was wishing I had time to devote six months to getting better. Well, the good news is: I didn't need to... THE …
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