Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
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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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, …
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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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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Just a reminder here that gluten sensitivity symptoms do not just occur in the gut. In fact, you probably do have gut involvement, but you are also likely to have: Neurological symptoms - headaches, migraine, anxiety, depression, restless legs, twitching, brain frog, as I call it. Actually, many gluten experts now think of it as …
Christine and I have worked really hard recently on this free - FREE!!! - grain and dairy free supplements/meds etc master list. I think this is the biggest update we've done for a year. It's our gift to the sensitives among us. This time, we've added: Loads of new TGF safe and NOT TGF safe …
Yep. I confess I'm mad as heck, at the end of my tether, spitting feathers-angry just at the moment. Sometimes you have times like that with a chronic illness, don't you? Well, I do. Why do I - and so many of us - have to be so ruddy sensitive to stuff all the time? …
If any of you are taking the Allergy Research Group Multi-vi-Min, you may have noticed that it has been out of stock everywhere lately. The reason for this, is because they have reformulated it. We have just discovered that the new formulation now contains Vitamin C from corn fermentation. It's only a small amount and …
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Just added 4 new recipes for you on the Pinterest boards. Including a stuffing, an idea for a sweet potato hash, honey biscuits and a tiger nut flour no-bake pastry case. I'm seeing a lot more using tiger nut flour now - a useful alternative for us. Enjoy!