Gluten Intolerance, Sensitivity, & Gluten- Free Diets. Who really needs to go on a gluten- free diet? You do if you have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity, a condition that doctors once dismissed but now recognize as legitimate. So says Stefano Guandalini, MD, director of the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center. Before you go gluten- free, there's something you should do first. Get Tested for Celiac Disease. If you've noticed that you react badly to gluten - - with symptoms like diarrhea, stomach upset, abdominal pain, and bloating - - see a doctor to get tested for celiac disease. Do that before you start any gluten- free diet. If you have celiac disease and you eat gluten, the lining of your small intestine becomes inflamed and gets damaged, making it harder for your body to absorb nutrients.
That can lead to malnutrition and weight loss. Getting diagnosed involves taking a blood test. Depending on the results, you would also get an intestinal biopsy. By the time you get tested, your immune system might not be making the antibodies that the test checks for. If you don't do the test and begin the diet, your antibodies slowly but progressively decrease and become normal within 3 to 6 months. There's no accepted medical test for gluten sensitivity, so you should tell your doctor about your symptoms. It's not necessarily healthy. It has to be done properly. Read the label to check on carbs, fat, sodium, and fiber. You might also try gluten- free baking at home, using grains that are certified to be gluten- free, such as quinoa, amaranth, or millet. Sources. SOURCES: Stefano Guandalini, MD, director, University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center. Melinda Dennis, RD, LDN, nutrition coordinator, the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; co- author, Real Life with Celiac Disease, AGA Press, 2. Read about the various New Lifestyle Diet weight loss plan and diet program success stories. Gluten-free diet may increase risk of arsenic, mercury exposure Date: February 13, 2017 Source: University of Illinois at Chicago Summary: People who eat a gluten. Sapone, A. BMC Medicine, 2. All rights reserved. Why Gluten- Free Isn’t Working (and What to Do Instead)I was ready to give up hope. A few weeks after the procedure, I got a pamphlet in the mail from her called, “Living Gluten- Free,” with a hand- written note that said: “Jordan, Tests showed you have Celiac disease. Follow a Gluten- Free Diet and you’ll be just fine.”Ummm, what? What’s Celiac disease and what’s gluten?!? How could gluten be causing all these problems in my life? I’ll really be just fine if I change my diet? I can’t help but wonder how many people around the world get the same prescription I did. Some call it Gluten Free. Because of a very important reason – a reason that almost killed me. The Celiac Disease Diet Isn’t Working (and Is Making Celiacs Sicker)It’s widely accepted that the first step in treating Celiac disease is removing gluten from the diet with 1. In fact, this is the treatment plan copied right from the National Library of Medicine and typical of most doctor- patient conversations after a diagnosis: . However, your symptoms will go away and the villi in the lining of the intestines will heal if you follow a lifelong gluten- free diet. Do not eat foods, beverages, and medications that contain wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats. You must read food and medication labels carefully to look for hidden sources of these grains and ingredients related to them. Because wheat and barley grains are common in the American diet, sticking with this diet is challenging. With education and planning, you will heal. While removing gluten exposure is critical to the treatment of the disease. It’s just part of it. The danger lies in the promise that people with Celiac disease, who follow a strict gluten- free diet for life, will fully heal. When I followed a strict Gluten- Free diet for 2 years, believing I would be “just fine” and STILL had diarrhea 5- 1. I came face- to- face with insanity. In fact, things got a little scary when I was absolutely convinced I was getting “gluten contamination” from everything (like the dishwasher, cooking pans, silverware, water, air, kissing, breathing, whatever). It reached the lowest point when I thought I couldn’t eat anywhere but my own kitchen without getting “glutened.” But the reality is: it wasn’t gluten contamination at all. The Celiac Disease Diet wasn’t working for me. Here’s a recent study that paints a much darker picture of the Gluten- Free Diet’s success rate. Only 8% of Adult Patients Healed on a Gluten- Free Diet. The authors stated: “Complete normalization of duodenal lesions is exceptionally rare in adult coeliac patients despite adherence to GFD.”. The success rate of the conventional Celiac disease prescription isn’t working. The authors found small intestine mucosal recovery occurred in only 3. They concluded: “Mucosal recovery was absent in a substantial portion of adults with CD after treatment with a GFD.” . But that’s only scratching the surface of what’s going on. Why is that important? We know gut inflammation is associated with a laundry list of health issues, including cancer and early death. That’s bad news for the conventional Celiac prescription and even worse news for the people not getting better on a gluten- free diet. Want more evidence gluten- free doesn’t put the fire out? A 2. 00. 8 study, in the Journal of Inflammation, looked at 1. Celiac disease (SFCD) patients and found they still had elevated markers of gut inflammation even after 2 years on a gluten- free diet. The authors reported: “Faeces of both active CD and SFCD (symptom- free 1- 2 years on a GFD) patients, representing an imbalanced microbiota, significantly increased TNF- alpha production and CD8. PBMCs, while decreased IL- 1. CD4 expression compared with control samples.”. The authors found an increased presence of T cells (inflammatory marker) in well- treated CD patients: “The long- lasting presence of high frequencies of T cells in the epithelial compartment in well- treated CD indicates that the epithelium is stressed possibly because of constant attack.” . These asymptomatic adults and kids still had inflammatory fires raging in their gut? Does the body just need more time to heal and get back to normal? Have Poor Vitamin Status After 1. Years Gluten- Free. A 2. 00. 2 study, in the Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics Journal, looked at the vitamin status of 3. Celiac disease showing “biopsy- proven remission,” after following a gluten- free diet for 8- 1. They found that 5. The authors concluded that: “It is generally assumed that coeliac patients adhering to a strict gluten- free diet for years will consume a diet that is nutritionally adequate. This is supported by the demonstration of a normal bone mineral density up to 1. Our results may indicate otherwise. We found signs indicative of a poor vitamin status in 5. It’s no wonder we have a 7. X increased risk for lymphoma. And later, about how fixing leaky gut is absolutely essential to reversing the damage from Celiac disease. But research shows that they still have elevated levels of zonulin compared to non- Celiacs. And when the zonulin levels are still high. This suggests that something besides gluten may be causing zonulin production in Celiacs. Chris also pointed out the same study looked at Leaky Gut in Celiac disease patients following a gluten- free diet for more than two years. TEER is an estimation of the leakiness of the gut, where a lower value indicates a greater level of leakiness or permeability. They found that tissues taken from controls who had been eating gluten had three- fold less leakiness compared to Celiacs who had been off gluten for over two years. This, again, suggests that something besides gluten may be contributing to leaky gut in people with Celiac disease. So, in summary, Chris pointed out: Celiacs produce 3. Celiacs, even though the celiacs had been off gluten for over two years! Intestinal tissues taken from controls who had been eating gluten had three- fold less leakiness compared to Celiacs who had been off gluten for over two years (so Celiacs had a much leakier gut, even while eating gluten- free). But the evidence doesn’t stop there. They found these patients following a gluten- free diet still had a much leakier gut compared to healthy controls eating gluten (0. P = 0. 0. 01). The authors concluded: “This means that, at some time, complete recovery of intestinal villous may not have occurred and an inflammatory process may have persisted.” ! All this research shows that removing gluten alone doesn’t heal Celiac disease. In fact, the evidence suggests that in many cases, leaky gut and inflammation remain high for years on the conventional Celiac Disease Diet. This spells bad news for anyone with Celiac disease relying on removing gluten as the only treatment protocol. In fact, one of the largest cohort studies on Celiac disease patients and mortality, published in the Journal of The American Medical Association, found that: Those with Celiac disease (villous atrophy) had a 2. But the authors didn’t stop there. Remember the two studies on “well- treated” (asymptomatic) patients that still had inflammation? The authors found: Those with intestinal inflammation (and not villous atrophy) had a 4. In other words, if you’re a symptom- free Celiac and your labs show signs of gut inflammation. That’s part of the reason I fought for my diagnosis, why I pressed my doctors to get the tests I wanted, and why I followed my Gluten- Free prescription with the strictest adherence. Yet I still suffered from life threatening symptoms. So much so that I wrote my first will at the age of 2. I didn’t think I’d live much longer unless they miraculously figured out what else was wrong with me. Then, I got lucky and found a new doctor with new ideas about what it meant to treat Celiac disease – a new doctor that finally helped me stop my diarrhea for the first time in 6 years. I’m one of the majority. I needed to do more to treat my Celiac disease. How to Tell if The Celiac Disease Diet Isn’t Working for You. If you have Celiac disease and you’re following a conventional Gluten- Free Diet. Many people even see a disappearance of random symptoms after they go gluten free. However, if you have Celiac disease, and any of the these symptoms are still present. It might be providing some relief, but it’s not healing the underlying damage in your gut. Following a gluten- free diet is a requirement for treating this autoimmune condition. That means the gluten- free diet isn’t enough to treat Celiac disease patients and anyone using it as the only protocol is at risk for dying much sooner than they should. There needs to be more. The real solution is fixing leaky gut. Reversing Leaky Gut is a critical step in reversing Celiac disease. That’s ground zero. How long your body has been waging war on its own tissue will determine what “reverse” means to you. If RA goes too far, permanent joint damage can occur. In autoimmune thyroid diseases, the thyroid tissue may be beyond repair. But what if you could stop it before it even got to that point. I know, because I’ve been there, too. Celiac disease almost killed me. But what if there was a way to turn off Celiac disease that ACTUALLY worked? What if there was a way to calm down your immune system and allow it to begin to repair the damage? Based on the work of Dr. Alessio Fasano, one of the first places to start is your gut. I hope you join us for the webinar to learn more about how I turned off my autoimmune response and restored my health. I’m so grateful to support you in health.- Jordan. P. S. He was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2. Since then, he transformed his health using the SCD Diet and started SCDLifestyle.
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