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Cycling - Better Balance But Still Hard After Going Gluten Free

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The good part is that since going gluten free 4 months ago I've seen an incredible improvement in my ability to ride my bike. My balance is better which I'm hoping is gluten ataxia going away. Have others had this happen?

The hard part is I still get drained of energy long before I'm physically tired.

I am over 40 so I've been wondering if its age but I see nothing on the internet to suggest that's true so I'm wondering if it's the celiac. Do others have this symptom? If so has it changed over time? or with supplements?

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I've been free of gluten for a month. I still haven't gotten on my bike (it's old and crappy) but I've been going to yoga and feeling much more comfortable in my body. However, the last time I went I made it 30 mins into the session and suddenly felt completely drained of energy (I had been in the gym running for 10 minutes before the session). I do know I hadn't eaten a good breakfast that morning- just a bowl of cereal rather than eggs. I never had a balance problem so it could be true that it's the celiac diet and learning how to balance the carbs well without pasta and bread.

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With me, it wasn't age, and I'm 50. It went away slowly. Now, I went riding with someone 10 years younger with whom I'm training, and I did better than she did. It also took some fine tuning of my diet. Be patient and check your diet carefully. It is so nice to be athletic again after having no energy for many years. I have been keeping a rowing log for years and I'm doing better now than I did when I started it 20 years ago.

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I thought that a lot of my symptoms were related to aging: ridges in my fingernails, pain in my feet, soreness in my knees, and a big one - apparent infertility. When I realized I was gluten intolerant, I read that every single one of my symptoms could be traced back to that. I raised all of these symptoms with my acupuncturist and asked her if they could be from aging. She shook her head: my symptoms are not from age, but from imbalances (caused by eating gluten for so long).

Anyway, these days I get exhausted after walking a mile. Last summer, I rode my bike 50 miles in a day. I have accepted that I'm healing. (And I'm hoping that next summer, I'll be riding 60 miles in a day :)

Have fun on your bike!

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