Gluten-free or Not, Celiacs Suffer More Sleep Disorders

Thanks so much for your persistent investigative journalism on celiac disease, Jefferson!! You are like a one man renaissance of information infiltrating the dark ages of current understanding of celiac.

When I first found out that my son and I have celiac, I was relieved. I thought that not eating gluten would solve all our problems. As it has turned out, it's helped both of us a little but our quest for good physical and mental health goes on and on. Obviously, medical science's current view of celiac does not take in the whole picture of what is really going on. I suspect that by the time celiac is developed, patients have so much disbiosis of intestinal flora and mucosa that it really has to be addressed holistically rather than just focusing on avoidance of gluten. I think we need to ask what triggers the celiac gene to awaken? Could it be yeast overgrowth and/or heavy metal toxicity? How common is it for those with celiac to have yeast overgrowth and/or heavy metal toxicity? Why do these conditions go together? Which causes which? Was there a preexisting instigator to all of them--perhaps stress or an environmental exposure or eating the wrong food (new studies show that a component of mother's milk known to be indigestible to human has been found to feed a particular strain of probiotics in the guts of infants; the purpose of this probiotic is to line the gut and prevent bad bacteria, funguses and viruses from attaching to the intestinal walls--a powerful clue!).

Since I'm reading this article at 4:30 a.m., and I have no reason to be awake at this hour, it sure feels like there's something to this!

Thanks so much for your persistent investigative journalism on celiac disease, Jefferson!! You are like a one man renaissance of information infiltrating the dark ages of current understanding of celiac.

 

When I first found out that my son and I have celiac, I was relieved. I thought that not eating gluten would solve all our problems. As it has turned out, it's helped both of us a little but our quest for good physical and mental health goes on and on. Obviously, medical science's current view of celiac does not take in the whole picture of what is really going on. I suspect that by the time celiac is developed, patients have so much disbiosis of intestinal flora and mucosa that it really has to be addressed holistically rather than just focusing on avoidance of gluten. I think we need to ask what triggers the celiac gene to awaken? Could it be yeast overgrowth and/or heavy metal toxicity? How common is it for those with celiac to have yeast overgrowth and/or heavy metal toxicity? Why do these conditions go together? Which causes which? Was there a preexisting instigator to all of them--perhaps stress or an environmental exposure or eating the wrong food (new studies show that a component of mother's milk known to be indigestible to human has been found to feed a particular strain of probiotics in the guts of infants; the purpose of this probiotic is to line the gut and prevent bad bacteria, funguses and viruses from attaching to the intestinal walls--a powerful clue!).

I have celiac and get about 2 hours of rest, then awake and cannot sleep.

I would like to see more information on celiac with narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea. Thank you.

My partner has celiac disease and hypothyroidism and suffers from a lack of sleep. She often gets no more than an hour of sleep a night and frequently no more than three or four hours per night. She takes thyroxin tablets and has been on a gluten-free diet for 3 years now. I hear that it can take as much as 2 or 3 years for the villi in the lower intestine to repair and get back to normal. I also hear that it is the lower intestine that absorbs Vitamin B12, which is somehow part of the thyroxin treatment. This suggests to me that her fatigue could be being caused the damaged villi not absorbing enough B12 and iron, seen as low in her blood tests. Is this just adding 2+2 to get 5 or could this be a valid reason for the tiredness?