Celiac.com 11/08/2019 - On a cold winter day, nothing will warm you up quicker than sipping a hot bowl of soup.  Served with a side salad or a half sandwich, you can make a meal out of soup.
For generations, mothers and grandmothers have fed chicken soup to family members suffering from colds because of its alleged healing powers… or are the healing powers in soup actually based in fact?  
Dr. Stephen Rennard, MD, is a scientist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.  He decided to check out his wife’s homemade chicken soup.  He was surprised to find that the broth, when added to white blood cells, “…slows the neutrophils”… or in our language, it clears a stuffy nose by lessening the amount of inflammation in the nasal passages.  The amino acid in chicken is similar to th...

Celiac.com 05/08/2020 - Can someone with celiac disease really heal?
This is sort of how I see the villi of someone with Celiac disease - flattened with big gaps between.
I missed this one, but in November 2019, there were some results from the Nexvax study involving endoscopic biopsies. It confirms what we already knew - blood tests and biopsy results are unrelated and celiac patients are sicker that they should be.
The study lists that 93 patients underwent endoscopic biopsies as part of their participation in the Nexvax2 clinical trial. Only SIX patients had Marsh 0 or 1 damage. Marsh 0 or 1 damage is considered normal. Thirty had Marsh 2 damage and fifty-six were Marsh 3a or 3b. The good news is that some people had complete healing. But out of 93 patients, 86...

Celiac.com 10/28/2020 - Eating that Thanksgiving turkey and taking probiotics may promote gut healing and improve gluten-free diet response in people with celiac disease.
A research team at Canada's McMaster University has found that tryptophan, an amino acid found in high concentrations in turkey meat, along with some probiotics, may help celiacs heal faster, and respond better to a gluten-free diet.
The researchers included Bruno Lamas, Leticia Hernandez-Galan, Heather J. Galipeau, Marco Constante, Alexandra Clarizio, Jennifer Jury, Natalia M. Breyner, Alberto Caminero, Gaston Rueda, Christina L. Hayes, Justin L. McCarville, Miriam Bermudez Brito, Julien Planchais, Nathalie Rolhion, Joseph A. Murray, Philippe Langella, Linda M. P. Loonen, Jerry M. Wells, Premysl Bercik,...

Celiac.com 03/09/2023 - After nearly a year on a gluten-free diet, I now look back at my recovery to evaluate its success—the severe joint pain, muscle weakness, bone pain, fatigue, abdominal bloating, steatorrhea, and weight loss plagued me until my treatment commenced in earnest. Much of the extra-intestinal symptoms resolved within the first few months. However, the intestinal and stomach symptoms have taken much longer, and my weight loss recovery is ongoing. The road to recovery has been long and arduous. Many of us experience an array of residual and persistent symptoms even with the complete removal of gluten from our diets.
Intestinal Absorption
Traditionally, response to a gluten-free diet has been assessed by blood antibody tests and biopsies. It has long been k...