Should I Not Eat These?

[whattodo]

I have seen a lot of people in this site who do not have the following:

Soy

Yeast

Corn

If i am going to follow a gluten free diet should i not eat these?

[tarnalberry]

those items are gluten free, and you can have them on the gluten-free diet. some people find that they have other intolerances (many of of, for instance, find that we are intolerant of dairy as well), and that is why you'll see those, for the most part.

(soy... soy is an issue that I won't get into. some people think that it's awful for everyone. some people think that it's great for almost everyone. and lots of people fall between the two ends of the spectrum. you can google the whole story/saga/debate for yourself if you like. it's outside the scope of whether something is gluten free or not, however.)

[Lisa]

Jason,

I would just stick to the gluten free diet for now. That's hard enough to figure out by itself.

[hathor]

If you still have symptoms upon going gluten free for a period of time, I would first eliminate casein if I were you. That seems to be the most common other intolerance.

I wouldn't eliminate things unless you don't yet feel optimal & want to experiment. In that case, you would either eliminate one thing at a time and see if there is a response, or eliminate everything for a couple weeks then challenge things one food at a time for a couple days.

Or you can get tested. I suspected problems with casein & egg, and I was right. I had antibodies even though I largely avoided them (because I always seemed to feel bad with any measureable amount of either one). Thrown in with the egg test was soy & yeast and I was surprised to find a response to those. I never noticed a reaction. Eliminating soy I did see some positive reaction in things I didn't suspect were diet related. As for yeast, I haven't noticed anything. My test score is also right at the edge. My husband thinks I don't have to avoid it.

I've seen nothing about any other foods, but I did see a study that says that about half of celiacs also test positive for yeast antibodies (this isn't a Candida infection -- that is entirely different -- some folks avoid yeast and other foods to deal with such an infection). After a year on a gluten-free diet, some, but not all, no longer had those antibodies.

I think I'm going to go six months to a year without yeast & then add it back in and see if I see any changes.

I don't know about corn or anything else. Enterolab doesn't test for that. I noticed a soy sort of reaction from a gluten-free pasta containing lupin flour (another kind of legume). I've been having more peanuts and tree nuts recently to avoid losing any more weight and I'm seeing the soy reaction, too. So I'm going off them for a bit and see if the reaction goes away.

Maybe a leaky gut has caused me to get these other intolerances and they will clear up.