Aretaeus Cappadocia
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I was diagnosed with celiac in 2025. I was not aware of symptoms but got tested because my child was suffering symptoms and was diagnosed in 2024. So, I was surprised when I started "feeling better" 5 days after starting my gluten-free diet.
Like many celiacs, I struggle to maintain a healthy and safe diet - gluten free, nutritionally balanced, high fiber, low salt, etc. I've embraced cooking gluten-free foods from scratch. My linked IG account currently is for following people who wrote a gluten-free recipe that I tried and liked.
I'm a private, nerdy person so I use a username (the person credited as first to record a description of Celiac). I have a Ph.D. in Biology and experience in biotech R&D, clinical development, and business. Companies I've worked for have been involved with infectious disease, cancer, autoimmunity, vaccines, and DNA/RNA analysis. Before retiring, the first half of my career I worked as a scientist and the second half in business development.
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Oldturdle reacted to a comment:
New Study Reveals High Risk of Digestive Cancers in Patients with Celiac Disease
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Scott Adams reacted to a post in a topic:
is Kirkland Imported French Brie gluten free?
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Agree with everything your wrote. Just to clarify my earlier comment, I was specifically focusing on cross-contamination risk, as opposed to identified, obfuscated, or occult ingredients. I've noticed that Costco does like many other manufacturers and errs on the side of caution by putting the major allergen exposure label on products that are actually...
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Scott Adams reacted to a post in a topic:
is Kirkland Imported French Brie gluten free?
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As a more generalized response to your question, I've been contacting Costco customer service for several Kirkland products because they are either unlabeled or contain the generic warning label about being packaged in a facility that handles all major food allergens. Each time I ask, my question is assigned to a specific person who researches it and...
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Aretaeus Cappadocia reacted to an article:
The Gluten-Free Diet 101 - A Beginner's Guide to Going Gluten-Free
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RobinGroenevelt and Scott Adams, Thank you for your comments but I think your responses don't address my question. I am curious about the extent of diet compliance in the large meta study and whether they did subgroup analysis by diet. This retrospective study found evidence of increased risk of cancer and other co-morbidities in their Celiac cohort...
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Aretaeus Cappadocia reacted to a post in a topic:
Increasing symptoms after going gluten free
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I read your summary here, as well as the article that you linked. I don't see any reference to the diet of the exposed or control groups. Did the subjects adhere to gluten-free diet after their celiac disease diagnosis? Were there subgroups that adhered and ones that didn't? For this study, did diet impact the odds ratio for the various conditions that were...
