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    PhD Biochemist with 40 year career developing therapies for cancer, autoimmune diseases and infectious diseases. Passionate about good food, good health, and building supportive communities.

    We built our website to provide well-researched information about restaurants, recipes, and the latest research on celiac disease and gluten sensitivity.

    My wife and I decided that there needed to be an antidote to the fluff and misinformation that is so often found on the internet.

    Avid cooks, we recently branched out to create a series of gluten-free cookbooks.
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Food safety and nutrition advocate—helping people make informed decisions about their health.

 

PhD Biochemist with 40 year career in molecular biology and pharmaceutical R&D. Experience in autoimmune diseases, allergy and cancer.

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  1. U Gluten Free
    Totally agree with LauraTX.
  2. U Gluten Free
    @seeking2012 — Heavy metal poisoning is increasingly rare. Decades ago, lead in paint and gasoline were a major issue. Unless you have a particular reason to think you have been exposed, I suspect that your CFS has some other cause. Some "alternative" practitioners try to promote the myth that this is common, but I recommend that you work with a qualified p...
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    kareng — I agree that it's important not to over-sell the potential here. However, since a large number of celiacs heal slowly (or not at all)—possibly because of the effects of trace gluten contamination—I think it would be great to have a pill that could take care of this problem.
  4. U Gluten Free
    Fascinating topic, Scott, and conceivably important as one factor in the increase in adult celiac disease prevalence that has been seen over the past decades.
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    Hi nvsmom, Do you have any more information about this? I haven't come across this idea before—I try to stay up to date with the research, but this is unfamiliar.
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    GottaSki, I don't claim to be a clinician, and just rely on the published literature and information from celiac disease resource websites. However, it's well known that clinical guidelines are just guidelines. Physicians will use more or less diagnostic resources depending on several factors: particular case, personal preferences, ability to pay for tests...
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    Hi gottaski, Hi mushroom, The guidelines for diagnosis have continued to be refined over the years. No doubt, individual physicians will use their discretion regarding what approaches to use in their diagnosis, and antibody tests are just part of the picture. However, as far as i can tell, serology to measure levels of anti-gliadin antibodies is no...
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    The FDA has stated that there is no validated test for gluten in "hydrolyzed foods" (such as sourdough bread or barley based beer). When I last checked, the Tobacco Tax Bureau had ruled that no beer based on barley can be labelled as gluten-free in the US. The technologies that some breweries are trying are exciting, but unproven. I can give more detail...
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    It is fairly common for a person with one autoimmune disease to also have another. This increased susceptibility is probably genetic. There is no evidence that one causes the other—in other words, gluten has not been shown to be a trigger for other autoimmune diseases, other than celiac disease.
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    The body produces large amounts of IgA antibodies, and these are thought to provide a protective "coating" to the intestine. Antibodies to different foods and microorganisms are common. There is no evidence that the presence of anti-gluten IgA antibodies is important in celiac disease or gluten sensitivity.
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    Gemini, can you share some details? I have not found any published research of any test that is effective for testing compliance with a GFD. Such a test would be a huge step forward, since many people continue to have symptoms even after going on a GFD: nutritional counseling can help, but an actual diagnostic would be great.
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    Physical symptoms are a poor indication of what is actually happening in the intestine. Even people on a strict gluten-free diet can have damage that persists for a long time, even years. While this forum is not intended to provide medical advice, everthing I have read would indicate that if you have had a positive diagnosis you should be avoiding even traces...
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    Leaky gut syndrome is not a recognized medical condition and should not be confused with celiac disease. A number of diseases and infections can increase gut permeability, including celiac disease, but the importance of this change in permeability is not clear. Much less is known about non-celiac gluten sensitivity, but early research suggests that this condition...
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    There is no validated test for (non-celiac) gluten sensitivity.
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    While we are all sympathetic to your situation, it's important to stress that interpretation of test results should be between you and your Dr., not by a public group of well-wishers. The tests that "mushroom" mentioned are presumably FDA-approved, but I personally question relying on over-the-counter self-diagnosis with unapproved tests.
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