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Problem is that gluten is used everywhere in the food industry. Also, wheat varieties are engineered to output a lot of it. So at some point our body says "no m

by jojo2000 6y ago

Problem is that gluten is used everywhere in the food industry. Also, wheat varieties are engineered to output a lot of it. So at some point our body says "no more". As soon as you stop eating what's bad for you, your body is going to forget that it once tolerated what is not tolerable. So it's a one-way street. Once you stop you can't go back. I feel indeed much much better since I stopped gluten and milk-based stuff. But yes, it becomes a social problem as friends don't understand and in some countries, restaurants just don't give a sh*t and blatantly lie when they don't know, it's not fun to spend the evening with a distressed belly after eating what's wrong for your body.

Shorel 6y ago
It is the same with legumes (avoided in a paleo diet). The moment you eat them again, the symptoms are quite unpleasant.
Frondo 6y ago
I went pretty strictly gluten-free for a number of years, and it was a really good thing for my general feeling of health. No celiac diagnosis, but just experimentally trying it out I felt like I'd reverse-aged 10 years within a week of cutting out all wheat products (more energy, easier time waking up, no bloating, happier bathroom visits, etc.) No real other diet change, mind you, I'd still eat fried foods, junk food, whatever. What was really unusual about this was, a year ago I tried the keto diet (very low carbs), strictly for several months, also to see how I'd feel. It was too hard to keep up, but after doing it for several months, it seems to have "reset" my digestive system, to where I can handle wheat again without any ill effects. No idea how or why, but at least if I start to feel like my digestion is shitty again I know I can just cut out wheat pretty easily.
- tharkun__ 6y ago
  This. I don't think I have celiac but I have issues with histamine. Went on Keto and probiotics (Bacillus subtilis being in the mix doing the trick for me). I was very lethargic and I couldn't drink alcohol, no alcohol free beer either and certain foods wouldn't work either. Eating left over lasagna 2 days in a row? Migraine! The kind where you just wanna throw up. With the probiotics and keto I can tolerate a few beers though I just don't do it any longer because it still throws my digestive system off if I have too much. But alcohol in geberal is no longer a problem. No migraines (sure if I just drink too much I get a hangover like everyone else but I no longer get a whole day migraine from having one 333ml bottle of alcohol free beer). I no longer do keto (did the real 20g of carbs max per day for over a half year). Doctor checked for ketones and I was definitely in ketosis and all of my blood markers that were off went into normal. Except for total cholesterol but even that improved. I mean get this I was on the max dose of statins before keto without any significant improvement. With keto, (e.g. smoked salmon with mayonnaise and a boiled egg makes a meal) even my cholesterol improved and I didn't even take any statins any longer. Our regular western diet is just totally effed up. We use spelt flower for everything now and I can eat that and I looooove my home made pulled pork. It's quite easy to keep up keto when there's no sugar in the house I find but since the family still craves it, I sneak in way too much of it into my diet. But I still try to keep carbs to a max of ~75g. And I can tell you, being able to have a nice scotch again without regretting it for the next two days is awesome!

Shorel 6y ago

It is the same with legumes (avoided in a paleo diet). The moment you eat them again, the symptoms are quite unpleasant.

Frondo 6y ago

I went pretty strictly gluten-free for a number of years, and it was a really good thing for my general feeling of health. No celiac diagnosis, but just experimentally trying it out I felt like I'd reverse-aged 10 years within a week of cutting out all wheat products (more energy, easier time waking up, no bloating, happier bathroom visits, etc.) No real other diet change, mind you, I'd still eat fried foods, junk food, whatever. What was really unusual about this was, a year ago I tried the keto diet (very low carbs), strictly for several months, also to see how I'd feel. It was too hard to keep up, but after doing it for several months, it seems to have "reset" my digestive system, to where I can handle wheat again without any ill effects. No idea how or why, but at least if I start to feel like my digestion is shitty again I know I can just cut out wheat pretty easily.

tharkun__ 6y ago
This. I don't think I have celiac but I have issues with histamine. Went on Keto and probiotics (Bacillus subtilis being in the mix doing the trick for me). I was very lethargic and I couldn't drink alcohol, no alcohol free beer either and certain foods wouldn't work either. Eating left over lasagna 2 days in a row? Migraine! The kind where you just wanna throw up. With the probiotics and keto I can tolerate a few beers though I just don't do it any longer because it still throws my digestive system off if I have too much. But alcohol in geberal is no longer a problem. No migraines (sure if I just drink too much I get a hangover like everyone else but I no longer get a whole day migraine from having one 333ml bottle of alcohol free beer). I no longer do keto (did the real 20g of carbs max per day for over a half year). Doctor checked for ketones and I was definitely in ketosis and all of my blood markers that were off went into normal. Except for total cholesterol but even that improved. I mean get this I was on the max dose of statins before keto without any significant improvement. With keto, (e.g. smoked salmon with mayonnaise and a boiled egg makes a meal) even my cholesterol improved and I didn't even take any statins any longer. Our regular western diet is just totally effed up. We use spelt flower for everything now and I can eat that and I looooove my home made pulled pork. It's quite easy to keep up keto when there's no sugar in the house I find but since the family still craves it, I sneak in way too much of it into my diet. But I still try to keep carbs to a max of ~75g. And I can tell you, being able to have a nice scotch again without regretting it for the next two days is awesome!