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I know people who refuse to eat gluten even though no doctor told them to avoid it.
edit for clarity
I don't eat gluten because it provokes my auto immune disorder and makes my psoriasis bloom.
25 years of doctors telling me that diet cannot influence the condition(s) while prescribing progressively more intense medications. They would sarcastically smirk when I asked... Ohohoho silly patient why would you ask such a dumb question. Not just GPs but Dermatologists too.
I found out by accident when I taught myself to cook and accidentally cut out wheat and barley.
Lots of people are intolerant but don't realize. Many people realize and cut it out of their lives, then have to deal with the sarcasm/cynicism/ignorance of others.
Yes we agree.
My psoriasis has gone from looking like my joints/hands were covered in dried stucco to being baby smooth.
If I eat wheat (barley flour seems to be the worst for me actually) the psoriasis will return almost immediately.
I saw my Dermatologist who delightfully concluded the IR treatments were working. I had to break her heart and tell her its was the gluten all along. She was crestfallen and sputtered some crappy self-soothing remark like "oh I guess everyone's different". My non-verbalized thought was "you call yourself a dermatologist and you're apparently unaware that diet can influence autoimmune disorders".
As much as I have spent way too much of my life becoming educated in this area, I'm not actually sure everybody has a definable trigger. After all, it is an autoimmune disorder. I guess I just found out that I'm one of the lucky ones that has figured out what provokes mine.
For anybody that has suffered, also be aware that a universal trigger for psoriasis sufferers is anything with blue/purple dye. They are safe for external use, but psoriasis is broken skin which makes it introduce directly into the bloodstream, and the number one side effect of those dyes is eczema, psoriasis, and dry skin.
E: I have come to believe without evidence to back it up that dyes are actually a major contributor to the general belief that lip balms are "addictive".
Actual doctors do continuing medical education all the time.
https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/keep-current
Now is it gluten or is it another component of wheat?
And do you experience classic celiac symptoms?
Really who can say. But wheat, barley and rye all provoke the psoriasis to bloom so it makes the most sense to assume it's the gluten. It could be something else that is common to all 3, but that seems to be a stretch when the most obvious explanation makes the most sense.
No I don't get celiac symptoms - since I don't have celiac disease. Curiously wheat makes the psoriasis bloom, barley does as well but moreso gives me acid reflux immediately after ingestion.
Wheat, barley and rye are pretty closely related, from the perspective of the human immune system they might as well be the same plant.
my understanding is that many react to products made from those grains even when the gluten is removed to a degree that they can be certified as gluten free
they believe in the gluten, leaky gut thing. but they dont make the connection between CELIACS disease and gluten proteins. they are substituiting gluten-laden foods with more sugary gluten free made foods.
I have a celiac diagnosis now, but I had to diagnose myself online and fight to get tested. I don't judge people who try to figure out their own healthcare because the system is happy to abandon them.
i was tested for it i was negative, you have to convince the doctor to even test it/. im not in the susceptible demographic, apparentlys is specific to certain ancestry in the europe, and not asia.
I put this one on the shelf next to the MSG.
I love gluten and MSG, gotta give the seitan some flavor.
Feeling bad eating sweetened white bread and thinking gluten is the problem...
They could both be problems. White bread by itself, even without being sweetened, is still almost entirely carbohydrates which turns into glucose in the body.
its the gluten , the people who believe in the fad try to avoid.
You know gullible people