Any celiac sufferers?

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Pretty sure I have this, have another blood test to check and still have to see a GI doc but I've been off gluten for 1 week and feel 20 years younger. I do have diverticulosis for sure and we'll see if that clears up. Anyone? Tips? Stories of the nightmare that is the poison gluten?

2 weeks ago I felt like HCP looks like he feels.Kidding, felt worse than that.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

My nephew is, and our household has gone pretty much GF. What's a real pain is if you have other sensitivities - corn and oats seem to be common. But there're a huge range of products now. Every market has a GF section. Gotta say that Rice pasta is not great, but you get used to it. You will miss bread, let me tell you, but you can buy GF loaves that taste pretty good toasted. The main difference is, without gluten bread tends to be less fluffy and crumblier. Also, watch what cereals you eat, of course. You will be amazed at all the places they stick wheat. Fast food other than french fries (and even then, they can't be fancy ones that are "dusted" with anything) is pretty much out.

If you are celiac (or coeliac, as they say in Britain, of course), you will notice when you go clean that your stomach feels a lot better and you will get the shits less often. So there's that to look forward to...

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Pretty sure I have this, have another blood test to check and still have to see a GI doc but I've been off gluten for 1 week and feel 20 years younger. I do have diverticulosis for sure and we'll see if that clears up. Anyone? Tips? Stories of the nightmare that is the poison gluten?

2 weeks ago I felt like HCP looks like he feels.Kidding, felt worse than that.

Just go low carb in general and you won't have to worry about the gluten. Eggs, meats, cheeses, the occasional vegetable--what more do you really need?

 

[Denny Crane]

I've been eating low carb for 3-4 years now and it is an awesome way to eat and live.

No gluten in anything I eat, that I know of.

We eat no flour, no pasta, no rice, no sugar, no beans, no bread (no beer). Lots of meat and eggs and cheese and veggies.

Dinner last night was a roast pork loin with stir fried veggies (and a little of the pork sliced off before I put it on the grill).

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Just go low carb in general and you won't have to worry about the gluten. Eggs, meats, cheeses, the occasional vegetable--what more do you really need?

Nothing really, my blood work was immaculate otherwise. Cholesterol, perfect. Blood sugar, perfect, blood pressure, perfect. Eat bread, wanna die.

It affects your brain, your prostate, your joints if you have celiac.

I've been eating low carb for 3-4 years now and it is an awesome way to eat and live.

No gluten in anything I eat, that I know of.

We eat no flour, no pasta, no rice, no sugar, no beans, no bread (no beer). Lots of meat and eggs and cheese and veggies.

Dinner last night was a roast pork loin with stir fried veggies (and a little of the pork sliced off before I put it on the grill).

This is almost exactly how we eat other than having wheat in some things. Cutting it out won't be hard at all. The feeling of dying of colon cancer is deterrent enough.

 

[Denny Crane]

Nothing really, my blood work was immaculate otherwise. Cholesterol, perfect. Blood sugar, perfect, blood pressure, perfect. Eat bread, wanna die.

It affects your brain, your prostate, your joints if you have celiac.


This is almost exactly how we eat other than having wheat in some things. Cutting it out won't be hard at all. The feeling of dying of colon cancer is deterrent enough.

There's a lot of evidence that cancer feeds on glucose.

I went low carb to (I hope, I expect) reduce the risk of getting cancer. I have a good friend just diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. It wasn't hard to convince him to go ketogenic. The food is great, and he likes to cook which really helps. I don't think keto is a cure for cancer, but it should help by not letting the cancer grow so much. They're trying to reduce the tumor size before submitting him to radiation therapy.

http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v16/n10/full/nrc.2016.77.html
http://theconversation.com/starving-cancer-cells-of-sugar-could-be-the-key-to-future-treatment-47906