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I often say on this site, don’t listen to me. Check my facts. Make your own decision. I am a reporter not a doctor. But this guy, you should listen to this guy. He is a doctor. He teaches pediatric gastroenterology at Harvard. This is what they are teaching now in the best medical schools. Its a long lecture but worth watching if you or anyone you know is confused about the following 1) Isn’t leaky gut still theoretical? Only like gravity is theoretical. Its being taught at Harvard as fact. 2) Wouldn’t I have less than perfect digestion if I had celiac disease? No. Most people have no digestive issues at all. He cites fatigue, anemia and fibromyalgia (around minute 11) as the most common symptoms. 3) Is there really a link between other autoimmune diseases and celiac disease? A link? How about every last one of them is on Chromosome 16 AND they all seem to require a breakdown in zonulin reaction AND a leaky gut. And when he says all he specifically mentions Autism as part of ALL. 4) OK so I just need to give up gluten, right? Nope, the problem is a damaged microbiome, genetically iffy zonulin regulation and then a food that sends a person over the edge. It is possible that celiac disease is one manifestation of zonulin problems (minute 35). This...

Recently there has been misleading press coverage of a small study out of Monash University in Australia. This study of 37 people who did not have celiac disease was not, as is popularly reported, evidence that there is no such thing as non-celiac gluten sensitivity (or NCGS). What it did show is something that most celiacs could have told you. The most common symptoms of gluten sensitivity are not in the stomach, they are in the brain. The digestive problems may indicated gluten sensitivity, but it may also indicate an entirely different problem. Oh and the EXACT SAME researchers know this. They also published this article linking gluten and depression http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24689456 However this time, the researchers were interested in a different food sensitivity. FODMAPs and fructans are found in many high carbohydrate foods such as fruit, many grains (including wheat) dairy, and other foods. What the study showed that people who had neither celiac disease nor medically verifiable NCGS were reacting to additional foods. Exclusion of gluten was not sufficient because they were actually reacting to other foods, quite possibly FODMAPS and not gluten. This is the actual abstract that they published http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24740495 So actually instead of showing that gluten sensitivity is not real, it actually showed that there is a third reason to avoid wheat products…and that it is not sufficient to avoid gluten. The study was actually...

The Gluten-Free Summit aka six days I barely slept, has been over for a while, but the doctor who pulled it together is making some of the very best technical lectures available to the public for FREE for a few weeks. Now these doctors and scientists lack the charm or speaking style of an Alessio Fasano or a Peter H.R. Green. They are researchers, scientists and medical doctors, but they are literally the grandfathers of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. They are not young men, and they speak their mind with the fearlessness that comes with being past the normal retirement age. These men all imply the same thing. Autoimmune diseases are linked and the problem is at least partially caused by what we are eating. Dr. Schoenfeld has demonstrated how they can tell if someone will get celiac disease years before it occurs…in time to change. His lecture on autoimmune disease is just fascinating and would be of interest to people with disorders like lupus, crohn’s and others. Dr. Umberto Volta was on the team that invented the anti-gliadin test back in Italy. He is now concerned that we are not taking the non-celiac gluten sensitivity seriously. Dr Marsh is THE Dr. Marsh so when you hear Marsh 1 or Marsh 2…he’s the guy who invented the measurement. Dr Aristo Vojdani has been a huge influence on the...

Starting on Monday November 11 there is going to be an online event called The Gluten Summit. Each day four actual experts in celiac disease, autism, non-celiac gluten sensitivity and or gluten-free eating will be lecturing for free. If you have never done a telesummit before the way that they work is that you provide an email address, they give you access to the lectures. Each set of three or four lectures is available for 24 hours. If you want to hear a lecture after that you pay to upgrade to unlimited access of all lectures. I have gotten a lot out of just treating it like a live conference and choosing one lecturer that I really want to hear and then if I get to a second one, great. Other people like to purchase access to the lectures to listen over and over. It just depends on your income and your time. Some telesummits have goofy speakers that are not worth your time. This one is virtually all MDs including Alessio Fasano who is basically THE expert on non-celiac gluten sensitivity. There are also nutritionists and other medical professionals. The entire speaker roster with only a few exceptions is people who are actually licensed to give out medical advice. For those of you who do not want to give out an email address without knowing what you are...

When my friends friends are diagnosed they call me and want to know all sorts of things about celiac disease. Can headaches and depression really be symptoms? (they can). What if there are no digestive complaints? (that is very common, many celiacs have only the DH rash) Why did my doctor say I have a mild case (your doctor does not know much about the disease which is alarmingly common). But here is the thing. I am NOT a doctor, or a nurse, or even a CNA. I am a researcher and a writer. So here, for your review are a bunch of videos from actual medical doctors who are licensed to practice medicine and are familiar with the disease and who can communicate about it. You can mess around on YouTube and watch a lot of videos about gluten disorders. The problem is that anyone can upload a video and there are a lot of people with strong opinions, unrelated training, and no research to back it up. The following videos are all from doctors who run clinics for celiac disease. This one is old and a lightweight but it is a good overview of the disease. Its from an old episode of The View. Elizabeth Hasselbeck has the disorder. Peter Green wrote an excellent book on Celiac Disease and runs the celiac center at Columbia University in...