Yo! Last night’s radio show with gluten sensitivity expert Dr. Tom O’Bryan was one of my favorites of all time! If you missed it, you can listen to it HERE. Also, be sure to visit his website and buy his DVD lecture! It goes even deeper!
As promised, Dr. O’Bryan sent over the scientific references to back up the much-needed information we talked about it. Here they are!
Unlocking The Mystery of Musculoskeletal and Neurological Complications of Gluten Sensitivity
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Very good interview again. When you hear TheDr. speaking, you can’t imagine this is information is so not know by so many physicians. In the meanwhile too many people are suffering. We have an extensive post page on the villain called grains on our blog. Visit http://www.cutthecarb.com/category/villains/grains/ VBR and thanks
I have to admit though, that Celiacs disease seems to be incredibly over-diagnosed these days.
THANK YOU for doing this interview! I’ve had endless frustration with trying to figure out my health issues.
I was told by the gastroenterologist (who listened to me for a whole 40 seconds about my symptoms and barely help back an eyeroll when I told her I was trying a gluten-free diet) that I have IBS (<Garbage Can Diagnosis) and that people with IBS respond to "low carb" diets. …Which is interesting, since I eat plenty of potatoes, beans, rice and gluten-free muffins with no problem. After experiencing poor digestion and pain for a year (while being 23, eating "healthy" and exercising) and finally regaining some semblance of balance on a g/f diet, this doctor told me I should eat start eating gluten again, since my blood tests were negative.
It's quite a rude awakening to realize that many doctors who are supposed to be specialists in their field know so little about something that is becoming increasingly common. There have been times where I've just started crying (including the end of this interview) when I find some information about gluten intolerance & celiac disease online that I was dying to know before, and wish my doctor would have known. I'm looking forward to when that saliva test will become available, so I can feel certain about my situation and how to move forward. If a lot of the research that Dr. O'Bryan mentioned is true, gluten intolerance may have been a major contributing factor to the depression, ADHD and anxiety I struggled with in my teens and in college. Then again, most people are unbalanced at that age. 🙂
@utahspineanddisc: As for it being "over-diagnosed" have you known anyone who has been wrongly diagnosed? I understand there's a greater awareness and probably a greater incidence, perhaps because of our friendly industrial food complex, but unlike people who are misdiagnosed with certain mental disorders, I've yet to meet anyone diagnosed with Celiac who ignores it and feels fine eating wheat pasta every day. I read an article though about people who avoid gluten even though they have no physical symptoms to warrant it. (Why anyone would give that up voluntarily is beyond me.)
Thanks, everyone, for listening.
Insofar as the apparent over-diagnosis: I appreciate that “gluten-free” seems to be everywhere these days, but we shouldn’t confuse the a health fad with statistics. I’ve been researching this for almost a decade, and every expert in the field is in total consensus that celiac disease is actually staggeringly under-diagnosed. The (current) statistics say that 1 out of every 12-15 people have some form of gluten sensitivity, and it’s those people that we’re trying to reach out to.
Thanks again,
–The team, at theDr.com
That is really interesting theDr. because I’ve read that celiac’s disease is being over diagnosed. But I would have to agree that I think that food is becoming increasingly hard to process, which is harder on our bodies.