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August 12th, 2016

8/12/2016

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Scientists confirm gluten sensitivity is a real thing

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Research has confirmed what many people with Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism have long known: Gluten sensitivity is a real thing.

A Columbia University Medical Center study found gluten sensitivity is not an imagined condition, as many seem to think these days, and that celiac disease or a wheat allergy are not required to react to gluten.

Although people with gluten sensitivity may not demonstrate classic symptoms or lab markers of celiac disease, gluten nevertheless causes an acute immune response in gluten sensitive people.

Symptoms of gluten sensitivity vary widely and often include fatigue, brain fog, memory problems, mood imbalances, joint pain, skin eruptions, respiratory issues, and worsening of existing health conditions.

This issue is especially important for people with Hashimoto’s, as the autoimmune thyroid disease has been linked with gluten in several studies.

Gluten sensitivity different than celiac disease
​In celiac disease, the immune response to gluten happens primarily in the small intestine.

With gluten sensitivity, however, the immune response is systemic, meaning the inflammatory cells travel in the bloodstream throughout the body. This explains why symptoms vary so widely.

Researchers found that six months on a gluten-free diet normalized the immune response and significantly improved patient symptoms.

Many people with Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism experience dramatic improvement on a gluten-free diet because it lowers overall inflammation.

Gluten sensitivity awareness crucial for patients
Studies like this are important to help educate doctors that gluten sensitivity can cause chronic health problems.

Many doctors still believe that only celiac disease is to blame for a reaction to gluten. Because gluten sensitivity is largely dismissed and conventional testing for it is so inadequate, many patients unnecessarily suffer from undiagnosed gluten sensitivity.

For patients with Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, this can mean needing to continually increase your thyroid medication dosage.

Gluten linked to autoimmunity and brain disorders
What’s worse, gluten is linked to many autoimmune diseases. An autoimmune disease is a condition in which the immune system attacks and destroys tissue in the body. One of the most common is Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, but others include multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.

However, the tissue most commonly attacked in response to gluten sensitivity is neurological tissue.
In other words, your undiagnosed gluten sensitivity could be destroying your brain  This is why gluten causes brain-based disorders in many people.

Unmanaged Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism can also cause accelerated brain decline, so a gluten-free diet should always be part of autoimmune thyroid management.

Gluten sensitivity more common than celiac
Celiac disease was long thought to affect about 1 percent of the population, but newer research shows rates have gone up 700 percent in the last 50 years.

Also, numbers are likely even higher because testing for celiac disease is extremely stringent and outdated. (Diagnostic criteria were developed in Europe, where a celiac diagnosis qualifies one for disability payments.)

Estimates for the rate of gluten sensitivity range from 6 percent of the population to considerably higher—a randomized population sample of 500 people conducted by immunologist Aristo Vojdani, PhD found one in three people had gluten sensitivity.

Proper testing and strict gluten-free diet are vital
Most testing for gluten sensitivity is inaccurate as people can react to at least 12 different compounds in gluten. Standard tests only screen for one, alpha gliadin.

Also, many people have cross reactions to gluten, meaning they respond to other foods they eat as if it were gluten.

Dairy is one of the most common of these. It’s important to test for cross-reactive foods and remove them from the diet along with gluten. It is common for people with Hashimoto’s to do best removing both gluten and dairy from the diet.

It’s also vital to be strict with food sensitivities as the occasional cheat can keep inflammation high and chances at symptom recovery low.

Ask my office for advice on the latest in testing for gluten sensitivity and managing Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism.


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4/27/2017 10:45:37 pm

I heard a little about gluten and there may be some studies about it that will make us all wonder and will trigger us to think of other undiscovered mysteries that we have. It is written here that the Columbia University Medical Center had a study and they have found that gluten sensitivity is not an imagined condition. There may be some basis that will support these findings.

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5/18/2017 04:00:38 am

Gluten is very damaging to our health, so I try to buy gluten-free products. And prepare healthy food.

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7/16/2017 11:30:32 pm

I read a lot about gluten and all the information indicates that it is very harmful and not digested in the body as necessary

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9/18/2017 05:40:31 am

I know people who do not completely tolerate gluten, so they keep track of its content in food.

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10/2/2017 03:47:57 am

I think that they were simply obliged to indicate the content of gluten on the package, since many people have an allergy to it.

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