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>The 2 least invasive things you can do to see if you have CS is have a
>blood test that looks for antibodies IgA & IgE blood tests. (Warning
>though , these tests are fairly unreliable).
Here in Australia the (now-proven-to-be) unreliable anti gliaden antibodies
test for celiac has been replaced by the anti-endomysial antibody test -
which has 95% specificity and 95% selectivity. I.e. it's very accurate.
This info is from my gastro-enterologist.
>The "gold standard" is to have a biopsy done, and if you are going to do
>that, best to do it early & while you are still on gluten.
The above test was well on the way to making the biopsy unncessary, last
time I checked with my specialist, about 18 months ago.
>Nobody would choose to follow the GF diet just for the fun of it......
>it's tricky & inconvienient!
I haven't eaten gluten for about 18 months. (I'm not celiac (as originally
suspected), but do clearly have some sort of serious intolerance to
glutenous grains in general, and wheat in particular.) This has been pretty
easy. It all began for me when I started researching the diet that our
species evolved on. For several million years we have been consistently
eating animals: particularly organs, but also (to a lesser extent) flesh.
That has constituted more than 50% of the diet of our kind in recent
millennia. On top of that we ate fruit in reasonable quantities, then a
certain amount of leaves, nuts, eggs, roots, et al, as well.
I eat all the above, in the form of liver and kidney, chicken and fish
(much closer to the fat profiles of our 'ancestral' meats than today's
bred-up, grain-fed, hormone-enriched cattle), salads, nuts, eggs, potatoes
and yams...I could go on. It took five minutes to adjust to, because for
the first time in a long time I was eating a diet which didn't make me
chronically ill. Very attractive!
NB: Humans did not even start on grains (in any quantity) or dairy until
maybe 7000 years ago: not nearly long enough for most of us to adapt. This
explains why these two food groups produce more allergies across the world
than you can shake a stick at. Indeed if you follow the demograhic map of
celiac incidence, you notice that the incidence gets greater and greater on
a north-west trajectory out of the Middle-East up through Europe to
Scandanavia. The precise route that the spread of agriculture took from the
dawn of the Neolithic Age.
This is not the place to develop a long disquisition on the paleo diet (as
it is called), but more can be found out from an excellent interview with
diet researcher Ward Nicholson at
leisure://www.syndicomm.com/nicholson/interview1a.html
There is an excellent mailing list on the subject at
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by the scientists who are at the cutting edge of research in this most
interesting field.
I realise I am getting off the track of diabetes here. But maybe I am not.
In a year or so I have lifted my energy considerably, reduced my sleep
requirement by two hours, improved my mental acuity ('brain fog' has been
banished), cured my unquiet intestines (after years of pain and upset),
dramatically reduced my psoriasis, all but eliminated a nasty case of
'incurable' psoriatic spondylitis - a crippling arthritic condition - with
the blood tests to prove it, and gained a measure of that magical sense of
control over my health.
I am not saying that "my" diet is the best, nor that it will cure diabetes.
What I am saying is that we have been given umpteen versions of Man's
"natural" diet over the years - by every 'expert' with a barrow to push -
but in this decade for the first time we have a mound of carefully
collected data on what that diet really was and therefore is. My point is
that every dietary regime (for diabetes or anything else) should at least
be informed by these findings.
Best Wishes to all,
John
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