Greetings paleo-folk!
A few days ago I recieved an unexpected test result: I am NOT allergic to gluten! Ever since I came off sandwiches last year and cured my IBD in about a week I've been dead sure of this, since whenever I cheat I get symptoms (see below), but both Iga and IgA tests came out negative.

Naturally I immediately decided to conduct a somewhat controlled test: no general cheating, just the inclusion of short-bread fingers (Yummy!) and Swedish flat-bread into my diet. During these few days I have not eaten legumes, tubers, nor - come to to think of it - nightshades, citrus-fruit, fish or nuts. In my normal diet I include less than a decilitre of semi-skimmed milk (I drink about 1½ litres of black tea every day, and WILL not use nut- or quinoa-milk in it, 'cause that just tastes like shirt).

After less than three days the result is as follows: general queasyness, gasses and inflamed wrists and fingers. All is as could be expected - except my allergy test-result. Ah yes: I had a glass of tequila and orangeade the night before last, but I rarerly drink alcohol and have never noted any ill effects after slight consumption (6 cls in this case).

I'm pulling the plug on this stupid experiment RIGHT NOW, that came out just as I knew it would (but could not resist tempting short-bread fingers). So why do I react like this to flour, if it's not the gluten? I get no immediate symptoms cheating on sugar, so it's not just the carb intake. Any ideas?
At the moment not-so-paleobest (i.e. neolith-worst?);
Erik F.



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