<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I am referring to the Elaine Gotschall book,"Breaking the Vicious Cycle, Intestinal Health Through Diet". Apparently this book and perhaps her previous book, "Food and the Gut Reaction", were discussed on this list some time ago. Comments are available in the Archives (which I have not yet been able to access!) It was suggested by a couple of people that the medical community was not in favour of this type of diet for celiac disease. The following are comments by others, mainly Canadians, since the book was published in Canada. I tried the diet. I ran into a little trouble with the nut bread. It was so high in fat from the nuts and butter that I began to have some problems - probably because I pigged out on it. .....I did find the diet a little restrictive (I also love potatoes), so I use it in conjunction with the celiac diet. My husband tried the diet for a month, and lost a great deal of weight. I would not recommend it. It is also expensive buying the nuts for the bread. I have Elaine Gotschall's book which I started with a while back. A book that actually helped me more than this one is "Eat Right for your Type" by Dr. Peter D'Adamo. I too could not get completely well on a gluten free diet alone, but shortly after combining the diet described in this book with a GF diet, I found myself in glowing health. D'Adamo says that foods respond differently to the chemistry of different blood types. ....... My wife followed Elaine Gottschall's diet from her earlier (1987) book, "Food and the Gut Reaction" with good results. She did this for a few months, then gradually expanded her diet to include more foods (per the author's recommendations). I believe the author does an excellent job of explaining digesting/healing problems/solutions. It is a good base diet, but keep a food and symptom log (was one of her suggestions) and don't eat things that bother you even if listed on the ok list. I have this book and am also very intrigued by it. I have incorporated some of the recipes into my daughter's diet but am afraid of putting her fully on the diet as she has very unstable diabetes as well as celiac. If it were me that had celiac I would be on the diet like yesterday. It makes sense to me and definitely worth a shot; there are some people that are really helped, but I suppose not everybody...........I initially started reading this book because my daughter is not responding as well as we had hoped to the gf diet. I am not a fan of the book......thanks to the celiac, I am severely dairy intolerant, and even though she swears the yogurt you make yourself is free of all dairy irritants, that was not the case for me. I had a TERRIBLE reaction to the yogurt and it is a whole, horrible bunch of trouble to make it as well. The other premise of eating all those nuts is extremely fattening and not really a good idea from a digestive standpoint. I have never heard any of the celiac doctors on this list or elsewhere state that celiac can be "cured" in an adult form; the author holds that out as a probability if you follow her diet. I think that is really deplorable misinformation on her part. I have heard of the book and reviewed it. It is broadbased and works well for Crohns and Colitis patients, as well as very sensitive Celiac patients. A friend of mine went on the diet to cure herself of Crohns after the doctors and medicines could not help her any more. My husband is the celiac in the family and read the book, but felt it was too restrictive for him, as he can eat some of the foods they recommend staying away from. My mom read the book you mentioned, and tried to follow the diet for a while. She is diagnosed with Crohns disease. It is a very restrictive diet and is very hard to follow. It did help her symptoms while she was on the diet, but did not cure her. So - inconclusive at best! I discussed the book with my GI, for whom I have the utmost respect, and he was not at all in favour of the diet. Needless to say, I myself did not pursue it! My problems are far from solved, and obviously some of us don't do as well on a GF diet as others - but we keep on looking for solutions! Cherry Marshall in N.J.