Do you have gut problems or low energy?

Please Google 'PubMed gluten intolerance' and 'PubMed gluten sensitivity'. I'll leave you with that; I can't add anymore to those reports.

From PubMed:

Defining the symptoms and biochemical markers for gluten-sensitive conditions is an important area for future investigations, and high-quality, large-scale randomized trials are needed to prove the true benefits of the GFD in this evolving field.

I'll be interested to read those studies/trials when they are done.

You read my mind . I was wondering the same thing. I have had quite a lot of digestive issues in the past year or so and low energy. I recently started juicing and cutting carbs. I do feel like I have more energy and my stomach is probably 75% better.

I was thinking about the carb connection, but I wasn't sure if that's what the culprit was.

Please Google 'PubMed gluten intolerance' and 'PubMed gluten sensitivity'. I'll leave you with that; I can't add anymore to those reports.

From PubMed:

Defining the symptoms and biochemical markers for gluten-sensitive conditions is an important area for future investigations, and high-quality, large-scale randomized trials are needed to prove the true benefits of the GFD in this evolving field.

I'll be interested to read those studies/trials when they are done.

Do read the other reports, not just one that you think supports your position. There are plenty of others that support what posters here have suspected and experienced.

Celiac disease or gluten intolerance....

Eat a bunch of wheat and everything, then go get a FULL CELIAC PANEL test done..

I read the book 'Wheat Belly'. Pretty interesting information. I have been cutting out most wheat products, probably 80% from what I used to eat. I have noticed that I feel better. But everyone should follow the diet that they can sucessfully maintain.

I suffered from low energy, nausea, and digestive problems for a long time. When I eliminated all gluten they quickly disappeared,

Before I changed my ways... I used have some MAJOR stomach/gut issues. I use to eat a lot of processed/boxed food and don't get me started on fast food. Ever since I cleaned up my foods all my issues have pretty much went away. If I do choose to eat something too greasy or fatty... my gut tends to pay me back at the worst of times and I get super sleepy.

I have increased wheat in my diet recently. Since then my gut issues have disappeared. Before I was having a lot of fat in my diet, that seemed to have caused my issues.

The "trendy comments" do not comment on people with actual allergies and sensitivities avoiding those foods that trigger problems, they have to do with the hype and marketing around promoting "wheat free" as a cure-all.

Sorry to say, but if you go back ten years you read about people being cured of all sorts of ills by doing the latest fad diet, and one often sees similar references to vague and unexplained symptoms going away thanks to following the latest irrefutable evidence. As the people making money off of the process expand more and more, wheat and gluten will become the cause of more and more "problems", until it they start at fade away only to be replaced by another pseudoscientific theory. All these theories will be promoted by someone with "Dr" before their name, because people still assume medical school gives one some kind of secret knowledge or powers not accessible by people with much more time on their hands than the typical clinician.

It's all about making money.

Asking people in this way is guaranteed to get biased results. People tend to answer what they think you want to hear.

An example of a good study for this type of question would be to pick a sample of people with these symptoms and then ask them how much wheat they consume, alongside other food types. Then you pick a group of people without these and see how much they consume. Then you see if the first group have a higher intake than the second. That is a case-control study, looking back in time.

^^^^ this

or you can get 2 groups with these problems who eat wheat, then one group carries on with their normal diet, the other group eliminates wheat, and see if any individuals in either group show any improvement in symptoms.

additionally, it's well documented in the scientific literature that some people have undiagnosed wheat allergies and/or intolerances... those people will have symptoms, then when they cut wheat out of their diet, the symptoms go away. In some people, intolerance to wheat can cause very serious gut problems and eating wheat, for those people, is dangerous. None of this is new to science, it's very well documented and known about. The problem is that there are a lot of health "gurus" who blame all ills on wheat, and tell everyone to cut wheat out of their diet. The reality is that if you have a wheat allergy or intolerance, giving up wheat will make you feel a lot better, and you should avoid wheat altogether. If you don't have that, whether or not you have any symptoms of wheat intolerance (the same symptoms could be caused by a whole lot of other things, e.g. stress, allergy or intolerance to any food other than wheat, a chronic low level infection, digestive system disorders etc) giving up wheat will not help. It's really that simple. Anyone who has these kinds of problems (not sure where phobias come into it though...) could always try giving up wheat to see if it helps, but in many cases it won't because the problems are often caused by other things besides undiagnosed wheat allergy/intolerance. (again, not sure how an allergy/intolerance to wheat can cause phobias other than a phobia of eating wheat products)