Here’s the question: What happens if you have Celiac Disease but continue to eat gluten daily?
While I know this occurs, I can only think that a celiac who continues to eat gluten just hasn’t been properly educated. Either that or they have a bit of a death wish…
Celiac disease destroys the small intestine creating malabsorption of nutrients critical for good health, often with concurrent digestive complaints. It also puts a tremendous strain on the body’s immune system, the defender against infections and cancer. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease and when you have it you are 5 times more likely to suffer from another autoimmune disease than the average population. Autoimmune diseases include such things as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, M.S., Sjogren’s, Lupus, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s, etc. Considering that all autoimmune diseases taken as a whole are the third leading cause of death, increasing one’s risk by 5 times is a very poor idea.
In a nutshell, continuing to consume gluten even monthly, let alone every day, is putting one on a fast train towards their mortality.
I can only think that the individual asking this question is one of those rare patients who has been diagnosed with celiac but doesn’t have too many symptoms…yet. But if the diagnosis is accurate, the symptoms will come, and how unfortunate to have known that they were preventable.
Ultimately we each have a wonderful, unique machine called the human body. We own it and it is all ours. While I recommend that you treat it well so that you can enjoy the experience of an optimally functioning machine, I can only recommend. In the final analysis the body is yours and you can do with it what you will.
However, if you continue to “cheat” because you don’t understand the ramifications of doing so, I heartily recommend that you get educated. While I’m a bit partial to my own book “The Gluten Effect”, readers continue to tell me that they feel it is extremely easy to read, understand and it has resulted in many, many individuals finally taking their gluten intolerance seriously. So I encourage you to read a book, blog and in some way get educated about the problems gluten can create.
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To your good health,
Dr Vikki Petersen, DC, CCN, CFMP
IFM Certified Practitioner
Founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic
Co-author of “The Gluten Effect”
Author of the eBook: “Gluten Intolerance – What You Don’t Know May Be Killing You!”
Founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic
Co-author of “The Gluten Effect”
Author of the eBook: “Gluten Intolerance – What You Don’t Know May Be Killing You!”
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I went to a Russian doctor who put me on supplements,they are/were very expensive but made a huge difference and now after about two months I nearly feel normal energywise,although nearly70 years old.The daily supplements are:Macca,Macha,Bee pollen,seaweed,HTP5,chromium,acidopholis,digestive enzyme, good yeast,calcium,coq10 ubiquinol,3000 mg vitamin c,these supplements are in addition to leafygreen vegetables,herbs,fruit and almonds,plain yoghurt,no tea,no coffee,no sugar, and the first three weeks all foods were in smoothie form.This may help anyone looking for a helpful diet.
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