What if it’s all in your head? I think the same may be true for MSG.
5 thoughts on “Gluten Intolerance”
I’ve never had an MSG reaction, to my knowledge, and I seem to remember it on the list of ingredients on some of my favorite junk foods way back then (I’m sure it hasn’t been used that way in decades though).
My wife’s stepsister has celiac disease, and that has occasionally led my semi-hypochondriac wife to wonder whether some of my occasional digestive troubles might be gluten sensitivity. I think I just need to chew my food more thoroughly.
A friend of mine and his wife had children who were allergic to the common preservative BHA. Fortunately they did not suffer serious side effects, but it did make them high. He said once they figured out the kids were exhibiting an allergic reaction it was fairly easy for the doctor to identify the allergen, but they had a dickens of a time realizing their pre-teens HAD the allergy.
Or more likely your personal mix of intestinal bacteria, which is probably why one person’s health food diet is another person’s poison. Until researchers learn to control for that variable in their “health food” studies, along with genetics, likely all results will be questionable.
I don’t think all gluten intolerance sufferers are simply having psychosomatic reactions.
Anecdotal evidence – my sister, for the longest time growing up had issues eating bread. She actually thought it was normal until it somehow came up and the parents brought her into the doctors’ for a checkup. Sometime in her late teens she was diagnosed with celiacs and went on a gluten free diet for a few years. She eventually started eating gluten products again by accident, and discovered she no longer had the digestive problems she had when she was younger. Its entirely possible her digestive tract changed in that interim and whatever problems she was having cleared up by removing gluten from her system for a few years, but who knows. I’m glad she can eat real pizza again, its her favorite.
I’ve noticed a correlation between having eggs for breakfast (scrambled usually) and vomiting shortly after. Not always, but often enough to wonder what’s going on?
I’ve never had an MSG reaction, to my knowledge, and I seem to remember it on the list of ingredients on some of my favorite junk foods way back then (I’m sure it hasn’t been used that way in decades though).
My wife’s stepsister has celiac disease, and that has occasionally led my semi-hypochondriac wife to wonder whether some of my occasional digestive troubles might be gluten sensitivity. I think I just need to chew my food more thoroughly.
A friend of mine and his wife had children who were allergic to the common preservative BHA. Fortunately they did not suffer serious side effects, but it did make them high. He said once they figured out the kids were exhibiting an allergic reaction it was fairly easy for the doctor to identify the allergen, but they had a dickens of a time realizing their pre-teens HAD the allergy.
Or more likely your personal mix of intestinal bacteria, which is probably why one person’s health food diet is another person’s poison. Until researchers learn to control for that variable in their “health food” studies, along with genetics, likely all results will be questionable.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2012/09/12/the-food-fight-in-your-guts-why-bacteria-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-calories/
I don’t think all gluten intolerance sufferers are simply having psychosomatic reactions.
Anecdotal evidence – my sister, for the longest time growing up had issues eating bread. She actually thought it was normal until it somehow came up and the parents brought her into the doctors’ for a checkup. Sometime in her late teens she was diagnosed with celiacs and went on a gluten free diet for a few years. She eventually started eating gluten products again by accident, and discovered she no longer had the digestive problems she had when she was younger. Its entirely possible her digestive tract changed in that interim and whatever problems she was having cleared up by removing gluten from her system for a few years, but who knows. I’m glad she can eat real pizza again, its her favorite.
I’ve noticed a correlation between having eggs for breakfast (scrambled usually) and vomiting shortly after. Not always, but often enough to wonder what’s going on?