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Doc wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:31 am
Pardon the rant, Joe: It's like how a large part of the US population now arbitrarily decides, without medical diagnosis, they have a gluten allergy and want everything gluten-free. Sorry, Charlie... but most people's ""gluten intolerance" is just a need to be trendy, hip, in the know, popular, woke, be accepted, etc. Mindless herd members trying to belong and fit in. My bride has Celiac disease, but the trendies don't. She was diagnosed with it before it became trendy and popular to have a gluten allergy or intolerance. Dealing with REAL Celiac includes avoidance and maintenance, as there is no cure. There is no permanent fix.

Mary Ann wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 3:09 pm

Doc wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:31 am
Pardon the rant, Joe: It's like how a large part of the US population now arbitrarily decides, without medical diagnosis, they have a gluten allergy and want everything gluten-free. Sorry, Charlie... but most people's ""gluten intolerance" is just a need to be trendy, hip, in the know, popular, woke, be accepted, etc. Mindless herd members trying to belong and fit in. My bride has Celiac disease, but the trendies don't. She was diagnosed with it before it became trendy and popular to have a gluten allergy or intolerance. Dealing with REAL Celiac includes avoidance and maintenance, as there is no cure. There is no permanent fix.

To answer your rant.....some of us after toxic mold exposure develop a true intolerance to gluten without being celiac. It is found in the extreme number of anti-gliaden antibodies in a blood test. However, if we eat gluten, we'd might as well be celiac because the consequences are obvious and unlpleasant. Where I run into a problem is with those who assume it ALWAYS is a fad diet, and will actually lie about the gluten content because they think you are some kind of hypochondriac. Unlike your bride, I can get away with very small amounts but I simply cannot eat a piece of bread, or a cookie, without dire consequences. Yet I am not celiac, and before the mold exposure I could eat anything. I could get into the whole thing of the medical community's complete lack of knowledge of the genetic inflammatory response to mold toxins, thinking that the only nefarious effects are allergies, but I would be even farther off topic.

Rant off (you started it!)

Mary Ann wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 3:09 pm

Doc wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:31 am
Pardon the rant, Joe: It's like how a large part of the US population now arbitrarily decides, without medical diagnosis, they have a gluten allergy and want everything gluten-free. Sorry, Charlie... but most people's ""gluten intolerance" is just a need to be trendy, hip, in the know, popular, woke, be accepted, etc. Mindless herd members trying to belong and fit in. My bride has Celiac disease, but the trendies don't. She was diagnosed with it before it became trendy and popular to have a gluten allergy or intolerance. Dealing with REAL Celiac includes avoidance and maintenance, as there is no cure. There is no permanent fix.

To answer your rant.....some of us after toxic mold exposure develop a true intolerance to gluten without being celiac. It is found in the extreme number of anti-gliaden antibodies in a blood test. However, if we eat gluten, we'd might as well be celiac because the consequences are obvious and unlpleasant. Where I run into a problem is with those who assume it ALWAYS is a fad diet, and will actually lie about the gluten content because they think you are some kind of hypochondriac. Unlike your bride, I can get away with very small amounts but I simply cannot eat a piece of bread, or a cookie, without dire consequences. Yet I am not celiac, and before the mold exposure I could eat anything. I could get into the whole thing of the medical community's complete lack of knowledge of the genetic inflammatory response to mold toxins, thinking that the only nefarious effects are allergies, but I would be even farther off topic.

Rant off (you started it!)