My Aunt who is a health coach thinks that I should try a gluten free diet. Has anyone tried this and how have your experiences been?
Thanks
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I’ve heard it’s good for celiac disease and gluten allergies but I haven’t heard anything of it helping sz
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it can cause inflammation, presumably in the brain
If you have an intolerance or allergy towards gluten, it might alleviate some symptoms like confusion and irritability, but otherwise, no, it won’t help you.
The reason people think it helps is that they usually start making foods form scratch and using healthier alternatives when they go gluten-free, and so they mistakenly think gluten was the cause.
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Anything is possible and one can never say “never.”
You can try it. Stick rigidly to such a diet and see if you get better or not. If you get better then stop to see if you get worse. Repeat until you and your health team are convinced it helps. But I would exhaust all other proven treatments first. Check this video about gluten and sz:
I avoid gluten at the moment and it’s doing me good. I feel better in my digestive system.
Thanks for the video. I guess I’ll give it a try even though it will be a pain in the ass. I live in Thailand so I often can’t read the labels on the foods I buy.
Will going gluten free help you - probably not. Unless you’re allergic to gluten (which you would definitely know if you had coeliac disease), then there isn’t much point in avoiding it. It won’t make a significant impact on your health, other than making it harder for you to buy things. Gluten is in most foods, not just in bread. This includes things like beer. How many times i’ve seen apparently gluten free people drink alcohol that contains gluten i cannot state. Obviously they don’t have coeliac disease. You can still give it a go and see if it works in any way for you. I don’t want to put a dampener on the whole idea entirely. But it will be hard to stick to, cause like i said, gluten is in basically everything. But in my humble opinion, there’s no point avoiding it unless you have coeliac disease.
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Tried gluten free for 8 weeks…it did nothing, sorry.
From what I have read, there seems to be a small subset of people with schizophrenia who is sensitive to gluten and improves when gluten (and sometimes dairy too) are left out. For the rest of sz patients it doesnt matter. It’s not the same as coeliac disease, it is a different response, or so they say. I’ve also read a study that said it only worked for this subset in the beginning of illness.
But they just don’t really seem to know enough yet - different studies have different results and nobody really knows which part of schizophrenics would be sensitive. There isn’t an official recommendation to stop gluten. I don’t expect anything of it, but I want to try though… what if I’m one of the lucky few who can stop gluten and improve?
I don’t have coeliac disease but I had a genetic test and found that I carry one of the two coeliac genes.
I have become slightly allergic to pasta and come up in an allergic rash, as the durum wheat they use in pasta plays havoc with me. Other than that i can tolerate bread with no allergic reaction which is odd.
I was sceptical about gluten sensitivity until I became it.
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