Missing advice??

[Tiggykanga]

I was idly browsing YT video's and came across an American one advising that we should not go straight on to GF substitutes upon diagnosis. Apparently our gut can develop holes (leaky gut) which need a month or two to heal. Wonder why UK dieticians/doctors don't mention it to us?

[pretender]

Why should they? The "GF" market has grown and does help many coeliac's. There are those who can tolerate the addatives and there are those who cannot. Coeliac disease today has a very different meaning than it did in the 50's. It is all based on money, Britain's main problem.

[KathrynS_UK]

Eh? Wheat can cause leaky gut! Sounds like hog wash to me.

The only way for a coeliac to start to recover is the stop eating gluten, so why would anyone recommend delaying that?!

[Penel in reply to KathrynS_UK]

Although it sounds a bit weird, there is research on leaky gut and autoimmune disorders.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/221...

[Tiggykanga in reply to KathrynS_UK]

I understood him to say not to go straight on to gluten substitutes after stopping a gluten filled way of eating but to leave out gluten substitutes (bread biscuits flour products etc) till our guts had had a sufficient period of time to heal the "holes" (leaky gut) and gluten damage then start to introduce them. Might be wrong though

[Penel]

Do you mean that we shouldn't be eating supermarket processed gf

food?

The idea of leaky gut is still fairly new and disputed by some. It's not likely to have reached general doctors or dietician.

[Lexy]

I understood this to mean that we should not be transferring from gluten products to 'gf' versions of the same (ie 'gf' bread/cakes/pasta etc etc) as these contain so many other items which can trouble sensitive guts. I've certainly found that to be the case. I think it makes sense to eat 'whole' food, ie food made from natural non-processed ingredients when first changing to a glutenless diet. Personally, my system doesn't cope with sugar anymore, I get 'gluten-like' symptoms from it. I do worry about people's reliance on Coeliac UK and all the products they push as 'safe'...but that's probably another discussion.

[Linzk425]

What evidence did this American video have for its advice? Was it produced by medics, or by woo merchants?

[Penel in reply to Linzk425]

Don't know about the video, and the NHS don't seem to recognise the idea of leaky gut, but there are research papers about it on PubMed, as I posted above.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/221...

It also seems to be referred to as 'gut permeability'.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/166...

[Linzk425 in reply to Penel]

I understand about gut permeability - it was a topic of discussion when planning breastfeeding/formula-feeding my son. I'm more interested in what the video the OP mentioned has for back-up.

[Penel in reply to Linzk425]

Yes, that would have been interesting to know.