13. The Grain of Truth [Coeliac disease]

[helvella]

13. The Grain of Truth

Uncharted with Hannah Fry

Amid the desperation of war-starved Netherlands a doctor finds a way of curing a group of gravely ill children. His finding challenges accepted medical wisdom, and provokes opposition from Catholics. But why had the rest of the world missed this miracle treatment?

Producer: Ilan Goodman

Sound Designer: Jon Nicholls

Story Editor: John Yorke

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022syl

If you have any interest in coeliac disease, you might find this program well worth a listen. And it is only fifteen minutes long. 🕒 🕞

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Afraid I do not know how accessible the program will be to those not in the UK.

FYI: I posted this a couple of months or so ago:

Celiac Disease: A Forty-Year Analysis in an Italian Referral Center

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[greygoose]

Doesn't work for me in France.

[helvella in reply to greygoose]

Maybe on Apple Podcasts?

This is a link to the UK Apple podcast but unlikely to work in France:

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podca...

Or simply search with Apple podcasts (if you can) - you might get lucky!

[greygoose in reply to helvella]

Thank you.

[Regenallotment Ambassador]

I caught this in the car the other day, absolutely fascinating. I was amazed by the catching up children’s bodies did when diet altered. Just amazing.

[arTistapple]

Talking about Thyroid Ambassadors (which we aren’t) this is one lady I would love to have on ‘our side’. She is smart. Takes medics to task on statistics. She would run rings around the likes of Pearce and his offerings. I have had a letter to her in my draft file for ages. Just don’t feel clever enough to approach her.

[helvella in reply to arTistapple]

I think you should send it.

The worst that can happen is it gets ignored.

The ones asking the questions don't need to be "clever" - and it is a word I detest.

Inevitably, we are humans, so when we read posts, we make some sort of assessment of those we are in discussion with. But I am continually amazed by how much quite deep conversation goes on here.

And yes, she is smart and bright. But that doesn't stop her being human. Just like the rest of us. And apparently she doesn't feel that the medical world treated her cancer nearly as well as they should.

I feel it is wrong to do yourself down.

[arTistapple]

Thanks helvella. Glad we agree on this wonderful woman. It’s reminded me of that letter sitting in my file. I will have another look at it.

[crimple]

helvella thanks for posting. Fascinating to hear how coeliac disease was discovered by a Dutch physician. Of particular interest to me as my Mum was Dutch, she didn't have quite the same problems regarding food / starvation as her home town was liberated in Sept 1944 in south east of country.

The irony of this story is that when I visit family in Netherlands it is not easy to be Gluten free. Eating out can be a nightmare and buying GF in shops can be very expensive. The coeliac discovery may well explain why cornflour is generally used as a thickener in sauces rather than flour.

I was first diagnosed with a wheat intolerance 24 years ago and so have been GF ever since, even before my Hashis diagnosis. My grand daughter is coeliac.

It has always been much easier for me to be GF when in Spain and apparently that is due to someone high up in Government having a daughter who is coeliac, so restaurants are clued up and GF foods are easy to find in the shops.

My daughter married a Frenchman and his family seem to think that I have mental health issues because I refuse to eat their bread, croissants patisserie etc etc! and refuse any sauces with meat etc.

[Brightness14 in reply to crimple]

The French have yet to catch up in many ways. In the last few years they don't pay with a cheque at the supermarket but still use piped music agh.