What type of gluten intolerance do you have?

Brain Disorders, Diet, Food Sensitivities, Gluten, Hashimoto's, Thyroid Disorders46 Comments

Advances in testing for gluten intolerance offer accurate assessment Gluten intolerance has been linked in the literature to 55 diseases so far, most of them autoimmune. Fortunately a revolutionary breakthrough in gluten reactivity testing at Cyrex Labs, founded on years of leading immunological research, is now available to help determine whether this ubiquitous substance is damaging…

Eating gluten increases the need for thyroid hormones

Gluten, Diet, Food Sensitivities, Hashimoto's, Thyroid Disorders16 Comments

A new study shows Hashimoto’s patients with symptomless celiac disease (i.e., no digestive complaints) require 49 percent more T4 to achieve the same TSH levels as non-celiac Hashimoto’s patients. After the patients followed a gluten-free diet for 11 months their TSH levels came down with the same T4 requirement as the non-celiac Hashimoto’s patients. Gluten…