gluten free a no-go???

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There is actually a good physiological rationale: allergies put a strain on your adrenal glands, exactly like stress and anxiety do. So if you are in any way allergic/sensitive to gluten, the symptoms of that constant allergy would be very similar to anxiety.

You make a good point, one I never thought of before. It kind of helps me to understand why I still have to be so careful not to over expend my energy levels.

However, once an allergen is removed from someone's diet, an improvement should be noticed almost immediately (I would have thought) as the immune system stops responding to the allergen.

I am self taught (though necessity) my knowledge probably has huge gaps in it.

My doc reckons that my allergy to gluten is the cause of my excessive anxiety and phobias. My adrenal glands need to restore themselves (they are worn out) being gluten free wont cause any further damage, but its overall restoration will require a reasonably lenghty duration. I read somewhere that gluten free and dairy free can be beneficial for kids with AS? Are aspies biologicaly prone to being allergic to gluten??????? Or is it for some other reason??? Only expertise can answer that.

Mind you, if I'm coming down with something I'll take around 8g of Vitamin C a day and still don't overdose (the sign you're overdosing is you'll get uhm... loose stools). It takes a lot to overdose on VC!! So although you don't really need to unless you're fighting off a virus, megadosing won't hurt you if you decide to do it.

Well, since I started doing that not a single cold, flu or any other bug has ever developed beyond the initial achiness (which is when I start to megadose), even when my entire office will be off for a week with it. Take from that what you will.

You've "read somewhere" that GF/CF diets are "recommended" for autistics/aspies because that's another agenda being pushed - a significant minority of those of us on the spectrum also happen to have some degree of Celiac Disease, and will find some relief from those symptoms by removing gluten and casein from their diets. Since Celiac is notoriously hard to diagnose (positive diagnosis requires a biopsy of the intestines), and since so much of autism "research" is anecdotal, many of the parents of those finding such relief will a) attribute the negative reactions from Celiac to autism, and b) proclaim that the diet miraculously "cured" their child's autism.

If you have Celiac, by all means, pursue a GF/CF lifestyle. It's done wonders for my mother. My profoundly autistic sister, who lives with her and therefore shares the lifestyle, has experienced no such changes, however - caveat emptor and all that.

And good gluten-free bread can be made - potato bread, for instance, or rice-flour bread - you just need a good recipe.

My ND suggests at least 3 months. Avoiding gluten is beneficial for gut healing. Some people do not develop lab detectable allergies even though their bodies are being ravaged by gluten.

A bit slack lately due to having guests over, but am officially on the caveman diet. As I understand it, the liver stores about 400 units of carbs or carb related energy, the body uses insulin to convert it into a useful (non toxic) form, but the modern western diet has a couple thousand units per day which is way too much to be healthy (permanent insulin bath). I used to get hypo/hyper?glycemic every day, but changed my diet and have not had it in several months. Plus cutting out grains has helped my teeth feel cleaner. They feel really grungy if I lapse and have a piece of bread or pasta. And I no longer get indigestion/reflux which used to get common, I guess due to gluten or some such.

Have been on a Gluten Free diet for about 2 weeks now and feel a lot better.

My reasons for being on it is because I suspect I may have Candida. Very difficult to diagnose properly I do have it though.

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Thanks for the info. This is the diet I am following at the moment for Candida, which i will copy and paste as i wrote it donw before.

"To cure it I am avoiding as much carbohydrates and sugars as possible (complex carbs break down into simple sugars). I am making use of alkalising foods such as ginger and garlic as they are widely recommended for reducing the amounts. I am also eating some Organic eggs and some sardines rather than my strict vegan diet, because neither of them break down into sugars which can feed the Candida organism. I still eat some spinach, other salads, brocoli and a few other things but I am just making my choices more limitted and more nutrient dense.

I need to avoid caffine, alcohol, foods with fungal, yeast or mushroom ingredients, even if they are only extracts, as they promote growth.

There are a wide variety of supplements, herbs and foods available which have anti-fungal properties. I am slowing buying more and more and attempting to reduce the growth.

I am using a probiotic to help restore a bacterial balance which is more favourable towards preventing future over growths.

I am using Milk Thistle extract as it helps stimulate the liver to get rid of the toxins. I am also wanting a few other supplements which absorb the toxins and flush them out rather than them being processed by the organs.

When Candida is alive is produces an alcohol toxin as well as over 100 more. When it dies off, due to alkaline foods and anti fungals it releases all the toxins stored within it making symptoms temporerarly worse. This could be from a week, to a few months.


To minimise the impact of 'die off' I need to apply supplements to absorb the toxins, try and be physically active to get the organs working without them being over whelmed by toxins and aim to sweat out all I can rather than the organs deal with them.


The symptoms are widely known as 'brain fog'. In other words Chronic fatigue. I deal with it pretty much every single day, some days being worse / better than others."

To add to that, I am about to get a colonic as it can really help with getting rid of toxins, I am going to be using Psylium Husk to help flush out toxins rather than my organs process them and go to a sauna so that when i am applying the diet much more rigorously that the toxins are sweated out.

This supplement here will pretty much destory the candida so a safe level.

http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/ ... prodid=239

Once I start using that I am going to feel worse for a while but i'd rather apply the proper toxin absorption and quickly get it over and done with.

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