Gluten sensitivity

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Is anyone else sensitive or allergic to gluten?

I have been aware of this for many years. I was tested for coeliac disease about twenty years ago but was diagnosed as gluten sensitive. I feel a lot worse when I am eating bread, pasta, etc. I have a lot more energy when I remove gluten from my diet.

My big problem is that I love beer (which is made from roasted barley so contains gluten)

Gluten free beer just isn't as nice, although a lot more are springing up now.

Yes, I'm sensitive to gluten.
I mostly drink cider.

I drink cider too, but not the sweet crap, which is basically alco-pops for those who too embarrassed to drink alco-pops. In fact it is quite obvious this is the strategy, and why they are flavoring the ciders with other stuff like alcopos.

Scandinavian ciders started the the trend, then everyone wants in on it. The beer companies that had nothing to do with cider int eh past not want in on this lucrative market, for sweet ciders.

I like dry cider like

Henney's
Old Rosie
Sheppy's Oak Matured
Westons Wyld Wood
Symonds

I want to try Normandy ciders. I tried one but it was a disappointment, I think it wasn't a proper Normandy dry cider.

I am also.
Apparently it is common with Aspies.
Whilst we have the same antibody condition as others such as Coeliacs - it is not a full allergy but just sensitivity.

Of interest, they have found a correlation between coeliac and carpal tunnel. No explanation, merely a correlation.
I suspect that carpal tunnel is a posture problem indicating muscular skeletal conditions ... and somehow this impacts on "the gut."

One of the problems with some aspies (not all) is clumsiness. Clumsiness in MY case (I can speak as an expert in myself) is a very specific back condition - which I ascribe as a birth defect. I did not fully uncurl from the foetal position and I had a twisting action which effected my posture.
If I tried to plain a piece of wood, as I stretched the arms to plane, I also twisted the arms ... so that the further I planed, the more the blade twisted and the wood was not be square.
To have even a semblance of "normal control" I had to compensate for this "automatic twist" and I lost a lot of fine control.

It was this twisting which is the cause of my own carpal tunnel syndrome.

I looked further and others with similar physical problems such as Cerebral Palsy also have the same sensitivity to gluten.

My own conclusion is that the physical movement problems I have is the causal link to gluten intolerance.

For those interested, I have discussed a possible "link" between the physical and the intolerance with my doctor. The muscles at the front of the body associated with the lumbar region (a variety of very deep abdominal muscles) are held tight in order to maintain posture.

These tight muscles limit the movement of the intestines and the surrounding tissues used to absorb things from the gut. It is the lack of such natural movement which might trigger such allergies.

Without any studies - it can only be conjecture ... but it seems to fit the data.