Many professional athletes are recognizing the performance benefits of going gluten free. Professional tennis player, Novak Djokovic, has had a breakout season he attibutes to eliminating gluten from his diet.
Should You Go Gluten Free?
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My husband is allergic to glutem but I am allergic to rice. We are both allergic to eggs, dairy & soy. Do you have any bread suggestions that we could both eat? Thanks Jean
Flax.
See Rene Oswald’s website and watch her videos on how to prepare raw breads and raw crackers.
I’m the same Jean, it’s really difficult to find a bread w/out rice in it. I haven’t found one yet. I do have some from the grainless baker every once in a while, but it has rice flour. So I make it. coconut flour, quinoa flour, tapioca flour and a little potato starch or arrowroot. It’s always heavier than normal bread… but if I ever get a recipe that is excellent I will post it. It’s trial and error. (which makes it fun for me) Feed me I’m cranky is a great website and is on facebook, my friend has told me about the caveman diet, gluten free goddess, allergy free please, and so many more. Wish I could have had an answer for you. Best wishes. (and post one if you find it! :)
There are many flours that work well as a substitution for rice flours. Millet, buckwheat, and sorghum all work just about the same in recipes. Here is a recipe I found online that is awesome for multiple allergies.
Gluten, dairy, soy, yeast, sugar, egg free rolls
2/3 cup potato starch
1 1/3 cup tapioca starch
1 cup chickpea flour
4 tsp xanthan gum
2 tsp gluten free baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp ground flax
2/3 cup oil (not vegetable/soybean)
11-12 oz of sparkling water
4tsp ground flaxseed soaked for 10 mins in 6 Tbsp boiling water Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift the gluten free flours together with the xanthan gum, baking powder and salt. Add the dry ground flax. Mix and add the oil and wet flax mixture. Mix thoroughly till it reaches a crumb-like texture. Then pour the sparkling water in slowly while mixing. You want to do this as quickly as possible without “swamping” the mixture. Keep adding water till you have thick, but wet dough. It will be very sticky.
Spoon the mix onto a parchment covered cookie sheet. I have found they are less likely to fall if you make them smaller. Bake for about 30 minutes. This depends on the size. They will not Brown” very well because they have no sugar. These also freeze well.
On 8/18/11 I went gluten free after reading your article on athlete’s who have given it up. I experienced a few uncomfortable episodes earlier in the summer after eating pasta and bread at restaurants. Without really changing the amount of food I eat or my workouts, I lost 5lbs within a few weeks, felt less tired and had more “solid” experiences in the bathroom. My only problem so far has been refining my “power” muffin recipe. For years I made muffins with whole wheat, oat bran, flax, protein powder, cinnamon etc. I have oine through about 5 batches of the muffins blending various gluten free flours. Although closer with a blend of brown rice, sorghum, gluten free oats and xanthum….I still have some tweeking to do. Let me know if you have any thoughts!
I use Gluten Free Rolled Oats and shoot them through my ‘silver bullet’ to make it more powdery. I bet a coffee grinder would work too…I dunno if those are actually good for you but its gluten free and counts as a whole grain!
I MEAN MAGIC BULLET…. whatever that thing is called…… it basically liquifies and makes paste out of anything.
http://www.pamelasproducts.com
Best GF flours and products!
I went gluten free beginning in the spring of this year (2011) after I found out that I had Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis with a peroxidase level of 74 (an antibody that attacks the thyroid). Luckily I caught it before the level got too high. I think the normal level is 35 or below. I had read that it can be possible to reverse Hashimoto’s by removing gluten from your diet. In my last check up this fall (Oct 2011) the level of peroxidase had gone down to 47, only 12 points above normal now. My T3 and T4 levels are in a much better balance as well.
I would like to mention that I didn’t do any other type of treatment like taking thyroid hormones or anything at all. I have also lost about15 pounds that I really wanted to lose (actually I was hoping for 10 so 15 was a bonus). The weight came off very easily by giving up gluten it seems. I do at times have a tiny bit every now and then, perhaps once/month, so I am not hard core. But it has benefited me greatly to give it up close to 100% of the time. I am still going to continue to do so, and hope that my peroxidase levels will go to a completely normal level.
Also, another benefit is that I had a lot of lower back pain that made my back very very stiff in the morning, and sore during the day. This had been going on for 4 months or longer. I had gone to physical therapy, and done a lot of network chiropractic treatment as well. But it would not go away. Within a week to 10 days of going gluten free it went away. I attibute that to the fact that gluten is known to cause inflamation in the body. So this was an added benefit.
I should mention that before I went gluten free I had a regular regimen of supplements, including antioxidants, and ate a very healthy diet for many many years. I still have continued with that.
That’s awesome, Diane!
I wish my sister would do so. The hypothyroidism turned into Hashimoto’s and I’ve sent her article after artilce but she refuses to give up her 3x a day wholegrain breads and crackers, stating it’s the only thing she CAN eat.
She also has terrible pain in her lower back and can no longer ride horseback.
She hasn’t gained a pound in over 40 years and is still very teeny.
I’m glad you made the connection and are feeling better.
I have hashimoto’s too and am having wonderful results with gluten free. I’m taking supplements too along with my Juice Plus (which I noticed a huge jump in energy and reduction of inflammation when I added the vineyard.. don’t know what is in that … grapes and vine fruits… but it’s amazing! ) My levels are leveling out and we’re ready for phase two soon. Have your sister get the book Hope for Hashimoto’s. It’s an investment but it will motivate her to do the things to rid herself of the hashimoto’s. (which is an auto immune disorder… so ya really want to rebuild the immune system too so that other auto-immune disease’s don’t creep up on you. )
Hey, doc..you mention that Gluten is in everything..ketchup, mustard…but how? And where?
So many people say that very same thing – gluten is in everything – but where and how is it listed in the ingredients for us to discern and choose something else??
Thanks.
I look for words like “added Starch” if it’s corn starch they will say “corn starch” and that’s not gluten. But anything “modified” or “added” or I even shun the added yeast stuff. Really Dr Axe has said it before and you can’t go wrong with avoiding the more than 2 or 3 ingredient list’s. Go simple and whole. We’re doing a lot more raw dinners lately and you can’t get more simple than raw veggies ! (with a little cooked fish or chicken on the side. ) Sandwich meats have gluten, the pre-packaged ones… I can’t afford the deli cut meats so we buy a whole chicken(locally) and eat that for dinner, then the next day we slice it up for our sandwich’s . G-free diet book has some good advice… I skimmed through it once from the library. best wishes. we should start a g-free support group!
Thanks, Sherry.
Mostly my diet consists of green smoothies; a lot of juicing, salads, and homemade soups. I have no need for ketchup, so don’t buy it but still wondered how it had gluten; but I do use mustard.
If I buy meats (incl ckn) at all, I buy from a local, organic and grassfed farm here.
I was primarily raw “back home” about 8 years ago, but life is different now but I still eat pretty healthy here.
My co-workers think I’m strange. Is all you ever eat something GREEN? And all you ever eat is soup and salads?! LOL
I bring a really nice Igloo brand soft cooler to work. It’s vertical, and perfectly holds my four quarts of: alkaline water; green smoothie; and 2 juices: 1 green and one fruit/veggie.
They say “Aren’t you hungry JUST drinking juice all day?” LOL Are you kidding? I get so full just drinking half of it!
My Bible teacher at school says that most Asians tend to be gluten intolerate (she being half-Japanese) and she developed it in her 20′s. I’ve been have some strange digestive activities and I am Asian and only 16!
Thanks for the info. I’m trying to go gluten free for a few weeks and see how it goes.
And couldn’t help but notice – your head leans a lot to the left.
Hi Dr. Axe,
I recently bought your cookbook and I’m now subscribing to a gluten, sugar, and dairy free diet. The reason I started this diet was to see if it would help regulate my hormones…I have PCOS and it’s caused infertility problems for me and my husband. It seems to be helping my cycles, however I can’t help but lose weight on this diet. I am one of the people with PCOS who is thin. I have always been in the healthy percentiles and I exercise on a regular basis. I am wondering how to gain weight in a healthy way with this type of diet? I know some people would enjoy having this problem, but I am worried about becoming too thin. Should I just eat constantly throughout the day (which I pretty much already do). Is it okay to consumer a lot of high fat foods like steak if I’m eating lots of veggies and fruits?
I’d really appreciate your advice.
Thank you and Bless you!
Melissa
What water type of water filter system and what brand do you recommend?
I have read conflicting opinions on distilled, alkaline, reverse osmosis, and ordinary filtering.
Thanks.
What water type of water filter system and what brand do you recommend?
I have read conflicting opinions on distilled, alkaline, reverse osmosis, and ordinary filtering.
Thanks for your suggestion.