But even if I had, the knowledge on the page would have been far less convincing than the health renaissance I experienced after gluten was removed. Had I read more about my condition- Hashimotos Thyroiditis-before my health really took a nose dive, I might have learned that gluten is a big cause of inflammation for people with thyroid conditions (and autoimmune issues in general). And once that agony came to a close, with results in hand, it was clear that gluten was the big culprit. For three weeks, I cut out soy, corn, dairy, sugar, and wheat.
My physician did bloodwork to test for food sensitivities, and while we waited for results to come back, he put me on an elimination diet plan, knowing that seeing the changes in how I felt would be the biggest indicator of what to do going forward. I had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease a few years earlier, but stubbornly continued to plow through everyday life, unmedicated, until my best friend and most trusted colleague-my stomach!-decided to turn on me. Six years ago, when I was suffering from many of the above, I wound up in the office of a doctor who practiced functional medicine, an integrative approach to the underlying cause of illness. Mysterious headaches, hair loss, anxiety, depression, fatigue, acid reflux, muscle soreness, IBS, allergies, acne, rashes-name a symptom, and chances are a shift in diet can help alleviated it. the root of all bodily evil-is a hidden food sensitivity. One of the most common sources of inflammation-i.e.
While I take a mostly omission-free approach to my own eating habits, it’s because years ago I did the hard work of figuring out what aspects of my diet were causing me harm in more ways than just the numbers on a scale.
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