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Hopefully recuperating well from your surgery.
Dee~~~~~
Hey There WKM62
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Hey There WKM62
"What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others."
Wayne,
FWIW, I kept a food diary for over two years. I started keeping records a little over a month before I started the GF diet. To be honest, I was never able to detect any correlation between eating gluten, and my symptoms, and how I felt, in general. After I adopted the diet, of course, I never ingested even a trace of gluten, (to the best of my knowledge, but even so, it took about six months, before I could see even a suggestion of any improvement. After that, I seemed to slowly improve, (more good days than bad days, etc.), and about a year and a half into the diet, I finally bit the bullet, and stopped "experimenting" with dairy, soy, sugar, and corn, and within a couple of weeks, I was in remission.
I believe that the main reason why I was never able to "see" how gluten might be affecting me, is because I ate at least a little of it every day, and with gluten, (as some experts will point out), one molecule is as toxic as 10,000. Every time you eat some gluten, (even in trace amounts), that effectively "sets the clock back" on your recovery schedule, because it causes additional damage to your intestines, and that means that for the affected areas of your intestines, the healing process will have to go back and start over, at "square one".
It's not like you can "cut down" on your gluten intake, and see any significant improvement, at least not for most of us. In ten minutes of careless eating, you can inadvertently do enough damage to last for months. Gluten is a very insidious and cruel adversary, because it has the ability to make us crave it, and it's able to mask it's effects, due to the fact that healing is such a slow process.
At least, that's the way I see it.
Tex
FWIW, I kept a food diary for over two years. I started keeping records a little over a month before I started the GF diet. To be honest, I was never able to detect any correlation between eating gluten, and my symptoms, and how I felt, in general. After I adopted the diet, of course, I never ingested even a trace of gluten, (to the best of my knowledge, but even so, it took about six months, before I could see even a suggestion of any improvement. After that, I seemed to slowly improve, (more good days than bad days, etc.), and about a year and a half into the diet, I finally bit the bullet, and stopped "experimenting" with dairy, soy, sugar, and corn, and within a couple of weeks, I was in remission.
I believe that the main reason why I was never able to "see" how gluten might be affecting me, is because I ate at least a little of it every day, and with gluten, (as some experts will point out), one molecule is as toxic as 10,000. Every time you eat some gluten, (even in trace amounts), that effectively "sets the clock back" on your recovery schedule, because it causes additional damage to your intestines, and that means that for the affected areas of your intestines, the healing process will have to go back and start over, at "square one".
It's not like you can "cut down" on your gluten intake, and see any significant improvement, at least not for most of us. In ten minutes of careless eating, you can inadvertently do enough damage to last for months. Gluten is a very insidious and cruel adversary, because it has the ability to make us crave it, and it's able to mask it's effects, due to the fact that healing is such a slow process.
At least, that's the way I see it.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.