I'll clarify. My thoughts on it are this:
1) If you feel you benefit from a gluten-free diet, it is possible you have a medically diagnosible intolerance or celiac disease. It is hugely underdiagnosed, and way more people have it than think they do.
2) If you go gluten-free without a test, it is possible that you will get a false negative on a future test. I believe that when people do a diet change without a diagnosis they tend to take it less seriously, as it is not a medically prescribed diet. But gluten intolerance is something to be taken very seriously -- I'm at higher risk for lymphoma, osteoporosis, thyroid issues, and other inflammation and malabsorption-related issues unless I follow a very strict diet.
3) A gluten-free diet can be very emotionally trying -- realizing you're at a work function where you can't eat anything, never eating at someone else's wedding again, realizing you forgot to bring your own snacks on a plane, etc... I just wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that unless there's a reason!
1) If you feel you benefit from a gluten-free diet, it is possible you have a medically diagnosible intolerance or celiac disease. It is hugely underdiagnosed, and way more people have it than think they do.
2) If you go gluten-free without a test, it is possible that you will get a false negative on a future test. I believe that when people do a diet change without a diagnosis they tend to take it less seriously, as it is not a medically prescribed diet. But gluten intolerance is something to be taken very seriously -- I'm at higher risk for lymphoma, osteoporosis, thyroid issues, and other inflammation and malabsorption-related issues unless I follow a very strict diet.
3) A gluten-free diet can be very emotionally trying -- realizing you're at a work function where you can't eat anything, never eating at someone else's wedding again, realizing you forgot to bring your own snacks on a plane, etc... I just wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that unless there's a reason!
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