Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
Boots UK do not offer IgG food intolerance testing – which is, as is summarised here, regarded by the immunological, dietetic and wider scientific community as useless – but Boots Ireland do. Strange then, that Boots WebMD, on their How…
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I was excited when Dr Alessio Fasano released the excellent Gluten Freedom in 2014 and I was similarly excited when another top international gluten expert – Professor David Sanders – released his first book, Gluten Attack, earlier this year. Finally, I’ve…
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I’m still processing last month’s anti-gluten Twitter campaign from ex-Dragon Duncan Bannatyne – a man who, remember, warned hundreds of thousands of followers against accepting nutritional advice from dietitians trained to give it, and in the same unqualified breath dished…
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I’m a fan of science. I’ve little patience with those who consider science an optional means of understanding the world (in my experience, exclusively people who’ve never studied it), and I believe evidence-based medicine – which uses rigorous scientific method…
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Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity doesn’t exist. Yes it does. No it doesn’t. Yes it does. Round and round we go, in an endless confusing circle of blinkered, righteous assertion. The scramble, when the news broke properly, to be among the first…
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In my last blog we looked at what would happen were we to screen the entire population for coeliac disease, inspired entirely by a great little video by mathematician, Dan Abramson. In a nutshell, two out of every three blood-positive…
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Before I did this writing lark I worked in the City – temping, IT helpdesk, software training – and before that I worked in various cigarette kiosks in and around Cardiff (South Walian smoker in the 90s? Bet I’ll have…
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I had been hoping that the release of Novak Djokovic’s new book would bring to the surface the truth about his gluten-related diagnosis, and a new editorial in the Wall Street Journal appears to have done just that. It’s been…
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First, look for a study to come along, on which you can peg a press release. This one might do. It looks at the association between dichlorophenols – chemicals used to chlorinate water – and food allergic sensitisation, ie IgE-mediated…
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You are always a girl, usually in her twenties, but sometimes younger, and you say you’re going to stop eating gluten. You say you’ve been feeling a bit ill, a bit bloated, a bit sick, a bit tired-all-the-time, and –…
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