Dr. Tracy McAlvanah's Wellness Blog

If you tested for whether gluten might be behind your chronic health issues but a blood test came back negative, are you wondering, “Now what?” Although it’s possible gluten may not be a problem for you, there’s a high probability that test result was inaccurate. Conventional testing for gluten sensitivity misses many important markers and can give you a false negative result. As a result, you may be told gluten is not an issue when in fact it is provoking your autoimmune disease or chronic health condition. Gluten has been linked in the literature to 55 diseases so far, most of them autoimmune. Fortunately, newer testing has been developed by  Cyrex Labs  to catch the cases of gluten sensitivity that conventional testing misses. Why standard blood tests often fail at diagnosing gluten sensitivity Standard blood tests for gluten sensitivity have a less than 30 percent accuracy rate. Gluten has to have significantly destroyed the gut wall for blood testing to be effective...

Do you suffer from depression, anxiety disorders, brain fog, memory loss, or other brain-based issues? While conventional medicine turns to drug treatments, recent research points to poor gut health as the root of mental illness. This is because inflammation in the gut triggers  inflammation  throughout the body, including in the brain, bringing on depression, anxiety, brain fog, memory loss and other neurological symptoms. Although many factors affect gut health—and hence brain health—one of the more profound is a sensitivity to gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and other wheat-like grains. In fact, a gluten sensitivity has been found to affect  brain  and nerve tissue more than any other tissue in the body. Gluten sensitivity once was thought to be limited to  celiac disease , an autoimmune response to gluten that damages the digestive tract and is linked to depression. However, newer research has confirmed the validity of  non-celiac glu...