This time on the ‘Gluten Free RN’ podcast, Nadine examines the many autoimmune disorders that are associated with celiac disease. Once you have acquired one autoimmune disease, your chances of developing another increase exponentially – Nadine had seven!
Nadine shares how she was able to heal the inflammation in her intestines that caused those autoimmune disorders and go from a positive ANA panel to a negative one in just a year on a Paleo diet.
Listen and understand which autoimmune diseases are linked to gluten intolerance and how to dodge those bullets by going gluten-free!
What’s Discussed:
The chances of developing additional autoimmune disorders
- Once you have one autoimmune disease, your chances of developing another are 30% -50% greater
Nadine’s ‘collection’ of autoimmune disorders
- Raynaud’s phenomenon is a circulation issue that gave her purple/white hands and feet
- Sjogren’s syndrome dried out her mucus membranes
- She suffered from arthritis and joint pain
- Alopecia caused her hair to thin and fall out
Why celiac disease is sometimes misdiagnosed as MS, ALS or Parkinson’s
How Dr. Terry Wahls went from a wheelchair to riding a bike by eliminating gluten
How it is possible for your body to heal the inflammation causing autoimmune disorders, regardless of what the medical establishment says
- Remove the things that cause damage
- Replace the nutrients your body needs
Additional autoimmune disorders associated with celiac disease
- Liver disease (primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis)
- Type 1 diabetes
- Autoimmune thyroiditis
- Addison’s disease
- Dermatitis herpetiformis
- Alopecia
- Vitiligo
- Neurological issues (gluten ataxia, peripheral neuropathies)
- Connective tissue diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis)
- Sjogren’s syndrome
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Autoimmune pericarditis
- Psoriasis
- Sarcoidosis
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Pancreatitis
- Microscopic colitis
- Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
- Wilson’s disease
The importance of checking magnesium RBC levels in cardiac patients
The genetic overlap between Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease
- A study in Scotland found that 94% of Type 1 diabetics carry the HLA-DQ2/-DQ8 genes
Resources Mentioned:
The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles by Terry Wahls MD and Eve Adamson
Terry Wahls MD Research Study Update
Connect with Nadine:
Books by Nadine:
Dough Nation: A Nurse’s Memoir of Celiac Disease from Missed Diagnosis to Food and Health Activism
Dear Nadine,
I have NCGS and I am also very reactive to chemicals in air fresheners and essential oils. I have be told about the toxic scents and have a number of links and have been told about the connection with celiac in terms that if you are sensitive to gluten you have sensitivities to scents (I assume not all are as reactive like I am.) The scents can give me the same reactions as I have to gluten including explosive diarrhea, rash on my nose, raynaud’s symptom with colored fingers when exposed to the toxic chemicals in scents. I also reacted with syncopy once from delayed chemical sensitivity and blacked out sitting up and could have died if my husband had not found me. In ER I was told labs and heart are all healthy, but this can kill. I am very healthy. I believe I am gluten-zero. I just can not be by air fresheners, essential oils, and toxic scents.
When I shared this information with NCA, a celiac support group, they said I can no longer represent them as a leader. (Which is okay with me), but as a medical doctor from CSA told me about the connection years ago, and a local dietician told me about the connection, I would like to know if there is a connection between celiac and sensitivities to scents.
I saw your website looking up raynaud’s and if there was a connection with celiac, and thought maybe you have some thoughts.
I believe many market essential oils and the chemical companies put a lot of pressure to keep this connetcion with celiac hidden. I have been told this and before NCA did not want to hear me talk about chemical sensitivity, I was told by one NCA leader that many of their family work for Dupont, then I started getting this reaction from NCA. My intent is not to bad mouth NCA, but to honestly know the truth about celiac and chemical sensitivity. I am now on a grain free diet avoiding chemicals in foods and environment, and it is very helpful for me.
Thanks for your honest answer on your thoughts.
Sincerely,
Elaine Rubel
Elaine, You are correct. People with celiac disease and NCGS can easily have multiple sensitivities, especially to scents and airborne chemicals.