Concerning mental health:
via Celiac Disease and Mental Health | NFCA.
Celiac and Coping Strategies
Initiating and adhering to a gluten-free diet is a life change that requires major emotional and physical adjustments. Getting diagnosed and learning the requirements of a gluten-free lifestyle can take a toll on mental health. What’s more, strict adherence to a gluten-free diet can cause frustration, stress and anger.
Celiac Disease and Mental Health | NFCA gives an overview of gluten free and a bit about depression and anxiety.
Articles, with headlines that create doubt, that make gluten sensitivity more of a belief than a fact or that only celiac’s are able to justify a sensitivity to gluten, are quite misleading.
Gluten intolerance more psychological than physical: study | Food Magazine.
The context of the headline is misleading.
The reference to the original article, the article leading to the misleading “more psychological” headline article also may have a misleading headline: Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity May Not Exist.
And, finally, the author of the work these two articles are referring to comes from the original author , Gibson, denouncing his own original study referred to here: http://www.gastro.org/journals-publications/gastroenterology/gastro-podcast/gastroenterology-podcast-august-2013
Gluten Intolerance May Not Exist.
via Unless You Have Celiac Disease, Gluten Sensitivity is in Your Head.
This doesn’t help; yet a third reference to Ross Pomeroy’s article.
“That finding comes from a new study led by Peter Gibson, a professor of gastroenterology at Monash University in Australia. Gibson is the same researcher who published a paper in 2011 that reported gluten sensitivity in non-celiac patients. The results of that paper didn’t sit well with him, so he designed a more rigorous study involving 37 patients who didn’t have celiac disease but reported feeling better when on a gluten-free diet.”
Mr. Pomeroy also printed the same article in Fortune and Real Science picked up Pomeroy’s article.
I don’t think the article is helping anything. What are editors ( or “content providers” ) trying to achieve with the headline? Is it working?
I think so. Here’s another example.
Links, almost, to its article :
http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/12/05/jeffery-smiths-claim-of-rampant-gmogluten-allergies-rebuked-by-celiac-disease-foundation/
brings back an error, but “there’s no need to rehash that here.”
“Geller was responding to a claim by anti-GMO activist Jeffery Smith that GMO food, particularly Bt corn, could explain the observed increase in NCGS over the last several years. Smith’s claim is well rebutted in the GLP articleand its cited sources, so there’s no need to rehash that here, but during 2014 there were more developments related to NCGS. As another Genetic Literacy post summed up six weeks ago, avoidance of gluten appears to be just a fad, medically necessary only in “rare cases”.
Those rare cases mean celiac disease. That’s because the more the NCGS issue is investigated, the more it seems to be not a real condition. As PBS Nova recently reported, unless you have celiac disease gluten sensitivity is probably just in your head.”
It really can be in your head. That’s where all brain washing occurs. Then again there’s mental health issues we needn’t consider. A stance that doesn’t allow for solutions other than “just in your head” are really quite adequate. Even this next article from a popular or mostly pop magazine is not so glib to realize steps towards better mental health . . .
via Gluten Sensitivity: Nonsense or New Disease? | Psychology Today.
Subtitle: The psychopathology in that Artisan Loaf.
Written by Mark Borigini, M.D.
“This brings us to a consideration of the “nocebo effect.” In medicine, a nocebo (Latin for “I will harm”, versus the Latin for placebo-“I will please”) reaction or response refers to harmful, unpleasant, or undesirable effects a subject manifests after receiving an inert dummy drug or substance. Nocebo responses are not chemically generated and are due only to the subject’s pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert substance will produce negative consequences.”
“Taking mind and body into consideration, and in the interest of forestalling the possibly unjustified transformation of gluten preoccupation to an urban dogma that gluten is toxic for most living beings, more clinical research is needed—research that addresses the psychological and the physical ramifications of gluten sensitivity, and the “belief’ in gluten sensitivity.
The last thing society needs is a possible health problem becoming a social problem, resulting in a mental health problem. “
Luckily we can move on to a more positive article that suggests, regardless of the malady — celiac, gluten intolerant, gluten sensitivity, gluten allergic reaction — removing gluten from the diet might help reduce anxiety and depression.
Repeat: “removing gluten from the diet might help reduce anxiety and depression.”
Gluten may be seen as addictive, as proteins are broken down into peptides known as exorphins which can and do affect the central nervous system.
Gluten Intolerance and Depression, Anxiety and Other Psychological