| Are you concerned about cutting out gluten from | | | | you will feel worse for a few weeks before you |
| your diet because you think you might experience | | | | feel better. This is totally normal, and is just the |
| withdrawal symptoms? Or have you recently cut | | | | body sorting itself out. |
| out gluten from your diet and now you're | | | | Aside from just riding it out until it eventually |
| suffering from a whole manner of uncomfortable | | | | passes and you feel better, the best thing you |
| symptoms? Is it really possible to really suffer so | | | | can do during this time is to make sure you are |
| badly just from cutting gluten from your diet? | | | | getting plenty of good food in the rest of your |
| Well, to answer that question: yes, you can go | | | | diet. For example, plenty of fruit and vegetables, |
| through a withdrawal phase when you first | | | | lots of good protein (fish, nuts, seeds, beans and |
| remove gluten from your diet. The reason for | | | | pulses), and other replacement grains such as rice. |
| this is because gluten has a kind of opiate effect | | | | It is important to keep up your nourishment, so |
| on the system and you actually become | | | | that your body gets all the nutrients it needs and |
| "addicted". The thing is, it's not normally thought of | | | | gets a steady supply of energy. If you approach |
| as an addiction since gluten is such a common | | | | it in this way, any withdrawal symptoms will feel |
| part of most people's diets. | | | | easier to cope with. |
| The likelihood is that when you first cut out gluten | | | | |