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Do I really need to cut out gluten?
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Do I really need to cut out gluten?

Everyone seems to have an opinion on gluten. Cut it out completely. It’s a wellness fad. It’s the root of all evil. It’s only relevant if you have coeliac disease. But the advice often arrives at extremes and most of it isn’t grounded in what's actually happening in your individual body.

The honest answer is more nuanced than either camp tends to admit. Whether gluten matters for you specifically depends on your diagnosis, your immune status and factors most people have never had explained to them. 

This post cuts through the noise, explains what actually happens in your gut every time you eat gluten (yes, everyone’s gut, not just the sensitive ones), and lays out which autoimmune conditions carry the biggest gluten-related risk. If you’ve been going round in circles on this one, this is the piece I’d like you to read.

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