If you're varying your wheat intake and keeping everything else the same, I wonder if you may also be varying your fiber intake by a large factor, and seeing some consequences from that.
I have a strong suspicion - completely unsubstantiated by science - that a lot of digestive tolerance issues have a lot to do with gut flora, and that would be within its rights to take a few days to adapt to a big change of diet.
You might want to check out "Anicubital fossa" (or some spelling variant of that) for the area so favored by phlebotomists. And...ummm... would that be a British gallon, or an Exaggerationist's gallon?
I don't really want to go into this in too much detail, but are you sure that gluten is the trigger? I've had similar problems and went down the wheat free route etc, but it didn't work.
More by trial and error I managed to work out that the triggers I had were wine/vinegar/soy sauce and certain types of dairy - basically if it isn't processed in a certain way my body rejects it completely. So a pizza made with the wrong dairy would trigger a response and a pizza made with out the right one would not.
If there is a thing triggered by too much gluten as opposed to any at all, then that sounds like my issue. I'm fine as long as I don't eat too much pasta too often or a lot of bread on a empty stomach. I've given up on pizza though because I blew up like a balloon every time I ate it. I'm not good with too much animal fat either though so it may be the combination of pizza dough and lot of cheese that did for me rather than gluten specifically.
The food diary is a really good idea, I've solved most of my issues by avoiding trigger foods. The other thing I find is that eating little and often is much better for me - going too long without food does not agree with me at all.
I know several people with IBS (not coeliacs) who have no problem with fibre per se (eg veg, pulses, beans, oats) but a big problem with wheat fibre/bran.
I think there's at least half-decent evidence to back this anecdata at the population level - the NICE guidance on IBS says it's probably a good idea to adjust fibre intake, usually reducing it, and switching from insoluble (wheat bran) to soluble (eg oats). This is a big change from the traditional "eat more fibre, bran is the best plan" response that most GPs used to give for just about any bowel issue.
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I shall keep paying attention though.
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More by trial and error I managed to work out that the triggers I had were wine/vinegar/soy sauce and certain types of dairy - basically if it isn't processed in a certain way my body rejects it completely. So a pizza made with the wrong dairy would trigger a response and a pizza made with out the right one would not.
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The food diary is a really good idea, I've solved most of my issues by avoiding trigger foods. The other thing I find is that eating little and often is much better for me - going too long without food does not agree with me at all.
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And I'm much the same - 3 hours between snacks suits me best!
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I think there's at least half-decent evidence to back this anecdata at the population level - the NICE guidance on IBS says it's probably a good idea to adjust fibre intake, usually reducing it, and switching from insoluble (wheat bran) to soluble (eg oats). This is a big change from the traditional "eat more fibre, bran is the best plan" response that most GPs used to give for just about any bowel issue.
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