Hi,
This is a very important question that everyone with Hashimoto's should be asking. I can only tell you from my experiences even though there are some articles in a few medical journals from around the world which show a higher incidence of Hashimoto's with people who've been diagnosed with Gluten Intolerance.
I know that when my patients avoid gluten they will recover much more quickly than those who don't. I also know that for some reason the avoidance of gluten will low people's thyroid antibodies.
One woman whom I was sure had Hashimoto's showed normal thyroid antibodies on a lab test. This was a test she had done the year before. I asked her is she had been avoiding gluten at the time of this test, and she had been.
I asked her to eat gluten for three days and to repeat the lab test, which we did. Her antibodies were high. Now, they may have been high before she reintroduced gluten but she remarked feeling much worse after it.
I've been considering the connection between the thyroid and the small intestines... embryonically they come from the same germ layer, what's called the endoderm. Maybe there is some connection with inflammation of the gut and inflammation of the thyroid.
You can have thyroid inflammation and not have Hashimoto's. But you cannot have Hashimoto's without having thyroid inflammation. Thyroid inflammation that goes on for a long time has a very high risk of developing into Hashimoto's.
I hope this offers a bit of clarity....
Dr. Alexander Haskell
No.
It is an autoimmune disease.
No disease can digest gluten. If someone has gluten intolerance or celiac disease that person will not be able to comfortably digest gluten, however.
It is for people that have a disease called Celiac disease. They cannot eat anything with gluten or wheat.
Yes, the treatment for celiac disease is a gluten free diet. It is not a cure, but celiac disease is an autoimmune disease, where your body has an autoimmune reaction to gluten, so the only treatment that is presently available is avoiding gluten. Gluten is found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats (unless the oats are certified gluten free, oats don't actually contain gluten, but they are a rotated crop with wheat, so they are usually contaminated)
No
no effect of mixing was observed for the storage modulus (G′) of gluten for any of the flours.
Celiac's Disease.
Not if you have celiac disease.
Yes, see your GP.
Yes, it's called a gluten sensitivity or gluten intolerance. A gluten intolerance is not as serious because it is a non-autoimmune condition and is not as sensitive. Where as with Celiac Disease it is an autoimmune disorder and causes people to be much more sensitive.
The protein called gluten harms the villi inside the intestine of people with Celiac disease, a hereditary disease that can only be treated by a wheat and gluten free diet.