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Hrough my own experience, as told below, and passion for nutrition, I have researched and read almost everything that has to do with celiac disease and gluten intolerance. I hope you find this site useful, as I have included all that I found important in my studies.I grew up in a small town in south Jersey that had a non-existent Jewish population and therefore no Jewish deli. Every Sunday my father would get up at the crack of dawn and make the trip into Philadelphia to go to Famous Delicatessen. He would bring back bagels, lox, whitefish salad, pickles, and creamed cheese. Upon his return my dad would walk down the bedroom hallway and declare that, “breakfast was served!” He would open the curtains in each of our rooms and continue to convince us to wake up. Following the smell of the platters of onions and fresh bagels, my brothers and I would scramble downstairs to the feast. We were often greeted by our family friend and neighbor whom would already be picking at the lox and drinking coffee. This tradition carried on through divorce, college, adulthood and even through “low carb” diets.Despite the lack of Jews in our neighborhood, a few towns over there was a synagogue that became our home away from home. My mother was president of the synagogue and my siblings and I attended Hebrew school 3 days a week after conventional school. Of course, we were all bar/bat mitzvahs and if that is not enough, upon one brother’s return from Israel where he spent time on a kibbutz, we became kosher. For holidays, as both sides of my family are of European descent, we had, shall I say, a plethora of Jewish recipes from which to choose and plan our meals. Besides lots of time in services each holiday, big or small, was celebrated with an abundance of food that included challah bread, matzoh balls, knishes, blintzs and kugel. So, needless to say, I know Jewish and I know Jewish food.Continuing the tradition of “eating together,” during the 80’s we all steered our diets toward the very popular low fat high carbohydrate way of eating, and together, we all “blew up.” None of us looked or felt very well. We all had a difficult time staying lean, even though we were all active and had always stayed fit. We seemed to be holding a layer fat and to be bloated from water weight.

In an attempt to lose some of this weight in the late 90’s, one of my brothers decided to try the Atkin’s diet. A bigger problem than his gaining a few extra pounds, however, was a history of bad gas, and not just “funny” bad gas, but clear a room bad gas. For years, we all just thought he was rude and gross but as he cut out breads and other flour containing products, a requirement of the Atkins diet, the gas disappeared. Once thinking that cheese was the source of his digestive problems, he realized that it was the crackers and breads eaten with the cheese that caused the gas, not the cheese itself. Thankful for this unexpected discovery from following the Atkins diet, he decided he had a “wheat problem” or “allergy” and eliminated it from his diet. My other brother also began watching his diet to lose weight after the 80’s low fat high carb days. After following a low carbohydrate regimen, greatly eliminating wheat products from his diet, he felt and looked a lot better too.Now, until 2002, I thought I was clear of the gluten/wheat problems that seemed to have plagued my brothers. At the end of 2002, I had lost a long time job and also ended a relationship. I was in such a state of stress that I had never known before that created quite a bit of restlessness. At night, I rarely slept and during the day, since I was collecting severance and then unemployment, with plenty of time to kill, stress to release, and fun to be had, I worked out. I worked out all day; hiking, playing basketball, running and lifting weights.

Soon, I was looking lean and fit but my abdomen was always bloated. Besides a constantly bloated abdomen, I had painful sores in my nose and badly bleeding gums. The worst of it was that I was now the one with the bad gas! I had it every day, all day and quite frankly, it smelled worse than any gas I had ever had! I was also constipated. I was appalled and confused. After all I had a master’s degree in nutrition and had been working in the field for over 10 years. How could I be suffering so badly? What could this be? I figured I had irritable bowel, which is a common diagnosis for the types of GI problems I was experiencing, and is even more common when accompanied by stress. So I started a supplement protocol to work on myself.

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