— Beth Rosenthal

I totally get where you're coming from and you've read that you, it'd be helpful to eliminate grains. Thoughts, suggestions for tasty replacements. I've been where you have been for a very long time and it took a long time to figure out what it was that was setting off autoimmune, uh, sensitivities. All of that. More than likely you have something in your diet that is affecting the lining of your intestines. And what it does is it creates these holes, which is what leaky gut is. And then because you have these holes, because of the offending food or foods, bigger protein molecules are getting through. So a lot of people who have what you're describing, I will see a list this long of everything they're allergic to, they're really allergic to maybe one or two things are sensitive to one or two things. You take those out of the diet, the leaky gut no longer becomes leaky and they no longer are allergic or sensitive to everything under the sun. So the first thing I would suggest for you is to really figure out what it is that's irritating your gut. If it is grains, you could try eliminating dairy, no dairy for two to three weeks at least, and then add some back in. What does your body say? Do the same with gluten, do the same with other grains. Your body will tell you what's working and not working better than any blood test. Again, being in this field for over 30 years, I've sent, um, people's bloods to different labs and there is no, in my opinion, um, accurate blood levels that tell much of anything. I I haven't experienced that in my life with me or my patients. So I would say try to get to the bottom of it. Use yourself as the, um, indicator of what's working and not working and try something different every about three weeks and you'll find something.