Recently we were contacted on twitter about this gluten diet study: link.springer/article/10.1007/s00296-014-2990-6/fulltext.html#Sec1 Our response was that diet is something that someone with fibro can control and effect change and a healthier diet leads to a healthier body and can therefore help overall health. Some people have mentioned various diet changes that have benefited their fibro symptoms. However some of our Medical advisory board were asked to look over the study to comment on it. The small sample size of selected patients gave some initial concerns. Also the fact that all patients had intraepithelial lymphocytosis was also of concern. The study has taken a particular profile of patient and tried to extrapolate this to all patients with fibromyalgia. This study has only demonstrated that this profile of patient have a gluten sensitivity and benefit from a gluten-free diet; there is no evidence that patients who were negative for intraepithelial lymphocytosis would benefit. For proper research conclusions studies need to be repeatable, be repeated in multi site trials and the results be demonstrated from a population size great enough to be representative. Only through this process can proper conclusions be drawn.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:28:03 +0000
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