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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff Mom Never told You?

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Speaker 1: From housetop works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline, and today we are tackling

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Speaker 1: Celiac disease, tackling it, taking it out, taking it out,

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Speaker 1: taking it on, and talk about where it came from,

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Speaker 1: why all of a sudden in the past few years

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Speaker 1: it seems to be everywhere, and what the deal is

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Speaker 1: with the gluten free lifestyle? Ye, what does it have

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Speaker 1: to do with Miley Cyrus. Yeah, So basically we're going

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Speaker 1: to tackle Celiac disease and Miley Cyrus right to boil

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Speaker 1: it down for you. But what to kick things off

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Speaker 1: is Celiac disease exactly? Well, Kristen, it happens to be

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Speaker 1: a digestive condition triggered by eating gluten, which is a

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Speaker 1: protein found in foods containing wheat, barley, or rye. So basically,

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Speaker 1: people with this condition candy, bread, pasta, cookies, pizza, or

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Speaker 1: anything else that makes me happy in my life. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are ways which will get to where

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Speaker 1: made with specialty kinds of ingredients that do not contain gluten.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why gluten triggers this problem with people

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Speaker 1: with celiac is that, um, there is an immune reaction

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Speaker 1: in the small intestine that damages hair like structures that

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Speaker 1: coat the inside of our intestines called vel i, and

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Speaker 1: those vally help the body absorb nutrients. And if the

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Speaker 1: vel i get damaged, he just poop out the nutrients.

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, he just poop it out. What is okay? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's good. Uh. It also causes a loss of calcium

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Speaker 1: in particular to think about, lactose intolerance, cancer, and neurological complications.

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Speaker 1: So if things are upset in your tummy, if you

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Speaker 1: have a tinder tummy, you have a lot of other

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Speaker 1: things to worry about. But you might not even have

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Speaker 1: a tinder tummy if you do, in fact have celiac,

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Speaker 1: because it can happen without symptoms, and as the Mayo

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Speaker 1: of hard to a diagnose among those symptoms. So that

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Speaker 1: Since we've talked about the upset stomach, um irritability, or depression,

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Speaker 1: there was a new study that we found um linking

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Speaker 1: heightened depression in women with Celiac disease. They haven't looked

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Speaker 1: But there does seem to be that mental health aspect

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Speaker 1: of it. Muscle cramps, skin rash, mouth sores, grape poop,

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Speaker 1: these A lot of these symptoms are malnutrition related because,

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Speaker 1: When when the lining of its damage, you're not getting

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Speaker 1: And so you might wonder what causes this? Why have

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Speaker 1: I been struck down with Celiac disease? Nobody knows. Nobody knows.

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Speaker 1: It does seem to be more common in women, according

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Speaker 1: to the National Institutes of Health. Also more common at

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Speaker 1: least used to be in non Hispanic white folk of

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