Given the choice between a heart transplant and a gluten-free diet, the vast majority – if not all – of us would quickly opt for the diet! Yet the medical community continues to ignore celiac disease as a potential cause of cardiac complications, despite documented connections between the two conditions.
The Gluten Free RN is sharing her experience with heart attack and stroke victims in the ER, and discussing the necessity of screening cardiac patients for celiac disease. She gets into the nitty gritty of how intestinal damage leads to nutrient deficiencies that affect the cardiac system, and reveals the cardiac symptoms that may resolve on a gluten-free diet.
Listen in and learn about the actual cause of heart attack and stroke (spoiler alert – it's not high cholesterol) and how Nadine has achieved a lipid panel akin to that of a '23-year-old marathon runner'!
The connection between cardiac issues and celiac disease
The real cause of heart attack and stroke
How a gluten-free diet can resolve cardiomyopathy
Nadine's experience in treating cardiac patients as a critical care nurse in the ER
How to correct a magnesium deficiency
How intestinal damage leads to nutrient deficiencies that affect the cardiac system
Cardiac symptoms that may resolve on a gluten-free or Paleo diet
The myth that fat is bad for us
Nadine's call for a worldwide mass screening for celiac disease
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Gluten Toxicity: The Mysterious Symptoms of Celiac Disease, Dermatitis Herpetiformis, and Non-Celiac Gluten Intolerance by Shelly L. Stuart
'Your Skin on Gluten' on YouTube
Dough Nation: A Nurse's Memoir of Celiac Disease from Missed Diagnosis to Food and Health Activism
