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NGF Digest 002: Holiday Tips and Recipes, Skin Care, Science News and Book Review December 12, 2021 |
HiWelcome to December, AND welcome to Issue 002 of Naturally Gluten-Free Digest!Thanks so much to our early subscribers who made the inaugural issue a success. I got so many kind and encouraging comments and I’m happy that you are enjoying it as much as I enjoy putting it together for you. Go ahead and pass this along if you know someone who would benefit from info on living gluten-free and some of my best recipes. Gluten-Free Skin Care:With the frosty weather, do you find your skin pays the price?![]() Gluten-Free Holidays![]() Do like the traditional turkey or ham?Or do you prefer to change it up a bit?![]() News From the Scientific CommunityThis month’s research was all about celiac disease and your skin.![]() A 2009 study entitled, Celiac Disease: From Gluten to Skin, investigated links between celiac and 23 different skin diseases including: eczema, psoriasis, alopecia areata, and chronic urticaria (hives) and found a positive correlation with many of them. This same research paper called out that many skin diseases seem to be characterized by dysregulation of the immune system and demonstrate a link between the gut and skin, calling it the gut-skin axis.1 The Canadian Digestive Health Foundation (CDHF) has also made the gut – skin association saying that inflammation that starts in the gut often manifests on the skin, as do vitamin deficiencies, especially of skin supporting nutrients like A, C, E, K3, B3, B3, selenium, zinc, silica, sulfur and omega-3 fats. Celiac disease can interfere with vitamin and mineral absorption which is likely to show up in a variety of symptoms, including skin issues.2
What I’m reading![]() I also mentioned last month that I’d just started reading Food, Genes and Culture: Eating Right for Your Origins by Gar Paul Nabhan. He goes deeper into the notion of how the foods our ancestors ate interacted with their DNA and how ignoring that may be contributing to 21st century disease. Well, I had lens replacement surgery a few weeks ago so my reading was put on hold for a bit. This means I’ll have to get back to you on that one. Instead, I started listening to the audio book of the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It’s not about food at all so I won’t be reviewing it on the site, but it certainly is eye opening! That’s all for this month.I’d love to hear from you. Let me know what you’d like to see in the newsletter. Just drop me a line from my Contact Page .
![]() In the meantime, you can follow me on Facebook at NGF_facebook Or on Pinterest at NGF-Pinterest If you've received this from a friend, welcome! To learn more about me and my work click this link to my about Patty Maguire page . From there, feel free to peruse the site, then if you're interested you can sign up here to receive my newsletter every month. I respect your privacy! I won't use your email for anything other than to send you my newsletter. Sources: 1. Abenavoli L, Proietti I, Zaccone V, Gasbarrini G, Addolorato G. Celiac disease: from gluten to skin. Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2009 Nov;5(6):789-800. doi: 10.1586/eci.09.46. PMID: 20477697. 2. How does your gut health affect your skin? Canadian Digestive Health Foundation. (2020, August 10). Retrieved December 12, 2021, from https://cdhf.ca/health-lifestyle/how-does-your-gut-health-affect-your-skin/. |
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