Discover essential insights before starting a gluten-free diet. Learn potential pitfalls and health impacts to make an informed decision.
Essential Insights You Need to Know Before Going Gluten-Free
This conversation delves into the implications of gluten-free diets, particularly concerning kidney health. It highlights how such diets can inadvertently lead to the overconsumption of high-oxalate foods, notably almond flour, which may increase the risk of kidney stones. The discussion underscores the necessity of scrutinizing nutrition labels, as many gluten-free products are often high in sodium and sugar, further exacerbating the likelihood of kidney stone formation. It is essential to recognize that a gluten-free diet does not automatically equate to a healthy diet; therefore, consumers must be mindful of their food choices.
Key takeaways from the conversation include the risks associated with gluten-free diets, particularly the potential for kidney stone formation due to high-oxalate food intake. Specific attention is drawn to almond flour, which should be consumed cautiously. The conversation also emphasizes the importance of reading nutrition labels, as many gluten-free products have elevated levels of sodium and sugar, which can pose additional health risks. Overall, dietary choices should prioritize overall health rather than merely focusing on gluten-free status, and portion control plays a crucial role in maintaining a balanced and healthy diet.
Unlocking the Myths: What You Need to Know Before Going Gluten-Free!
Gluten-free diets are so popular but don’t start a gluten-free diet until you hear this why do we care about gluten-free diets in the kidney stone World well when you are glutenfree you are using flowers that that are they’re nut based typically so it’s not so you’re not eating wheat and have gi upset because of that or.
Flareups so you’re eating almond flour number one thing lots and lots of almond products because that works for baking and for breads stuff like that so you know people don’t want to give up flour in general and we do have a YouTube video about gluten-free flowers um so a lot of patients who have formed kidney stones.
It’s because they were overusing almond flour so common yeah in case someone doesn’t know too yeah how does that play into it yes when we eat almonds are very high in oxalate so they’re so high in oxalate that I do take them away because who the hell has ever said honey go get a go get the bag of oh you know what just get me one almond no one ever does.
That you want some almonds if you’re going to go get some almonds you want a few handfuls of them otherwise there’s no point in bringing them to the couch so almonds are very high in oxalate and when we have really high oxalate Foods over and over and over along with not getting any calcium in our diet we can get kidney stones from that so a lot of.
Celiac or gluten-free sorry a lot of gluten-free people are overeating High oxalate Foods that’s one thing the other thing when you’re buying glutenfree I’m going to use bread as an example when you’re buying gluten-free products like bread they’re taking the gluten out of the product.
Gluten makes breads chewy gives a nice consistency and people really like that once you take gluten out stuff food food starts tasting like cardboard okay so they want to doctor up the taste and feel from these products that the gluten has been removed from with things like more sugar and more salt so when you’re.
Getting your special gluten-free bread at the grocery store please pay attention and see how much sodium is in each slice because too much sodium also added sugar too much added sugar and too much sodium can make you have um can pull calcium from your bone and dump it into the urine and this is another kidney stone.
Risk so many patients will say Jill I’m eating healthy I’m glutenfree and I’ll say go get your bread go get your bread paully get it out okay I got it out turn it around bust a brown look at the nutrition label what Jill what look at the sodium oh my God there’s 250 milligrams of sodium in one slice of bread and I’m having a.
Sandwich Jill and also I’m having toast for breakfast so he’s eating hundreds of milligrams of sodium just in four pieces of bread a day forget about sodium and everything else and remember too much sodium can pull calcium from your bone and dump it into your urine also too much sodium can lower urine volume you feel bloed when you eat an out to eat.
Meal that’s because you’re retaining water from all the sodium and added sugar you just had so in the simplest terms possible when we eat too much sodium as we do in gluten-free diets many of you do you will pee less which can also increase your saturation ations your urine saturations and make you more prone to kidney stones think.
About it if you pee less you’re not constantly on a regular basis getting rid of all these crystals now they’re accumulating in the urine that you’re holding in because you ate too much salt added sugar actually works the same way when we eat too much added sugar that also will lower uh urine volume so you pee less and that’s again why we’re.
Walking around so bloated so it’s very important to know that a glutenfree diet doesn’t mean you’re eating healthy and many people are just going and have been on a gluten-free diet just because they think that’s a healthier way to eat without looking at nutrition labels without even needing the products because they don’t have.
Celiac disease so I want you to understand that glutenfree can if you’re not paying attention can really increase your kidney St Stone rest so it’s super important so if you don’t need to be gluten-free don’t watch your salt in any breads by the way people will say Jill what how should I choose bread I don’t I.
Want you to pay attention to the salt and added sugar in bread I’d also like you to pay attention to the amount of fiber in your bread choose pieces of bread or slices of bread that have at least three grams of fiber in it that’s awesome and then people will say but watch the salt in it and then also people will say well uh you know wheat.
Is high in oxalate and that’s also why I went gluten-free Jill because I figured I I I’ll go wheat free because you know there’s a lot of oxalate in wheat yeah but Harvard which is the oxalate uh list found on my website a cup of wheat is high in oxalate there ain’t a cup of Wheat and a.
Piece of bread folks so get your mind around that too it’s always about portion not Perfection it’s not about you can’t ever have wheed again it’s just you know you may not want to have two cups of wheed a day which no one’s doing there’s just a little bit of weed in that slice of bread so kind of all over the place but I the point is a.
Gluten-free diet for any of you who just happen to click on this and you’re just going gluten-free and don’t even have a kidney stone doesn’t mean it’s the healthiest diet in the world choose gluten-free diet uh products that are lower in sodium if you can find them and also for kidney stone formers specifically but for all of you pay.
Attention to all the sodium and added sugar that they’re putting in these gluten-free products and choose the gluten-free products if you actually need that that are lower in sodium does that make sense Jeff oh yeah it absolutely does yeah and like you know I’ve been gluten-free for a long time but I’m not big on products I’m very.
Much about the outside of the store you have your meats and veggies and fruits and I think that’s also something to consider too we’re going gluten-free are even if it’s just from a health perspective are we just um sort of the doing the cliche of the what is it Oreos and Doritos vegan where it’s like oh I went vegan and all I eat are vegan.
Doritos and vegan Oreo like that’s not really more healthy it’s just a shift so the same thing applies to gluten-free is are we merely doing this but shifting everything to also foods that aren’t sustaining for our like for our health for overall health and wellbeing I couldn’t agree more and it brings up the topic when we as consumers start buying.
Stuff don’t think these food companies don’t notice hey Henry these folks in the grocery store they’re all doing keto this is a few years ago people have slacked off on keto which is fine by me because it can also bring on a lot of kidney stones the way people are choosing to do it but don’t think too go yeah right so don’t think that people.
That uh the food companies don’t notice when keto went big one thing it did teach us get rid of sugar so people started demanding products that had very very low sugar by the way what they do with those products they started up in the salt and those products folks so if you have a salt-free product they’re going to add sugar to it if you have a.
Sugar-free product you can bet your sweet bippy there’s more sodium because remember the food companies want us to like the product so if if it’s low sugar they’re going to add more salt because we’ll like it better salt is appealing to our tongue and our mouth okay so when they take away something they’re adding in other things that are going to make.
Us like it otherwise everything starts tasting like notebook paper that’s why they do that to the breads because otherwise it is really like cardboard those breads but just because something is ketofriendly gluten free friendly all these things doesn’t mean it’s a healthy product and Jeff’s example of lots of vegans are obese simply because they’re.
They’re eating food that don’t have animal products in it but tons of calories right there’s all kinds of vegan products that are very caloric very salty all kinds of things doesn’t mean it’s healthy and so food people food companies know what we start buying and then they start making tons of it and a lot of times these things things.
Aren’t the best for us very true right so you could be gluten-free and having a really terrible diet folks just so you know you can be keto also lot of extra salt in those products so I’m just saying and both of those diets specifically keto and gluten very high in the Almond products almond flour almond milk right low carb diets all.
Almond almond almond and that’s how people get their kidney stones all those specialized diets makes the bulk of my practice let’s just say that right yeah and if you want another video on the keto diet or other diets leave a comment down below or um go to the Facebook group and leave a public message there the kidney stone.
Prevention diet and if you want to dive deep kidney stone diet.com you can find the all access pass for everything kidney stone diet related or right on that homepage Jill breaks down all of the goals for the kidney stone diet absolutely for free just to help as many people as you possibly can but I think with that we will wrap thanks for tuning.
In and we’ll see you next time bye everybody
