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You might want to see if you can find the pernicious anemia allergic gastritis diet. It's what I liver with, which makes giving up grains look simple! Part of why so many people of EUROPEAN ANCESTRY have problems is a specific gene error which means we can't handle ANY GRAINS, molds (as in fermented foods, and even some probiotics), salicylates (rife in many plants) and phenols (Ditto! With of note, I live in an area with pinon and juniper trees and when they put out pollen in the spring, I am deathly ill, to the extent I have to leave the area and go south to where they have already finished blooming. That's why I want you to have an intrinsic-factor antibody test because if you have P.A., you need to know it, and no, don't allow your doctor to convince you that your B-12 levels are fine. That's why I went undiagnosed for 31 years. If you don't have P.A., I absolutely know you have SIBO, so GET EDUCATED!
Gundry is right! OATMEAL is ripping the hell out of you, as will (likely) RICE! Oatmeal isn't even good for horses, as it can cause them to colic. YOUR PROBLEM IS NOT GLUTIN; IT'S GRAINS, ALL GRAINS, something absolutely beyond medicine. If oatmeal is a "stable" for you, IT'S ALSO MUCH OF WHY YOU'RE SICK. (Read my advise below.) Your small intestine has suffered from max damage--as has EVERY AMERICAN'S--from high-grain diets, sugar, ANTIBIOTICS--and if you'd stop ARGUING AND READ BOOKS BY OTHER DOCTORS, LIKE SUPER GUT, you'd understand the WHY OF THAT!
But consider, if your ancestry comes out of Europe, or Asia, or North America (Native Americans) or Africa--in short, ANYWHERE BUT THE MIDDLE EAST, where grains have been around longer, YOU HAVE, GENETICALLY, NO ABILITY TO HANDLE THEM! Perhaps I, in some ways, am more fortunate than you because I have "diarrhea-dominate SIBO," meaning I've had diarrhea for 40 years as doctors stood around with their heads up where the average colonoscopy is done. But, that gut-ripping diarrhea the day after I eat something makes pretty clear what ANY consumption of grains (oatmeal is my worst!) will do to me. That's part of why alcohol is so bad, many forms of it is merely FORMENTED GRAIN, with one theory on alcoholism being that it's just an addictive food allergy, which indeed, you may have to oatmeal.
But you can keep defending what obviously ISN'T WORKING or you can say, "Okay, what is really out there and how can I phase into it." My other post may help because I suspect that much of your MISERY is FATTY LIVER, and if you can HELP your liver clear (Slowly, naturally, NO draconian detox programs! The liver is fragile!) you'll be amazed. It will be like the cloud you're living behind slowly lifting. You will also want to be reading books by Dr. Mark Hyman (though I'm not sure he's into the grain connection) and, of course, SUPER GUT by the author of WHEAT BELLY (Not Gundry) are essential.