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I had the exact same issue and solution. I don't think I am celiac and I ate gluten for over 20+ years. I used to get 3+ major sinus infections a year and doctors wanted to perform nasal surgery on me.

After having cut out dairy a few years earlier due to realizing I was lactose intolerant, I then experimented with cutting out wheat. All my sinus issues went away, my headaches went away, my depression went away, my brain fog went away.

I suggested this to a few family members, and it had the same affect when they cut the things out.

It is crazy that I did not have any doctors ever suggest this to me, and it was just a result of the food I was eating.

I wish there was more research and education that went into this, as I imagine it might be affecting quite a few people.

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Medicine 200 years from now will be different. Doctors are largely ignorant of nutrition. When you go to the doctor, how often do they ask about the what you eat? Unless you really look unhealthy or you mention some correlation between the symptoms and a specific food, your diet is a lowly weighted factor in your unwell being. I think that will change, and many of the catalysts will be from patients who teased out the effects of nutrition on what ails them.

There is also a significant leakage of nutritional advise from sports science, and all this information is finding adherents/testers in the regular world and will eventually (after the pseudoscience is sorted out) have a corrective influence on medicine.

I think at some point Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) will be a lot more common and maybe even have specific practitioners, (like physical therapists) instead of being a doctor-nutritionist partnership. The practice will evolve and it will get standardised and taught to "specialists".

This is exactly my story as well. My life changed dramatically after I stopped eating wheat. I figured it out myself, despite the fact that doctor said I should keep eating wheat and according to my symptoms I should moderately eat animals fat. Like bacon and butter. Suggested diet made it worse! I never thought that Internet is better place to find a cure than clinic, but one day I just simply googled it and do not want to go back! I've tried couple times to eat bread and pasta and after few days I can feel the difference.

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