Hey, guys, Dr. Axe here. Welcome to my kitchen. Today I'm going to be talking about how to
go gluten-free. The reason I think it's so important to go gluten-free is gluten is really
hard for most people to digest. One out of every 133 people has Celiac disease, which means,
they don't digest or tolerate gluten at all. One out of every seven people is severely
gluten intolerant, which means if you eat it you're going to notice an outward reaction.
Now also I'll say this, I can tell a difference myself when I eat gluten. Specifically when
grains aren't sprouted, I just feel fatigued and lack of energy. And those of some symptoms
you may have if you are gluten intolerant. If you have weight gain or let me just say
this, the benefits of going gluten free are typically, you'll lose more weight, you'll
notice improved digestion and often times it will help your thyroid function at a higher
level. You'll notice more energy and feel thinner. Overall you will notice some differences
in your body when you go gluten-free. So there are a lot of reasons why everyone watching
this should be going gluten free.
But I want to give you some practical steps right now with what I've done in my life and
helped thousands of patients do in helping them go gluten-free. And again, gluten is
a protein found in most grains. And there are some grains that are gluten-free and we'll
talk about those in a minute. Just to start us off here, I want to open up my pantry and
give you guys some ideas here.
Number one, let me say this, for breakfast, rather than doing cereals, bread or something
like that, that may have gluten in it, what I've chosen to do is typically do a berry
smoothie. Now if I don't do a berry smoothie for breakfast, which is basically, berries
and coconut milk or berries and amasi and then a gluten-free protein powder, there are
other things you can do.
I want to show you a new product that I have been using personally. Jordan Rubin, a friend
of mine, I tried this over at his house and then bought some myself. These are coconut
wraps. Just like you have gluten-free wraps that are made of brown rice, so that's a good
option. My new favorite things are coconut wraps. Basically it's made out of coconut
meat, coconut water and Himalayan sea salt. They are awesome, full of healthy fat and
a small amount of carbohydrates. So this is great for anybody, whether you're a diabetic
or trying to lose weight or just in general to stay fit. You're getting raw coconut in
these new pure coconut wraps so these things are awesome.
Now some things I do with this is, I'll make some eggs. I will fry up some eggs and make
a breakfast burrito. For lunch, I'll actually make some chicken salad and throw it in here.
Anyways, using these wraps has been awesome. These are pure coconut wraps here. Again,
gluten-free and raw alkaline option, pretty awesome there. I've got those here in the
cupboard.
Another thing I will do for breakfast, actually this is my special mixture I made up. This
is made of golden flax seed, chia seeds and hemp seeds. And I will put a several tablespoons
of that and every morning for breakfast. Again, doing different nuts and seeds is a great
way to go gluten-free.
Another idea, something I did last night for dinner was I bought some grouper and I made
pistachio-encrusted grouper. So I bought some different pistachios. Also, I took some different
flours here. This is almond flour and so nut flours are gluten-free flours. Whether you're
cooking chicken, you can encrust it with almond flour or, again, a nut flour. Or again, you
can use actually coconut flour, it's another good thing, Coconut, you can see here, labeled
"coconut," another coconut flour I have there.
I tend to buy mostly gluten-free flours and I buy most of my flours at a general convenience
store called Kroger. I know they have them at Publix. You can also check Whole Foods.
Obviously, they have most of these. Another thought is if you have a Vitamix, a food processor
or a Blendtec or just a powerful blender like I do here. I would throw nuts and seeds. Like
last night, I took raw pistachios, put them in the blender and ground them up myself and
made my own flour and then encrusted the grouper with that.
Tonight, I'll probably do chicken and actually do chicken encrusted with almonds and flax
seed and actually coconut flakes. But there are some ideas for going gluten-free. Now
another thing you can do with your flours is you can buy just general, like this is
Bob's Red Mill. You can read here, "gluten-free pancake mix" and this is basically made up
of garbanzo bean flour typically. So bean flour, beans are also gluten-free. That's
another option there and Bob's Red Mill Flour. There are a lot of different options there
to do as well. So again, nut and seeds and coconut, almond flour and coconut flour are
some of my favorite ways to go gluten-free.
Another option, rather than doing a sandwich for lunch, or if you want to do a sandwich
and use bread, again you can do a coconut wrap instead. You can do brown rice flour
instead or you can also do something like you can get gluten-free bread made of brown
rice, amaranth, quinoa, or millet. There are some options for you. But instead, I typically
like to do a big salad and top off the salad with some chicken, maybe some walnuts as another
good option.
Snacks during the day, some good gluten free snacks, again something like guacamole and
sliced bell peppers or my favorite gluten-free crackers. Mary's Gone Crackers, dipping those
in some hummus is another good option. Or another good dip is doing some salsa and again
using some avocado to make your own guacamole at home. Those are all great options in going
gluten-free.
So here are your action steps for going gluten-free. Number one, change your breakfast. If you're
doing grains, cereal, breads, things like that for breakfast, switch it out, start doing
that berry smoothie for breakfast or a burrito with a coconut wrap.
For lunch, rather than doing a sandwich with gluten-containing bread or chips, what you
want to do instead is do a big salad or do some chicken salad or just skip the bun altogether.
For dinner, skip the pasta, white flour, white rice or any of that stuff and go ahead and
start doing . . . you can get brown rice, pasta if you want to do something with pasta.
In general, I tend to do double or triple vegetables and then do chicken, fish or something
like that and encrust it and cover it in an almond four.
Then again, remember snacks, you can do nuts and seeds. You can do guacamole, hummus and
salsa. Things like that. Different dips are a great option. Raw cheese is one of my favorites
with the Mary's Gone flax seed crackers. There are some options for you on going gluten-free.
Again, the benefits. If you go gluten-free, you're going to notice you have more energy,
you're going to lose weight and your metabolism's going to be up. You're going to notice less
bloating. You will typically notice your joints feel better as well, feel younger. So a lot
of benefits going gluten-free.
At first, when I started to realize that I needed to go gluten-free, I thought, "That
sounds like it's going to be hard." But you know what? If you follow some of the action
steps, it's going to be no problem at all. Hey, thanks for watching another episode of
Maximize Your Health. I am Dr. Axe saying go gluten-free.