Ok, this is going to make me seem old…but I graduated as a naturopath back in 2004. Back then, we received a lot of flack about putting people on gluten-free “fad diets” if they didn’t have coeliac disease (a diagnosable auto-immune condition characterised by severe gluten intolerance). Despite there being a lack of scientific evidence and being scoffed at by orthodox medical professionals at the time, we naturopaths saw people suffering from a range of conditions (from skin, to gut to neurological) improve when they cut out gluten, so we kept doing it and as people felt better, gluten-free options started filling supermarket shelves and restaurant menus everywhere.

Ok, this is going to make me seem old…but I graduated as a naturopath back in 2004. Back then, we received a lot of flack about putting people on gluten-free “fad diets” if they didn’t have coeliac disease (a diagnosable auto-immune condition characterised by severe gluten intolerance). Despite there being a lack of scientific evidence and being scoffed at by orthodox medical professionals at the time, we naturopaths saw people suffering from a range of conditions (from skin, to gut to neurological) improve when they cut out gluten, so we kept doing it and as people felt better, gluten-free options started filling supermarket shelves and restaurant menus everywhere.