Gluten's Hidden Impact: Could It Be Behind Your Numbness & Tingling?

Hey, everybody. Dr. Diane, your chronic illness expert here, talking today about root causes of numbness and tingling. We're talking about important and advanced root causes. In last video, we went over some of the basics of what to think about when we're thinking about random numbness and tingling in the body. So make sure you watch that, make sure you subscribe to the channel to get all of the videos on numbness and tingling coming out this month. This is the focus of the month, getting to that root cause of numbness and tingling. Because numbness and tingling, we always want to rule out the bad things, like we talked about in the last video, but most of the time, numbness and tingling are ways of your body talking to you and giving you information that something is out of balance. And it's your body's way of saying something's out of balance. And it's important to listen, to figure out what it is. But where to begin, Especially if you go to the basics and you do the things like go to neurologist, rule out those big, bad, scary things. For most people, it's not the big, bad, scary things. Then what? That's why this month is so important. That's what we're doing this month. So essentially, with numbness and tingling, beyond those big, bad, scary things that you're going to rule out, we want to consider anything that inflames the nervous system. Anything that inflames the nervous system can essentially cause numbness and tingling potentially. So what's going to inflame the nervous system? Two of the biggest categories are toxins and infections. And so many toxins or so many infections are stealth infections, right? So these stealth infections are things like chickenpox. As an example of a stealth infection, you have chickenpox as a kid, at least for those of people that are in my age range, have. And then essentially it still lives in your body. Later on, you could get stressed and you could develop shingles. Same infection, right? So a stealth infection is something that the body generally can clear from active, but it kind of stays dormant. It actually lives oftentimes in our nervous system, which is interesting because we're talking about numbness and tingling. No accident there. And essentially these infections live in our nervous system oftentimes, and they can reemerge. They don't just live only in our nerves. They can live other places, too. But essentially. So some of these infections are things such as Lyme disease, such as Marcon, such as Bartonella, such as Rocky Mountain, spotty fever, such as herpes, such as hpv. Such as ebv, cmv, all these different viruses, parvoviruses, and I'm probably using a lot of big medical jargon words that you haven't heard. Don't worry about that yet. We're going to talk about how to get these lab testing tests done in our next video. So we'll talk about that next. But for today, in the purpose of this video, the biggest thing to understand is any of these types of stealth infections. They are inflaming. They can potentially inflame the nerves. When the nerves are inflamed, that can lead to numbness and tingling, Right? So these are hidden root causes beyond the basics. We also want to consider toxins. Mold toxins seem to be the worst type of toxins that I have seen to really inflame the nerves. But metals I've seen cause problems like numbness and tingling. Glyphosates are a pesticide, part of the roundup family. And I've seen that. I've seen clinically problems with numbness and tingling and glyphosates as well. I've even seen gluten and a gluten sensitivity in people that are not even celiac. So I had one patient, for example, who had crazy face tingling like it was driving her nuts. It would keep her up at night. Three weeks of being off of gluten, never had face tingling again. She was tested for it. She was tested for celiac disease. A lot of the common tests are not the types of tests that are going to actually show us if somebody has a sensitivity for certain things. There's a couple hundred ways we can actually react to gluten. So oftentimes people are doing a silicate panel. If that's negative, maybe they get a basic gluten sensitivity test. And oftentimes that's missing the problem. So we want to be very, very careful about that because foods and food reactivities, and particularly gluten, But I've seen food allergies across the board contribute to a level of numbness or tingling, particularly that tingling. So those are some of the basics. Food reactivities, toxins, chronic hidden infections. From the standpoint of they're not really basic. The more advanced root causes here go back to last video, and we did talk about some of the more basic root causes. Now in our next video coming up here, we're gonna talk about missing lab tests for chronic fatig, chronic missing lattice from numbness and tingling. I mean, so again, just make sure you remember that our masterclass of the month is on this topic. So I encourage you to go to the show Notes to register for that, where you can come on live and you can ask me your questions. We can put you in the hot seats to actually get a sense of what lab test you're missing, help you with getting those and figuring out once and for all what is going on and what's causing this. All right, everybody. Dr. Diane signing off. See you. See you in the next video.