Welcome to GlutenFreeQuestions.com!

This website is an extension of Celiac-Disease.com. Over there, we write articles covering a large range of topics, which we hope will help and interest our readers. We try and cover all things related to living gluten-free. If you follow the gluten-free diet for any reason – to treat celiac disease, gluten intolerance or for other health issues – our goal is to help you navigate safely gluten-free in a world full of gluten.

At GlutenFreeQuestions.com, it’s all about helping people learn how to follow the gluten-free diet safely and in the process, learn to not be unhappy about it. Hopefully, eventually we can ease the transition into this challenging lifestyle. It’s not easy to get to the other side of the monumental task of learning to live gluten-free – but it can be done. And in the end, you might find yourself eating better tasting foods than you ever did when you ate gluten!

To start, we’re going to cover some of the basics – how to figure out what is and isn’t gluten-free, set up your kitchen safely for your new diet – the basics really. But these basics can be overwhelming to learn, to say the least. Some people quote the learning curve to learn our diet at a year. I probably felt like I knew what I was doing in about six months, but I treated the task as a part time job. Most people don’t have that kind of time to figure things out so we’re hoping to make the transition to living gluten-free easier all around.

In addition to posting articles of our choosing, what’s really exciting about GlutenFreeQuestions.com is that you, the reader, have a say in what we will write about here. We want to hear from you – answering the questions that you just can’t seem to find a legitimate answer for. Maybe you have found five different and conflicting answers to the same question.

In case you’re wondering what my credentials are, I am not a doctor and don’t play one on the internet. I did however, seek out guidance from experts in the gluten-free community so that I could learn how to do this gluten-free thing. When I answer a question about the gluten-free diet, I’ll be able to back it up with references, if warranted. I’m not going to repeat gluten-free myths and even hope to squash some of them dead as a  door nail.

We do ask that you refrain from asking for medical advice since those should be referred to an actual doctor. To find factual information online in regards to celiac disease, we suggest people check out websites that do offer medical information such as –

• The University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research
• Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University
• University of Chicago Celiac Research Center
• Celiac Disease Center – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Wm. K. Warren Medical Research Center for Celiac Disease

By sharing how I handle the sometimes tedious situations of living gluten-free, I hope to help out others in similar situations. I’ll share what has worked for me, but in those cases there is no expert answer that will work for everyone. You’re the one who knows your family members, co-workers, children, friends and spouses and how best to deal with them. Believe it or not, for many people, following the diet is fairly easy – it’s dealing with others that don’t understand it that causes real stress. In the end, you have to do what works best in for you, but hopefully I can offer some guidance to help you work things out. Gluten is not going away ever so we have to figure out how to live in a world full of it. And if we can enjoy doing that - the better for everyone!

Have a question about the gluten-free diet which we haven’t covered yet?  You can now submit your questions here! (Note: All medical questions should be directed to your physician)