Home Beverly Hills Office Culver City Office Forms Specialties Services Offered Curriculum Vitae Hospital & Credentials TMS Celiac Health Tips Links PPO Plans Pay a Bill Celiac Disease, Gluten, and Food Sensitivities About four years ago I learned that I needed to be on a gluten free diet. Individuals with Celiac must avoid gluten-- a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. Bread, pasta, and cereals must be switched to gluten free products, and many salad dressings, soy sauce, and other food items have gluten. Celiac Disease and related conditions mean a dramatic change in diet. I can guide a person thruogh those changes. I've learned that this diagnosis is often missed in individuals with intestinal issues, fatigue, anemia, osteoporosis, infertility, and other symptoms. Appropriate blood tests, drawn in my office, can diagnose this problem. Sometimes additional testing or endoscopy (examination by a GI Specialist with a tube inserted into the small intestine) is necessary Many doctors aren't aware of the testing needed to diagnose Celiac--- initial assessment of iron, B-vitamin and Vitamin D levels, and bone density, for example. Followup is needed to avoid the potential consequences of Celiac. Other people don't have true celiac, but have other food sensitivites. Appropriate testing sent to Immunolabs and vitamin deficiency testing sent to Spectracell can be helpful in returning an individual to ideal health. There is even genetic testing (cheek swab) for individuals at risk due to family history or who are on a gluten free diet and want to know if they have celiac.