Lately I’ve met more and more people on a gluten free diet, or people who’ve put their kids on this. A few years ago, I was visiting friends who were all eating low-carb. I wasn’t doing the cooking, so I did as they were and ate the same way. After about a week, I discovered that despite my fibromyalgia I felt absolutey fantastic; I was more energetic, clear minded, and my usually aches and pains were pretty much gone. I slept better and had no PMS symptoms during that time, though I normally would have been a basket case. I hadn’t expected to feel anything from eating that way and actually poo-pooed their insistence that it was a good diet. The added benefit was weight dropping off me very easily (a good thing, let me tell you). The next to last day there we ate pizza to appease the kids and I woke up the last day after a hellatious night in alot of pain. Aching all over and mentally wiped out. I continued to eat low-carb when I came home to see if it really did make me feel better and discovered that it did. Now a few years later, and having done some food experiments, I know that eating some carbs (bread, sweets, pasta, potatoes, some others) can be worse than taking a valium–I can do nothing but go to sleep. Some don’t bother me as much or at all (brown rice, beans). After talking to a gluten-free fan the other day, I’m wondering if I have a similar problem. She also recommended this for treating bi-polar, and I have a teenage son who is probably (pending official psychiatric diagnosis) bi-polar (and he genuinely believes that eating protein and veggies and skipping on processed carbs makes him feel better, though he has no knowledge of gluten free anything).