Supplementing with the eight essential B vitamins can help stop gluten cravings.
Wheat products are required by law to be enriched with vitamins and minerals lost in processing. In other words, wheat products have vitamins added to them.
Celiac Disease damages the small intestine where the B vitamins are normally absorbed. We often do not get enough B Complex vitamins while we are healing because of the damage done by Celiac and because the gluten free diet can be deficient in these vitamins.
By supplementing with B Complex vitamins, the body will be ensured of getting all the B vitamins it needs to recover and function properly.
I became very ill with vitamin and mineral deficiencies. The doctors I saw did not recognise vitamin deficiency symptoms. I'm a microbiologist, so I had studied this stuff at university. I knew the pharmaceuticals the doctors threw at me were not helping, the pharmaceuticals only covered up the symptoms, but the real problem remained.
And I craved gluten, not for the gluten, but because they were a source of the vitamins my body was craving.
I started supplementing with all eight essential B vitamins. Our bodies can't make them so they must be consumed every day, hence they are called "essential".
Deficiency in many of the B vitamins will cause altered mentality.
It's rare to have just a single vitamin deficiency.
I've had Thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency that resulted in Wernicke's- Korsakoff syndrome and was written off as crazy by doctors and psychiatric "experts". High dose (more than 500 mg/day) thiamine therapy was the only thing that corrected that. Thiamine deficiency is associated with Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge and Purge disorders, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
I've had Niacin deficiency that resulted in Pellagra and had mental changes with that.
I've had Cobalamine deficiency (Vitamin B12) and experienced B12 deficiency dementia.
Vitamin D deficiency caused severe depression. Magnesium deficiency caused horrible nightmares. Vitamin C deficiency caused skin problems and delirium.
If we give our bodies the building blocks of essential nutrients, our bodies can heal themselves.
I was ill because I was deficient in vitamins and minerals, not because I was deficient in pharmaceuticals. Doctors don't recognize vitamin deficiency symptoms. Doctors are trained in medical training institutions funded by big pharmaceutical companies to prescribe pharmaceuticals.
I've posted previously in this thread studies done on mental health and vitamin deficiencies. Please read them. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies will affect your mental health. Correcting vitamin and mineral deficiencies will help more than putting a bandaid antidepressant on the problems.
Correcting deficiencies promptly is important. Deficiencies left untreated can cause permanent brain damage which can be seen on MRIs.
Here's some helpful reading...
Nutritional therapies for mental disorders
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248201/
And...
Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/#!po=18.0556
And...
The Role of Vitamins and Minerals in Psychiatry
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046018/#!po=10.0000
