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Easy there kiddo, no need to get upset. I was just casually pointing out that your imagined gluten issues are likely just that, imagined.
Eating a mostly grain-free and processed food-free diet is brilliant in absolutely every way for the body. Good for you, you dropped bread and liquorice, and soy sauce, and you stopped eating out, and you stopped drinking and eating anything processed, you stopped buying canned soup and you don't eat fried food, plus, thank goodness, you make all your own salad dressing.
What do all of these foods have in common? That they aren't good for you. If I eat a Big Mac every day and one day decide "you know what, meat makes me feel bad! I'm a vegetarian now!" I'm probably going to feel a lot better, and if I was less than intelligent about my situation, I'd probably say "Not eating meat has been great for me!" while avoiding the very obvious reality at hand.
You loved bread, thus you likely ate a lot of something that's generally terrible for you. Now you eat no bread and you feel better. Good for you, but use your own ability to comprehend logic, avoid fad diet BS that pops up on the Internet for clicks, and realistically think about why you feel better.
If you think you might not be able to handle gluten, do yourself a favour and have a doctor reach up your bum and cut a little piece out of you. That way you can actually know, and not self diagnose like so many people do. The desire for people to blow off feeling bad as caused by something out of their control is strong, I know, but it's ok to just say "Hey, I was eating like crap and hurting my body, my fault, now I'm eating healthier and feeling better."
You don't have to make up a sensitivity or disease just to justify how bad you were feeling.
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Well Kiddo, (note - I will address you in the same condescending way) here are a couple of facts that you might not know:
I have been tested and have a "moderate sensitivity" to wheat. In other words, I am not Celiac but I do react to wheat. I did this test after going gluten-free. Do I truly know whether it is the gluten itself or wheat that gets me - no. The safest bet for me was to continue to keep eating gluten-free. This was a blood test which can vary in its reliability, the biopsy you refer to so elegantly, is aimed at detecting Celiac's disease. It will not necessarily detect gluten allergies or even all Celiac cases for that matter. Unfortunately, there is no holy-grail test for gluten-sensitivity, trust me I wish there was.
One of best tests for gluten allergy is a person's response to a gluten-free diet. In my case, my symptoms went away when I was gluten-free. When I went back eating gluten, (Xmas has too many temptations), the symptoms returned. Went back on gluten-free, symptoms went away. Do you think that I might have concluded that gluten and/or wheat is probably not good for me, or do you I am still imagining things at this point.? Am I being realistic in your eyes? I have been off gluten for about a year and half, twice I have gone back to eating gluten, both times the symptoms returned (Please note both times I went back, I was eating a healthy diet with some gluten). Now, I am committed to keeping gluten-free. Am I happy that I have to do this - NO, but to me it is worth the effort to avoid the unpleasantness.
Do I absolutely know that I am gluten-sensitive? No, but it seems likely
Do I think that everyone will benefit from going gluten-free? - NO
Do I think that if you eat healthy and still experience gluten sensitivity symptoms that a person might consider trying gluten-free? - Yes
If said person tries gluten-free properly (ie cold turkey, no gluten whatsoever) and gets positive results, should they continue gluten-free? - Completely up to them.
Look Strombad, I not trying to pick a fight with you or anyone else for that matter. This is a personal topic to me and I am sensitive about it. It has been a struggle for me to find relief from some pretty irritating symptoms. Now that I have, being denounce as being delusional or that I am making up a disease doesn't sit well with me.
My goal here is not to convince everyone to try gluten-free. Initially I just wanted to give the counterpoint link in my first reply, not to share my story. I didn't want people to completely rule out gluten-free as an option, especially if they are at their wits end. There is no harm in trying gluten-free properly for 30 days, if it helps you then you have decide your next course of action. If it doesn't, go back to eating the way you were.