San Diego Resources
The following are resources for gluten-free living specifically in the San Diego area. For resources on a national level, click on National.
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Danna Korn
GlutenFreedom
www.GlutenFreedom.net
858-395-5421 |
"Teaching people to live . . . and LOVE
. . . the wheat free/gluten-free lifestyle.” |
Danna resides in the San Diego area and offers a consultation service for living gluten free. Considered one of the foremost experts on the gluten-free diet and medical conditions that benefit from it, Danna has been researching celiac disease and gluten intolerance, and has been "living – and loving – a wheat-free/gluten-free lifestyle since 1991". She is the founder of the national support group Raising Our Celiac Kids (ROCK), as well as author of several popular GF books.
The GlutenFreedom website provides up-to-date information about celiac disease and testing. Through her company, GlutenFreedom, Danna provides consultation services to:
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Individuals and families (in person, phone, and e-mail)
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Health care/nutritional professionals
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Corporations (including health food retailers, testing companies, restaurants, and self-insured companies)
Karmic Health is a free online resource center focusing on nutrition for specialty diets related to disease where a gluten, dairy & casein free lifestyle is crucial.
"Let Karmic Health one-on-one consulting show you how to set up your kitchen. We will teach you how to revamp your fridge and cabinets with gluten and/or dairy free choices to keep you on track. We can also take a trip to the store and show you how to read labels so you can stock your kitchen with gluten and/or dairy free foods. We believe in the importance of a balanced and healthy lifestyle and will strive to help ease the stress of starting the gluten free diet."
Also see below concerning Sandi's GFCF Karmic Krunch.
Don Baisch
9dwb9@sbcglobal.net
Don was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 1989. He is one of the founding members of the Celiac Disease Foundation, and is also a member of the San Diego CSA/USA Support group, GIG, ACS, and CCS. Now retired from the Xerox Corporation, Don does a large amount of research in supporting the work of the Celiac Disease Foundation with the medical community.
Free Mentoring
Both the San Diego Raising Our Celiac Children (ROCK) and the San Diego Celiac Sprue Association (CSA) offer free mentoring programs.
Dr. Rabia Barkins, DC, DACBN
Pathway to Health, Advanced Natural Medicine
www.drbarkins.com
760-942-2764
"I am a Holistic practitioner, Chiropractor, and Nutritionist in North County. . . I counsel on gluten-free programs. I am gluten intolerant myself, so this is something that I specialize in and have great success with my clients with all kinds of health problems.
I am also available in North County for talks to groups on gluten intolerance."
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There are several gluten-free bloggers in San Diego that discuss restaurants, products, recipes, etc.
My Life as an Anti-glutite
http://anti-glutite.blogspot.com/
Created by Lindsy for gluten intolerant people in San Diego.
Also see Lindsy's Facebook page at http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=116419096869
Glutenfree in San Diego
http://glutenfreeinsandiego.blogspot.com/
"I have a blog where I review various GF products and restaurants." Debbie Toon
Marimade
www.marimade.blogspot.com
"I started out with a gluten-free cooking blog called Mari Made, http://www.marimade.blogspot.com, where I share recipes and reviews of gluten free products I try and places I eat in San Diego and also while traveling. I started to get requests from blog readers for baked goods so I decided to start my own gluten free baking company, Mari Made Gluten Free Bakery, http://www.marimade.net . Currently I offer delivery in San Diego and am working towards offering mail order as well." Rachel Marie Helmer, Mari Made Bakery 9/12/08
Mom Cooks Gluten Free
momcooksglutenfree.blogspot.com
Written by Karen Fine.
Tasty and Gluten Free
tastyandglutenfree.blogspot.com
"My name is Andrea and I am a San Diego resident recently diagnosed with gluten intolerance. I had barely heard of Celiac before last December so in order to educate myself and also learn how to cook for this new diet, I began a gluten free cooking blog a few months ago: Tasty... and Gluten Free! The content is all original, and any idea that I have adapted from another recipe (or photograph that I did not take myself) is fully credited to its actual creator and host website. At the moment there are about 26 recipes online and I add content approximately 3x per week."
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Arbonne
"Arbonne is a health and wellness company that provides pure, safe and botanically-based
products in 6 different categories: Nutrition, Weight Loss, Anti-aging, Cosmetics,
Aromatherapy and Personal Care and we have products for men, women and children!
It
would be my pleasure to share further information with everyone in our group
specifically, and of course with anyone that is interested in getting
a discount on pure, botanically-based products. We are so confident that everyone that uses these products love them, that we even offer a 45-day
money back guarantee if there is dissatisfaction!"
Barbara Droutman 3/07
951-672-1714, 951-719-5415, brdroutman@ca.rr.com
Warren Clinical Celiac Disease Center
http://celiaccenter.ucsd.edu
Patients are seen at the
UCSD Thorton Hospital as well as the Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. See Warren Celiac Centers to learn more.
Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
www.prometheus-labs.com
888-423-5227
Prometheus Laboratories specializes in the treatment, diagnosis and detection of gastrointestinal, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases and disorders. They are highly regarded in the professional community for their testing of celiac disease. In the Resource Library section of their website are two videos you can watch concerning celiac diagnoses.
The following are quotes from Danna Korn, an expert in the field of celiac disease
(see "Consulting" above) that emphasize why a lab such as Prometheus Laboratories
is important to use:
"You can have your blood drawn at any doctor's office or lab . . . But where
the testing is done is extremely important, since even reputable labs very
often
do these tests improperly. . . . the reading of the tests is subjective, and
the results depend upon the technician's interpretation . . . You have a right
to know how the test is being done, and to ask that your blood be sent to a
specialty lab for testing, although your insurance may not cover the cost of
the test if
you do so."
The
following are personal recommendations from patients for gastroenterologists
in San Diego. The recommendations have either been submitted to this website
or to an interactive website. Neither inclusion nor omission in the following
list should be construed as endorsement or lack of endorsement from this website.
Please consider sending in your own recommendations, especially if you can give
specifics of why you particularly like a particular physician.
Warren Celiac Clinics
Dr. Gregory Harmon, Adult Celiac Clinic at UCSD
Dr. Kimberly Newton, Pediatric Celiac Clinic at Rady children's Hospital
The following gastroenterologists were recommended by various members of the
CSA Support Group at the March 2006 meeting:
Dr. S. Master at Kaiser, San Marcos
Dr. Neil Hirschenbein, UTC
Dr. Bruce Johnson, Sharp.
The following physicians have been recommended to Helen Foreman from newly
diagnosed patients when they have called her for CSA information (sent
to this website 6/06):
Dr. Thomas Eastman in Temecula (760-728-9560))
Dr. Greg Aadigo in Murrieta (951/600-0288)
Dr. Robert Goldklang in La Jolla (858/453-5200) and in Encinitas (760/983-0441)
Dr. Leeder (woman) in Carlsbad/Oceanside
(760/434-1995)
Comments:
From Roxie J. on 5/19/09:
"I just had a wonderful experience with a Nurse Practitioner, Angelina Collins, when accompanying my twin to a gastroenterologist appointment. Angelina was refreshingly knowledgeable about celiac disease. She is at Coastal Gastroenterology, APC, in Encinitas, 760-783-0441.
The following was taken from the SillyYaks Yahoo site on 6/26/06:
"Dr. Cheryl Shanmugam is in N. San Diego County (Poway) .She is a pediatrician in practice with our pediatrician. She has celiac and
has a child with celiac. She's not a GI doc but does have first hand experience
with
diagnosis. We don't usually see her for appointments, but when we have, I
found her to be a compassionate woman who was willing to listen and not dismiss
my
observations."
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