Non-Coeliac Wheat/Gluten Sensitivity
How our dietitians can help you
- Personalised support: We work with you to uncover food and lifestyle triggers and guide you through managing wheat/gluten sensitivity in a way that suits your life.
- Often Unravelling complexity: Many people with gluten sensitivity have overlapping conditions like reflux, or functional dyspepsia—we customize our approach to your needs.
- Know your gut: Understand the relationship between what, how, and when you eat influences gut symptoms like pain, bloating and wind as well as fatigue or brain fog.
- Step-wise dietary guidance: We support you in step-wise approach to identify food triggers and your threshold, so we can reduce symptoms without unnecessary restriction
- Regain food enjoyment and confidence: Our approaches accommodate fear of food or eating that understandably results from associated symptoms over time.
- Holistic care: Often, dietary approaches work better when combined with other lifestyle strategies. We help you explore the range of available, evidence-based gut-brain therapies, including how you could integrate them into a plan that suits your lifestyle and preferences.
- Support Gut Health: We focus on minimising symptoms in parallel to building gut health using whole food-based approaches
- Expertise with empathy: Drs Kerith Duncanson and Georgina Williams bring deep research experience and a compassionate, individualised approach to every client.
More about gluten sensitivity
Dietary Management
Wheat contains several components that can cause digestive symptoms in some people. Before changing your diet, it’s important to rule out coeliac disease, a serious autoimmune condition triggered by gluten. You need to be eating gluten to be tested for coeliac disease.
If coeliac disease is ruled out, symptoms may be due to non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), IBS or other wheat components like ATI proteins. IBS symptoms are usually localised to the lower gut, and if they relate to wheat, would usually cause bloating, abdominal pain or constipation. NCGS may also involve extraintestinal symptoms like fatigue, brain fog or joint pain.
As dietitians who specialise in this field, we support you to work through the complexity of differentiating between these conditions, and their different dietary requirements. We then guide you through a safe and effective plan that supports your gut health and overall wellbeing.
Our gluten sensitivity publications
- Potter, M. D. E., Duncanson, K., Jones, M. P., Walker, M. M., Keely, S., & Talley, N. J. (2020). Wheat Sensitivity and Functional Dyspepsia: A Pilot, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Dietary Crossover Trial with Novel Challenge Protocol. Nutrients, 12(7), 1947.
- Pryor, J. C., Nieva, C., Talley, N. J., Eslick, G. D., Duncanson, K., Burns, G. L., … Keely, S. (2025). Microbial-derived peptidases are altered in celiac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and functional dyspepsia: a systematic review and re-analysis of the duodenal microbiome. Gut Microbes, 17(1).
Book with Kerith or Georgina
Kerith and Georgina specialise in various gastrointestinal conditions and symptoms. Their consulting work with clients complements their research in gastrointestinal nutrition.
Face-to-face appointments
Kerith offers appointments at Newcastle Gastroenterology and Health HQ Salamander Bay.
Contact Us
Email – office@helpyourself.com.au