Cutting wheat out of diet?

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So I stumbled upon this article: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/new-st ... ism-link-0
Have you tried cutting out wheat from your diet before?
I'm trying a gluten-free diet and am now on day 4, it seems to help but let's wait until placebo can be ruled out.
What do you think about this in general and do you think that a specific diet could be helpful/certain foods harmful to you? Feel free to do your own research.

I have cut out wheat (not entirely, I have it on occasion), and my menstrual cramps have improved. I also don't feel as heavy/fatigued/brain foggy after meals, so there was probably an effect on my hypoglycemia as well.

I think most of the time (with the exception being people who have Celiac's disease), those who get legitimate improvements from cutting wheat out of their diet are merely feeling the effects of less carbs, or just eating less in general.

As someone who has a passion for cooking (including baking bread), I'm obsessed with nutrients and their effects on on physiology.
As someone with obsession problems and annoying attention to detail, I'm also fascinated with epidemiology and the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" logical fallacy.

I've found improvements from tracking my nutrients with a smartphone app called MyFitnessPal, and working out. Most of the population in the US eats too many carbs, too much fat, AND more protein than necessary. Just eat too much in general.
I also think when we make a change in our diets, it gives us structure, and structure is something that those on the spectrum require, right? I think creating rules to follow (be it diet, exercise, or practicing something) forces us to pay attention to ourselves and create vast improvements in our lives.

Since I've started paying more attention to nutrition and exercising more, my menstrual cramps have improved too (and my attention span).
They were horrible before. I can function almost normally now through my cramps, as long as I have ibuprofen lol. Hoping to see more improvements!

I tried a gluten-free diet for about 2 months but it didn't seem to have any effect. However, some people say that it could take months for it to start having noticeable effects. So I should probably do it longer next time.

Many people seem to have benefited from it. Many say their overall mental and physical health improved.

Wheat is used in so many foods, even in some things that don't seem to have gluten in them. It's not easy to be completely gluten free. That's the hardest part of it. I love bread, cookies, cakes, pies etc and I eventually gave in.

My parents tried gluten free, but it didn't seem to make any changes or have any effect on me one way or another.
Now I just eat an ordinary diet.

I cut out gluten nearly completely years ago. Recently I read that you can tolerate some if you eat chicken stock before hand. I tried it but I have to try some more.

I eat gluten free - but it's because I've been diagnosed as severely gluten intolerant, likely celiac by my GI doc and am on a strict gluten free diet as a result. My tummy issues are a 1000X better than when I ate wheat but I don't think the change in diet improved my autism issues.

Also, eat largely dairy free since 16 years old because of tummy issues. I can tolerate a bt of cheese - but no ice cream or anything like that

I tried gluten free diet but it doesn't seem to make any changes to me. But I don't eat much gluten anyway and I probably went on "gluten-free diet" many times before without even knowing so that might explain why it made no effect. I don't eat much of bread and pastry although I don't avoid it - somehow my daily diet naturally contains mostly potatoes, rice, dairy, meat and vegetables. I only eat 2 slices of bread in the mornings and evenings if there is nothing else for breakfast but I prefer cottage cheese, rice or leftover potatoes instead of bread if I have a choice. I eat pastry for dinner sometimes and I like it but it's rare because my dad doesn't tolerate any dinner but potatoes+meat+salad and he is the one who decides our food choices.

However I find the gluten-free bread tasty (the one from LIDL). After tasting it I don't like the taste and fracture of normal bread anymore. Unfortunately it is expensive (3x normal bread price), has only 5 slices (normal bread has about 25 slices) and my mom finds it tasty too and she eats it if we buy it so it's gone very soon.

A gluten-free diet is only recommended if you have celiac disease or if you are allergic to wheat. Because of food intolerances I cannot have wheat, egg whites, peanuts, animal milk or soy and it can really become expensive as wheat, soy and egg-free food can be quite expensive.

At my wife's suggestion, I tried gluten-free a couple of years ago. Other than being inconvenient, the experiment had no effect. Some of those gluten-free baked goods based on nuts are quite good.

Rice, beans, potatoes, and vegetables are not expensive.

There is no way I would cut wheat out of my diet. It is my favorite plant to munch on. I like it in all forms, and I like it the way most people like chocolate. Okay, so I'm weird. Maybe I have Asperger's or something. Or I'm just plain weird.

Starkid, what about products normally based on wheat like bread, batter etc.? Wheat-free options of those are not cheap and I am poor. My diet rarely consists of potatos or beans. It is mostly carrots, cabbage, spinach, peas, lentils, meat and occasionally grain products like bread, pizza and cereal. I normally pay 2.50€ for a pound of spelt bread. Rice bread costs 5€ per pound. Pizza, I normally have to make from scratch using rice meal which isn't cheap in my country. Cereal: 400g of amaranthine or spelt cereal is around 4€. Then I pay twice as much for a liter of rice milk or oat milk. Pay three times as much for ingredients if I want to make cake or brownies. You cannot just simply give up on specific things just because you cant have an ingredient anymore. You best look for alternatives to replace that ingredient.

Yes you can. You just choose not to do so. I stopped eating wheat and dairy and my groceries are not more expensive because of it. It's not the taking the products out of your diet that is expensive, it's your choice to buy expensive alternatives that is costing you.

Yes.

I've posted TONS of info about diet & its effects on ASD symptoms, as well as medicinal herbs/oils & probiotics etc that effectively treat symptoms.

As for cutting out gluten, I've read that it takes ~6 months to fully detox gluten from your digestive tract since it sticks in there like glue.