The following is a transcript of Episode 1 from the Your Body, Mind, and Spirit podcast released on June 9, 2026.

Welcome to the first official episode of Your Body, Mind & Spirit,  an information source to help you bring health and balance into your life.   I am your host, Linda Harkcom. I am a professional journalist and healer who interviews experts in their fields about everything you need to know about your body, your mind, and your spiritual path. From everything like how your genetics influence your health, to how to communicate with your angels, I plan to cover it all.

We are here today with Dr. Viola Agostino Valletta. Dr. Valletta is a chiropractor, natural healthcare provider, educator, and holistic wellness advocate with more than 35 years of private practice experience. As the owner of Chiropractic Lifestyle Solutions for Families, she helps adults and children improve their health through individualized, results-based care that blends chiropractic physical medicine, functional medicine, postural neurology, and clinical bio-nutrition.

Her education includes a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology and a Doctorate of Chiropractic from the National University of Health Sciences, with postgraduate training in orthopedics, neurology, and nutrition. She is certified in Functional Disconnection Syndromes, Childhood Developmental Disorders, Manipulation Under Anesthesia, and is a nationally certified NRCME medical examiner.

Dr. Viola’s mission is to listen, educate, and empower patients so they can reduce pain, improve function, and take an active role in their long-term wellness.

Linda Harkcom
Thank you very much for coming, Viola. Really appreciate it. Um, and today, and I, full disclosure, um, Dr.

Dr Viola
You’re welcome. I’m glad to be here.

Linda Harkcom
Viola is my doctor, my whole family’s chiropractor, as well as a close friend of the family. So we trust her with our health. You should trust her with yours as well.

Dr Viola
Thank you, Linda.

Linda Harkcom
So one of the things we are going to talk about today is gluten and gluten sensitivity versus allergy versus celiac disease. That’s a very personal issue to both Viola and me. I personally have celiac disease, as does my daughter and my son. So we are living with that. And we understand that, you know, we’ve been there. We’ve gone from celiac disease. What the heck is that to fully living it? And so what we want to do is help you understand the differences and some of the symptoms to look out for, testing and so forth. And there’s so much information about this subject. We’re probably going to do multiple episodes or a series on this. So this will be the first of that. So Viola, let’s start with the simple question: What exactly is gluten?

Dr Viola
So gluten is the protein in wheat and in certain grains. So it’s the protein portion of the food. Protein is what your body will react to if it is not absorbed well through your gut. So when someone with celiac disease gets the protein, the gluten protein, whether it’s in a bread or it’s in some sort of seasoning, it will come through and cause an inflammatory reaction in their GI tract, in their gastrointestinal tract.

Linda Harkcom
So Many people use these terms kind of interchangeably: gluten sensitivity, gluten allergy, celiac disease. Can you explain the differences between, let’s start with the gluten sensitivity, which I think you said is being diagnosed as or has a different term now.

Dr Viola
Yeah, so there’s celiac, which is classified as an autoimmune disease because of the reaction that the GI tract has to the gluten.

There is non-celiac gluten sensitivity, which is right now not classified by the powers to be, The NIH doesn’t consider it an autoimmune disease, though some of us in practice may have some questions about that. So there’s gluten sensitivity that is non-celiac and there’s gluten sensitivity that is celiac.

You can also have skin reactions to gluten, something called dermatitis herpetformis. And you can have gluten ataxia, which is where the gluten affects the brain. So the gluten can affect the stomach and the GI tract. It can affect the skin, and it can affect the brain, depending on which of these sensitivities that you might have. So generally, those are the four areas, the four diagnoses that are related to people who don’t do well with gluten. And some of overlap.
So sometimes you can have celiac, dermatitis, and ataxia, and you can have non-celiac gluten sensitivity and dermatitis and ataxia, or you could have one or the other. So there’s often overlap between all of them.

Linda Harkcom
Great. Thank you very much for explaining that. Now, which of these is the most serious medically?

Dr Viola
So from a standard medical view, celiac is the most serious because it is a proven autoimmune reaction that will, over time, wear down those tissues and cause long-term, devastating illness to the GI tract. That they know for sure. How serious the other things are, are still up for debate. The people in the functional medicine world, like myself, will tell you that they can be as devastating, if not more devastating, to someone’s day-to-day life than celiac. There are a percentage of people with celiac who don’t even know they have celiac and don’t have any symptoms and, you know, just live their lives without any sort of issue. That’s a whole spectrum, the whole way to people who are fully disabled from their celiac. And in my practice, in what I’ve seen in my years, I’ve seen all four of those diagnostic presentations do the same thing. So, people who had non-celiac gluten sensitivity that really wasn’t bothered by it in their everyday life, to people who were disabled by it. And the same thing with gluten ataxia and the dermatitis, it can be devastating.

So, all of the treatment for all of those things is removing gluten from your diet. And that’s also one of the ways that the non-autoimmune diagnoses are diagnosed. So non-celiac Gluten sensitivity is generally diagnosed by removing gluten and seeing how you feel. Whereas celiac is a little more intensive.

Linda Harkcom
Thank you. Well, I know with celiac disease, there’s, you know, there’s a chance for the damage done by the gluten to cause cancer. Is that also true with some of the others?

Dr Viola
Again, that is,

Linda Harkcom
Do we, or is that something that’s still unknown, possibly?

Dr Viola
I think it’s still unknown. I think that there’s just not the fact that they’ve even created a non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Diagnosis is relatively new in my 35 years. So, there hasn’t been a whole lot of research done to see exactly. There’s some research that says that people who have non-celiac gluten sensitivity will often also have, the same genetic factors, the same autoimmune issues, very relevant, anecdotal tales of how they feel, and how they function.
But there hasn’t been a whole lot of research into it to see what the long-term effects are. So it’s hard to say. It really is hard to say. I mean, we know for sure what will happen with celiac. We know for sure that if you eat gluten, you will cause chronic inflammation, which will eventually lead to a cancer. And that’s common. Yeah.

Linda Harkcom
I think it’s really important for people to understand that. We don’t know what’s going on with some of the other diagnoses, because, you know, it’s not like we’re, just the people that choose not to eat gluten for their health, because, you know, for whatever, it’s a diet choice. But those who are choosing it because it does damage to their body in some way, shape or form, including the possibility of cancer. It’s not like there’s a choice. And it’s not like, oh, I’m going to have that. It’s going to give me a tummy ache and I’ll deal with it. Like it’s, you know, you have to really think long term and what the damage is.

Dr Viola
Right.

Linda Harkcom
And it’s so much more than a tummy ache for a lot of people. And so I think that’s really important that you know that people need to understand.

Dr Viola
Right. And that’s true for non-celiac gluten sensitivity as well.

I mean, it truly is a spectrum. I mean, there are some people who are like, oh I don’t, I don’t eat gluten because I’ll get a little indigestion or I’ll get some heartburn. To the whole spectrum of people like me who are non-gluten sensitive, but if I eat it, I will be sick for days. I will lose work. I will, you know, I will be very ill.

A lot of times, people end up not getting their celiac diagnosis because they don’t want to do the testing, because you have to eat gluten to do the testing. And anyone who has lived through being gluten, as we say, anyone that’s lived through that and it’s made them very ill does not want to eat gluten for a set amount of time and then get tested to make sure it’s celiac because you know, when you get that sick, you just give it up. It doesn’t really matter what anybody calls it. Okay.

Linda Harkcom
Right. Exactly. I 100% agree. And, you know, I think that’s a really great point that you brought up because a lot of people do not know that they have to be eating gluten to get tested. And the number of people that I know that say, oh, I have, you know, I have problems, but they tested me for celiac, and I tested negative. I asked them, well, were you eating gluten leading up to the test? Well, no.

Can you explain why so people understand why you have to eat gluten, for, let’s talk about the blood test? Not necessarily the whole GI scope thing, but let’s just talk about the simple blood tests for where they’re looking for the markers.

Dr Viola
So, there are markers that are activated from your immune system, and they are reactive to you eating gluten. So when you eat gluten, you will produce these particular immune cells that then can be tested by a blood test. They can also be tested by doing immune panels, with all the different reactions. So even someone with non-gluten sensitivity can also be tested for different responses. But again, they have to be eating gluten.

So your, your body takes that in. That protein gets absorbed through your gut. It gets into your bloodstream because your body can’t break it down correctly. So it gets in as a protein instead of an amino acid. And then your body sees it as foreign protein; the same thing it sees as viruses and bacteria are foreign protein. It creates a response, making more immune cells to fight those off. And so they send these fighter cells, um, to the area where the gluten is. So, in someone with celiac, pure celiac, that immune response happens in the gut. And so what you have or your body attacking your own tissue. That’s the autoimmune part. So those, so that, that reaction to the gluten causes your body to attack itself in the area of the gut in people with celiac, people with non-celiac can get, attacked in different areas.

So there are lots of different places that your body can get confused and send those fighter tissues to fight off what they think is a foreign object. And it can be a whole lot of different areas. The gluten ataxia is where the gluten will attack the cerebellum of the brain. So that’s how you get the gluten ataxia.

Linda Harkcom
Oh, okay. I did not know that.

Dr Viola
Yeah. So there are, so there are different ways. There are people who get thyroid reactions. So you can, gluten can cause your body to suddenly create immune system cells that fight off something that looks like thyroid hormone or so there, that’s one of the reasons that there’s a lot of discussion about whether non-gluten sensitivity is autoimmune or not. The path is clear with celiac. It is clearly this happens, and then this happens, and this is where it happens. Um, and then we can go in, we can do the blood tests.

A GI can go in, and they can test. They can actually test the tissue in the GI tract. They can look for the percentage of cilia that are destroyed by the gluten or by that reaction. So there are lots of ways to definitively diagnose, but you have to be eating gluten. And you have to have some damage there already by the time they diagnose it.

Linda Harkcom
Okay. Yeah. That was the next question I was going to ask is, so if you weren’t eating gluten and they did the biopsy type test, can you get a false negative for that as well?

Dr Viola
Mm-hmm. You can, yes. But it depends on how long, how much damage has been done, how much gluten you ate, and how long it’s been. I mean, for some people, the damage is permanent even, and then they stop eating gluten, but there’s nothing you can do to bring it back. For other people, it’s, you know, they’re just starting to get some of the symptoms. They’re just starting to get some of the tissue damage. And so you can still see it. So generally, to get a positive diagnosis, you have to have damage. So you have to already have damaged tissue. That’s the definitive diagnosis is the positive blood test and the damaged tissue in the small intestine.

Linda Harkcom
And I know some doctors are not requiring the patient to go through the biopsy type test now.

Dr Viola
That’s relatively new. It used to be that was the gold standard. That was really the only way that you knew. I think now that they’ve added non-gluten, non-celiac gluten sensitivity as a diagnosis, and it’s much more recognized as a diagnosis, I think that they’re a lot less likely to put people through the biopsy, knowing that the treatment is the same. And generally, the outcome is the same. You know if you are that ill and your body is not doing well with gluten, you shouldn’t eat gluten. So I think that a lot of doctors have just said, we don’t need this last step. But yeah, it used to be that was the only way.

Linda Harkcom
Yeah. And, I think that’s really awesome that the doctors are doing that now. They’re just saying, no, you know what, the markers on the blood tests clearly show there’s an issue. We’re not going to, you know, put you through that extra expense and, and pain and prep, and trouble to do that. And, I know, within the gluten community, there’s some question about that. You know, a number of the groups that I belong to, people will come on and say, I tested positive. (on the blood test) Do I have to go get this? And, you know, my doctor says I don’t, I don’t have to.

Dr Viola
Right. Well, think the place that they make you get it, and it is my understanding from patients who have been through these different paths is that, if you are applying for disability, or if you are disabled by your celiac, they require much more proof of celiac than they do for other things. So, I actually have a patient right now that has been gluten-free for 15 years. She was a very ill young woman. She cut out gluten and has been perfectly fine since she cut out gluten. She gets very sick if she eats it, but they won’t give her an official diagnosis because she won’t go through the testing. So, she’s just not going to do it.

Linda Harkcom
That’s crazy. Oh my goodness. So what I’m hearing is that a lot of the symptoms are the same across all these different ones, except for like the skin, as far as the sensitivity or the allergy or the, the celiac disease. And I know I’m not using the correct terms there, but across all of these, the symptoms are relatively the same, depending on the person, right?

Dr Viola
So the GI, yes, GI symptoms are very much the same. They just vary in degree. So, and again, regardless of whether it’s celiac or non-celiac gluten sensitivity, some people’s GI symptoms are stomach ache or indigestion. And some people’s full-blown, you know, vomiting and diarrhea and fever and, you know, really ending up quite ill physically, almost like being poisoned. If anyone out there has ever had food poisoning, you know, it’s a whole different thing than just having the stomach flu. It’s very much, you know, it can go as far as that. Gluten can be seen almost as a poison in your body.

Linda Harkcom
Well, and you know, let’s talk about some of the non-GI symptoms. We touched a little bit on some of those. But like, I know personally, had my daughter not been diagnosed with celiac disease, I would never have gotten tested because I didn’t really have GI issues. But the way it affected me was, I had muscle and joint pain. I just had inflammation all throughout my body. I would get out of bed in the morning, and just everything would hurt. And I just thought it was part of getting. When she said mom it’s not just digestive issues, it can affect those things too. When I got tested, I was actually surprised that I tested positive. But I’ve been gluten-free for two years now, with the exception of getting occasionally glutened and not on purpose. Never on purpose. I get out of bed in the morning, and I don’t hurt. Like I bounce out. Full disclosure, people. I’m 59. I bounce out of bed in the morning, and I don’t hurt anymore.

And I really thought I was, I was on the same path as my mother, my grandmother, and my aunts, who had all had horrible arthritis to the point where my mom has been bedridden for years now. She will not get tested because she doesn’t want to stop at eighty. But, you know, hey, what am I going to do at that point? Right? But, you know, it’s, it’s amazing to me the difference in my body.

I also get brain fog. I know my son gets a brain fog really bad. So all three of us genetically have celiac disease. My son and my daughter. My son’s symptoms are different than my daughter’s. My daughter’s symptoms are different from mine, I am different than both of them. So some of the symptoms, Ben and I both have the brain fog. But other than that, that’s the only symptoms we have that are the same. So it’s really interesting that, you know, even within a family, you can have people who have the disease but they each react physically differently when they have gluten.

Dr Viola
Well, that’s absolutely true. So, there’s some pending research, that they’re just starting to look at, celiac and non-celiac gluten sensitivities and idiopathic muscle pain, idiopathic joint pain. And they’re trying to see what the correlation is because anecdotally, those of us who treat pain patients very often see that diet has a lot to do with their pain and the chronicity of the pain, the way it affects life, whether it’s joint or muscle. And you know, I have seen that many times where a patient figures out that their pain in their body was related to something they were eating that didn’t agree with them, whether it was a sensitivity to gluten or dairy or nuts or many other things. What you’ll find is that autoimmune diseases like to cluster. So if you have one autoimmune disease, you tend to have others. We don’t always look for every one of them and name every one of them in a patient, but if you have an overreaction, which is what an allergy or an autoimmune disease is, an overreaction of the immune system, to one thing, you are more likely to have it to other things as well.

And generally that has to do with genetic markers. that you can look for that are the same. So my guess is that if we did the genetics in your family, you would all come up with the same genes turned the same way. And that the number of those clicked in the wrong direction or the sequencing of them may be a little different for each of you. But it will all be the same gene pools. That particular gene in you is affected and affected for your son and for your daughter in different ways. And some of it has to do with presentation, with lifestyle. Those are very much the way that those genetic things will present themselves. So you have that genetic predisposition. Something in your lifestyle kicks that gene either on or off, telling it to either express itself in a good way or in a bad way. And then you have some sort of symptomatology.

And, you know, lifestyle is different for, for all of us. So, depending on what that lifestyle is, and things like age and how long that lifestyle has been going on, it really just depends. We can hope for our kids’ sake that knowing when they’re younger will, allow them to make those lifestyle choices that they need to make to make them healthier. And so that they don’t get to be older women like us who are, you know, finding all of these things that we can’t eat or we can’t do or dealing with joint pain or any of those things. So, that’s our goal, right? Make sure that the young people find out early enough so that they can make those lifestyle changes.

Linda Harkcom
Right. Absolutely. Absolutely. And then speaking of genetics, I think right after I got diagnosed or right before I had, I had read a statistic that says something like one in 10 people with Celtic heritage has, or have the celiac gene.

Linda Harkcom
And so that’s, that’s a lot of people. That’s a lot of people. And let’s talk about that. Like you can have the gene, but it doesn’t kick in until something happens in your life, even maybe a big stressful event, something like that can kick it in. But you could have it, but have no symptoms.

Dr Viola
Yes.

Linda Harkcom
You wouldn’t test positive because you wouldn’t be reacting.

Dr Viola
Right.

Linda Harkcom
But that is something you have to kind of keep, not necessarily keep an eye on, but not think, Oh, well. You realize that it can happen at any point in your life that can kick in if you have that gene.

Dr Viola
Well, the way I explain genetic expression to the patients is that it’s like a barcode. So your genes are like a barcode. Like you go the grocery store and it gets scanned. Okay? If your lifestyle is positive and you are doing things that decrease your chances of a certain disease or disease process, it’s like covering your hand over that scanner. Okay? Like over that barcode so that it doesn’t get expressed. And when you’re doing things that have a negative effect on that part of your health, that’s when they get scanned, and it shows itself. So we all have those barcodes. It’s just a matter of how we can save those from being expressed. And our lifestyle is what expresses them, either for the good or for the bad.

Linda Harkcom
Right. Right. I want to look here and see what we have and have not covered that we had talked about today. We talked about the diagnosis and testing. I think, well, one of the things I also want to mention is, I know fibromyalgia, a lot of people are diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and correct me if I’m wrong. I feel like that can be a diagnosis. It means at times we don’t know what the hell’s wrong with you, but we know you’re in pain. Right? I know that I have a cousin who has fibromyalgia, and her doctor actually told her to not eat gluten, because it will help reduce the inflammation that she has. Are there other people who have other diagnoses that should consider avoiding gluten because it’ll help?

Dr Viola
Oh, yes.

Linda Harkcom
I think I’ve read some research even with autism that there are some?

Dr Viola
Yes. So there are a lot of different conditions that, mostly inflammatory-based conditions or conditions related to autoimmune issues, where it’s recommended that they stay away from gluten, stay away from dairy, stay away from soy, certain things that we know can be inflammatory. Part of that reason is that we can anecdotally see that they do better. There’s less inflammation.

When it comes to brain issues, and there’s some question as to whether fibromyalgia is a muscle issue or a brain issue, in particular, like when it comes to brain issues like autism neurodevelopmental issues, even ADHD, again, that gluten ataxia, which is a diagnosis, means that gluten is affecting the brain.

Linda Harkcom
Oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t know that.

Dr Viola
And so it can affect all different parts of the brain.

They only list one, but it can affect all different kinds. There’s also the thought process from a lot of people that the gluten in the United States, the gluten that you and I encounter, is poisoned with pesticides and that it’s actually the pesticides that cause those reactions, those inflammatory reactions. So, I’m sure if you’ve talked to anyone who’s traveled to Europe, they’ve said, I went to Europe, I could eat gluten. I didn’t get sick. Um, there’s a different process in other countries, in the way they process their foods. The way they grow their wheat. It ends up with a different chemical combination. And for a lot of people, there’s no effect on them. In that case, that would be a, a non-celiac gluten sensitivity, obviously.

So there, so there’s some pretty good evidence that there’s some roundup in just about all of the gluten that you eat. If you eat it, which we all know, even from lawsuits, is not good for us. So, I think there are lots of people who… Even the typical, GI doctors, you know, not natural doctors, not functional medicine doctors, just your basic GI specialist, will tell the patients who have any sort of irritable bowel symptoms to stay away from gluten.

It’s not uncommon for that to also be the case with some of the neurologists that are dealing with people with multiple symptoms, multiple neurologic symptoms. They will try to decrease that inflammatory load on the patient. So, so yeah, there are a bunch of different conditions, autism, certainly one of them that, by the genetic lineup that gets you with, gets your autism turned on, you can also affect the cerebellum for one thing. The gluten ataxia is very common in um people with autism.

Linda Harkcom
Right. If someone, I think we’re going to try to wrap this up a little bit now. One of the last things I want to ask you is, you work with people with nutrition and things like along those lines, so what type of services do you have available to those who are listening that, might have a gluten sensitivity or are having some of the issues we talked about, even the musculoskeletal issues that we talked about.

Dr Viola
I do. So my goal is always to get to the root of the problem, to figure out why a person doesn’t feel well, why they are not healthy, whatever those symptoms are, and they can be very varied.

Going back to looking at all of those things, from blood testing to lifestyle to physical exam, we collect all of that information and then create a plan. And sometimes that plan is chiropractic treatment. Sometimes it’s exercise. Sometimes it’s nutrition. Sometimes it’s everything. And sometimes it’s coaching for their lifestyle and things that they need to do.

But those pain symptoms, those GI symptoms, those are symptoms, so my goal is always to get to the cause of the problem. What is the root and how can affect it? You know, if it’s something like celiac, obviously we can’t get rid of celiac, but we can create a lifestyle that supports that patient so that they are healthy and vibrant and not causing any long-term damage to their, their GI tract. And for some people, we can heal that gut.

Linda Harkcom
Oh, that’s wonderful.

Dr Viola
We can look at what it is the cause is, and we can go through and heal it so that we can reintroduce gluten. I’ve had lots of patients where we spend some time healing and investigating. And once that healing happens, we reintroduce those foods, and they’re able to tolerate them. So there really are a lot of options, but for me, it’s getting to that mystery.

Linda Harkcom
That’s wonderful

Dr Viola
Like what is the very base of what’s happening? Because oftentimes one thing just rolls into another, to another. And, you know, by the time they get to me, sometimes they have so many symptoms, they can’t remember how it started.

Linda Harkcom
Right. And they also might be on so many different drugs, and the drugs are causing issues. You know, they’re taking this and then it’s giving them this side effect.
Dr Viola
Yes. It’s not uncommon for prescription medications and over-the-counter medications to have nutrient depletions. So certain medications cause nutrients to be depleted, and the nutrient depletion is the side effect. And so you know, you have people who are like, oh, well, I take this, and I deal with this side effect because I have to take this medicine. Well, the truth is that in many, many cases, if we deal with the nutrient depletion, that side effect goes away. And so now you don’t have those long-term side effects from that medication that you absolutely have to have for your heart or, or whatever it is.

Linda Harkcom
Oh, wow. Right.

Dr Viola
I’m not a clinician who’s going to tell you not to take your heart medicine. But I’m going to tell you how to take it so that it does the least damage to your body, so that you get the maximum benefit from it long-term if that’s what it takes. So, yeah, just really looking at every aspect of what people are putting into their bodies and, you know, how are they sleeping and how do they spend their free time and, you know, everything plays a factor.

Linda Harkcom
Yeah, yeah. Well, and now how would someone, find you to set up an appointment or any of those things?

Dr Viola
Well, I don’t advertise, so you have to go to my website, which is drviolacanhelp.com So dr, and then my first name, Viola, C A N H E L P, at gmail.com would be the email address that you can email me or at drviolacanhelp.com would be the website address. So either one of those is the perfect way to get in touch with me. You can call if you want, there is a phone number, but the truth is email or website are the best ways to get in touch with me and communicate. And we can set up a consultation. We can talk for a while and try to create a plan.

Linda Harkcom
That’s awesome. Well, I know you’ve helped myself and my family in so many different ways. And we appreciate you.

Dr Viola
Thank you, Linda.

Linda Harkcom
And, you know, we really just touched on a little bit on this topic. There’s so many more things you could talk about, like where do you find gluten? Because it’s not all just in wheat or wheat products. There’s so much more we can go into. If any of our listeners um have any suggestions on on things, more things that they would like to know on this topic, please drop a comment below and we would love to hear what you would like to learn about this particular topic or any other questions that Dr. Viola could talk to us about or anything else we might want to discuss on the podcast.

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Thank you all for listening. Thank you, Viola, for coming and sharing your expertise with us.

Dr Viola
My pleasure, Linda, anytime.

Linda Harkcom
And I really appreciate you. I really do. Thank you all.

Dr Viola
Honored to be asked.