I don't believe that gluten-free was ever suggested as a cure-all for bipolar illness.
It is simply part of a resolution, just as stopping alcohol use is part of the program
of remission. One sensitive to gluten can't ingest it without consequences, just as an alcoholic cannot ingest alcohol without severe consequences.

Glutlen-free, however, is suggested strongly by some doctors who have done their
research and written about it, especially the 20th century engineering altering of gluten content in "dwarf" wheat, and in view of the fact that the United States has greater obesity and increasing levels of bipolar illness in its society. I think Dr. Williams associates a relationship between the two.

One shouldn't use black and white thinking in regard to these things if the effort is to get to a positive approach to holistic recovery. Recovery involves many things, not the least of which is the ability to go off psychotropic medications, all of which create high acidity that must be
alleviated somehow to maintain health. In addition, they all take what they wish from the
nutritional status of the body.

I've mentioned before that one psychiatrist gave up a career in psychiatry because of the
effects that psychiatric medications were having on his patients. I wish I could think of the
name of the doctor who didi that and wrote a book about it.