Tarek El Moussahas been feeling a lot better after making major changes to his diet following hisceliac disease diagnosis.
El Moussa explained in a recent interview withTodaythat he was experiencing “a lot of pain in my fingers and hands, and because of that my doctor just did a whole bunch of testing.”
“After my cancer history, we’re always checking on my bloodwork and my health and staying on top of things,” he added. El Moussa is already a two-time cancer survivor, havingendured battles with both testicular cancerand thyroid cancer.
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“No idea what that is,” El Moussa admitted. Internal Medicine Specialist Dr. Ellen Song explained he has a gluten allergy.
He then adopted a gluten-free diet.
“At the beginning, it was really, really difficult, because I didn’t know what I could and could not eat,” El Moussa toldToday. “But like anything in life, time went on. By week three, I pretty much understood it.”
Because most gluten-based foods have alternatives, he said, “I guess I still get to eat all the same foods that I’ve always loved, I just have to buy from certain brands. Pizza is (one of) my favorite things in the world, but I started ordering gluten-free pizza, and it turns out that actually tastes better than regular pizza, so I’m pretty happy about that.”
“It’s amazing what just a little work can do to the body,” he added. “It just shows you that you can come back from anything. A couple years ago, I was 60 lbs. overweight, fighting two cancers, and you know, today I’m healthy.”
El Moussa also talked about his fiancée Young, 34, for getting him to eat “organic, clean foods” over “fast food and junk food.” TheSelling Sunsetstar has been vocal about her vegan diet.
“Before I met Heather, I had high blood pressure, high heart rate, I had high cholesterol and just a whole bunch of problems. I just decided to really work on my health and I focused on hot yoga … As well as cleaning up my diet. Now my blood work is completely different,” he said.
“Heather has made a lot of changes in my life. She feeds me, cooks for me, she tells me what to eat, she makes sure I’m taking my vitamins. She’s all over it,” he said at the time.
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“I’ve never eaten so clean, I’ve never taken so many vitamins, I’ve never gotten so much exercise. So I’m just taking care of my health. I want to live. I want to live for my kids. I want to live for my grandkids,” he said. “You only get one life. You only have one body.”
El Moussa shares daughter Taylor, 11, and son Brayden, 6, with ex-wife Christina Haack.
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