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    There are 3 paths to methylate homocysteine to methionine. The best known is B12 and Folate. The second is vitamin B6. The third and mostly disregarded is Choline. Increasing choline reduces the need for folate. Folate and Choline also help prevent embryonic neural tube defects. Fortified foods have added folic acid for this reason. gluten-free foods...
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    80% of the mitochondrial membrane is Choline. No choline, no new mitochondria, less health. Less than 10% of us eat enough choline containing foods (primary source liver, eggs, beefsteak). Choline is needed to digest fats (floating, off color, smelly poop). It makes up most of the bile salts, reduces homocysteine (cardiovascular inflammation), makes up...
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    Hi cactusflower. Welcome to the forum. It's nice to be new. Listen to this doctor. Overall there is a tendency to underdiagnose. Most doctors don't know any more than you about nutritional disorders. Lots of money is spent to get us to eat more of it. It is addictive. Think of your mindset when being told no more wheat vs. no more apples. You...
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    Had a Biopsy for Celiac Disease done? Even with negative bloodwork there may still be intestinal villi damage. Then you need to eat Gluten free and supplement vitamins and minerals. Common deficiencies are vitamin D, Thiamine, Choline to start. These should give you the quickest relief at a sufficient intake but there are twenty more essential...
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    Welcome to the forum Jonathan31. What is your question? What symptoms caused you to get the tests done? Looks like your tests for Celiac Disease are all negative and same with allergens, except mussel and fish. With Celiac and allergies ruled out the next step would be a trial gluten free diet to see if you get better. If so, you might have...
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    Are you eating enough liver, eggs and red meat to meet your Choline needs? Choline is essential to digestion of fats. Symptoms of low choline are often mistaken for gall bladder disease because choline is the major ingredient in bile. Phoshatidylcholine is also the major part of mitochondrial membrane and is needed to make acetylcholine for nerve transmission...
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    Yes and yes. I get tested every 3 months. My D has never gone over 86 ng/ml, but when I stopped taking it once for 3 weeks before the blood draw I dropped to 72 ng/ml. It took from 2015 to 2019 to raise it to 47 ng/ml (don't know the start point but I was a sick puppy) and until 2021 to get from 47 to 80 ng/ml. That is great news. If...
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    In the US the terms "folate" and "folic acid" can be used interchangeably on nutrition labels. Folic Acid has an RDA upper safe limit of 1000 mg. Folate from food has no limit. Folic Acid and Risk of Prostate Cancer: Results From a Randomized Clinical Trial "In contrast to the direct association of folic acid supplementation with risk of prostate...
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    Keep increasing vitamin D until you reach 80 ng/ml (200 nmol/L for optimum benifit. My depression went away at 10,000 IU a day and if I stop I regress. My serum level is steady at 80 ng/ml. I thought mowing the lawn 2 hours a week midday and shirtless would be sufficient but was wrong. Lithium Orotate 5 mg a day relieved my anxiety. That feeling that...
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    Folate and Choline share many of the same funcitions. Increasing one can compensate for the other. Neural Tube Defects, Methylation of homocysteine and Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease are three. I find it easier to supplement choline and get my folate from food. The reason I think testing for high homocysteine. Though I haven't found any studies...
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    So earlier I assumed the 34 was 34 ng/ml which is just above deficient level. But if it is 34 nmol/L that is equivalent to only 13.6 ng/ml. Vitamin D in Children’s Health "It is recommended that targeting a 25(OH)D level of 40–70 ng/mL [ 100-175 nmol/L] for each individual would provide optimal health benefits and reduce health care costs. Cu...
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    I take 10,000 IU of vitamin D, 500 mg Thiamine and 500 mg Choline. There is not much difference between 13 year old and adult for RDA and UL.
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    This caught my eye: We hypothesize that the enhanced dopamine system and reduced acetylcholine (Ach) in gastric tissues might contribute to the delayed gastric emptying observed in PD. The role of the vagal pathway and gastric dopamine in the gastroparesis of rats
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    You can use the National Nutrition Database to create a spreadsheet to track nutrition intake. Here is a sample: http://nutrientlog.doodlesnotes.net/
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    Has his B6 gone down any? That's the one test that sticks out abnormal. Vitamin B6 Fact Sheet for Health Professionals High intakes of vitamin B6 from food sources have not been reported to cause adverse effects. However, chronic administration of 1–6 g oral pyridoxine per day for 12–40 months can cause severe and progressive sensory neuropathy ...
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    You may not get a "definative" answer from a medical point of view. I hope you do, but it seems like your body is telling you. Our bodies don't read the medical and insurance company protocols, and gluten addiction is a powerful thing. When you think about giving up gluten can you just walk away, like giving up lettuce? Don't ignore those positive blood...
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    yuluyouyue, I remember how desperate you were. I am so glad.
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    Almost anything not packaged in a box, can or bag will be gluten free. Other grains may be cross contaminated in field or transport or processing, so should be approached with caution.
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    Yep.
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    No control group, except as compared to general public. "85% and 82.7%, respectively, which is higher than what was reported in the general Jordanian population" It was more of an effort to point out that depression and Celiac go hand in hand. Sometimes 1+1 = 2. Vitamin D deficiency and associated factors in Jordan "The prevalence of low...
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    JDG, Do you know your vitamin D blood test results? There is research that higher levels of vitamin D can protect the villi against the antibodies, perhaps explaining why, even though more than 40% worldwide have the genetic markers, only 1/2% of them are diagnosed with Marsh 3 damage. Observationally, vitually everyone diagnosed with villi damage have...
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    A bolus boost of vitamin D, the largest you can get for him. Maybe some of those 50,000 IU shots from the doctor so it bypasses ingestion. He's at 29 ng/ml, according to "close to the low threshold on D". Homeostasis for D is 80 ng/ml. The range is 29 - 120 ng/ml. Raising it can only help him and according to this report may be the answer. With the...
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    Side effects of Reglan: Drowsiness, dizziness, tiredness, trouble sleeping, agitation, headache,heartburn, muscle spasms/uncontrolled muscle movements (such as twisting neck, arching back), Parkinson-like symptoms, Tardiff Dyskinesia and diarrhea. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. this medication...
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    I often see the sprouted, whole grain, heritage grain and gluten free breads scattered haphazardly together. BRAT diet, to a Celiac diagnosis is like gasoline to put out a fire. Made sense until they discovered that Celiac is caused by gluten, which is in virtually all toast. No surprise it doesn't really work. It would be good for short term...
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    Hi and welcome to the forum. "Eat the foods that love you back." - Dr Amen. Why the restrictive diet? Calories don't build muscle. You need choline, potassium and iodine. Carbs become either energy (if you have enough B vitamins) or gets stored as fat. I love finding new connections to vitamin D. "The role of vitamin D in allergic...
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