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    For your depression try increasing amounts of vitamin D until you feel better. It took me 10,000 iu a day. Get your blood tested for vitamin D and parathyroid hormone as soon as you can to see your baseline. There is a condition called Seasonal Affective Disorder that can be treated by light bars or drugs. Vitamin D and Depression: Where is all the Sunshine...
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    It is a common factor in your group of symptoms. Low D allows the autoimmune system to run amuck. It made a tremendous difference for me. It took 10,000 IU (250 mcg in metric) a day from April 2015 to 2018 to raise my level to 47 ng/ml. Another 2 years to reach 80 ng/ml. It took only three weeks of not supplementing to go from 80 down to 72 ng/ml. And...
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    What is your vitamin D blood plasma level?
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    LOL
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    Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) may have developed, causing the current symptoms especially if you've taken an antibiotic. "This study showed that SIBO affects most celiacs with persistence of GI symptoms after gluten withdrawal." High prevalence of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in celiac patients with persistence of gastrointestinal...
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    In this statement at least he is right. It doesn't matter if you have Celiac Disease (10% of population diagnosed), very likely with your brother or Non Celiac Gluten Sensitive (10% of population diagnosed). Wheat does you wrong. The general approach to it, according to the Merck Manual, is a gluten free diet and address vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
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    If you are buying gluten free processed food it could be an ingredient in it that you are reacting to. Some people have withdrawal symptoms. Gluten acts on the opiod receptors so you may have a similar response. Our bodies only store a few weeks of vitamins so your gluten free diet may have vitamin and mineral intake deficiencies. For a quick check add a...
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    Omega 3 oils work because they counteract the estimated up to 20:1 omega 6: omega 3 ratio inherant in the standard american diet. Optimum is said to be less than 3:1. "The typical American diet tends to contain 14 to 25 times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids." Omega-6 fatty acids: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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    This ain't the milk we grew up on. I am up to 4 12 ounce glasses of milk a day. To keep costs and omega 6 fatty acids down I buy one gallon commercial milk @ $5 and a half gallon of 100% pasture fed milk @ $7. By combining them I end up with omega 6:3 ratio of less than 3:1. Commercial milk is 5:1, grassfed 1:1 and organic The terms omega-3 or omega...
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    Does not mean she doesn't have Non Celiac Gluten Sensitivity. Also many people have Celiac Disease despite low antibody counts and none of the genetic markers typically tested for. New genes are being found with links to Celiac Disease. This appears to be a similar case. "Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL) is a very rare peripheral T...
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    Taking a break from my front yard makeover, here is some real numbers. In April of 2015 I started taking 10,000 IU vitamim D3 after finding numerous studies on kidney transplant patients who had been given doses ranging from 1000 iu a day to 1.25 million IU in a single dose and tracked for a year. The outcomes were all similar, no effect on the transplants...
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    Part of the recovery process is rebuilding a healthy gut biome. For fiber that is benificial to the good gut bacteria I have started taking Inulin. The nice thing about oatmeal is its high fiber content. Quaker gluten-free Instant for example per 100 grams, 3 1/2 ounces, has 357 calories, 68 carbs and 14 grams of fiber and no sugar. As Dr Haas figured...
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    You are welcome. Yesterday I got the results of my fasting labs and there were two things that stood out to me. I stopped all vitamin and mineral supplements July 5. Usually I don't stop because I want to know what I am actually at but this time I listened to @knitty kitty and @trentsto see my status without. Except for vitamin D, homocysteine and cholesteral...
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    What is XIFAXAN 41% of patients (254 of 624) in the XIFAXAN 550 mg group, 31% of TARGET 1 placebo group (98 of 314) and 32% of TARGET 2 placebo group (103 of 320) experienced adequate relief of IBS signs and symptoms. Composite endpoint was defined as ≥30% decrease from baseline in abdominal pain I don't see much difference b...
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    So what's the need? Copper is definately one of the minerals affected by Celiac Disease. Copper Deficiency in Celiac Disease Copper deficiency is an uncommonly reported complication of celiac disease that has not received much attention in recent years. In addition choline is an essential nutritent that is largely ignored and can cause liver...
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    Traditionally the estimate is 10% of first person relatives of a diagnosed Celiac has Celiac Disease. A recent study (Mayo or Cleveland Clinic I think) raised that to 44%. Half the population tests positive for Celiac genes, but only 5% of them are diagnosed as having Celiac Disease. Regardless, you should have your child tested now before there are overt...
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    Stay out of pain. What are the benefits to you of eating gluten? Your test could be a false negative but the good result is that you are doing better on gluten free.
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    Had a Dexxa scan last year. Osteopenia. But that could be from the years of untreated Celiac. Or my diet intake deficiencies. Or age. Her concern that it was driving up my BP was assuaged when my BP in office was 106/56 once. I still have to sign a note that I decline bp meds and statins but my homocysteine is normal (my obsession about choline) and that...
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    5mg if I'm inactive. Been gardening an hour each morning so had to increase to 10. If I take too much for more than a few days I get bruises on my forearm that is unique to predinsone. So I use that as an indication to reduce. The doctor gave me a month worth of Tramodol to use while weaning off but after a week I gave it back. All kinds of hormones from...
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    Tongue in cheek about NCGS. I was amazed to see someone with his credentials still believing that wheat is essential.
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    I've been on 10 years now. They push newer drugs for the profit, not the results. Those same doctors have no problem with insulin, thyroxine, methyltrexate.
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    I added that artilcle because it's not you who is crazy
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    Choline deficiency increases lymphocyte apoptosis and DNA damage in humans Choline deficiency increases lymphocyte apoptosis and DNA damage in humans A choline-deficient diet increased DNA damage in humans. Subjects in whom these diets induced liver or muscle dys-function also had higher rates of apoptosis in their peripheral lymphocytes than did subjects...
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    Keep the faith. The western diet is inherently not a nutritious one. 7 Nutrient Deficiencies That Are Incredibly Common. The article ignores choline. Choline deficiency increases lymphocyte apoptosis and DNA damage in humans A choline-deficient diet increased DNA damage in humans. Subjects in whom these diets induced liver or muscle dys-function...
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    No wonder there is such confusion! "Thus, the short answer is that in the case of NCGS a GFD is neither medically needed nor detrimental. However, NCGS has many similar aspects to irritable bowel syndrome," https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031484/ Because there is no autoimmune villi damage in NCGS are there vitamin deficiencies. Non...
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