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    Adrenal Fatigue is considered by many as quackery. Adrenal Insufficiency however is an official diagnosis. I have Secondary Adrenal Insufficiency from the prednisone I had to take for the fibromyalgia. The fibromyalgia got better with GFD, but the insufficiency stayed. I went from 30 mg/day pre-GFD to 5 mg maintenance.
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    You might double check for cross contamination of the balela or the tortilla. For example, falafel, also from chickpeas but Osem has wheat in it. Same with their potato pancake mixes. Some people have withdrawal symptoms for two weeks or so. Wheat is an addictive product. Canyon Bakehouse Heritage Style Honey Wheat is my favorite. Normal size slices...
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    Do you use milk in your morning coffee? I drink a lot of coffee throughout the day and finally noticed that as the day went on, I put less milk in it so that by bedtime it was practically black. Caused a burning in my gut. Sometimes woke me later and I had to take an Alka Selzer to go back to sleep. Switching to 100% Pasture fed, no grains dairy solved it...
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    Herbal antimicrobials such as oil of oregano and berberine may work in the same way as Rifaximin and are commonly used in functional medicine as they may be gentler on the system. What Is Hydrogen Sulfide SIBO and How Is It Treated?
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    If this is correct you are so, so deficient in D! Deficient is anything less than 19 ng/ml. A lifeguard in August is 90 mg/ml. Part of the differential diagnosis if multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Try to get a vitamin panel. You are likely also deficient in all the B vitamins, choline, iodine, potassium, zinc, etc, either through malabsorption...
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    I waffle on that very question. On the one hand I want to know what my levels are with the supplement and don't care what they are without if they are good with because I take them to make up for what I don't eat enough of. On the other the B's store about a week's worth so to be accurate as to what I get from diet alone I would have to stop for 10 days...
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    Yes. Gluten is addictive and also affects the same neuroreceptors as heroin, so some people have withdrawals and cravings. As knittykitty mentions vitamin and mineral deficiencies are common with Celiac Disease. If you are avoiding eggs and meat, be sure to get enough choline. Minimum is 450 mg a day and upper tolerable limit is 3500 mg a day. That...
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    If you are low in folate you are probably low in choline and possibly B12 and B6. Low vitamin D is also common in Celiac Disease. Beans are a good source of folate. Folic acid is synthetic folate almost as good and in the US the two are legally interchangeable. Eggs , steak and liver good for choline. Folate Fact Sheet for Health Professionals ...
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    This is the worst part. You know you feel better gluten free, but if you are gluten free it will affect the test results.
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    HI, welcome to Celiac.com. Unfortunately, it looks like the results you posted came out all scrambled. Are you taking Portia birth control? did they give you a prescription for folic acid? Full Blood Count is not normal but is acceptable? If they told you that you are OK, yet you feel like crap, then no, you are not overreacting...
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    This is my interpretation. Homocysteine is considered an independent indicator of vascular inflammation ie., cardiovascular disease. The nutrients most involved in its metabolism are B6, B12, Folate and Choline, all susceptible to malabsorption syndrome caused by Celiac Disease and Low folate, B6 and B12 have been addressed in the US population by...
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    If you have South Florida PBS, Dr Hyman has an annual special that they broadcast as part of the membership drive. As does Drs. Fuhrman and Amen and Davis.
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    79 nmole/L is equal to 32 ng/ml. The best benefits seem to be around 200 nmole/L (80 ng/ml). Because greater than 75 nmole/L (29 ng/ml) is deemed sufficient to prevent Rickets and osteomalacia and the committee that sets the RDA maintain that there is not enough evidence that vitamin D has any other function, you will be told you are good to go. You are not...
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    Four days after increasing my daily vitamin D3 intake to 10,000 IU a day my mood was so good I looked at my bottle of vitamin D and exclaimed "this is sunshine in a bottle!" That was March of 2015 and I've been taking it ever since. If I stop taking it for any length of time the first symptom that I notice is that I avoid answering the phone. Later I found...
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    As far as most doctors go, anything above 29 ng/ml is enough because the RDA is only looking for the minimum to prevent Rickets. Above that is considered OK and they will do nothing. Vitamin Deficiencies especially in Celiac Disease is not quackery. I have been on 10,000 IU a day for seven years 165 pounds = 60 IU/lb. On GFD it took 4 years to get my level...
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    "One study shows that vitamin D, which is actually a hormone, activates a genetic sequence that converts the essential amino acid tryptophan into serotonin in the brain. These findings confirm the importance of adequate vitamin D for serotonin production in the brain, where it acts as a neurotransmitter, affecting brain development, mood stabilization, cognitive...
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    Most peanut butter that I know of has added sugars. Irish dairy has a better omega 6:3 ratio because they and New Zealand are mostly grass fed. I've raised my vitamin C to 1000 to 2000 mg/day on top of the 840 mg phosphatidyl Choline and 1000 mg of Thiamine and it seems to help my neuropathy, average sleep time has increased from 2 and a half hours to 4 hours...
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    Vitamin D plasma and homocysteine tests would be helpful. The 30 ng/ml for vitamin D is just a cruel joke and higher than normal homocysteine might indicate insufficient Choline. Thiamine and Fatigue in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: An Open-label Pilot Study Try doubling the vitamin D to 10,000 IU a day for a while. It made a big...
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    I do it. I will mull for hours over what I am going to eat next, while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes to keep me going. I can put off the coffee and cigarettes but then I don't eat and don't function. All of my breathing problems from smoking went away with the gluten. Lucky for me my wife picked up on my anorexia years ago and gave me the behavioral...
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    Might as well. You already spent the money.
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    Can you clone your doctor and distribute her among us? First, I think that the myriad of presentations of celiac disease is because everyone eats a slightly different combination of foods. Estimates vary but upwards of 30% of the world population have the HLA-DQ2 or HLA-DQ8 alleles yet only just over 1% are diagnosed with Celiac Disease. On the other...
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    Potatoes?
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    Gluten sensitivity and epilepsy: a systematic review: "This has led some researchers to suggest that the calcifications may represent an epiphenomenon rather than being causative. One speculated that the cause of the development of calcifications is folate deficiency." While this is a review of epilepsy and celiac disease or NCGS in the section on CEC...
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    Hi gigib55. Welcome to the forum. Chronic vitamin and mineral deficiencies are common. Choline deficiency causing gall bladder problems. As a single egg supplies about 20–25% of your daily requirement, two large eggs provide almost half. Choline is a large part of bile which is needed to process fat. Increasing folate can compensate for choline deficiency. ...
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    "Antigliadin antibodies (AGAs) are antibodies of the IgA and IgG classes found in the serum of celiac disease patients. These antibodies mainly target gliadin-derived peptides, which are the main proteins of gluten. AGAs are not specific for celiac disease as they are also found in patients with other gastrointestinal diseases such as gastritis, gastroenteritis...
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