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    These can all be signs of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, most of which will not show in blood tests. Is it possible for your slightly high TPO is a result of your Celiac Disease or maybe a one time thing? My FIT test for colorectal cancer came back positive. I stopped all supplements and retook it 10 days later, it was negative. Before starting...
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    No, it does not. It could be an early warning indication of chonic insufficient choline in the diet. Since choline is absorbed in the small intestine and a significant portion of the normal population does not even eat enough of it, the problem in Celiacs is compounded. My opinion is to make sure that intake choline is above the minimum RDA before getting...
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    My son was diagnosed by biopsy when he was 6 months old in 1976. I stayed in denial till I was 63. Once I started GFD my sleep apnea, back pain improved (no longer need a new bed), prostate hypertrophy (diagnosed in 1973) shrank. Brain fog lifted (I was getting dumber by the day) during a TV comercial I could not tell you what show I was watching. ADHD...
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    When you fill out the patient history form be sure to indicate the symptoms that got better with GFD. Hopefully you'll find a doctor that will support or at least accept your self diagnosis and listen to what you say. Let the doctor guide you as far as becoming labeled.
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    Symptoms NAFLD usually causes no signs and symptoms. When it does, they may include: Fatigue Pain or discomfort in the upper right abdomen "Free choline, phosphocholine, and glycerophosphocholine are absorbed in the small intestine," https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Choline-HealthProfessional/
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    I think the evidence is overwhelming that your entire family will do better on a diet that does not include wheat, rye or barley. Even if you are currently not testing positive now, look at all the people on this forum that make it past middle age before diagnosis, and then realize other symptoms they thought were normal suddening improve. It can be a family...
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    Just because I am on a roll, I would like to point out that it took years of convincing to get surgeons to wash their hands before operating.
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    "Urinary iodine reflects dietary iodine intake directly because people excrete more than 90% of dietary iodine in the urine [4]. Spot urine iodine measurements are a useful indicator of iodine status within populations [28,29]. However, multiple 24-hour urinary iodine or multiple spot urine measurements are more accurate for individuals" https://ods.od.nih...
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    If you are avoiding dairy, and not using iodized table salt, you are possibly iodine deficient. Iodine Deficiency can result in either Hashimoto or Graves. For iodine I eat one sheet 2.5 gm of shushi nori = 400 mcg iodine. The US RDA is from 125 to 1200mcg per day. "Iodine deficiency, not excess, is the cause of autoimmune thyroid disease...In Japan...
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    Do you know what your blood level D(25) they consider too high? Mine is 86.7 ng/ml. Best I've felt in years. I take alka selzer when my stomach is burning. Less often lately. Ice tea or espresso on ice cools my gut when it is warm. Tamari sauce is 100% Soy. Regular soy sauce is 50% wheat.
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    about two years ago I created a spreadsheet that calculates the nutrients in what I eat and totals it. The source database is the National Nutrition Database SR28 which has since changed. mine: http://nutrientlog.doodlesnotes.net/. Haven't made it interactive on the website, but have gotten to 100% RDA for everything, some days. https://fdc.nal.usda...
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    I have read and believe that. My understanding is that it lays down bone mass, but not in the organized way it originally was, so while the drug does add mass it does not add strength. Not to mention the side effects. My T is -2.4 femur neck. Spine and hip a little better. The company coded it Postmenpausal Scan and the insurance refused to pay. I am...
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    As far as prostate goes, it was the gluten free diet. I did not start vitamin D until five months later. I ended up counting 18 different symptoms that improved with GFD. At 10,000 iu a day (250 mcg) I started feeling better. I have continued that dose and found many other vitamins and minerals that were lacking despite my "healthy food choices". Last...
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    My son when he was diagnosed at 6 months old was put on Nutramgen Infant formula for six months. It is hypoallergenic and has all the vitamins and minerals for complete nutrition, including potassium. Unfortunately for an adult you would have to eat a whole can a day, around $47, and it doesn't taste good. There isn't anything, to my knowledge, equivalent...
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    I brought up vitamin K because it is one of the vitamins affected by the malapsorbtion caused by Celiac and it seems to me, too often ignored until it is too late. K2 puts the Calcium in our bones instead of in our arteries. So after hip replacement you are put on Warfarin (or similar) to prevent clots, but the warfarin inhibits vitamin K which causes...
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    Ten or more grams of fresh parsley a day exceeds the RDA for vitamin K.
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    A DH biopsy would be more in the realm of dermatology
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    Some people with DH will still have negative antibody results. Get your DH biopsied by a doctor familiar with doing DH biopsies
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    What an amazing kid you have! At three years old she accurately self diagnosed and implemented her own treatment for what often takes doctors years to do. And great parents that supported her choices. While monitoring your vitamin and mineral plasma status, keep in mind that some blood levels are tightly controlled for heart health and normal blood plasma...
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    Guide: How to Assess Iodine Deficiency https://www.zrtlab.com/blog/archive/how-to-assess-iodine-deficiency/
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    Your symptoms remind me of those my wife had. She was diagnosed with endometriosis in her mid twenties. My wife was a nurse, but it took finding the top specialist in our region to finally diagnose. That was in 1976. Also, you should get screened for ovarian cancer. Like Celiac Disease, doctors seem to be in denial and the symptoms are often vague and...
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    "measuring nutrient intake makes more sense than measuring deficiencies. " Glad to see professionals researching what I figured out for myself several years ago.
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    The first vitamin I supplemented after GFD was vitamin D at 250 mcg (10,000 IU). By 1984 I had Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) starting in early September and it never got better. In 1995 I had a prescription for Zanax. Took one dose. I twitched and could not sit for four hours. My depression got really worse after my wife passed in 2005. I started the...
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    This is the list of supplements that brought me back to health because I was not eating enough.The list after that is what I eat now, still taking most of the supplements. I know it is a lot. Do you have a hot plate and fridge? The vitamin D and Lithium help with mood. It takes less than a week to kick in. This is NOT burn out your brain high dose lithium...
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