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  1. Wheatwacked
    The FDA has a 100mg restriction on potassium supplements because of evidence that it causes intestinal lesions and the law does not allow them to outright ban supplements. 100mg of the RDI of 4700mg is negligible and your money is better spent on food that has potassium. A 28g serving of potato chips (one ounce) has 350 mg potassium. At 160 calories/ serving...
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    Glad you have a doctor open to alternatives. If you want to send a day's food log I can send you the results. Or if you want I can send you the spreadsheet. I created it in Open Office but should work in any spreadsheet program. All my B's are good by supplement or diet including B5 essential to the Krebbs Cycle. My serum levels are all normal except lipids...
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    Posterboy. Even with sufficient ingestion of thiamine and magnesium and half a dozen more, and a gluten-free diet I was stuck at a plateau. Not getting sicker, but not getting healthier. That left potassium as the only mineral that I could not supplement to guaranty 100% RDA. It is also the mineral that our bodies require the largest quantity. Using label...
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    I don't doubt it at all.
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    Thiamine is definitely one of the vitamins that needs to be targeted by anyone recovering from Celiac Disease. Once that has been addressed there is still the fact that most of the world population is significantly deficient in potassium intake, and there is no safe supplement, high BP and other health issues are on the rise as a result. "For the participants...
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    "The truth is, restoring normal stomach function after extended PPI treatment is a rocky affair marked by successes and setbacks. "The Challenges and Pitfalls of PPI Withdrawal | The Lifestyle Matrix. It seems that getting off long term PPI use is as difficult as getting off prednisone.
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    I've been cold intolerant all my life. Until recently it was not unusual for me to turn the heat on at 78 degrees or take a hot shower to warm up my core. For the past year I've been making sure to get 5 grams of potassium daily along with 100% each day of the other vitamins and minerals. The net result is that my tolerance to cold has improved and my blood...
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    When I first started gluten free, I had extremely vivid dreams of buying and eating dozens of Dunkin' Donuts. The following week my 20 year, pint of vodka a day, addiction to alcohol was gone.
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    I Your short trial of a limited gluten free diet has given you the answer. Your life depends on it. In the U.S. the first ingredient in Soy Sauce is wheat. Soy is the second of the two ingredients, which makes American Soy sauces at least 51% wheat. Tamari is soy sauce made of 100% fermented soy. Make it your choice. BYOSS (bring your...
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    No, I don't remember reading any. I do know that, with the excess pressure in my gut which at the time looked like a 1970 Biafran baby's, then the additional pressure from the cough, caused an umbilical hernia to pop out like a bazooka bubble gum bubble. My response at the time was "this can't be good". The inguinal hernia, I noticed pain in the inguinal...
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    So would a barium x-ray. "Doctors don’t know why most hiatal hernias happen". To me, that is code for nutritional problems and doctors don't do nutrition. I've had two hernias. The first, in 2014 was an umbilical hernia, from coughing while lying on my back while bloated with Biafra Baby Belly, just like my son had as an infant. He was biopsy diagnosed c...
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    Gluten causes the villi to shrivel, causing malabsorption of certain essential minerals and vitamins. Then secondary problems, like diahrrea and anorexia cause loss or malabsorption of other essentials. Then also consider the ones deficient in the general population: potassium, iodine and lithium. Add these together and you have malnutrition; even though...
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    Try Dr. Fuhrman's 6 week plan. Six-Week-Nutritarian-Quick-Start.pdf (hubspot.net). My go to for heartburn is Alka Seltzer. If something is causing GERD, you don't need it.
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    As a rule of thumb, I have found that if I get 5 grams of potassium in my diet everyday, on between 1500 to 3000 calories a day, most of the other vitamins and minerals are also above the minimum RDA and my health is steadily improving. The serum potassium test, for example, only indicates that your kidneys are working. If you are hypo or hyper, it is either...
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    In retrospect, I was getting dumber since graduating high school in 1969, probably even earlier . Since I started GFD Thanksgiving 2014, and over the past year replenishing all the vitamins I was missing in my diet, my thinking is clearer and my health is improving.
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    Instead of salt or a salt substitute product, for cooking, try Cream of Tarter. It is potassium bitartrate and has a slightly different salty taste. Those DASH products are 50% NaCl and 50% KCl. Potassium chloride as a supplement is limited by the FDA for possible intestinal lesions. Cream of Tarter helps retain color, acts and tastes similar to salt, and...
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    I agree. I think it tastes muddy, but I'll rethink it. The RDA of Iodine and mandated use of iodized salt in many countries, was specifically targeted at ending Goiter; similar to the RDA of vitamin D is only enough to avoid Rickets. Canada made it law, the US is optional. Most companies don't use iodize salt in their products because it costs more and dulls...
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    The article was about Big Wheat spending big bucks to convince non-celiac people that they need gluten to be healthy. The only nutrient lost by gluten free, not easily replaced, is iodine. Most of our iodine (100 mcg/slice) came from dough conditioning. The other major source was milk (100 mcg per glass). It came from the iodine used as a disinfectant...
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    Good article, Scott. Nutrients are added to wheat flour. If your diet is deficient in them the problem is compounded by a GFD, so a diet of processed foods without wheat could lead to vitamin deficiencies. That does not mean wheat is good for you.
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    Try Joel Fuhrman, MD Six Week Plan, from his book Eat to Live. I start my day with 6 oz. strawberries and 6 oz. (170 grams) of blueberries. Simple version: Breakfast: Fresh Fruit (4 daily) Lunch: Salad, beans (one cup daily) on top, fruit Dinner: Salad, two cooked vegetables(1 pound), fruit Include raw vegetables such as snow peas, red bell peppers...
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    "Looking back over the last five decades, several trends are apparent in wheat consumption: an increase in wheat consumption per capita (Rubio-Tapia et al. 2009) (http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/september08/findings/wheatflour.htm), an increase in celiac disease-related T-cell stimulatory epitopes in wheat (as for the major epitope Glia-α9, this paper)...
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    Symptoms of Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) deficiency may include: Headache, Fatigue, Irritability, restlessness, Disturbed sleep, Nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, Numbness or burning sensation in hands or feet, Muscle cramps.
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    Are you taking any vitamin/mineral supplements now that you were not before the surgery? Eating different foods?
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    When I think of the Roundup of today I always remember DDT and the Bald Eagle. This research should be commended. Norman E. Borlaug Founder, The World Food Prize 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate These new wheat varieties and improved crop management practices transformed agricultural production in Mexico during the 1940's and 1950's and later in Asia...
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    Here is a list of the vitamins I am taking and am doing well on. It is based on getting enough of all the essential vitamins up to the minimum RDA while staying well within the safe range, even counting what I get from food. There are nine specific to Celiac, the rest are general population deficiencies. Except vitamin D. If I stop taking 250mcg/day my mood...
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