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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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    Home made kosher dill pickles. Fermented, not quick pickles made with vinegar. It only takes a few days.
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    I counted eighteen 'mysterious symptoms' that improved once I started gluten-free. Some were immediate, within weeks, others took longer. There are around 200 symptoms that show improvement with a gluten-free diet, not necessarily only Celiac. You can Google it. Your doctor suspects it and you've had the biopsy. The next step would seem to be to start gluten...
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    We are constantly bombarded with advertising of the Cool People eating wonderful gluten based foods; it is hard to resist. Of course the next commercial has someone dancing and smiling because they're on the newest diabetes medicine. When you get that craving, remember how limited you felt when you felt crappy, before the gluten-free and Keto; is feeling...
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    Iodine: muscle tone , thyroid function and apoptosis (killing off defective cells). When we were kids, we got iodine from bread and milk. those days are gone, Milk is still a good source. choline: (Adequate Intake: 550). Eggs were a good source. "Choline deficiency can cause muscle damage, liver damage, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease...In adults...
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    Debi, We are Kindred Spirits. Here is the list of supplements I am taking every morning for the past six months. I added them, one by one over time. It's a pain but i got sick and tired and it's working for me. My PCP is aware and did not throw any red flags, though it is not a recommendation. I strive to get 5000 grams (RDI = 4700mg) of Potassium everyday...
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    I was a mouth breather my entire life, doctors said it was something I just had to live with. At 63, I awoke every two hours to either breath, pee, or from back pain. Since starting gluten-free, my prostate has shrunk, back pain is gone and I am now a nose breather, among other improvements in my life.
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    More so with a gluten free diet, and even with a "healthy choice" diet, we are susceptible to numerous vitamin and mineral deficiencies that testing will not reveal. We assume that because we are aware, we are not deficient. It took more than six months of making sure that every day I ate more than 4700 grams of potassium, the current RDI used on food labels...
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    Vriezinga, et al, in 2014 published a double blind study comparing gluten at four months vs. delay until 6 months, with 944 randomized at-risk infants across 8 countries. Their conclusion: " At age 5 years the cumulative prevalence of celiac disease was 12.1%, and there was no significant difference in risk of celiac disease when comparing the intervention...
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    Sad, but so true. Without a clinical diagnosis, gluten-free is considered nothing more than a fad diet and it's adherents nothing more than annoying.
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