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ARCHIVED Glutened Through The Skin And By Paper Plates?
IMResident replied to sillyactsue's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
Here's my opinion on that. Keep in mind this is just my opinion and not meant to discredit anyone's personal experience. If I remeber correctly large particles need to be less than 50 micrometers to be airborn (and be inhaled), and these particles are deposited in the outer or inner nose. In the outer nose they're sneezed out or blown out, in the inner... -
ARCHIVED Glutened Through The Skin And By Paper Plates?
IMResident replied to sillyactsue's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
GFP, Proteins/amino acids and large molecules are unable to cross the skin. Only very small molecules which are hydrophobic can cross the skin. Proteins and amino acids are large and for the most part hydrophilic. DDT and other pesticides are designed in such a way as to be small and hydrophobic and can definitely cross the skin. glutamine is an amino... -
Also keep in mind that the adrenal hormones are the hormones in the body that you'd least likely to mess around with. If you take adrenal hormones for a long time (even a low dose), than afterwards you'll develop a disease called secondary Addison's disease (it means life threateningly low levels of cortisol) for as much as 6-12 months ! This condition...
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I would just like to add an interesting fact. Cortisol, in traditional medicine, has been researched for the treatement of fatigue especially when assosciated with atypical depression. In "atypical" depression, there are low brain CRH levels (the releasing hormone for adrenal hormones) as well as low blood ACTH and cortisol levels during times of stress...
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Carla, why is your doctor looking at your hair samples again? That sounds a bit fishy to me. To diagnose adrenal insufficency all you'd need to do is measure blood glucocorticoid levels. By the way, adrenal insufficency causes fasting hypoglycemia, low blood pressure, and a life threatening adrenal crisis with severe vomiting, shock and death if...