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  1. Flor
    Hi you all, I haven't checked in here for awhile -- been doing the low oxalate diet stuff. BUT I think candida is now the main issue. All these food intolerances (starting with gluten two years ago) come back to leaky gut from antibiotic and viral damage and stress. Anyway, questions I have about this below. First though -- as someone who spent a year...
  2. Flor
    Have you all read this? I found it pretty useful: Open Original Shared Link
  3. Flor
    Hey you all, happy holidays! Anyone know anything about this "ox bile" stuff? There's discussion of it over on the LOD yahoo group and I turned up this info: Open Original Shared Link It seems to tie together a bunch of issues -- copper/mercury toxicity, gut damage, sulfur issues, adrenal and liver weakness, and then this issue of "slow oxidizer...
  4. Flor
    Hi KeyLimePie, I am more or less self-diagnosed with leaky gut. Celiac is indeterminate for me but going gluten free helped a lot. Turned out it was only the first step though. I also had to stop dairy, soy, most corn, nightshade vegetables, high oxalate foods (see the nightshade and oxalates thread in this section), and yeast-friendly foods (sugar, alcohol...
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    Hi Patti, I hear you about the supplements! Some days I'm not sure with everything I'm taking if I'm just stirring the pot too much!!! I will see later today if I can start a new thread as a supplements post. I'm not even sure it should go in this Leaky Gut section because it might be more generally applicable? And here's another item on a supplement...
  6. Flor
    Hi Judy and everyone! Two supplement questions first... Over at low oxalate diet yahoo group, two new items have been mentioned to be useful for yeast and leaky gut. The first is an essential oil combo called "Inner Defense" (Open Original Shared Link) -- several folks have seen results with it. I think primarily as an anti-fungal. The second...
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    Here's hoping my ativan is gluten free and low oxalate because I'm with you on the holiday stress and missing the glass of wine. I feel like an addict saying this. I have so few vices left -- and none of them dietary now! -- no chocolate, nothing roasted, no alcohol, no nuts, etc etc etc. So for the occasional freak-out, I only have ativan now. And it's not...
  8. Flor
    Hi you guys, I am taking VSL3 and I think i do like it. I did an initial testing round of it a couple of months ago -- 20 days worth -- and I felt worse when I stopped, so I ordered some more and am taking again. All I can say is that it feels good going down and that it doesn't make me feel bloated they way I think the healthfood store probiotics do....
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    Sorry to interrupt here with an unrelated (but related) item: This is a new report on possible link between electro-magnetic radiation and mercury toxicity. YIKES! Open Original Shared Link
  10. Flor
    My understanding is that the food allergy testing can produce many more positive results than a person actually has an allergic reaction to when that food is ingested. Anyone know more about this? I also gather that food "allergies" are those that cause histamine reactions and produce things like rashes and respiratory problems. People who are having...
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    Jason, Your story sounds similar to mine, though mine included pregnancy, childbirth and extended sleep deprivation. But I had three rounds of antibiotics in and around a terrible case of rotavirus after my son was born, along with the above stressors. I developed chronic gut problems and gradually eliminated stuff starting two years ago -- dairy...
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    Hey Judy, I'd love to hear what you learned from your conversation! I've been scarce the last couple of weeks because I had a major setback. I'm not sure if it was adding tortilla chips back in or sneaking some chocolate, or stress or what, but I've just been sick like the old days. More D, bloating, more joint pain, headaches, exhaustion, etc etc....
  13. Flor
    Hi me again. Well, I've figured out what NAG is: Open Original Shared Link Seems like might be useful! The healthfood store we have only carries NAC -- which is N-acetyl-cisteine (I think) -- and not the same thing. In the joint health section you can find Glucosamine Sulfate, but apparently it's not so easily absorbed for people with sulfur sensitivities...
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    Hi again. I've just been reading the new edition of the Low Oxalate Cookbook and saw in the research review in there that in addition to timed calcium citrate that their research cohort has had success with NAG and HTO. I have no idea where one gets these or in what doses. NAG is N-acetyl-glucosamine. HTO is hexadecyl tetradecenoyl octodecanoate...
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    Amanda, thank you for the Vit D post. That's VERY interesting. I've been out of town the last week and therefore backsliding all over the place on the diet. Now home and time to get back to it and try to regain the ground lost in the last couple of weeks. LOD cookbook arrived and I am reading. Am going downstairs to swallow some more Vit D! Florence
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    Hey you all, I've had a setback the whole last week -- I don't know if it's dumping or because I ate some bad stuff. I tried to bring corn back in in the form of white corn chips. Maybe that was the problem? I also ran out of VLS3, so maybe that's it. I got all backed up, if you know what I mean, and I'm not sure on this diet what I can eat to get things...
  17. Flor
    Hey you guys! You know these "functional medicine" people? Pretty interesting stuff. Here's a list of some of their presentations, also available as downloadable PDF files. Here's the link: Open Original Shared Link I just looked at one about managing IBD -- they include celiac disease in this. It's a good roundup of research. Including that...
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    Judy, I just bought the book -- I'll let you know when it gets here if it's worth it! :-) xoxo Florence
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    MSM - I don't remember what it stands for and the bottle is downstairs. But you'll find it in the joint/bone health section of any health food store, along with the glucosamine and chondriton and stuff like that. By they way, seems that melatonin, naturally elevated in our bodies at night, is what makes the pain worse at night. I took melatonin to help...
  20. Flor
    Lisa, Keep us posted how it goes! I also have chronic deep left hip pain -- I guess it's trocanteric bursitis for me, also elevated rheumatoid factor and sore knuckles. It comes and goes with the gut problems. Some days no pain, some days debilitating. I've had a setback after over a month on this diet -- sick the last few days like in the old days...
  21. Flor
    Here's a quick sample of the lit on O. formagines... It's is undergoing FDA approval and we don't know when it will be ready -- though maybe I"ll contact the FDA and see if they can say anything about timeline. It will be prescription only and approved for kidney stone prevention. Other treatments will be off-label use -- which I imgagine there will be...
  22. Flor
    The hyperoxaluria studies I read did these urine tests regularly and were able to map the rise and peak and fall of oxalates in the urine. In fact, I think the main studies I read were testing the efficacy of O. formagines -- that aneorobic probiotic that healthy guts have and is designed to break down oxalates. People given O. formagines who had either kidney...
  23. Flor
    Amanda! Thank you SO much for visiting us over here. I hope you come often! You are such a source of experience and information! You had responded to one of my postings over at Yahoo group -- about the yeast diet. I'm so glad you said what you did about the VP book because someone over at the yahoo group said basically "if you know how to cook,...
  24. Flor
    This from Susan Owens today at LOD yahoo group about yeast and LOD: "The sense of this is that oxalate may depress immune recognition of candida through indirect effects on the biotin and carboxylase chemistry. That's why candida might get worse while dumping. Are you people getting a reprieve when the child isn't dumping? Can you tell?" It seems...
  25. Flor
    Kassandra, I'm no doctor, but I thought I'd add my two cents about your cholesterol, if the doc hasn't already said anything. The total number is no longer seen as being as important as the ratio between your good and bad cholesterol. From the AHA: "An HDL cholesterol of 60 mg/dL or higher gives some protection against heart disease." Here's...
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