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  1. Cinnamon
    It is said that much of our serotonin is manufactured in the gut, and if the villi are damaged, maybe that is why anxiety can be such a problem. Maybe if you ate a lot of the foods that are converted into serotonin, like turkey, I wonder if that would help. Or google "increase serotonin" and see if there are any natural supplements that might be helpful.
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    I have two ADHD kids and the diet definitely helped one, but did nothing for the other, though she still has to be gluten free because of her stomach pains and rashes. With my son, we had the dramatic improvement that Shayesmom above had, though he isn't 100%. It didn't make the ADHD go away, but it significantly improved. Dairy was also making him hyper...
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    Well, I think what's happening when a person seems addicted to gluten is that bits of undigested or partially digested gluten (or dairy) find their way back into the bloodstream, and supposedly they are of a similar composition to opiates like morphine or heroin and fit into the same receptor sites in the brain. They are even called casomorphin and gliamorphin...
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    Yes, he had a lot of trouble sleeping. Either he couldn't get to sleep and would keep coming out of his room, or he would go to sleep and then wake frequently during the night. I bought some Melatonin and would give him a half of a pill and that seemed to help. But I would say within a few days of going gluten free he started to fall right asleep and stay...
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    Hi, I just wanted to say that my son sounds similar. He had a variety of neurological symptoms and the doctors didn't know what it was. I found out quite by accident that it was gluten. He also had negative Enterolab results. But some people simply don't make much IgA, so they would have a false negative. I also wonder if the IgA non-secretors are the ones...
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    Maybe something like Slippery Elm Bark would help. It's supposed to coat and protect the intestinal tract with mucus. I know, mucus sounds gross, but mucus is a good thing. It might help seal up the spaces with the leaky gut. I just got some to try with my kids. So far, so good. Marshmallow Root is also supposed to do the same thing, I think, but when we...
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    Lol!!! At least we will leave a good-looking corpse! And we can also make extra money by stealing priceless works of art from museums since we don't have any fingerprints! "You'll never prove I did it, Copper!" No, really it's fascinating how this thing affects every part of our body. I think my eyelashes hurt.
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    Hi, I'm not the person you addressed this to, but I remember the fingerprint and eyelashes posts. The fingerprint thing is that if you take your fingerprints, a marker for celiac disease or gluten intolerance is that you will see white lines, or white slash mark looking things. Also the fingerprints are difficult to even get because they are almost not even...
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    If a poisonous snake might jump out of your kitchen cabinet at any moment and bite you really hard, you would always have that possibility in the back of your mind. This is kind of the same thing, in a way.
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    Oh, I hope you don't leave over one nut. This was an interesting and helpful topic! Don't let one kook chase you out.
  11. Cinnamon
    The theory is that it binds to the lectin molecule and carries it out of the body. It's for CC issues and other intolerances besides wheat, such as dairy, and others. I just ordered some online. Has anyone tried it? Open Original Shared Link Open Original Shared Link Hope in a bottle!
  12. Cinnamon
    I worked at a Dunkin Donuts years ago as a teenager, and I still remember the baker opening a huge 30-lb bag of flour and dumping into an enormous mixer along with all the other ingredients. The cloud of flour that would rise up was almost like a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb! I'm sure it drifted all around the store. I would be in the back cleaning...
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    Hello! My 11-year-old was having terrible neurological symptoms and it took me quite a while to figure out that they were caused by gluten. When we first went gluten-free, he did great! Even he could see the dramatic changes. But now it's been a couple of months, and I think he's forgotten how bad it was. He is missing his pizza, macaroni and cheese,...
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    I have two kids with ADHD diagnoses (the inattentive type), and these 2 are also gluten intolerant. My son only gets neurological symptoms from gluten, and his ADHD symptoms have definitely improved, though they are still there to a lesser extent. His handwriting improved amazingly. He also has diagnoses of dyspraxia (uncoordination), sensory integration...
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    I don't know. If you didn't see any good from the diet, and no regression from the challenge, I wouldn't worry about it for now. I would think you'd see something if gluten were a problem. I have 4 kids, and the youngest 2 definitely have gluten problems. I could see even on day 2 of the diet that I was on the right track. But I put one of my older sons who...
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    My son has an ADHD diagnosis, and I found out quite by accident that wheat was bothering him. He's had all kinds of tests, they all came back negative, including Enterolab, but when I took him off gluten, I knew by day 2 that I'd hit the nail on the head. He was a new child off gluten! Yet no one believes me. His teacher raves about the changes in him, but...
  17. Cinnamon
    Just to clarify on the Hormel chili - the kind with beans is gluten free, but the kind without beans has wheat in it.
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    I've been using it too, and everything has come out just fine. I've made mashed potatoes, bread, biscuits and doughnuts with it and you would never know they were made with rice milk. Some have said that Rice Dream brand has gluten, though. I have a different brand and it says gluten free on the label. Tomorrow I am going to try the Bob Evans sausage gravy...
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    Actually, I think the only real way to break down the gluten molecule would be with an enzyme similar to the one normal people have. Acidity won't do it or the acidic conditions in our stomachs would take care of it. Temperature won't do it or it would be destroyed by baking. One day I think people will come up with a way to duplicate the enymatic action...
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    This sounds very interesting. I've read other posts about trying vinegar or rubbing alcohol for cleaning gluten-contaminated surfaces. But yet I don't think it could be possible that vinegar or alcohol could disable the gluten molecule because if it could, then people could use malt vinegar and drink beer. Unless there is some variable that would enable it...
  21. Cinnamon
    Is it just Rice Dream, or all rice milks?
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    Wow, all I can say is that this explains so many things!! My kids have ADD symptoms, and I'd been trying to find ways of boosting their levels of dopamine, norepinephrine, etc. Now I get it!! They weren't digesting the foods that are precursors to those things. And when I first took my son off gluten, he had what looked for all the world like withdrawal symptoms...
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    We've never tried Gluten-ease, but we've had a different brand which sounds like the exact same thing, it's DPP-IV and other enzymes. I think it helps. I wouldn't purposely eat gluten, but if you accidentally ingest it or think there may be some CC, I think the enzymes are definitely a helpful thing, at least for us.
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    Yes, my daughter gets the same thing, and I do think it's from gluten. Sometimes they are on her face, other times on her legs. It stops when she's gluten free. Yesterday I made what I thought were gluten-free doughnuts, and they were delicious, but after eating them, she broke out with those markings on her face, one under her eye and another on her forehead...
  25. Cinnamon
    I saw improvement on Day 2 with my own 11-year-old. You might even be able to sneak it past her, at least for a day or two, by just making things that naturally don't have gluten. With my son I just made eggs for breakfast, gave him chili in a thermos for lunch, meat and potatoes and a vegetable for dinner, potato chips for snack, and at first he hardly...
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