Unclezack
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I am 58 years old. I have been Gluten Free for over 6 years. We have two daughters ages 31 and 35 who have symptoms of Gluten Intolerance/Celiac Disease. They both admit at times that they should become gluten free. Evidently, they will have to be at death's door as I was before they will quit eating that poison! One of my main concerns in my personal diet is cross contamination at manufacturer levels. I have too often been glutened by packaged foods that should have been safe. I have found that if my body tells me there is gluten in a product, there probably is.
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I have been baffled since this was posted. Why couldn't I find any information about the founder of Enzymedica "Tom Bohagen?" as spelled in this post. Because that isn't his name! The founder of Enzymedica's name is Tom Bohager. A Google search will bring up 37 pages that include his name. It was mentioned that Tom worked as a salesman for an unknown...
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ARCHIVED Fibromyalgia And The Gluten-free Diet
Unclezack replied to home-based-mom's topic in Related Issues & Disorders
Hi Home Based Mom! I too have a friend who is being treated for fibromyalgia. In conversation, I asked her what her symptoms were. After a few questions and answers, I commented that it sounded like we both had the same disease and left it at that. You know from another thread that I have gluten intolerance and celiac disease, but I'll let the other... -
ARCHIVED Not Satisfied On My New Diet
Unclezack replied to MLB's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Don't laugh, this is for real. Remember the Chia Pet? An animal made of pottery that you sprinkle these seeds on and they sprout and look like they are growing green hair? I was looking for a replacement for psyllium (Metemucil), as it doesn't agree with me. Chia seeds have a lot of nourishment and have hydrophilic properties. They can be eaten any way... -
ARCHIVED Can Ssris Stop Celiac Symptoms
Unclezack replied to Gutbomb's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Over the many years before I went gluten free, I had good days and bad days. There were times I would go six months to a year with no symptoms. Eventually, I had nothing but bad days and the older I got, the worse the symptoms got until I quit eating gluten. I was diagnosed with IBS. I can't tell you why, but it happened to me too. -
Benadryl is an antispasmodic, so it could be helping with the horrible cramping some of us were getting before our intestines started to heal. I took St John's Wort, cramp bark and ashwaghandha. They helped my bowel to relax and many times allowed trapped gas to pass. When our intestines are in that fragile state, it is good to do whatever it takes to...
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Linda, I was hurrying to reply to your post because my lunch break was almost over. You asked about the pain. When I had kidney pain, it went from my lower back at about my belt line and ran up my back 6-12 inches. If it was intense, it would radiate around the belt line to my right and left side. It started coming on from time to time at around age...
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Linda, I started out with a product called Digest. I was having a lot of problems with acid and acid reflux, so I added Acid Soothe. Eventually, more by accident than anything, I had ran out of Digest, but had a full bottle of Acid Soothe so I ended up taking it alone. I found that that product alone was doing the job for me. As I had mentioned way...
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Thanks Rachel, I'm leading up to a point, so please bear with me on this. I know that once a celiac, always a celiac, but there are different degrees of the disease. A person may be in early stages or later stages. In my experience, I was in the later stages at around 51 years old. By looking backwards and connecting the dots, I remember that besides...
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Tom, the second link sounds encouraging. I wonder though? When U of Chicago says Glutenese has absolutely no merit , it makes me wonder HOW they tested it. Were they trying to neutralize the gluten in a whole slice of bread with a couple of capsules of Glutenease? I'm trying to see a ratio of gluten to enzyme. My interest in any product of this...
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I have read this thread from beginning to end three times over the last two weeks. It takes a long time to read the whole thread, but I think it is worth taking the time and making decisions based on personal experiences and scientific evidence. I can see that for someone who has recently gone on a gluten free diet that it would be very confusing going...
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I think a lot of the members here agree that enzymes can be helpful regardless of the brand. The main complaint seems to be the wording about the benefits of Glutenease. Many companies hire an outside company or have a separate department that does their marketing. Marketing's job is to make people want to buy the product. If it is the case that the...
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April, I feel very well in comparison to my gluten eating days, but I can't say that I will ever be 100%. I know I need to quit smoking. Even though they are light and all natural, cigarettes aren't good for the stomach. It was a lot easier to give up gluten. Jack
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Scott, in various posts, I have stated over and over that I never eat any gluten intentionally and that I take enzymes as a protective measure when I eat in a restaurant. I know you are a busy guy and to read all of the posts in all of the threads would be a full time job in itself, but there is a lot of information about myself included in my posts. I...
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Aprilh, You have a very good memory. I couldn't have said it better myself. After being ill for 51 years and diagnosed with the wrong problems too many times, I met an herbalist who has more knowledge in his little finger than most of us have in our whole brain about how nutrition affects the human body. I told him I was having a lot of cramping...