lbd
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I am a little puzzled over why some seem to think that Dr. Fine makes a lot of money off of these tests. These are not cheap tests to run. He farms out the DNA to other labs (Red Cross, etc.) and I am sure most of that fee goes to them. The other stool tests are not expensive, knowing what I do about proper lab procedures and expense of equipment. Certainly...
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That makes sense if you look at this from an evolutionary standpoint. Very few, if any, predator animals, which are basically what humans are, eat grains. Our genetic makeup is better suited to handling what we would eat if we were still in the wild - meat, fish, eggs, fruit, nuts, some vegetable matter. So it makes sense that most of our populations have...
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I found this abstract (see below) to an article, which has probably been referenced before on this site. It links the finding of type 2 transglutaminase in jejunal tissue with gluten ataxia. Since I have the DQ1 gene (as well as DQ2) and resulting migraines, etc., I find this interesting and actually pretty scary, since the TG2 antibody is also found in...
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I would think that if you looked at Dr. Fine from a traditional science point of view, his work might and does meet quite a lot of resistance from the regular medical industry. That would make it difficult for him to get published. It certainly sounds as if many, if not most, of the people on this forum have run up against the same ignorance in the medical...
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I really appreciate the warm welcome! I hope I can contribute. I can't tell you all how much going gluten-free has done for me. The genetic connections explain so much about my family. My mother had digestive problems and migraines all her life, and I suspect the blistery rash she got every summer may have been DH. She died from a rather unusual breast...
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I'll have to do some more research, but from what I have read, you are right, today's wheat etc has more gluten, but that gluten, or more specifically, gliadin, has always been toxic to those of us who have the original setup of genes. We have never had the ability to digest these grains, because our ancestors tended to move away from the populations in...
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Yes, I understand the need for the hoops. But perhaps he feels he can do more good going ahead with the tests as is, rather than consuming an inordinate amount of time jumping through those hoops. I just had a problem with one poster who said that "real" doctors do this and that. First of all, I doubt anyone would say he is not a real doctor, and secondly...
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I am fairly new to this forum. I have been reading for quite some time, but have not posted, except for a response to folks in PA. At any rate, I suspected that I had problems with gluten for some time (mostly severe migraines, joint aches, etc). I did not have the intestinal maladies that many people suffer. I toyed with the gluten free diet for about...
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I live in southeastern York County, PA.