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  1. domesticactivist
    Oh, wow, I just saw your most recent post. I had an inkling from your first post that this may be the way he acts, but I didn't want to make assumptions. From what you say here, though, I have to tell you - his behavior is totally unacceptable, and something no one should be subjected to. It sounds like you have had to choose between trying to keep...
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    You say you don't have symptoms, but you listed many symptoms that are all directly related to gluten consumption for many people I know. While it is all or nothing - even a little bit does damage - I think if you can cut back gradually while getting used to the idea that may be helpful. What if you start with what you cook at home? I agree with the people...
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    I don't know if it's related to celiac disease, but when my partner (who we don't think is celiac) went gluten free, she experienced changes - her cycle normalized, she lost belly fat and got a waist, and her hair became far less hairy. She looked those things up and found that they were symptoms of PCOS, and that PCOS often responds to a gluten-free diet...
  4. domesticactivist
    Whole foods means that the food is unprocessed. We consider pasteurized milk a processed food and choose organic raw milk from pastured cows, which we get directly from a farmer. Many people who can't handle store bought milk are fine with the kind of milk we get. The diet we are on is aimed at restoring gut health and is an all whole foods diet. It goes...
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    Or raise your own. We live in a city that allows it, and have lots of chickens
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    Better safe than sorry! It will also simplify things in the kitchen for all the kids to go gluten-free.
  7. domesticactivist
    Congratulations on your decision!
  8. domesticactivist
    Our whole family changed our diet to support our son and make it easier to prepare meals and keep things gluten free. It was hard at first and we experienced withdrawal, sensitization to gluten, and candida die-off, which all brought on symptoms early on. Now we all feel healthier than ever before. I'm starting to believe grains aren't actually good for most...
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    I used to get migraines, but I'd usually get really intense migraine auras including visual anomalies, losing all vision, aphasia (saying wrong words), fatigue, intense tingling moving through arms and fingers, face and tongue, nausea, etc. They did seem correlated with hormones and other foods to some extent. I had my last one in November shortly after...
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    I don't know about whether colostrum heals the gut but I don't see how it could hurt if it is from a human source. The GAPS Diet that we are doing is totally aimed at restoring gut health. Search the liberated kitchen gaps resources for my links to books on the subject. As for the dairy, it depends on the reason you don't tolerate it. This diet is aimed...
  11. domesticactivist
    I had the same problem. It went away when we started eating enough fat. The idea that saturated fat is bad for you is increasingly being shown by science to be wrong. While transfats are terrible, naturally saturated fats are essential to a healthy diet. Our culture has taken out the fat and replaced it with sugar in order to feel full - so when you cut gluten...
  12. domesticactivist
    We are going through the same thing with our daughter. She is 12, but is smaller than 7 year olds we know. She has never even made it onto the growth chart. We have a long-awaited appointment with an endocrinologist this week. Her bone age showed age 10 (23 months below - far outside the standard deviation) - also the same good sign you got! We've run...
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    Actually, I haven't posted ALL the symptoms. Forgot about canker sores (I just got one after a weekend at camp where I had to handle a bunch of gluteny food for others). Our son used to get those all the time and hasn't since we went on GAPS. I wonder what else I've left out? Sometime I'm going to have to get systematic about the documentation!
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    We've been on GAPS for about 3 months, and we are just now ending the Intro diet (6 stages). We have not tried to introduce foods from the list of intolerances, yet. When we went gluten-free I started being very sensitive to all grains. I'd never noticed a problem with them before. Starting GAPS changed all that. The lists of foods we do eat so far...
  15. domesticactivist
    When you say allergic, are you talking about IgG or IgE allergies? My son tested IgG positive to all sorts of things. In fact, all his favorites at the time of the test. I've since learned that a damaged gut can cause whatever you are eating to create a reaction. Healing the gut may eliminate the IgG reactions. He also has IgE allergy to corn - this one is...
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    We've been homeschooling all along for all sorts of reasons. The ease in dealing with food restrictions is just an added bonus for us. I'll give you a taste of what it's been like for us (my kids are now 10.5 and 12 years old): We live in a metro area that has community centers, private organizations that offer activities for kids, homeschool resource...
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    Congratulations! Like they all said - you're doing your best to be a good mama from the very start! (So many moms don't even know they are pregnant yet at 7 weeks.) I don't see any reason why your baby would be harmed from you having celiac disease, especially with you being careful about your diet now. If the human race were so fragile, no one would have...
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    My cycle was regular but strange (starting and stopping for over a week, neverending pms) until going gluten free. I thought I was cured! But then after a few months, I had a really awful period. I started taking mineral supplements (ConcenTrace drops) and things are back to being good.
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    I'm sorry to hear that you have been dealing with so much pain for so long. I imagine you'd want to be able to just finally get some relief! I guess I'm just coming at it from a more holistic perspective than most people do. Over the years I have become increasingly skeptical of the approach of looking at problems as individual phenomena. It's not that...
  20. domesticactivist
    I hope you can get those tests over with soon and get back off gluten! I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I HATE the idea that weight loss should be the primary health goal. Sure, sometimes it's unhealthy for people have a high BMI, but plenty of people are overweight due to underlying issues, and plenty of people are in bad health not because of their...
  21. domesticactivist
    Gross. Of course this isn't even a risk of being a problem if you raise your own meat, go hunting, or buy from a local farmer you can visit.
  22. domesticactivist
    Great questions from tictax707. Also, are you taking any supplements or medications?
  23. domesticactivist
    The others have made great comments. I, too, used to be vegetarian, and my ex-husband used to be vegan. When we changed our diet for our son he decided to try it, too, and he has seen big improvements in his health as well! For good articles about health and vegetarianism I like the Open Original Shared Link Anyway, back on topic... The diet my family...
  24. domesticactivist
    Could also be the sugar.
  25. domesticactivist
    Even one of the genes you have is enough to raise risk. That means both your parents and your children all have elevated genetic risk. Another thing to think about is that the diagnostic tests show damage that has *already* been done. Seems to me if there are symptoms that show bad digestion or inflammation or neurological stuff, it's likely going gluten...
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