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Oh! I meant to say Hi! and, I'm new here too, but I went straight to look up DigestaCure. This is a great site, isn't it? I just found it, and while I wouldn't wish these problems on anyone, I'm still glad I'm not alone with all of this.

DigestaCure looks like a gell cap of aloe and prebiotics (things the good gut bacteria need.) Shouldn't hurt and might help. Depends how much they charge for it. If you've been ill for a while and your intestinal villi haven't recovered, you'll probably be having difficulty absorbing the nutrients you would need to heal. Are you taking any supplements...

Oops. Correction - CoQ10 enzyme applied to the gums. Don't think humans use CoQ2.

I developed peridontic problems while I was pregnant or soon after (40 yrs old and still eating wheat,) and when I finally got to the peridontist (3 yrs later?) I had to have crown lengthening on two molars. At about the same time I stopped eating wheat, and any sugar during the day. I was scrupulously careful of my dental hygene, using a disclosing mouthwash...

Love2travel is right. The ones we know are pronounced cher-vap-ees, so obviously the same but from over the border. Different minces, garlic, lots of spices, fresh herbs. I haven't had the energy to enjoy making anything for the longest time, so these chevapes are a bit of a milestone for me.

Forgot this bit - your diet sounds quite paleo, which means fairly low carb, and so you will probably occasionally be burning fat instead of relying on glycogen for energy. This is probably metabolically new, and would be quite enough to cause that telogen effluvium. But check the thyroid levels, though, as CassP and a1956chill say, just in case.

Ah HA! Here's something. I recall seeing queries about hair loss on paleo sites, but didn't look into it. Now I have - it's called telogen effluvium: "You are experiencing a common problem called telogen effluvium, which is the medical term for acute hair loss due to a metabolic, hormonal or drug stress. So you can better understand what has happened...

Hi. I'm new here. Funny you should say that. I was in your position, and getting very confused. Almost everything I ate hurt me. I eventually gave up on the whole food thing after becoming apparently sensitive to everything except meat and fish, lettuce and rice. My poor husband would have to come home from work and cook dinner (he's a good man). And I...

Thanks for that info. I do love hot chips, but find that most places dredge them in flour to stop them sticking, and to make them brown nicely. So even the places that don't use floured potatoe used mixed oils? I'll have to give them up. The highly processed vegetable oils (inflammatory high omega-6 fatty acids) are dangerous enough by themselves, but the...

I don't know how you'd check this, but I know that if you make serious changes in your diet your intestinal flora will possibly change in colony size and type. Many bacteria release toxins when they die, and if you excluded somthing from your diet and subsequently had a bacterial die-off (many at once instead of a constant but smaller number of bacteria dying...

I would be concerned that damage was being done elsewhere in the body, as it's known that gluten and gliadin can cause harm without any sign of gastric symptoms.

Hi guys, I'm new here, and not really sure how it works. I don't know if you'll be notified of a new post on an old thread? I think this info is worth seeing, though, so here it is. I've been off gluten since 2004 (no diagnosis, but gut, brain and skin problems all resolved following gluten-free diet. My dr wouldn't test - she said the diet was too...

I've been through what you describe - this is what I know. I hope some of it helps. Gas production that doesn't come out is probably not in the colon - it's probably in the small intestine. Gas is produced by bacteria, but you're not supposed to have so many gas producing bacteria in your small intestine. The bacteria are most likely the kind that love...