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    The spiritual aspect of living dominates my life.

    I am a student of politics and economics, particularly how they affect investing. These topics help in understanding the progressive outworking of civilization, with its ups and downs, but ever upward. And from the spiritual perspective, how it's all ultimately governed by the celestial overseers of our planet.

    I am focused on alternative health solutions to remedy problems and optimize health.
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Married 40 years (I like to say it's an accomplishment in these days of difficulty of relationships remaining intact.) I teach and write on spiritual matters.

I was diagnosed in 2000 by an endoscopy showing atrophied villi. It's all hazy now, so I don't recall having been told to stop gluten, although I must have because lactose tolerance disappeared. Unexpected and oh so nice!

But with no symptoms, I didn't take gluten avoidance seriously enough until a 2010 endoscopy with bad-news villi and IgA still high at 44. Then became serious; in 2012 IgA reduced to 8, but villi were not only still badly atrophied, but collagenous sprue was added to diagnosis.

I embarked upon a severe effort to restrict ALL gluten with success. Found a local alternative medicine practitioner who's actually knowledgeable about Celiac. Been gluten shortly after beginning this effort. Nice!

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    I normally go to a radiology group for bone density testing. However, one year I went to my local hospital; closer. Wow! Significant loss compared to steadily increasing density over several years. I suspected it might be in inaccurate test, and sure enough, two years later returning to my usual radiology service the results showed an increase from my last...
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    I've taken it twice upon the recommendation of my alternative medical practicioner. It is used to discover "cross-reactives," foods which your body treats as eating gluten. Here's a good explanation of it: Open Original Shared Link The results of the #4 Array test came in positive for several foods, which I had substantially reduced. I am now planning...
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    Hi, I saw that you visited me. I hope that you do well with your goal to be more strict. I understand that it can be hard when you don't get immediate feedback in the way of symptoms. I guess I should count myself lucky for that, but I don't.

    Best Wishes

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    Thanks for answer that it could take years to heal depending on how long this has been going on, which is 17 years undiagnosed and another 12 where I wasn't strict enough. Let me add that in the early years before diagnosis I did have definite symptoms of severe diarrhea after eating. But after finally being diagnosed lactose intolerant, that ended. I suspect...
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    This is a late reply to this post. Just joined the forum and thought my experience may help. I was diagnosed around a dozen years ago, but because I lack any symptoms at all and lacked medical professionals that understood the disease to properly counsel me, I was not strict. After an endoscopy two years ago, my gastroenterologist told informed me my...
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