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  1. ButterflyChaser
    Thank you! I cannot do tapioca and almonds... I'd looked through the spunky coconut's website, but I am really looking for a much plainer kind of bread
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    I have not been able to find my coconut bread in any of the city's shops, and need to make some of my own because that is the sole bread I am allowed to eat in my grain-free diet. Anyone here has a recipe? I would like something with egg whites because I like the fluffiness they produce even non-sugar added muffins would do (I could use those as buns...
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    Sorry to bump this up, but I am kind of worried at this point. I have accidentally soyed myself (WHO on earth thinks it's a great idea to put soy in herbal tea???) this morning. I have had palpitations all day, and people talking to me said I was irritable and confused, and at a certain point I felt that my heart was going very fast and then kind of "stopped...
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    You are my hero. Also, the city has run out of the coconut variety, and my order has not arrived yet. Awesome. Just awesome. Anyone knows how to make coconut quickbread? YES! They do curl. But I noticed a funny thing. It does not do that in all toasters - it only curls badly in some. I have no idea why.
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    I second that - I do think there are triggers for other disorders as well. How does one diagnose leaky gut? I have found some contrasting information... Oh, she had to get used to my paranoia I am wondering if the gluten-free diet also reduces inflammation/tTg in patients who have not been diagnosed with celiac disease, though... I don't know...
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    Nerdchick at work again... I keep coming across references to an alleged structural similarity between gluten and thyroid cells (the proteins that constitute the thyroid, I assume), which would explain why Hashimoto patients do better on a gluten-free diet regardless of having Celiac or not. The rationale would be that when gluten enters the body...
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    I was talking to a prof of Weil Cornell the other night, and she confirmed that a) we don't know much about these disorders, especially because they involve multiple organs, and it is more correct to talk of "a condition of autoimmunity" rather than of singular diseases, ie a body's tendency to attack its own tissues. That said, you may create antibodies...
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    The texture of the coconut is quite dense and moist, because coconut flour is ofter very fine and lumpy. I like mine double-toasted, but that's because neither myself not my mum have ever been able to digest bread UNLESS toasted. I agree they are different from most breads, GottaSki, though I DO envy you being able to pick it up!!!! I have ordered some to...
  9. ButterflyChaser
    You all, people - you are making me cry It is the first time I find a bunch of others in my situation that believe in what I believe. I love these boards.
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    The coconut bread has only a very slight hint of coconut aroma when toasted. But no distinct coconutty taste, and it is not sweet at all. I can't speak to the almond bread because I can't have almonds.
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    I actually like the Paleo Bread by Julian Bakery! I agree that their other low-carb breads do not quite match up, though they are not awful, but the coconut bread is lovely, and it is basically all the bread I can have now that I am grain- and legume-free.
  12. ButterflyChaser
    I understand this. I have been hyperthyroid for about 6 months (though I need to wait for blood tests in a few weeks to see where I am at), and have refused to take Tapazole or RAI or beta-blockers, as they wanted me to do back in August. I am changing my life-stye and things are slowly getting under control. I am lucky that my doctors think that I may actually...
  13. ButterflyChaser
    Thank you for posting this! I am a thyroid-diseased person, too, though mine is certainly an autoimmune condition. It is the reason why I am trying to eat gluten-free, even if the blood panel found nothing. Let us know how it goes!!!
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    To the OP: if it can comfort you, gastric cancer ranks at the very bottom among deadly cancers in Italy, not exactly a tomato-unfriendly country. If research statistics mean anything, most online pages mean nothing... By the way, toworryornottoworry, I teach research methods to college kids, and I may steal your examples re: vetting sources.
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    So, I called my doctor: my gut has not healed yet and I am still not absorbing properly. It's funny - she is not too inclined to have me get a biopsy. She thinks it is not necessary to find out that my intestine is not working, giving the symptoms. She wants me to continue the diet and see what happens. I am of two minds - no one I know ever wakes up in the...
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    Great post! I find it hard because mine is not celiac disease, but I do react to several substances (and several doctors agree with that). So people don't really take that seriously. Amen!!!! I get that all the time. "Oh, you're one of THOSE non-starchy people..." Well, uh, thanks for reminding me how much I miss baking since my doctor decided...
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    Oh, wow... thanks guys. I'll call and see what's the deal. I totally get the rapid transit, gatita. I am now usually having 4-5 BM per day. Prior to going gluten-free I was constantly going double digits for months. I'll call my doctor and see what happens. I have been told that I may have flattened vili (from infections, antibiotic, my thyroid imabalnces...
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    Clearly, I need to get off refined sugars...

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    As a European who is living in the US, and who has had experiences with health systems in both contexts, what I noticed is that US doctors are much more prone to attribute physical symptoms to psychic disturbances. I got months of "it's all in your head," "you're just stressed out: here, takes some valium," "you have an ED," and it was only once I went back...
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    ciamaria, I had the same kind of rash... back of my upper arms, chest, upper thighs. And in my case that, too, disappeared, after just two weeks on the gluten-free diet. But it didn't look like DH at all, just small, bright red bumps. Weird.
  21. ButterflyChaser
    If you make a search for millet+goitrogen you can read and decide for yourself. This is what I am referring to: Open Original Shared Link It shouldn't be an issue unless consumed daily. I always prefer to be safe, but I guess it works differently for everybody, and each has to figure out what works/doesn't work for them. I have chosen to eliminate...
  22. ButterflyChaser
    Does millet bother you at all? I have thyroid problems, too, and my endo told me to stay away from all millet... I do love the smell of anything baked. This must be why I love baking! If I pause and think about it, though, rarely the taste is anywhere as exhilarating as the aroma. I even like the smell of warm yeast.
  23. ButterflyChaser
    THE OVEN WORKS!!!!! (sorry, I shouldn't scream, but this will make my life SO much easier, and probably healthier!) Thanks for your support. I usually try to eat whole foods, it's just when I am craving something crunchy and aromatic that I shoot myself in the food and buy prepared stuff, which I can otherwise make myself; my previous roommate ...
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    Thank you, Lisa! Let me say that this is an amazingly supportive board. I usually only crave very dark chocolate, 90% and up for me, tnx. And butternut squash (weird, I know. I once got up at 1 AM to buy and cook one because my mum had told me she had one for dinner). Only when I am sad I miss cookies mmm... macaroons... Mostly, however, I find it very...
  25. ButterflyChaser
    There WAS a study done by the University of Rome in 2007 or 2008 (I think), and that involved a mass-screening of school-children of many if not all schools in the Roman district. If most people heard of the "all children are tested" in/around Rome, that might explain it. It was a saliva test. But I don't know much about saliva tests myself. Anyone?...
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