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  1. Nancym
    Did they mean GRANOLA? Or is this some new hip thing I'm completely unaware of. Even the urban dictionary was no help! Crunch-muffins? LOL!
  2. Nancym
    What the heck is 'GRONOLA'?
  3. Nancym
    I've discovered that I can only tolerate seeds and some nuts in small amounts. Sunflower seeds give me the WORST diarrhea, same with pumpkin seeds.
  4. Nancym
    Not with Enterolab, although quite true with blood tests. Enterolab goes directly to the source of the problem (the chowder chute itself), they can detect antibodies for a year or more after going gluten-free.
  5. Nancym
    I think gluten was masking some of the other food issues I had, like with dairy. Now I listen very carefully to my body. When things start going haywire I know I have to tweak my diet. For instance, eating too many nuts or seeds gives me diarrhea. Just start experimenting and see if you can't figure out what it is that is causing you issues.
  6. Nancym
    Stick with it! Sorry you're not feeling vastly better already. I had some improvement in just a couple of days (with the bowels). But my arthritis, fatigue, muddle-headedness took months to get better. I agree with the others, take the whole family gluten free and concentrate on eating foods that are not processed, like fruits, veggies, meats. Later...
  7. Nancym
    If he is IgA deficient then the enterolab results will be negative. You might want to double check with them however. They're very responsive to emails. I think the dietary challenge is enough to prove it, IMHO.
  8. Nancym
    It sounds like you're eating nearly a paleo diet. I think it is a tremendous way to eat. Sure, might not be as immediately gratifying as dumping lots of grains, starches and sugar down the gullet, but it pays off in good health! Much easier to control the weight too.
  9. Nancym
    Loren Cordain pointed out in his newsletter, or maybe it was a study he published, that cows milk contains a huge amount of growth factor, like vastly more than a human would normally be exposed to. It makes sense, a baby calf has a lot of growing to do to become a cow. I wonder what a life-long exposure to far, far too much growth factor does to a person...
  10. Nancym
    I noticed this: Kefir is usually made from milk, so I'd ascribe it to that. I make kefir myself from coconut milk and my kefir cultures. It is good! It doesn't give me gas. It seems to make my gut pretty happy.
  11. Nancym
    Do a google search on norovirus or stomach flu and see if the symptoms match. I just had it a few months ago myself, I didn't have a fever but had headache, vomiting, and a general feeling of malaise. I was around someone that had just had it too, and it is frightfully contagious, so I was sure that was it. Plus, my symptoms of gluten aren't that bad.
  12. Nancym
    Its the hillcrest one I usually go to. I really need to not go there on the weekend!
  13. Nancym
    In a word, no. Humans have been around for many hundreds of thousands of years and we've only been eating wheat for about 7,000. So it would seem quite possible to survive without it.
  14. Nancym
    I know they're using anti-TNF medications for Crohn's and I think colitis with good results. It's kind of an awful thing to take though since it suppresses your immune system. Its the sort of thing that can cause you to get REAL sick with a mild infection, but sometimes it is worth it if your autoimmune disease is very severe. I guess before I would...
  15. Nancym
    Thanks Mango! Let me know if you find it in more places, I don't get to Whole Foods very often. The parking there is a nightmare!
  16. Nancym
    I went to Bev Mo! (they never have anything I want, I don't know why I bother with them!) and couldn't find it, been to an Albertson's and couldn't find it. Has anyone found it in San Diego?
  17. Nancym
    Yeah, its up to you to decide whether or not you want to share the information with your doctors. I did and brought them the enterolab results and they accepted it. I was surprised actually. They could have easily pooh-poohed them. Your doctor probably has nothing to contribute to your ability to manage this issue. So whether or not they know or...
  18. Nancym
    You can email Enterolab, they're very responsive to questions. My thought is you might be IgG deficient, so you'd never test postive. But ask them and see what they say.
  19. Nancym
    Every autoimmune disease seems to have a link with celiac, i.e. there are more people with autoimmune disease that also have celiac. I think the connection is the leaky gut. The pathogens leak out of your gut and your body goes nuts trying to kill them, but unfortunately some of these pathogens look like human proteins, so the body turns on itself. For...
  20. Nancym
    Putting gluten back isn't going to help you. It sounds like you have an infection of some sort, you need to see a doctor.
  21. Nancym
    You might want to go on the diet with him. It'd show support and you never know, you might feel better yourself!
  22. Nancym
    Why is it necessary to go into so much detail with people? Just say you're diagnosed as having gluten intolerance, end of story. They're probably not all that interested in all the gory details anyway.
  23. Nancym
    There's barriers all over the body, the intestines, the brain/blood barrier and even the skin. I remember reading that zonulin can open any of those barriers. I always figured zonulin in the skin might be responsible for DH, somehow. I'm pretty sure this is already demonstrated to be true. I've read one of the articles Dr. Fasano wrote. I believe he...
  24. Nancym
    Yes, yes, been there. Solved that. Go back in the thread and look for the vacuum cleaner posting. My thanks to the old Usenet news group, rec.pets.cats for that one. I had a cat that squirting didn't phase one bit and they associate the bottle and water with you, so it makes them afraid of you. I'm such a push over that I really didn't like using spray...
  25. Nancym
    That's why I posted the vacuum cleaner trick for you! Trust me, this is an easy problem to deal with.
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