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    They'll be back.
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    Tissue Transglutaminase Antibodies (tTG-IgA) test will be positive in about 98% of patients with celiac disease who are on a gluten-containing diet. ... The same test will come back negative in about 95% of healthy people without celiac disease... The tTG test is the most sensitive test for celiac disease. Doctor's opinion? Do you perhaps have vitamin...
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    "Patients with DQ2, half DQ2 and/or DQ8 are predisposed to celiac disease. A negative result essentially rules out celiac disease. Celiac disease can present with gastrointestinal symptoms and/or widely variable non-gastrointestinal findings such as iron deficiency anemia, dermatitis herpetiformis, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue, short stature, neurologic...
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    Sorry to hear about your dad and relatives. If you plan on getting a medical diagnosis you should do so before starting gluten free. Here are some starter links about iodine. The RDA is set at 125 micrograms (0.125 mg or 0.000125 grams). Safe upper limit in US is set at 1 gram, in Japan at 3 grams. Iodine was used in medicine until the Wolff...
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    I was an alcoholic for thirty years. A friend of Bill's. I started GFD at 63. The addiction disappeared immediately. I found I no longer cared to drink. did not like what it did to me, and there was no jonesing. I can drink socially without binging afterwards, but prefer to not drink. If your dad is alive, exhort him to try gluton free for a month. Don...
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    Yes. All the prep for the trip and the excitement uses up nutrients. Then a batch of microbes new to you and voila. Nutrients Depleted When You Are Stressed
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    Waiting for test results can be excruciating. Even anxiety has nutritional roots. Low D and low Lithium can cause it. Many trace their symptoms to an infection as the trigger for acute Celiac. The bacteria in the UK is different. Many jokes have been told of the result of drinking water in foreign countries.
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    The grain they are fed does raise the omega 6 in their meat. It's why grass fed is better. 100% Grass fed milk is 1:1 omega 6 to omega 3 ratio. Organic Milk is 3 to 1 and comercial dairy is 5:1. Wheat flour is 21:1.
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    Keep increasing your vitamin D dose until you feel it work, get tested. Hypervitaminosis D is actually rare. Our bodies are set to maintain a 25 hydroxy vitamin D plasma level at 80 ng/ml (200 nmol/L). It took about 6 years of 10,000 IU (250 mcg) daily for me to reach 80 ng/ml and it never has been above 86. I continue to take it daily now since 201...
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    Increasing your iodine intake can help your muscle tone which may help your back.
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    Lactose intolerance is mostly a gut biome issue. The lactobacillus that we host returns the favor by producing lactase. Most mammals only produce enough lactase endogenously to support the infant. Since they started making quick pickles instead of fermenting them in salt the world has experienced an increase in Lactose Intolerance complaints. Fermented...
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    Many with these symptoms are deficient in vitamin D, Thiamine (subclinical Beriberi) and Choline deficient (gallbladder disease symptoms).
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    Welcome to the forum marko19. "Sensitivity of faecal antibodies against human tissue transglutaminase was 10%, and specificity was 98% . For antibodies against gliadin, sensitivity was 6% (0% to 29%) and specificity was 97%." Detection of secretory IgA antibodies against gliadin and human tissue transglutaminase in stool to screen for coeliac disease...
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    There are 3 paths to methylate homocysteine to methionine. The best known is B12 and Folate. The second is vitamin B6. The third and mostly disregarded is Choline. Increasing choline reduces the need for folate. Folate and Choline also help prevent embryonic neural tube defects. Fortified foods have added folic acid for this reason. gluten-free foods...
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    80% of the mitochondrial membrane is Choline. No choline, no new mitochondria, less health. Less than 10% of us eat enough choline containing foods (primary source liver, eggs, beefsteak). Choline is needed to digest fats (floating, off color, smelly poop). It makes up most of the bile salts, reduces homocysteine (cardiovascular inflammation), makes up...
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    Hi cactusflower. Welcome to the forum. It's nice to be new. Listen to this doctor. Overall there is a tendency to underdiagnose. Most doctors don't know any more than you about nutritional disorders. Lots of money is spent to get us to eat more of it. It is addictive. Think of your mindset when being told no more wheat vs. no more apples. You...
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    Had a Biopsy for Celiac Disease done? Even with negative bloodwork there may still be intestinal villi damage. Then you need to eat Gluten free and supplement vitamins and minerals. Common deficiencies are vitamin D, Thiamine, Choline to start. These should give you the quickest relief at a sufficient intake but there are twenty more essential...
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    Welcome to the forum Jonathan31. What is your question? What symptoms caused you to get the tests done? Looks like your tests for Celiac Disease are all negative and same with allergens, except mussel and fish. With Celiac and allergies ruled out the next step would be a trial gluten free diet to see if you get better. If so, you might have...
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    Are you eating enough liver, eggs and red meat to meet your Choline needs? Choline is essential to digestion of fats. Symptoms of low choline are often mistaken for gall bladder disease because choline is the major ingredient in bile. Phoshatidylcholine is also the major part of mitochondrial membrane and is needed to make acetylcholine for nerve transmission...
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    Yes and yes. I get tested every 3 months. My D has never gone over 86 ng/ml, but when I stopped taking it once for 3 weeks before the blood draw I dropped to 72 ng/ml. It took from 2015 to 2019 to raise it to 47 ng/ml (don't know the start point but I was a sick puppy) and until 2021 to get from 47 to 80 ng/ml. That is great news. If...
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    In the US the terms "folate" and "folic acid" can be used interchangeably on nutrition labels. Folic Acid has an RDA upper safe limit of 1000 mg. Folate from food has no limit. Folic Acid and Risk of Prostate Cancer: Results From a Randomized Clinical Trial "In contrast to the direct association of folic acid supplementation with risk of prostate...
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    Keep increasing vitamin D until you reach 80 ng/ml (200 nmol/L for optimum benifit. My depression went away at 10,000 IU a day and if I stop I regress. My serum level is steady at 80 ng/ml. I thought mowing the lawn 2 hours a week midday and shirtless would be sufficient but was wrong. Lithium Orotate 5 mg a day relieved my anxiety. That feeling that...
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    Folate and Choline share many of the same funcitions. Increasing one can compensate for the other. Neural Tube Defects, Methylation of homocysteine and Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease are three. I find it easier to supplement choline and get my folate from food. The reason I think testing for high homocysteine. Though I haven't found any studies...
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    So earlier I assumed the 34 was 34 ng/ml which is just above deficient level. But if it is 34 nmol/L that is equivalent to only 13.6 ng/ml. Vitamin D in Children’s Health "It is recommended that targeting a 25(OH)D level of 40–70 ng/mL [ 100-175 nmol/L] for each individual would provide optimal health benefits and reduce health care costs. Cu...
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    I take 10,000 IU of vitamin D, 500 mg Thiamine and 500 mg Choline. There is not much difference between 13 year old and adult for RDA and UL.
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