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  1. Wheatwacked
    Keeping in mind I am not a doctor. The swollen lymph nodes on your right side and the lump in your right breast, which may also be simply a swollen lymph node, fits with your high end of normal WBC, neutrophils and lymphocites possibly indicating a low grade infectection. The imagining ordered by the OB should help clarify. "The following can excessively...
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    With two children diagnosed with Celiac Disease, either you or their father have the genes and with positive blood work that sort of clinches it. Depression and anxiety supported by deficient vitamin D you need to seriously supplement vitamin D to raise it up from 20.5 ng/ml. Starting in 1984 I had Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) that kicked every...
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    No wonder I loved spaghetti and meatballs so much as a kid. I always ate seconds but it was for more sauce. Also found tomato soup to be soothing.
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    Thiamine which participates in the conversion of carbohydrates into energy is necessary for the process of assimilation of proteins and fats. It is involved in the release of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, indispensable in the digestion of proteins (not only thiamine but all B-vitamins have carrier functions in the pathways leading from carbohydrates,...
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    Agreed. I am however repeating what the NIH Dept of Dietary Supplements states. The minimum daily intake for adults over the age of 19, from food sources, is 150 mcg a day and they recommend not exceeding 1100 mcg. Iodine is just one of many essential nutrients. From Dr Wentz: "Thyroid cells are the only cells in the body which can absorb iodine" Response...
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    Yes. Your goal is to improve your health. You already know you are sick. Apparently the only accurate measurement of iodine intake status is urinary and even there it is variable. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637997/ Supplementing iodine might improve your condition. The RDA is 150 mcg minimum to 1100 mcg upper limit. Unfortunately...
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    If he is testing for genetic markers for Celiac Disease, your Gluten free diet is not a factor. If testing for antibodies and you are successfully navigating GFD the results will be negative for Celiac. If you are Non Celiac Gluten Sensistive all the tests will be negative for Celiac Disease and you have to go by your response to GFD. With Celiac affecting...
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    That link is acetlycholine which is made from the choline you ingest that is absorbed in the small intestine (think malabsorbtion from Celiac Disease so some one with blunted villi will be more choline deficient than the general public). In the US most people only eat one half to two thirds of the Recommended Intake. The major food source is liver, eggs and...
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    Wheat products fortified with folic acid covers up some of the effects of insuffient choline. It has been linked to neural tube defects in fetuses dispite the folic acid fortification in non GFD foods. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19593156/ It clears lipids in the liver It donates methy groups in collaboration with the B vitamins to metabolize...
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    As a kid I wasn't a fan. An unconcious response to gluten? These gluten free oreos are awesome.
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    Not eating enough food with choline.
  12. Wheatwacked
    This works for me. Get sunlight or supplement vitamin D. It's only 4% RDA. Calcium is 96%. Niacin 81%. Everything else >125% min RDA. 2600 calories. mix and match. I microwave the potato. For some reason the potato and a cup of coffee at bedtime helps me sleep.
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    An unfortunate side effect of the Gluten free diet is that we avoid certain foods. This can lead to vitamin and mineral deficiencies that were not a problem before the Celicac Disease diagnosis. To me it explains why at first you feel better on GFD, you've removed the toxin, but eventually you use up the stored reserves of a different set of vitamins and...
  14. Wheatwacked
    A cup, 6 ounces, of pinto beans, small red beans and chick peas (better mouth feel combined) has 45 grams of protein (75%RDA), 125% rda of fiber, 130% iron, 120 % phosphorus, 53% potassium, 300% folate, only 7 grams of fat. 814 calories. Soak overnight, rinse, bring to a boil then simmer an hour and rinse and drain. Cooked weight is just over double dry...
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    It was a meal plan for the entire day, not just a meal. That left me at 2300 mg for the day instead of the recommended 4700 mg. The FDA limits potassium supplement to less than 100 mg per dose because the supplements cause upper gastrointestinal lesions.(1) Better off with a 1/4 banana or a cup of black coffee. That's still only 1/50 There is no RDA upper...
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    These can all be signs of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, most of which will not show in blood tests. Is it possible for your slightly high TPO is a result of your Celiac Disease or maybe a one time thing? My FIT test for colorectal cancer came back positive. I stopped all supplements and retook it 10 days later, it was negative. Before starting...
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    No, it does not. It could be an early warning indication of chonic insufficient choline in the diet. Since choline is absorbed in the small intestine and a significant portion of the normal population does not even eat enough of it, the problem in Celiacs is compounded. My opinion is to make sure that intake choline is above the minimum RDA before getting...
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    My son was diagnosed by biopsy when he was 6 months old in 1976. I stayed in denial till I was 63. Once I started GFD my sleep apnea, back pain improved (no longer need a new bed), prostate hypertrophy (diagnosed in 1973) shrank. Brain fog lifted (I was getting dumber by the day) during a TV comercial I could not tell you what show I was watching. ADHD...
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    When you fill out the patient history form be sure to indicate the symptoms that got better with GFD. Hopefully you'll find a doctor that will support or at least accept your self diagnosis and listen to what you say. Let the doctor guide you as far as becoming labeled.
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    Symptoms NAFLD usually causes no signs and symptoms. When it does, they may include: Fatigue Pain or discomfort in the upper right abdomen "Free choline, phosphocholine, and glycerophosphocholine are absorbed in the small intestine," https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Choline-HealthProfessional/
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    I think the evidence is overwhelming that your entire family will do better on a diet that does not include wheat, rye or barley. Even if you are currently not testing positive now, look at all the people on this forum that make it past middle age before diagnosis, and then realize other symptoms they thought were normal suddening improve. It can be a family...
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    Just because I am on a roll, I would like to point out that it took years of convincing to get surgeons to wash their hands before operating.
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    "Urinary iodine reflects dietary iodine intake directly because people excrete more than 90% of dietary iodine in the urine [4]. Spot urine iodine measurements are a useful indicator of iodine status within populations [28,29]. However, multiple 24-hour urinary iodine or multiple spot urine measurements are more accurate for individuals" https://ods.od.nih...
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    If you are avoiding dairy, and not using iodized table salt, you are possibly iodine deficient. Iodine Deficiency can result in either Hashimoto or Graves. For iodine I eat one sheet 2.5 gm of shushi nori = 400 mcg iodine. The US RDA is from 125 to 1200mcg per day. "Iodine deficiency, not excess, is the cause of autoimmune thyroid disease...In Japan...
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    Do you know what your blood level D(25) they consider too high? Mine is 86.7 ng/ml. Best I've felt in years. I take alka selzer when my stomach is burning. Less often lately. Ice tea or espresso on ice cools my gut when it is warm. Tamari sauce is 100% Soy. Regular soy sauce is 50% wheat.
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