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    On a personal experience, I got progressively more lactose intolerant until I gave up milk entirely, but I like whole milk in my coffee, and I drink a lot of coffee. After GFD and a few batches of home made dill pickles, I was able to drink milk again. But late at night it would upset my stomach. That's when I switched to 100% pasture fed milk and now can...
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    Totally missed the logic there. Thanks. I did look for the research about benificial bacteria supplying most of our adult lactase but it was not to be found again. It was several years ago that I read it. In the meantime, it's not your grandfathers milk anymore. The gist is that supplementing with palmitic acid (C:16) increases milk and milk fat by about...
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    by the way, it's been around forever and I don't know of any lawsuits. Used to watch, with my grandmother, commercials for it on black and white TV on the Gary Moore show.
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    I grew up when old people took Geritol, so was only mildly surprised when I joined the "Geritol Generation" at how much it helped, but only took it for two bottles. Unfortunately most multivitamins have folic acid, E and A and only a small percentage of the RDA. Geritol Multi at least has 100% of most. You could try a bottle as proof of concept.
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    Humans are the only mammals that tolerate milk after infancy. Many theories on why. It used to be said that the benificial bacteria in our gut supplements our small amount of endogenous lactase. The SAD diet is not good for the good bacteria. Rather than improve the diet some researcher say it ain't so. So they sell probiotics and prebiotics. The fatty acid...
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    Keeping in mind that I take more than a dozen different vitamins each day and each vitamin has a different function, some overlapping, my perception is that vitamin D improved my attitude and gave me hope. Iodine improved my muscle tone, and vitamine B5 (pantothenic acid) plus choline improved my energy level. More research is indicating that D plasma levels...
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    In 1976, they told my wife to take valium because her stress was the cause in my 6 month old son. She found the right specialist and after a six month diet of Nutramigen, by one year old he was thriving on GFD.
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    Before blood tests endoscopy was the Gold Standard.
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    That's because often the patient's symptoms are blamed on stress if at all aknowledged. Many are led to believe it is simply "getting old" and "normal for some to feel this way. People go years being misdiagnosed with this, that and the other thing; only to find in the end it was gluten and the resultant malnutrition all along. Not eveyone of course but enough...
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    It is all about what we eat, the vitamins we don't get enough of,, either from malabsorption or just poor diet choices, the omega 6 to omega 3 ratio. All the B vitamins are all important because they have short storage periods. Thiamine is B1 because it was the first identied. Long term poor diet causes other deficiencies. Folic acid increases the risk...
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    The good news is that you don't have colon cancer. You say you've always had IBS. A year ago when it got worse had you taken antibiotics for something? Aside from imodium, other meds? Celiac, Chrohns, IBS, a change in you gut microbes are all possibilities if you need to name it. They all have the same cure. Diet and replenisment of multiple vitamins and...
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    Did this happen before GFD? Avoid low fat foods. Alka Selzer helps. Try to eat more frequently, eat things that make your tummy happy. This article might be helpful.
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    Unless it helped, I hope her doctor discontinued the dicyclomine. I see why knitty kitty felt like a zombie, it shuts down acetlycholine the chemical responsible for nerve cells talking to each other. In scary terms it has the same effect, albeit much milder, as nerve gas. Treatment was a success but the patient failed. Uncooked vegetables tend to slow down...
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    This might explain why my Celiac son, who has spent his entire life in the sun can be not GFD withour triggering an obvious response. Also why with my vitamin D level at 85 ng/ml I no longer react to occasional contamination as I did two years ago. Not an excuse to eat wheat, though, but I don't react the way I used to in 2014. Any one else notice this?
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    Ask your new doctors office to request your medical records from your old doctor before your first appointment so he will have facts to look at, not just your say-so. So you don't have to reinvent your wheel with the new guy. To me it seems the more nutritious I eat the cheaper it gets. We pay a premium in nutrition and $$ having some company make our...
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    Have you his permission to speak with his doctor to find out about his weight loss and other underlying conditions. What does his doctor think? Do not make this confrontational. He had a very bad experience previously and you do not want to get his dander up about it. Focus on the good stuff he likes to eat and don't worry him about the bad stuff. ...
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    You were taking 50,000 a week and felt better, then dropped down to 14,000 a day. No wonder it wasn't helping. For me, 2000 did not help, 5000 did not help, It wasn't until I went to 10,000 a day that bam, sunshine in a bottle.
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    Thanks for asking. Kathy died Sept 18, 2005 on our 33rd anniverary. Ovarian Cancer. Mike has been a profesional ocean lifeguard since high school. i understand your reticence about too many meds. You doctor is right about the D. A shame you can't get the 50,000 a week dose, but by not taking 10,000 a day you are not punishing them. That's the depression...
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    Seasonal Affective Disorder is blamed on less sunlight and shorter days. I had it for years, untreated. Sometimes I would cry at some cute TV commercial. It was year round but by September in NJ it got worse. There are all sorts of medical treatments, lightboxes, behavioral therapy and antidepressants but for some reason the doctors never make the connection...
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    Yes, but I did not realize it was the magnesium until you mentioned it. Pretty scary thought. http://nutrientlog.doodlesnotes.net/ I have uploaded my food log with its nutrient values not including supplements, if you are interested.
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    Both. For zinc: zinc gluconate lozenges. It absorbs in the mouth. It also protects the mucous membranes from viruses. When my wife started chemo in 2004 I started taking it and have not had a cold since. RDA is 11, a lozenge is 13.3 mg. Magnesium: I add two ounces of magnesium citrate liquid (cherry preferred) to a 12 ounce glass of orange juice. 58...
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    This seems to be a common story with Celiac Disease. Around 65% of celiacs are vitamin D deficient. Researchers have found that vitamim D deficiency is also found in depression, bone health, heart disease, cancer, and more; although they always point out that D may not be the cause. Dietary Lithium deficiency has been linked to anxiety also. https...
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    That's why they call it the "gluten challange". You've passed enough medical tests to admit you to the 1% Club. As I understand, as a nonprofessional, from a medico-legal point you have an official diagnosis and you now have a pre-existing condition. It is up to you to decide if the food you choose to eat is more important than your health. I made that...
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    Milk is also the last significant source of iodine through the use of iodine to sterilize milking equiptment. We eat less table salt, iodized salt is not used in commercial food, Iodine in the US, until the 70's, was used to modify dough, and fertilization in the megafarms does not replenish the depleted iodine in our produce. Aside from thyriod issues,...
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    Withdrawal, some do, some don't. In the meantime one of the classic effects of Celiac Disease is vitamin and mineral deficiencies because of atrophy of the villi in the small intestine , and diahrea causes potassium loss through the large intestine. Cutting out processed food like bread you get less nutrients like folate and iron that are added to foods ...
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