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  1. Wheatwacked
    When my infant son was diagnosed as Celiac (one of thirteen in Israel being treated in 1976) by biopsy, it had never even occurred to anyone that wheat was the problem so a trial gluten free diet was never tried. There was so little understanding of the problem (and general denial that it even existed) that biopsy was the only way to prove it not psychological...
  2. Wheatwacked
    "Assessing potassium status is not routinely done in clinical practice, and it is difficult to do because most potassium in the body is inside cells. Although blood potassium levels can provide some indication of potassium status, they often correlate poorly with tissue potassium stores [3,9,10]." "Dietary surveys consistently show that people in the...
  3. Wheatwacked
    I have been taking oral prednisone since 2012. It was the beginning of my recovery. Prior to that I was unable to stand for more than 5 minutes. Aspirin allowed me to lie awake in bed and watch TV, without moving, for an hour. Nsaids were slightly more effective. If I did not move my head for more than a few minutes my neck stiffened to where I had to use...
  4. Wheatwacked
    Add to the list: Potassium: RDA 4700 grams a day. That's around 10- 12 ounce glasses of milk or 15 bananas a day. Estimated 60 to 98 percent of the US population is deficient. Effects Blood Pressure and bone density among other things. Blood tests are not an indicator of status. Supplementing over 100 mg a day can cause intestinal lesions so food source...
  5. Wheatwacked
    My son was diagnosed by biopsy as an infant in 1976. He was one of only 14 patients in Israel diagnosed with Celiac Disease at the time. He resumed a gluten diet in 1980 and appeared to tolerate it until recently. In 2014 I began gluten-free diet and identified 18 different symptoms that improved, with no other treatment than gluten-free diet. They were all...
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    I think I see the disconnect in our conversation. I do not have low serum potassium. Maybe back in 1996 when I had acute pancreatitis and my triglycerides measured over 10,000, and I spent a week in the hospital, nothing by mouth. Then, when restarting food intake, refeeding syndrome would have been a real issue. At the time, it was assumed that my condition...
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    What I found when I started to accurately monitor my diet for nutrition intake, was that,even with supplements, I was only getting one half to two thirds of the amount of potassium that a human body uses on an everyday basis. It was not that I wasn't able to use what I had, I just did not have it. Like I stopped at the gas station every day and filled the...
  8. Wheatwacked
    Agreed. Our bodies need 5000 mg a day of potassium and 420 ma a day of magnesium. I think of it as potassium is the engine oil and magnesium the oil pump. If you need to supplement K then odds are your diet is also deficient in Mg and multiple others. Potassium in your blood can only get into the cells when pumped in and that K pump is powered by Magnesium...
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    Nothing could help my low potassium level because I simply was not consuming enough potassium Food...
  10. Wheatwacked
    Food Descript Quantity in Calories Potassium Magnesium Calcium Zinc Iron Folate Choline Phosphorus 06/11/20 grams kcal milligrams milligrams milligrams milligrams milligrams microgr milligrams milligrams banana ...
  11. Wheatwacked
    Yes. If you track your potassium consumption for a day or two you will likely find that it is only around 2000 mg a day. The RDI was recently increased to 4700 grams a day and there is no upper limit. There is no shortcut supplemental pill to take, unlike the other 15 vitamins and minerals that Celiacs are prone to. Since most potassium is intracellular there...
  12. Wheatwacked
    Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, B6, Folate, B12, Calcium, Copper, Vitamin D, Iron, vitamin K, Magnesium, Zinc. These have all been flagged for Celiac patients as high risk for deficiency. There are others. Potassium is high risk for inflammatory bowel disease patients. Choline and iodine are high risk for all Americans. Even if you are gluten-free, if you are...
  13. Wheatwacked
    Posterboy, thanks for the links. I read Armin Schroll's http://www.mgwater.com/schroll.shtml convincing discussion of the importance of magnesium. Magnesium is the power source for the cellular Potassium pumps needed to get K from the blood into the cell. Potassium without magnesium is like buying power tools without electricity. Can't use them. My...
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    I do have some bottles of Mag Citrate. Kathy was drinking it like soda pop until she was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. The stuff is nasty tasting but has 1745 mg an ounce so I'll try a 1//2 oz a day and see what happens. The RDA upper limit for Mag supplements is 350 mg. The RDA minimum is 420 mg. So 30% bioavailability of 1/2 ounce is 261 mg. I'll give...
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    I apologize for my outburst in the previous post. I have not replaced my D3 supplement (10k iu) since running out two months ago and it appears to be having a subtle effect on my mood. Our bodies were designed to be half naked in the sun most of the day. Among the hormones that research shows to decrease by 40 years of age is the production of vitamin D by...
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    Recently upped my magnesium to 500 mg magnesium oxide b.i.d. and it may be helping. I've always been a night person. Wide awake at 2 am., sleepy when the sun comes up. There is always something. For a while it was prostate every two hours (male by the way), that went away with gluten-free, then backpain woke me every two hours and sleep apnea every two hours...
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    I'm 69, been on prednisone, it saved my life, for 8 years now, so I know I have depressed adrenal activity. As I understand it pregnenolone is converted in the adrenal cortex to DHEA and so on. What I wonder about is what causes the slowdown in production of pregnenolone from cholesterol in the first place. Is it only true in the Standard American Diet (which...
  18. Wheatwacked
    cholesterol to pregnenolone to DHEA to testosterone and a whole host of others like estrogen, etc.. It is well documented that DHEA production starts declining in everyone at the end of our 20"s. Apparently DHEA level can be used as an accurate predictor of age. (give me your DHEA level and I can tell you how old you are kind of stuff). Why, as we age, do...
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    My post nasal drip was so thick I had to pull it out of my nose like rubber cement glue. As an adolescent they removed my tonsils. I think that helped only because now there are fewer obstacles for it to stick to. C-Pap helps my son and brother, but begs the question: Why? Since increasing my vitamin and mineral supplements to 100% RDA of 15 of them it rarely...
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    You need to be in the 20's before you are considered medically deficient. After insurance declined payment the doctor only charged me $20. I'll add to that: or supplement to guaranty sufficient absorption until your gut heals. One of the references above, concerning hypovitaminosis and obesity. pointed out that vitamin D is stored at a higher level...
  21. Wheatwacked
    After taking 10,000 i.u. of D3 a day for two years, when I was tested my level was 44.7 ng/mL. Optimum is in the 70's. And my health insurance declined to pay for the test as it was unnecessary. That level of supplementation would have put a normal body at 80 ng/mL. That was after 5 years gluten-free.
  22. Wheatwacked
    ...And the world wide obesity epidemic is simply gluttony and laziness.
  23. Wheatwacked
    I believe you wish you could have a donut, still addicted, because you appear to be defending wheat. There was a clinical trial: "In 2013, scientists at Careggi University Hospital in Florence decided to see if health markers changed when people switched between eating modern wheat and KAMUT® brand khorasan wheat" .https://wholegrainscouncil.org/blog/201...
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    I believe it safe to say that there are no health benefits to eating gluten. The benefit of a celiac diagnosis is that celiac causes a comorbidity with malabsorption syndrome and subsequent vitamin and mineral deficiencies. With diagnosis you know your risk. Unfortunately the medical profession continues to ignore this proven fact. Many mainstream doctors...
  25. Wheatwacked
    Ariadne100 your symptoms are not weird, just side effects of the damage done by a diet that includes wheat. As you heal you'll likely be able to reintroduce those foods. In the meantime ensure you are getting a minimum 100% or more of all the essential vitamins and minerals, through food or supplement. It will speed your recovery. Don't forget choline, calcium...
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