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B vitamins lower homocysteine levels and provide significant stroke risk reduction

Stroke remains the third leading cause of death in the US, taking the lives of more than 140,000 people each year, and is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability. Three-quarters of those suffering from a stroke are aged 65 or older, often the result of decades of poor dietary and lifestyle choices. Past studies have shown that suffering from a stroke is preventable by lowering the…

Kick the migraine headache drug habit – Use foods, spices, home remedies for migraine headache relief

If you’re wondering how do you get headaches, look no further than your diet. Although migraine headache causes may be varied, treatment for symptoms in people with headaches can be easily accomplished merely by changing your diet and including medicinal foods, spices, and a few home remedies.A large number of migraine headaches originate with what you currently eat, and also from what you 

The 7 Keto Myths & Lies

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Vitamin B12 as the Ultimate Wingman – Book Excerpt of the Week

Vitamin B12 is the Ultimate Wingman! In this week’s book excerpt, we’ll discuss how B12 helps both folate and boring-basic-biotin, and why this makes B12 a good energy drink ingredient.

B12 as Folate’s Wingman

Remember when we talked about what folate does?Cells that rely on folate for growth and maturation also depend on B12 because it recycles folate, restoring it for the next round of DNA…

Researchers have been unable to explain why Celiac Disease develops at any age? UNTIL now; Epigenetics (STRESS) discovered as cause of Celiac Disease and/or Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) by the Celiac Posterboy

“According to Dr. Decker Butzner, a Calgary-based pediatric gastroenterologist, there are another triggering factor which we’ve never understood…[t]here is an environmental trigger.“

https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/is-it-ncgscd-or-low-stomach-acid-mis-diagnosed/

It should be noted here regarding Gut Bacteria that Ulcers (95%) develop when you get an overgrowth of H. Pylori (change in Gut Bacteria) which indicates low stomach acid see my wordpress blog entry “Is it NCGS/Celiac Disease or Low Stomach Acid Mis-diagnosed” affecting inflammation in your GI system allowing if this article is to be believed further inflammation due to dysbiosis (inbalance) of good to bad bacteria ratio.

https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/is-it-ncgscd-or-low-stomach-acid-mis-diagnosed/

Read the whole article for your selves but what I want to emphasis here!!!!! Is “So far, researchers have been unable to explain why 30 per cent of people have genes that can cause Celiac disease, but only 2 to 5 per cent actually develop it. Also a mystery is why the disease develops at any age. Higher rates of celiac disease are being driven not just by better testing and awareness, but also by external triggers.” Ie there is … “an Environmental Trigger” STRESS aka Epigenetics.

Again “Researchers have known for some time that people with Celiac disease have different types of gut bacteria than those without Celiac disease, but they didn’t  know whether the changes in gut bacteria were caused by Celiac disease, or the other way around.” … . for emphasis researchers have known FOR SOME TIME that there are “external triggers” are as they say an environmental cause/trigger (STRESS) for at least the 2 to 5 percent that develop full blown Celiac Disease and maybe much higher since they are only tracking 30 percent of the population. Not to mention NCGS presenting as IBS in 84% of patients.

See my blog entryhttps://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/doctors-get-a-d-for-diagnosing-non-celiac-gluten-sensitivity/ a “F” really because they get wrong disease and steal your hope of ever getting better! but I didn’t want to sound too harsh!  But the time has  come to speak plainly so the other 2/3 of the population can learn that a Vitamin can help their GI problem before they receive a NCGS/Celiac diagnosis or worse only IBS or Chron’s not realizing Pellagra is a better differential diagnosis!

Those who’ve they have discriminately eliminated by genes the other 2/3 of the population but we find people in the other 2/3 (spouses) are at a higher risk even those who “forget” to get the right genes for Celiac Disease!

https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/spouses-of-celiac-disease-at-higher-risk-new-research-shows-of-developing-celiac-disease-themselves-establishing-epigenetics-stress-as-possible-cause-of-celiacncgsibsgerd/ get Celiac at a higher rate.

Mind you these people don’t’ have the genetics for it.

Now technically if we listen to “Classic Genetics” only those who have the GENES can get sick?  Right?

How can this be?

Well they forget to consider the “external triggers” STRESS … ie their Environment? https://www.celiac.com/articles/23149/1/Gliadin-Triggers-Innate-Immune-Reaction-in-Celiac-and-Non-celiac-Individuals/Page1.html

See this information is reported on Celiac.com now almost over 3 years ago this month of earlier research reported 15 + years ago.

Researchers have known for some time that as they (genetic researchers) call it Adaptive Immunity can and does trigger Celiac disease in those without the GENES for it ie Epigenetics.

I will quote here again from Celiac.com  “research that suggests that gluten proteins might trigger an immune response in people who do not have Celiac disease, and  (THOSE ) my words added for emphasis) who do not carry the HLA-DQ2 or HLA-DQ8 genetic markers that predispose them to developing Celiac disease.

Such a response is part of a process called innate immunity, and is far less understood than the adaptive immunity process.” In case you missed it or didn’t read my link from earlier tumblr post spouses of Celiac’s at higher risk.

https://celiacposterboy.tumblr.com/post/123410867299/spouses-of-celiac-disease-at-higher-risk-new shows of developing Celiac Disease themselves.

Again on Celiac.com (they are actually reporting this information) but don’t well understand 

https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/stress-kills-but-it-maims-us-first/ STRESS is the trigger.

See https://www.celiac.com/articles/23506/1/Stress-Common-Before-Celiac-Diagnosis/Page1.html

STRESS is common before a Celiac Diagnosis.

I am trying to educate here.

https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/to-educates-is-to-free/

The reason it is not well understood why Celiac develops at any age by researchers today is they don’t well understand what they are reporting. How is this possible? It doesn’t fit there (genetic) paradigm.

They admit as much in their research.  They don’t know Pellagra presenting as Celiac Disease or NCGS explains a seronegative Celiac diagnosis going as far as to call it “guesswork”!  Not high praise for the Medical community or something to have a lot of confidence in.

https://www.celiac.com/articles/24894/1/Can-Science-Take-the-Guesswork-Out-of-Diagnosing-Seronegative-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html

The way we see things simply stated is our “world view”.  IF genetics in our world view eliminates us from ever possibly developing Celiac disease then Spouses (those STRESSED) would not/COULD not ever develop Celiac disease which simply is not the cause.

Vitamins are a/the very definition of Epigenetics.  At least this researcher is looking for “an external trigger” realizing his world view (of Celiac) is if not wrong imperfectly explains why only 2 to 5 percent of those pre-genetically disposed to develop it actually does? Not even to mention the 2/3 of people who will never be tested for it? See above (spouses at higher risk/stress (epigenetics) common (triggers) Celiac diagnosis.

Where does this leave us?

If I am right and epigenetics (STRESS) as reported on Celiac.com triggered your Celiac diagnosis then Epigenetics is reversible – genetics is not at least if you believe “classic genetics” where your gene’s is your destiny.

But what if we are both right?  1/3 of the population has a higher genetic propensity for a Vitamin (Niacinamide) that helps us regulate stress (it makes us itch as an example) in the body and precisely why when people are stressed do not flush when taking Niacin an example of cause and affect proving that Niacin helps us deal  with stress in the body. Then what if we supplement with this missing vital (life giving) nutrient (Vitamin) in a minimum amount (Epigenetics).

Is this not TRUE for all Vitamins?

In the early 20th Century what could be rightly called the “Vitamin Age” we begin to find out this very basic concept that Vitamin’s make us healthy.

I’ve touched on this elsewhere in this blog and why we enrich our foods (folic acid any one) or Iodized Salt are great examples that are with us today.

Do we really need to relearn (educate ourselves) what we learned a 100 years ago that Vitamin’s keep us healthy?

If you have not heard of Pellagra you are not alone. Read Dr. Heaney’s blog post about how it has been forgotten and we are repeating the mistakes of history again over and over by denying how Vitamins make us healthy.

http://blogs.creighton.edu/heaney/2013/11/18/pellagra-and-the-four-ds/

See my Celiac Posterboy blog entry “Is NCGS and or Celiac Disease really Pellagra in disguise in the 21st Century” for more information on that subject.

https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/is-non-celiac-gluten-sensitivity-andor-celiac-disease-really-pellagra-in-disguise-in-the-21st-century/

They answer is yes by the way in the majority of Celiac’s and they don’t know to look for it and don’t see it as Pellagra today!

Take the Niacinamide Challenge   https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/the-niacin-niacinamide-challenge/  for YOURSELF and see if you don’t begin BURPING in  4 to 6 months (or less) of taking Niacinamide 3 times a day (with each meal).

Then tell other’s is all I ask. Vitamins can make us healthy when we are low!  See my https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/whos-afraid-of-a-b-vitamin/ In this “genetic age” today we live in it is not well understood anymore that Vitamins can reverse many complex diseases (beriberi, rickets, anemia, pylouria, scurvy, pellagra etc) that are not well understood nutritional deficiencies today masquerading as genetic diseases in this age of modern medicine (a pill/drug for everything) if Prousky and many Functional Medicine doctors who know Niacin treats digestive disorder are right! see this link http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a124b.htm

See how I conquered Celiac disease in my life and learn from me if you will. https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/gluten-independence-or-the-5th-anniversary-of-a-ncgsibsceliacheartburngerd-sufferer-eating-gluten-again-a-former-sufferers-story/  

And how you can too! If you are being STRESSED out!

https://celiacposterboy.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/stress-kills-but-it-maims-us-first/

****this is not medical advice and should not be considered such it is only my personal experience with taking Vitamin B-3 as Niacinamide to help my digestive issues.  YOUR experience might be different but I have found when people take Niacinamide 3/day for 3 to 4 months most GI issues go into remission.

As always search for the “Celiac Posterboy” or “Celiac Poster boy” or “Fight Gluten Win” or “Fight GERD Win” if you want to read all my blog posts for as I have said elsewhere in this blog and it bears repeating “To Educate is to Free” Truly.

The Celiac Posterboy by the Grace of God,

2 Timothy 2: 7 “Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things” this included.

Where Does Vitamin B6 Come From? Science of Energy Drinks – Book Excerpt of the Week

For this week’s book excerpt from the Energy Drink Guide, we enter the Vitamin B6 chapter of Part Three: How Do They Work. Vitamin B6 is often included in energy drinks, AS WELL AS many other sports supplements! Before we get into what B6 does, let’s talk about where we get it.

We get B6 from MUSCLES! When we get to what B6 does, it will become obvious why B6 lives in muscles.

*no spoilers*.

Mea…

What if I told you about gluco-neo-genesis and biotin- Book Excerpt of the Week

Gluco–neo–genesis literally means the creation of new glucose. This process is kind of a big deal because glucose is the primary source of fuel for our bodies and there are times we have to make that fuel ourselves (as opposed to ingesting it). That process of gluconeogenesis relies on enzymes, which are like tiny machines in our bodies that do the work to keep us functioning. Those…

Natural Products Expo West is absolutely one of the big highlights of each year for me. "Expo West", as it's called in the industry, is now up to around 120,000 people and is the largest event at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA each year. This event brings together the best and the brightest of the natural products industry to share new research, new products, and new ideas for the future of healthy living.

First person I interviewed was the CEO of Ultra Labs. I often suggest their multivitamins and B-vitamins. I asked Rick to explain what made their B-vitamins so much better than all the others on the market.

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