I should have written it down. I think 4 months gluten free. I've got
methyl b12 on order to try next. I've cut way back on dairy, and I'm
going to bring it down to just butter now. That dogtorj website has
some interesting reading about gluten/casein/corn/soy...free health
benefits... oh, supplements... they always make me miserable!

renee


surely_5 wrote:
> I'm also gluten intolerant, but am still working on removing it 100% from my
diet. I'm
> seeing a nutritionist next week to help make sense of all this and have
stopped
> experimenting with different supplements until I talk to her.
>
> How long have you been gluten-free? I'm sorry the B-complex didn't make you
feel any
> better.
>
> Cheryl
>
> --- In FailsafeNT@yahoogroups.com, Renee Cyr <rmcyr@...> wrote:
>
>> I think this is also interesting from
>> http://www.dogtorj.net/id100.html
>>
>> "In people with food intolerance (e.g. celiac disease), the normal rise
>> in serotonin to match the increasing daylight is impeded by their
>> condition. They are malabsorbing the nutrients (e.g. B complex) needed
>> to make more serotonin. Celiacs/gluten intolerants (such as myself) when
>> uncontrolled are notoriously low in serotonin, depressed, and have REAL
>> difficulty in spring, when the depression turns to ANXIETY. "
>>
>> In other words, perhaps I'm behind the 8 ball serotonin wise, (I'm
>> gluten intolerant) and then during the low estrogen phase it gets even
>> lower. Perhaps over time I'll catch up on my B's...Tried a b-complex
>> vit last week and it made me feel terrible.
>>
>> -Ren
>>
>> Renee Cyr wrote:
>>
>>> I found this here: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/406718_2
>>>
>>>
>>>> "Like pharmaceutical monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors, estrogen
>>>> reduces MAO activity, resulting in higher levels of both catecholamines
>>>> and serotonin in the brain.[40] Estrogen also increases opioid and
>>>> endorphin production by the hypothalamus.[41]"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>