How much 5htp is too much, and for how long? I've been taking 50mg 5htp daily (ok, nightly) for quite a long time now (several months)...
I've dealt with fissures and hemmies off and on for 3 years now. I know your pain. I'll tell you what I can, but I'm afraid it's not much. For me, I've fairly convinced my troubles exist because of a...
Well, I'd go for sublingual, except my digestive system is so ridiculously picky, that I have to be super careful about what's in my supplements. I haven't found a sublingual that doesn't have...
OK, correction --- turns out it takes 3 pills to get that 425mg Mg. So, I'm actually getting 142mg Magnesium. I also learnt today that B-12 is absorbed only in the presence of calcium. So, today I...
OK, I've been gone a while, but I surely but I surely appreciate the the interest in my post and so I wanted to follow up. I had been taking 5000 mcg of biotin and got a serious case of sandpaper...
Let me offer one data point here. I just experimented with Biotin -- added 5000mcg daily to my diet (there's no known upper limit, so i figured "why not start big?"). After two weeks, i have a...
Hey.... So, what if we start calling all these things "the roundup disease"? If enough of us do it, and it gains a foothold in popular culture.....well, maybe we'll get some more action on the...
To be honest, SCD is a very hard diet to do. I've been doing it for nearly two years. it's hard, no doubt. But, it's pretty clear to me that I had to do it if I wanted to start to get well. I wasn't...
Thanks for pointing out that they never stopped DSS. So, what we need, then, is for these guys to take some muc2(-/-) mice (the ones that don't create much mucus), let them spontaneously develop...
I know you guys are excited about this find, but how do you reconcile the fact that the mice in the 4-amino-acid-supplement paper experienced no clinical improvement of their colitis? You might get...
I'm watching this thread with interest, trying to see if I want to try the 4 amino acids. FWIW, I did find sources for 3 of the four that are pretty pure sources: L-Threonine: Douglas Labs makes this...
There is one lab out there in the world that claims the standard test for celiac only detects the problem once 90% of the damage is done. Their test (which is a fecal sIgA test) can tell if there is...
I actually didn't have H. Pylori, which stumped everybody. no side effects from taking Zinc Carnosine....
If you have H. Pylori, do you also have gastric ulcer(s)? If so, let me mention Zinc Carnosine. It has been used for years in Japan to heal ulcers. It does way better than PPIs, and doesn't have the...
I'm personally convinced (sans scientific data, I will admit) that these kinds of outbreaks are becoming more and more common because of the overuse of antibiotics, and generally poor diet that most...
have you tried diet modification? That is, is he eating SAD (std american diet), or is he, say, gluten-free, dairy-free, etc.?...
OK, so I hope no one minds if I call myself something of a fissure and hemmie expert. I've had them near-constant for more than two years, and seen five separate doctors to try to get them under...
undigested veggies in stool, imho, are the result of a weak digestive system, which I have. I know that I have very low (perhaps nearly zero) stomach acid. Now that I'm taking Betaine HCl, I'm...
I've also had this symptom on occasion. Never able to find a pattern to it. Some say that it means you're allergic to, or intolerant of, a food you're eating, and that your immune system is kicking...
This thread is a bit confusing, because its got two things going on. PepZinGI looks to be Zinc carnosine, a compound that can heal the lining of the GI tract. If it helps with stomach acid, that...
I'm not surprised to see you mention serotonin & dopamine. In fact, the very next thing I searched for when I saw this article was ILC and serotonin. Didn't come up with much, so if you have links &...
This article seems to implicate ILCs (innate lymphoid cells) as being a cause of IBDs. Next question is, of course, how to restore proper function to these aberrant ILCs?...
OK, folks, time for one last update. I was on vacation last week, and didn't have internet access, else I probably would've posted from there. I'm pretty sure my last FMT was #11. I dont' remember...
Gary -- exactly my question as well. I would have a hard time believing that I found something that this group missed (especially OldMike---he's very thorough!)...
I suppose I should post a link to the paper I found, eh? http://sangerinstitute.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/getting-to-the-guts-of-ibd/ ...
I think what's even more interesting is to follow the research on t-bet that's taken place since this paper was published (back in 2007). I poked around a bunch, and found this paper (Dec 2012) that...
MaxMilian, I wonder if you considered a round of antibiotics to get rid of the pathogens, then maybe a round of FMTs (or maybe both simultaneously). If there are bad guys in there, obviously you want...
Well, this is getting a bit monotonous. FMT #11 today. I skipped yesterday, and things were pretty much back to my usual today. Hmph. Not sure I like that. Everything went fine. Have successfully...
Maximilian, reading your post--you have a very interesting story there. I've had terrible hemorrhoids and fissures, along with weird digestive issues like random D, mal absorption, and random...
MaxMilian--should I add you to my compilation? Seems like I would put you in the good category for protocol, and not good category for results. Disease/condition is IBS?...
DBwithUC -- I'm sorry you don't like the quality of my data. But it is data. da·ta /ˈdatə/ [tr ][td ]Noun Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. I gathered folks'...
Gary--if you have data, I'd like to compare notes. In January of this year I summarized everything I could find on this board about FT/FB/FMT/FT (pick your acronym of choice). My data shows that, for...
FMT #8 today; fifth one in a row. Same procedure, same results (so far) as yesterday. Wednesday's initial promising results (better stool consistency) DID recur this morning, :smile: which I'm glad...
FMT #7 today; fourth one in a row. Larger volume (same as #5), but this time I had no problems keeping it. The key is to make sure I lie down for about an hour after the procedure. So, all in all,...
FMT #6 this morning. Smaller volume today. That, coupled with a slight schedule adjustment (eat breakfast before the procedure), and no retention problems today. Plus, I had my first possible hint...
I got lucky last night, and got an unexpected, um, donation. Man, what a demented mind I have now...getting lucky....sheesh. anyway, did #4 last night. All was well. Also last night found out that my...
FMT #3 was Saturday. Procedure went well, and the donation was larger this time than previous two, so I actually think I got a good amount. Still having a hard time seeing any improvement, though....
Question isn't "do you need it on the plane." Luggage can get lost, and airlines can take a few days to get it to you. Question is "Do you need it on the plane, or in the first 3-4 days of your...
Just to add my two cents, my experience, to this: coconut, for me, is basically a laxative. And I don't need one. I ate coconut yogurt for a month, and went from 1-2 bms/day to 4. Stopped coconut...
I'm convinced SCD is not the be-all, end-all that it claims to be. Like imagardener2, I also am not able to handle many of the SCD legal foods (eggs, cheese, nuts, even tomatoes, etc). Took a year on...
FMT #2 was Wednesday. The procedure went a bit better. Hate to say I'm getting better at blending poo, but, well, it is what it is. Held #2 for 9 hours. So far, I'm having a hard time seeing change...
Where do you get your zinc carnosine?? Mine is really expensive,mane I'm always on the lookout for other sources....
I take this to mean that 1 week of FMT was good for some UC patients. For the rest, probably (hopefully, presumably) greater quantity of FMT would bring about remission. Basically, its an encouraging...
I believe the latest thinking is that the mucosal layer in your gut is weak, which allows bacteria to infiltrate it, and contact your actual intestines, which then elicits an immune response....
I've done my research on the time-after-antibiotics-to-be-eligible-to-be-a-donor. From what I can tell the abx are out of the system in fairly short order....a few days to a week, maybe two on the...
Well, folks, I've joined the ranks of those trying FMT for healing. I've done my homework, and researched it to death, to make sure it's a good thing to do. There's little down-side, and plenty of...
pharmaceuticals aside (if they're the main cause of your hair loss, you may not be able to do much about it).....the nutrition thing can definitely be a contributor to hair loss. I have really weird...
killcolitis, I completely agree!! I know more than 10 people (Americans, living on the mainland) off the top of my head with some kind of issue with food. My friends (Americans) living in India don't...
me and my multi used to get along great, but in the last 6 months, we don't--they give me cramps. Its a high-quality (expensive, relatively speaking) multi, too. if you're lacking B vitamins, have...
There's also the theory about how hybridization of wheat has resulted in a wheat with tons of gluten, and lots of aberrations in its genes and DNA that results in a food we cannot digest....