ouinon wrote:
I like your blog, thanks for the link.
Interesting stuff about ATP. Did you know that gluten-intolerance, ( often-hidden/asymptomatic ) , and the resulting intestinal damage can severely reduce our ability to absorb several of the essential nutrients that you mention, and is associated with a couple of the conditions you list?
Totally agree about the difference between socialising and etiquette, and it sounds as if you had parents astonishingly like mine, not just the strictness, but on the subject of learning by rote a whole mass of appropriate social behaviours, without feeling any of the "happy buzz" that so many NT's seem to. These "tools" were more successful when I was a fresh-faced, almost preternaturally smooth-skinned and sparkly-eyed "girl"/young woman; I used my big smile
a lot. :lol But age, ( I'm 46 ) and metabolic exhaustion after decades of too many concentrated carbos, have reduced the firepower of my smile and eyes, and exactly as you describe my previously charming smile now very often verges on being a snarl/alarming grimace, instead!! ! :lol
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Totally, ouinon, I hear you! I was tested for Ceoliac disease early on in my physical dysfunction, I tested negative for antibodies, but like you said, it can be hidden/asymptomatic. I have been doing a bit of researching and basically there is a vast difference between disease (being pathological and testable) and dysfunction (symptomatic only) in the realm of medicine and what is treatable. It can make things very frustrating.
I hope your health is improving as you live a more authentic life. I seemed to have been pushed by forces beyond my understanding to seek the truth, even though I had no clue what that truth was until 8 months ago. I haven't seen much improvement since my AS "came out of the closet"
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, but time is the great healer. And acceptance......
Take good care,
Mics