Is it Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Undiagnosed Celiac Disease?

Written by Peter Berlin


Your doctor tells you your stomach problems are from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). So he treats (or mistreats) you for your symptoms when in fact you don't have IBS. What your doctor may have missed is that you have a little known condition, celiac disease, and you don't have to suffer anymore because relief of your problems is only a change of diet away.

The National Institute of Health, estimates that over three million Americans have undiagnosed celiac disease. Why so many? Because on average it takes 11 years to get a proper diagnosis. That’s 11 years millions of people are needlessly suffering. Could you be one of them?

The symptoms of celiac disease are very similar to a host of other intestinal disorders. They are: diarrhea, abdominal pain, gas, bloating, and weight loss. And many patients don't experience those signs but instead report so-called atypical symptoms, including: a blistering, itchy skin rash, anemia, short stature, delayed puberty, infertility, and tooth enamel defects. Because there are a broad range of symptoms that may be readily associated with other conditions or ailments, celiac can be difficult to diagnose and often goes undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.

So what exactly is celiac disease?

It's a genetic autoimmune disorder also known as gluten-intolerance. Gluten is found in wheat, rye, and barley and its derivatives. Therefore foods and ingredients to be avoided include such staples as most flours, bread, and pasta. If you have celiac disease your body recognizes gluten as a toxin. Toxins are essentially poisons to your body. Gluten reeks havoc on a celiac's body by causingrepparttar villi, which linerepparttar 134836 intestinal wall, to become flattened and loserepparttar 134837 ability to absorb nutrients from food.

It is important to properly diagnose and treat celiac disease for two reasons. First, with proper treatmentrepparttar 134838 small intestine will heal and your symptoms will disappear over time. The other more important reason is that if a persona withrepparttar 134839 disorder continues to eat gluten, chances of gastrointestinal cancer can increase by 40 to 100 times that ofrepparttar 134840 normal population. In addition, gastrointestinal carcinoma or lymphoma develops in up to 15 percent of patients with untreated celiac disease. Osteoporosis is another condition that can be caused by failing to treat this disease.

Natural Human Growth Hormone: Hope or Hoax?

Written by David Adler


Anti-Aging Research: HGH Therapy

You may feel 30, but your body keeps reminding you you're not. You fatigue easily. Your bones and joints hurt more often. The only part of your body that's thinning is your hair. Aging occurs due torepparttar growth ofrepparttar 134834 tissues and other elements in siderepparttar 134835 body. With increasing age, physically and mentally healthy adults gradually become less fit and more vulnerable to illness and death. However, these changes happen at different rates in different people.

What if you could reverse some ofrepparttar 134836 physical effects of aging? Looking, feeling, and performing 10, even 15 years younger? What if you could burn fat without dieting or exercising; increase your muscle mass without exercise; improve your sexual stamina and performance; enhance your athletic performance and endurance; have younger, more youthful looking skin; eliminate cellulite deposits; dramatically support refreshing deep sleep; build stronger and healthier bones; improve your cholesterol and triglyceride levels; strengthen your heart while lowering blood pressure; even improve your hair growth and texture; improve mood, memory and concentration abilities; strengthen your overall immune system; and likely add years to your life? Sounds like a bit much? Not to Mark Tyler and scientific researchers alike.

A married father of three children and a partner in a law firm in Arizona, Mark seemed to have it all. "I woke up one day and I looked inrepparttar 134837 mirror and saw an old man atrepparttar 134838 ripe old age of 44," Mark says, "I could not believe how tired and old I looked. I was not so concerned aboutrepparttar 134839 vanity wrinkles, butrepparttar 134840 weight gain andrepparttar 134841 overall lack of energy I felt. I knew right then and there I needed to find something to turn backrepparttar 134842 hands of time. That's when I started getting into anti-aging supplements like natural HGH secretagogue formulas. The results have been amazing."

What is HGH?

Located inrepparttar 134843 center of our heads there sits a rather tiny but very powerful gland calledrepparttar 134844 pituitary gland. Human growth hormone (HGH) is one of 7 hormones secreted byrepparttar 134845 pituitary. Growth hormone, like thyroid hormone, has an effect on almost all our tissues and organs. Asrepparttar 134846 name implies, it enhancesrepparttar 134847 growth of various organs and tissues, especially muscle and bone. Basically, human growth hormone increases protein synthesis. Proteins arerepparttar 134848 major building block out of which our body is made. Normal secretion of HGH occurs in a daily cycle, like a tide. It varies with exercise, sleep, stress and nutrition.

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