A lot of the same foods
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A lot of the same foods
Wow, I think it's quite interesting that a lot of people have the exact same intolerances right down to "walnuts". Does that mean we all have eaten the same thing just before testing?
Re: A lot of the same foods
No, the test results mostly reflect sensitivities to foods that we've been regularly eating during the last few months, except in the case of gluten — those results reflect exposure during the last couple of years. These tests are based on ELISA lab test methods for detecting specific antibodies produced by our immune system.
When antibodies are produced, antibody levels decay slowly as determined by their half-lives. Most foods have a half-life of five or six days, but gluten has a half-life of 120 days, which allows it to maintain a relatively high antibody level for years. The EnteroLab tests are sensitive enough to be able to detect most foods after they have been removed from the diet for the last few months before a sample is collected. But gluten can be detected up to two years after it has been removed from the diet.
There are only certain proteins that cause us as MC patients to react to food (although in certain cases, some of us may react to certain other foods, for some other reason), and the A1 + C1 test panels offered by EnteroLab test for all of those known foods. Normally, if we have "mature" MC, that is to say, we've had it long enough that it has achieved a stable reactivity pattern, our immune system will have become "maxed out", so that it is sensitive to most or all of the same foods that cause others who have a relatively mature form of the disease to react. And it appears that many of us don't come to this forum until we've been living with the disease for many years, implying that the disease is almost surely mature.
I hope I haven't just confuse the issue.
Tex
When antibodies are produced, antibody levels decay slowly as determined by their half-lives. Most foods have a half-life of five or six days, but gluten has a half-life of 120 days, which allows it to maintain a relatively high antibody level for years. The EnteroLab tests are sensitive enough to be able to detect most foods after they have been removed from the diet for the last few months before a sample is collected. But gluten can be detected up to two years after it has been removed from the diet.
There are only certain proteins that cause us as MC patients to react to food (although in certain cases, some of us may react to certain other foods, for some other reason), and the A1 + C1 test panels offered by EnteroLab test for all of those known foods. Normally, if we have "mature" MC, that is to say, we've had it long enough that it has achieved a stable reactivity pattern, our immune system will have become "maxed out", so that it is sensitive to most or all of the same foods that cause others who have a relatively mature form of the disease to react. And it appears that many of us don't come to this forum until we've been living with the disease for many years, implying that the disease is almost surely mature.
I hope I haven't just confuse the issue.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Re: A lot of the same foods
Thank you so much for that reply. That explains a lot for my feeble mind. I've had MC for over 10 years with no relief, but as I am aging - I want to get more proactive so that I can stay strong. That's why I took the test. However, I have other issues such as pre-diabetic and high cholesterol which makes food choices a challenge. I am meeting with a nutritionist soon - maybe she can map out a plan. I have started trying to cut out breads and gluten...slowly. It's hard to believe in this day and age, scientists can't come up with a cure or at least a viable medication for the long haul.
Thanks so much for this forum. It's a huge help to me.
Thanks so much for this forum. It's a huge help to me.