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[lil_miss_understood]

Going to the city for non-food shopping. I can't even remember the last time we went that wasn't food shopping. Christmas?

[mamafish9]

Originally Posted by whoMe

What's the difference between the $90 stool test and the $325 one? Is it mostly culturing vs dna?

There's actually 4 stool tests (I can get 20% off any of these prices), these are the listed directlab costs:

1) $325 CSA (Doctors Data) - culturing stool test, does gut flora, and also things like pH, SCFA, other digestion markers, etc

2) $113 - just the gut flora part of the CSA above (with my 20% discount)

3) $425 GI Stool (Metametrix) - DNA stool test, gives mostly the same data as the CSA, but different methodology

4) $259 - just the gut flora part of the GI stool test

We did #2, I'm thinking about doing #4 as the repeat test, but it's still a lot more money. The full tests have some interesting info, but phew - expensive!!

ETA: My homemade magnesium & pH test this morning. pH of our water before adding anything, 6.2. pH after adding 1 capsule mag, 8.0+ (top of my test kit's range). pH after adding 1/4tsp ascorbic acid to the water + mag mixture - 5.0 (bottom of my test kit's range). Kirkman Labs sells a "buffered" mag glycinate where they add ascorbic acid and citric acid to the mag (or you can just do mag citrate, which is more acidic - but glycinate works soooo well for DS). So, I'm just going to mix his mag with ascorbic acid from now on. I'll test his poop pH and see if it changes (currently at 8.0 on my test strips).

[Theloose]

stupid big corn. what detoxes corn?

[kjbrown92]

Originally Posted by changingseasons

No, definitely NOT good. Completely tasteless on my grilled cheese. I can't believe you don't like the Daiya OR the Namaste mac-n-cheese! I thought they were both delicious (but the Daiya does get weird if it's cooked past the barely melted point.)

eta: I'm just eating my grilled cheese in between NAET and swing set..... be back later to update.

Namaste mac-n-cheese was a weird texture. Neither of my kids liked it and I didn't like it much either. I got 6 bags of it from Amazon, so I'll be eating it again... maybe I can do something to improve it. The Daiya was just blechy. DS and I each just had a grilled cheese. He wanted another so he just polished off the second one and said it was awesome. I agree with the "not much taste" review. But texture/meltability was good.

Originally Posted by mamafish9

Have you ever retested your DS, Kathy - does he have lactobacillus now?

I have not retested him. I have so many medical bills right now with my boob thing, I don't know how many of us can keep going to the osteopath (at $150 an appt., accepting no insurance).

Originally Posted by mamafish9

Kathy, CS - for the stool test that showed no lactobacillus, two questions:

1) what time of year did you send the test in?
2) what stool ph does your test show?

I'm working on a theory - lactobacillus can be both heat and ph sensitive. The bacteria need to stay alive in transit to be cultured properly by a lab.

Anyone else have a stool test that does show lactobacillus? Same two questions, when did you send it in, and what stool ph does the test show?

I'll have to look. All that stuff is at home. And I'm in NY for the weekend. It seems like if it wasn't a good test for that particular bacteria, that they'd know it, wouldn't they?

Originally Posted by chlobo

Ok, I want cheesy meatballs. We used to put parmasean in it. Do you think it would work to soak pine nuts, dehydrate them then grind them? Would that be sort of cheesy?

Nutritional yeast? The pine nuts are a texture thing not a flavor thing, I think. At least that's how I use it. The nutritional yeast is what gives it the cheesy flavor. When I was making pierogis a few months ago, I put nutritional yeast in my potato mixture and it turned out really good.

[tanyalynn]

Oh my goodness. DH and I just talked, really talked. We've had the discussion before about the kids' behavior often being a reflection of how they're feeling (DD had a particularly bad morning--irritable, not listening, generally a pill--I'm guessing adding the digestive enzymes back in) and we talked, and I saw something click in his face.

Because one thing I said was that these long, ongoing behavior-type things (I used my anxiety as an example) aren't wonderful, they aren't necessarily great at making us better and more wonderful as people, sometimes they are just annoying and a drag, and I want to see if I can avoid some of this for the kids. And he asked, is it like... and linked some stuff I've seen in him but hadn't recognized as connected, it's been stuff that's really been a drag for a long time, and the way he explained it, I suddenly realized that it was exactly what I read in a TCM article that really explained him very well.

And we talked. He's considering asking for a consult with Elisabeth. He's never actually been interested in talking to an alternative health type person for himself before--supportive for us, sure, but never interested for himself. Just talking about this was great, but actually having a consult with her could be really helpful. Wow.

[chlobo]

Well congratulations. He must have had a lot of time to think this summer.

[WuWei]

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