Cool we are sort of distant gene relatives! Supposedly something like 30% of euro ancestry people have that HLA-DQA1 and most don't develop celiac so there is much more to it than genes alone. I also question the medical systems ability to diagnose celiac. Many cases get overlooked for years.interesting - i have one copy of that gene as well - even though my " doctors " told me that i didn't have a gluten issue- i have been gf for almost 10 years. what i do notice now that if i do accidentally get gluten in my diet that my reaction is really strong the older i get. the more i go on, the the more dna reports i run on different sites, the more i really am convinced that the dna factors and blood type ring true for me. i know Dr. Peat thinks that blood type thing is nonsense but.... what i do know is that eating gluten for years before i went off of it and taking tons of ibuprofen for sore joints form the same " doctors " that told me i no gluten issue- created a liver issue for me and then hormones imbalance. what a super slippery slope... why Retinol products work for me , i have no idea. i use a niacinimide / b3 day cream and a C serum also ... but im a bit of a skin freak. i should probably try to choke down some kind of dessicated liver but i get the shivers thinking about it. not sure if i want to kill a bunch of animals for my A... working on some other way. i can am too empathic to eat tortured animals and it actually gives me an adrenaline response at this point.
Hopefully since you don't eat gluten anyway it won't be an issue for you.
I was vegetarian for several years and I fully respect your choice. I did it all wrong back then unfortunately by eating lots of soy and wheat so I just made myself worse! Now I just focus on getting most of my meat products from local farmers that I trust. We all have to do what's best for our own situation after all.
I wouldn't force myself to choke down anything that gave me shivers and an adrenaline response. It's possible that you may be converting beta carotene into all the Vitamin A you need.
I'm a skin freak too! Luckily eating better and improving my health since discovering Peat has helped my skin a lot.
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