celiac frustration

Last week was a good week. This week has been the absolute shits (literally).

At first I thought it was because I tried the cafeteria chili. I've spoken to the chefs about what they put in their chili, and they claim they serve it to admitted celiac patients (though I still question their broth).

But it's Friday, and I had the chili on Monday. Last night, I had leg cramps that wouldn't quit which hasn't happened in several months.

So I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong. My lunches are the same they were last week. Dinners have been some of my old favorites that have worked in the past (corn tortilla tacos that I grill to make the tortilla crispy). I tried pizza shells from a gluten-free company, and looked at the labels of my ingredients I made the pizza with.

I guess I need to start working more on the food diary to try and figure out what could be going wrong. I don't have the energy to start up again tonight.

Tomorrow is the gluten-free faire with lots of gluten-free companies providing food (free!!!). I'm looking forward to it.

so it's not just because they're men

This was kind of interesting. It might go into explaining why women tend to live longer than men:

Men's cells break down quicker than women's apparently.

A short (hopefully lay) summary:

For those who don't remember their basic biology course, teleomeres are proteins that are at the end of the chromosome. With each cell division, the amount of teleomere is less than the previous generation. So as we age, the DNA will eventually be unprotected and break down more. It has been shown in children with progeria (early aging), their amounts of teleomere proteins are less than other children their age. The amount of teleomere protein is regulated by genetics, but a therapy to extend the life of progeria children has yet to be tested.

Maybe our hormones help protect the teleomere better than in men.