Sentences with phrase «mucin deficiencies»

Since that was published, well over 50 low - carb Paleo dieters have reported to me that dry eyes and other mucin deficiency symptoms were cured by adding safe starches to their diet.

But even prior to all this, we had severe concerns about VLC / ketogenic diets: the very low triglycerides that these ketogenic dieters attain were being implicated in autoimmune pathogenesis in an Italian study; the mucin deficiency that you mention were also being linked to immune (Secretory IgA deficiency); the T - lymphocyte dysfunction was being linked to ketosis and its effect on thymus; and the general leukopenic effect that a VLC diet has on everyone — this was being attributed to inflammation reduction but we were seeing WBCs fall into the 2s in many people.

For those of us restricted to wearing hard contact (RGP) lenses, we are quickly alerted to mucin deficiency and the need to for dietary changes.

Tracing backward one step toward the source of mucin deficiency, the sugars in mucin are built from smaller pieces called O - glycans.