Biotinidase Deficiency

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Adult Biotinidase Deficiency, Biotinidase Deficiency, End Deficiencies, petition, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease, TanyaMartin.com, WhiteHouse.gov / 5 minutes of reading / July 25, 2014

Long time readers are familiar with the saga of my fiancee Tanya and her life being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease, aka Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), which turned out to not be RA but rather a Biotinidase Deficiency. Since my server stats indicate that I have a lot of new readers I will summarize the ordeal for you. In December of 2003 Tanya was diagnosed as having Rheumatoid Arthritis due to her joint pain and fatigue. As the years went by her symptoms got worse and she spent close to $500,000 in treatments that included low dose chemo. In 2013 one …

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Saturday at the Torrance Farmers Market

Biotinidase Deficiency, Photos, pictures, Rheumatoid Patient Foundation, Southern California, Tanya, Torrance, Torrance Farmers Market, Wilson Park / 2 minutes of reading / July 28, 2013

There has been a lot of healthy activity in our household lately, and not just Tanya’s miraculous change in her well-being; we have also recently released a book of juicing recipes, “Faces of Juicing, Visual Juicing Recipes.” When the book was released Tanya suggested that she wanted to go on a juice fast; I just tried to change the subject when she brought it up. Since Tanya has recently learned that most of her health issues appeared to be the result of a profound Vitamin B7 deficiency, otherwise known as Biotinidase Deficiency, she started taking Biotin a week ago and …

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Adult Biotinidase Deficiency and you

B7 deficiency, Biotinidase Deficiency, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease, Rheumatoid Patient Foundation, Tanya / 4 minutes of reading / July 27, 2013

To say that this has been an amazing week would be an understatement; I would go so far as to suggest that it has been a miraculous week. I would like you to take a look at the photo of Tanya, to the left. I took that photo this afternoon (Saturday, July 27); there is no way Tanya would have even attempted jumping up like that a week ago. The fact of the matter is that in recent weeks, Tanya has been extremely clumsy; tripping over her own feet and walking into walls became pretty standard occurrences. She had numbness …

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