Maybe, maybe not. In high school, I was quite convinced that I avoided surgery because of probiotics. There was heavy Crohn’s activity in my colon, and adding a probiotic supplement helped immensely. However 10 years later, I had to fight off Small-Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), probably caused by a suppressed immune system and a tooth […]
Gut Health
More on Mitochondria
I’m less interested in brain health than I am in gut health, but mitochondria provides the energy that runs all of it. I’m becoming increasingly convinced that mitochondria is the key.
Another Player in the Game: Mitochondria
Now, mitochondria recently came up in a Twitter discussion of obesity. In order to burn fat, it’s not YOU that does the work, it’s your MITOCHONDRIA. That’s great, but what about those of us who don’t need to burn fat? To explore this, we must first as the question: What does our mitochondria do for us? Mitochondria are […]
More reasons to avoid food additives
Looks like titanium dioxide (yes, that stuff in sunscreen–they also put it into food) should be added to the list of stuff to keep out of our food. Science Daily reports on a new study that shows that: Titanium dioxide crosses the intestinal barrier and passes into the bloodstream Titanium dioxide alters intestinal and systemic […]
Antibiotic Resistance
Medicine is not science. Science is never settled. Even things we take for granted (like “always finish your entire course of antibiotics“) aren’t set in stone. The rationale behind this commandment has always been that stopping treatment too soon would fuel the development of antibiotic resistance — the ability of bugs to evade these drugs. Information […]
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Fiber: Friend or Foe?
When you’re diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and having a hard time, your doctor will often put you on a low-fiber or low-residue diet. Same difference, really. Basically, eat soft, mushy, bland food – and lots of carbohydrates. Rice! Toast! Don’t eat a lot of vegetables! And honestly, this works. Pre-digesting your food as much as […]
When You Find a Yoga Flow for a Healthy Gut
…immediately post to your blog so you don’t forget it. Don’t bother watching or trying it. Yeah, yoga!
Research Alert: PREdiCCt
Looks like some investigators in the UK are looking to identify environmental triggers for Crohn’s and Colitis flares. Basically, they’re going to sample people’s gut bacteria and given them questionnaires on their diet, lifestyle, and health over the period of 2 years, then attempt to find trends in the data. This is the kind of […]
4 Ways to Move Fluid Around Your Body that Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You
There’s a lot of things that your doctor can’t teach you during your 15 minutes together. One lesson that I never had with my gastroenterologist is this: you body is a dynamic system. Not static. Not stagnant. Dynamic. It’s meant to be moving, always. Breathing, in and out. Blood pumping. Lymphatic fluid circulating. Food being digested […]
In which my approach to diet is turned on its head
My introduction to the microbiome (otherwise known as gut bacteria) came through Elaine Gottschall’s Breaking the Vicious Cycle, the book that unleashed the Specific Carbohydrate Diet on the world. Elaine’s research and writings focus on the biochemistry of how food digests in the gut, and mainly focuses on reducing any undigested food that would feed […]