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This is a nice article by Dr. Mercola regarding Statin-a kind of drug that it seems many MDs agree is overly prescribed. High cholesterol is more often than not the result of chronic unwellness rather than diet. This is not something that will be discussed with you by your MD in most cases. Over the years, I have seen cholesterol levels dive in many of my patients without having to do anything other than treat the IC. This is not always true, but it is often true. As always, I do not recommend everything in this article, but rather am interested in the concepts.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/20/the-truth-... regarding statin drugs

Although this patient used different methods to treat his bowel imbalance, the concepts still apply. This is a very interesting article in that it parallels my mantra about time and diet and imbalance. Give it a read!
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/for-a-celiac-sufferer-a-new-mys...

The forum was temporarily removed because a few days ago there were problems with misuse of information.

The forum was designed to promote comfort, communication, and support among Dr. Brizman's patients as this process is difficult and support is often greatly needed.

This forum is not to discuss other treatment plans and ideas that go against Dr. Brizman's protocol. If you wish to participate in other treatments, of course, you absolutely should exercise that prerogative. However, focusing on multiple treatment methods is not advisable with chronic illness as then the process will be  disrupted.

I want to clear up a concept that I think needs illumination.

Imbalance takes many forms. It can come in the form of imbalance in organisms, which, is a huge part of the focus of my treatment, but, where did that imbalance come from?

One needs to look at constitution, diet, medications that have been taken, and various lifestyle issues that may be effecting physiology as well.

In Chinese medicine, the cause of the condition is of equal importance as the condition itself. 

Realizing this, one cannot simply look at starving out yeast or bacteria as the only focal point in treatment. This is why effecting a healthy balance is so important to look at from many perspectives.

For anyone who is familiar with my thinking, it will be easy to understand why I think this article is so fascinating. My ideas of health an imbalance in the human body as it relates to chronic disease has much to do with the eco system of microorgansims in our body. This particular article relates to that, but in a very interesting and new way. Read this, it is incredible: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13micro.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 

It has come to my understanding that there is a group of people who have decided to give other of my patients advice. This has hurt several of my patients due the advice that they have been given.

I am a very committed doctor of Chinese medicine. I have not only developed this work for IC, but have been devoting my life almost literally around the clock for 14 years (and have studied it for 20) by giving countless hours of free service of my personal time daily including vacations.

It is very upsetting that people are telling other people to go against my advice and follow their plan presuming that their advice holds greater value than someone with such a tremendous amount of knowledge and expertise.

I wanted to say a few things about embarking upon a path of alternative medicine. 

Alternative medicine for chronic illness requires a lot of time and effort. It is a process of addressing
imbalances in one's body and is not well addressed by taking one set of supplements for long periods of time.

A well balanced approach to a chronic illness is one that involves guidance of diet and supplements over time in an effort to change the balance inside the body thereby regressing the state of imbalance.

I am saying this because, people often come to my clinic thinking that if they get a set of supplements they can go off on their way and take them indefinitely and be well. This is unrealistic.

This is not necessarily directly related to IC, but indirectly. This is a great article about how the microorganisms in your intestines may be affected by GMO foods.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029041_GMOs_toxicity.html 

I have been asked countless times about natural mattresses and I really don't have a lot of information on this subject. This just came to my attention and I thought it looked great and I would pass it along to all of you in case anyone is looking for a mattress.

Toxins are everywhere in our environment and have the ability to affect us in many ways. In New Zealand studies have been conducted connecting SIDS to toxins in mattresses. Special covers there have been developed to seal those toxins in to protect the infant from breathing them in.

I have not followed the research, but when I was reading about it several years ago, the use of these covers significantly reduced the incidence of SIDS by an astounding percentage.