Please dont forget to check posts on Facebook ICAMA and Bomamed for posts there. I sometimes post there instead of here and sometimes vice versa depending on the content. I have been spending a lot of extra time outside of my work hours supporting some patients who needed extra help and a couple of people close to me who have been quite unwell with cancer. Interestingly one--who smokes and eat tons of if nothing else but junk-is going to make it quite fine after having a surgery extract the encapsulated cancer from their body and the other, a health-based person-seems to also be doing better following her health based program.

Cancer is such an ugly topic of conversation as often the outcome is not good at all. Ive learned more about it than I ever cared to know in the last decade having lost many people close to me to it. Lately I have been a bit hyper focused on this subject and how it inter-relates to chronic inflammatory conditions such as IC. And while I am certainly no expert or even close on the topic of cancer, I feel that this knowledge is really important and does inter-relate to other inflammatory conditions including IC-especially when one thinks of diet. Some schools of thought for cancer say no meat-eat only fruits and veg, while others say eat animal protein and veg no fruit. For me I have found that IC treatment only works well with the inclusion of animal protein-which-for me is extremely difficult to advocate, despite my strong beleifs in its veracity as I am a HUUUGE animal lover and feel a great amount of distress eating animals myself. This is something that I will likely die not reconciling within my own soul.

The ketogenic approach to cancer and the ICAMA diet protocols have a similar base--this is a lot of what I have been thinking about. So, I have spent alot of time pondering this issue and each time I think perhaps I might be wrong, I get yet another person coming along who does not seem to do as well without the inclusion of animal protein in their diet-especially and most importantly red meat.

On another note, I have also been for the first time drinking filtered water from a quite a complex filtration system--so far its been 4 months. When I get to the year mark, perhpas sooner, I will post more. I am looking forward to helping to provide more options for people on their water and letting go of the bottle-but don't do it yet.

This two decade journey has been filled with a lot that has helped us deepen our own knowledge in order to help others with the use of Chinese medicine. Time and again we have found its conceptual model of physiology irreplaceable in helping people get better. Fine tuning that knowledge constantly is a process that we remain dedicated to.

Dr.M & B