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Posted by drbrizman on May 20, 2011 at 12:17am
We live in a world of chemical-many of them are healthy and many are not. The problem is we think that if we buy it at the store, especially the health food store, it is safe. True? Not true! Even the most natural of products may not be appropriate for people with chronic illness-especially IC. The reason for this is many natural products use things like soy, coconut, and vitamin e to name a few and the most obvious, and those often will cause a lot of pain, especially if they are disproportionate to the rest of the ingredients.
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Posted by drbrizman on May 18, 2011 at 10:48pm
"...what we mistook for a limit, proves to be a horizon..." David Steindel-Rast.
Posted by drbrizman on May 11, 2011 at 3:10am
I wanted to post an apology. I am sorry if I offended anyone regarding my orthorexia post. I meant this post in the spirit of how I wrote it regarding the issues I outlined. I did not mean to imply that people cannot have eating issues that include abnormal eating patterns who have histories of other eating disorders and for whom have lives that are critically impacted by their eating practices.
Posted by drbrizman on May 9, 2011 at 12:03pm
I just was given this article by a patient and I just couldn't believe my eyes reading it. It seems that it is so difficult for people to empathize with those who have chosen to go down a path of healthy eating that a term has been coined for those eating really well-"orthorexia" and this term is compared to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.
Posted by drbrizman on May 3, 2011 at 8:05pm
This article by Dr. Mercola is incredibly insightful. He speaks about the politics of mental health-specifically depression and the use of medication to deal with it. I could not agree more on this topic. He recommends looking at diet and offers a few other suggestions.
Posted by drbrizman on April 28, 2011 at 10:55am
Every once in a while an older patient having gone through treatment and having been well for a long while will come in in crisis. It happened this week and it reminded me to remind each of you a few important things:
1) dont forget to preserve what you have worked hard to ear-balance in your body.
2) Many things upset this balance and just because something feels good for a while, doesn't mean it will continue to do so after you reach its cumulative effect
Posted by drbrizman on April 28, 2011 at 10:48am
Here are two fascinating articles on the Gut. Researchers are only at the edge of discovering what our internal environment is really about. The balance of these organisms influence our health and disease as well. There are trillions of organisms inside us and the balance of those organisms in our small intestine help to comprise 70% of our immune system. People do not realize how important that balance is.
Posted by drbrizman on April 26, 2011 at 7:25pm
People often turn to sugar substitutes, but, they are even worse than sugar in numerous ways. Dr. Mercola outlines some very important points when it comes to one very popular sugar substitute. I very much agree with almost all of this. I see many people getting into a lot of trouble with their health while using chemical sugar substitutes. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/26/major-medi...
Posted by drbrizman on April 20, 2011 at 4:23am
Some people do not do well on salt with IC, but, most do fine with it. YOur salt should be healthy salt. Often salt has sugar added! Did you know that? YOu need to read labels carefully. Processed salt is actually not healthy for you, whereas other natural forms of salt are healthful to the body. I thought that this was a very interesting little article that summarizes it nicely.http://www.myhimalayansalt.com/himalayan-salt/himalayan-salt-primer
Dr.B
Posted by drbrizman on April 16, 2011 at 12:43am
While there have been many studies on sugar coming from a completely different point of view, i.e. the effects on the microorganisms and the consequences that has on inflammation and poor health, and while I do not fully agree with this author's opinion on animal fats, this is one of so many great articles on sugar and toxicity and well worth reading. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1
