December 2008
Through my life I have always been the kind of person to take the higher road-the path of the least resistance. I have adhered to that ethic especially over the years when so many peolple have tried to destroy my practice or stain my reputation. I have ignored the countless awful and untrue things that people who don't even know me have said about me. However, the other night I had an old time patient call me and tell me that her old doctor referred a patient to me because of the work that she knew she had dont with me. She asked our mutual patient to call this other woman in need of help.
I had a request to post the folowing two links on my blog regarding sustainable agriculture. I have not read either and Iw ill be too busy today to do so. But, I trust the person who asked me to do this, so I am certain both are filled with a lot of fantastic informtation. Bottom line is that we all agree on clean, organic, non-genetically altered food that brings us nutrition--the whole point in eating:) Here are the links:
Women who are chronically ill may feel that they are not "worthy". So, they stay in realtionships that are not healthy for them feeling like it is better to be with someone who does not treat them well than to be alone. I have to say that I dont agree with this thinking. It is better to be alone and surround yourself with friends that honor you then to be with one person who treats you poorly. As we have discussed and discussed, issues with lack of nurturing mothers are often relavent in the histories of women (or men) having IC.
So much controversy regarding flouride. There are ongoing lawsuits between citizens and government for government forcing flouride into the water supply. This is a very disturbing article about flouride:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/04/fluoride-e...
The other day at the meeting I suggested journaling, and I also recommended charting, which, may help you and help me be more clear. I wanted to suggest the following chart type, bc one of my patients uses this and it has been super helpful for her and me to be more clear about what is happening and what changes need to take place.
This was actually contained in a chart with lines, but they became erased with the copy paste. It looks like a graph with writing within it.
We had a really nice first meeting. There were two newcomers(not patients) and one patient who has been in treatment for about 6 months now in addition to Jeanne Towsned (an old time patient) and myself. We sat around in a circle and the speaker phone was in the middle of us. We all could not hear eachother super well. There were about 6 people on the speak phone. One complaint that came up was that the people in the room fel uncomfortable to say too much bc of the long distance technical difficulties.
Many of you know how much I feel that environmental pollutants effect us, i.e. water, chemicals in foods, etc... This articel is unbelievable in how they are affecting us in changing our sexual development--especially of men. This is quite frightening. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-th...
We just finished tonight first ICAMA support group meeting, and I wanted to thank everyone for their participation. We had a few technical difficulties with the connection for the long distance patience, but we will work hard to improve the techy aspect each month we regroup. We had some suggestions from those who were here after the meeting came to a close. Some suggested we have topics dedicated to time.
AS all of you probably know, agave nectar is one natural sweetener that I recommend often. The following article argues that all of the great things about agave is hype and untrue. WOW! That is all I can say. I need to research a lot of the arguments within this very loaded article, but I can tell you, I recommend agave not only because of what I have read over the years, but much more because of what I have clinically observed. People who consume agave sweetened goodies do far better than sugar for certain and even the very healthy sweetener--honey! Much better, hands down.
