May 2015
Someone asked me to blog on the topic of estrogen and IC. When I wrote my doctoral dissertation. In my earlier years of my practice, I beleived that using bio-identical hormones-especifically a certain type of estrogen was very important to the balancing of the ecology in the vagina and it would therefore optimize the microbial balance. From my dissertation:
This is not IC-but everything related to health is relevant as it is the cumulative effect of what we put into our bodies that adds up to IC. This letter is in from someone I met the other day who has chosen to become involved in preserving the choice we have as parent regarding what we allow to be put in the bodies of our children-a fundamental right!
Hello Friends,
Last week I was speaking with a few people about renovation in their homes. I have posted a few times over the years regarding this subject. It is REALLY important, when painting, carpeting, putting down hardwood floors, etc... to be sure that the materials you are using are "clean" and "Green"!
The subject of headaches, migraines, and occular migraines (and muscle and joint pains) came up a lot today in my conversations with people. This was tied in to the differences people are discerning between the relationship between their diets and health and incidence of these kinds of problems. This is really a much larger issue than I will problably be able to fully explore within the context of this short blog. However, I often use the analogy that certain symptoms are just a different branch off of the same tree trunk. As in same etiology different symptom.
My daughter had me pull out many recipes from my past the other day and I was looking for one in particular that I couldnt find. So, I recreated it from my memory. So, this is not precise at all, but most of my recipes arent anyway.
However we did it wor-it was so so good! Here it goes:
I love dogs. As most of you probably know, I love all animals-I have 15, Y'up 15. BUT....It happens, animals like people are not all friendly. I just had a patient call this am from the emergency room having been severely bitten with deep wounds not knowing what to do.
Someone sent me this article and I thought it was incredibly interesting. The article discusses the differences in the appearances of the brains of those having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and those without. In that sense it IS very interesting. However, what I find more interesting, as someone who has never doubted that CFS is anything but "REAL" is that different types of medicine have different types of views on the causes and condition of CFS. I am not surprised that the brain does look different but I dont think that the brain is CAUSING the CFS.
I was having trouble the last few days getting into this part of the website so I could not post until now. I have had a lot of issues I wanted to comment on this week starting with-- the conversation of balance and staying on track came up several times this week. Its started with a patient who, was among my hardest over the years. She was so awful. It seemed impossible to get her to improve. After time, her progress increased until her improvements became clear. She was able to get her body well balanced and pain no longer was the driving force in her life.
I have been thinking of what to post next-thinking to pull for my dissertation, which, I will do, but...I have been feeling even more introspective for many reasons and not finding content worthy of writing this week. I have been doing a lot of reading lately (as usual really) and this morning, I just read something that really struck me and finally I have something to say. It was a saying from an inspirational person on line that said, "when you think about your dream job, would you do it even if you didn't get paid for it?" Interesting!
