An Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Progress Update

B'SD

27 Tamuz, 5776

I apologize for my absence from cyberspace. I've been busy researching medical issues, studying advanced medical vocabulary in Hebrew so I can assist the translation efforts of people who need such a service, helping patients in various ways and arranging some social events. But, now I'm back with what I hope is a breath of fresh hope for people with a specific, quite serious medical problem.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an agonizing medical problem that manifests as colitis, ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's Disease (CD).

I've spend the past few months researching the problem with medical professionals. I found information that might fill IBD patients with hopes for an imminent cure if not significant relief from their painful, often incapacitating problems:

Medical Miracle in the making? See http://healthlivetips.org/finally-new-vaccine-hope-to-complete-cure-crohns-disease/

Scotland seems to be leading the way in improving health care services for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

“The goal should be a return to normality rather than normalising a poor quality of life.”

Crohn's and Colitis UK has worked collaboratively to launch a new National Blueprint to improve IBD healthcare in Scotland - the first of its kind in the UK. Read more about how the Blueprint will improve services:http://bit.ly/298wLpl

Overhaul in treatment for patients with bowel disease

Patients living with an incurable condition will see an overhaul of how treatment is delivered due to UK-first guidelines to tackling patchy care for rising numbers of people with a debilitating bowel disease.

SCOTSMAN.COM

Click on Overhauling the Treatment for IBD.

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The Blessings in the Universe

B'SD

11 Iyar, 5776

Last night I addressed the Whole Health Forum audience as one of several people presenting a panel discussion about healing.

My opening remarks appear below. I was gratified that they were well-received and delighted to learn that some listeners have read

In 2005 I was diagnosed with a benign, skull-based tumor that blinded and almost killed me. GOD, the surgeon, my friends and specific alternative healing strategies helped me to see again. We made medical history. Life lessons were involved. So was my sense of humor.

I wrote this book because I wanted to do people a favor by alerting them to healing possibilities and cutting-edge medical developments, sharing spiritual insights, and letting readers know of world wide organizations willing to pay part or all of your specific medical expenses. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge shares many ideas, one of which can be explained this way:

Viktor Frankl said "When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves." I'd like to add, "When you’re going through hell, look for the exit. Or create one."

All of us are here to heal. It might be physically, emotionally, mentally and/or spiritually. As you move through the throngs of people and exhibits, you feel an energy coursing through and around you. Use it. Memorize it. Cradle it. That energy can motivate you when you're feeling drained, clueless, and hopeless long after the event.

As we move through our healing experiences, we grow in insights, compassion for ourselves and others. We recognize the need for developing a support network of friends, relatives, acquaintances, plus medical and complementary healing practitioners.  We learn not to assume, but to observe, to wonder, to be in awe. Respect, on many different levels, becomes one with our identities. The universe is filled with answers. It beckons us, challenges us to grow, even as we hardly realize that we are growing during our agony. That is Av HaRakhamim, the Compassionate GOD, Rofeh Cholim, the Healer, at work.

Accept the invitation. Fulfill your destiny as a spiritual creature. Let wonder fill your soul. Let the wonder heal you. The adventure is a gift from GOD, though it sometimes feels like a punishment. It's not. It is a path. Humanity tends to berate itself. But HaShem's nature, so to speak, is to forgive. Take Her/His lead. Go, find yourself in the universe, with every bit of your pain, doubt and fear. Access the healing powers that GOD put there. The goal is to grow your soul. Open your eyes, your mind, your gut and your heart to healing possibilities. Learn to laugh again. Find the love that awaits you. GOD put it there.

Other speakers on the panel then presented their stories. One is a board-certified surgeon who'd cured himself of Rheumatoid Arthritis with a macrobiotic diet. 

He decried the limited worldview of his western medicine colleagues who denied that connection of food to health. 

He briefly described actual vignettes of how doctors deny, ridicule or ignore documented evidence of healing fostered with vegan, vegetarian or macrobiotic diets, plus evidence that organic food promotes health better than adulterated non-organic food. 

The saddest story was about a patient who'd recovered from agonizingly painful and debilitating Crohn's Disease with a macrobiotic diet. Her gastroenterologist insulted her intelligence by insisting that food has no impact on the digestive system, that it was the medicine he'd prescribed which had cured her. He did not reply when the woman laid out her unused medication before him.

Food is irrelevant to health. Such a stance is no better than believing that the sun does not cause sunshine.

Other panelists chimed in with proof that adulterated food filled with herbicides, pesticides, preservatives, and other noxious chemicals undermine human health, and that their own deadly types of cancer abated due to improved diets.

I remarked that when I asked the director of a cutting-edge cancer treatment center why his facility is being built, he responded that "Cancer rates are growing. Lifestyles are responsible for that." I responded with a request that he save lives and money by making Public Service Announcements. He could tell the public that synthetic hygiene products, excessive sun exposure, adulterated food stripped of nutrition but filled with poison and other avoidable causes of cancer be eliminated from public consumption.

He gave me a demeaning look as if to say "You sweet dumb idiot." Then he said, "The public will never understand or accept that."

I disagree. 

Do you need to be told that you'll sicken and probably die if you eat rat poison? Raw sewage? Spoiled meat?

The group also discussed the medical world's tendency to withhold information from patients, believing that it's merciful to refrain from informing people that they might die or are dying and that it is "only" appropriate to share such news closer to the prognosticated date of death, when symptoms can no longer be denied. THAT is a demeaning point of view. It robs people of the opportunity to handle their own affairs, to save their own lives or at least try to.

Worse, it is a lofty excuse for pulling off a crime. If doctors cannot deal with the emotional ramifications of dealing with sad, frightened patients, then medical schools ought to teach necessary lessons. And arrogant practitioners should leave the "healing" profession that they undermine.

I pray that knowledgeable people will hold Getting to Know You events that foster educational interactions with medical professionals, alternative/complementary healing professionals and survivors who ended their agony by changing their eating patterns and other lifestyle factors, and went on to live more pleasant, productive lives for the effort.

Change usually comes slowly, hence a need to make and to expect gradual changes. But...

... as death rates rise from the poisoned food supply, a need to alert the public that eating just might be a suicidal activity becomes imperative.

May blessings come your way.





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A Retrocure for Autoimmune Disease or One BIG Mistake?

B'SD

5 Cheshvan 5771

You can heal with wholesome food, pure water, exercise and prayers, or...

Make one BIG mistake.

I was taken aback to read news item http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/10/04/parasitic-worms-cure-autoimmune-diseases/?test=faces and noticed that the Crohn's sufferer quoted in there mentions going organic at the end of the article.

I asked naturopath Shoshanna Harrari (listed in the Global Resources section of EMPOWER Yourself) about the alleged wisdom of helminthic/worm therapy.

She replied: "They used to recommend tapeworms for weight loss not so long ago as well. It is not difficult to have a healthy intestine and heal from Crohn’s by just eating right. I guess this is one therapy this guy never came across.

"Hookworms drink large amounts of blood making people anemic and malnourished. Each worm can produce up to 30,000 eggs a day. They are the only worms with actual teeth. A person infected with them eventually becomes anemic, malnourished, mentally slow and weak. They will eventually have abdominal pains, possibly with nausea, indigestion and chronic diarrhea. Chances are he will be very regretful of this ‘treatment’ in the next year or so. It is very difficult to get rid of them once infected, and the Crohn’s he had will look like a picnic."

Readers, you just don't want
that stuff
in your gut or anywhere
in your bodies.

Yes, worms do migrate
to human brains.
The California Institute of
Technology explains the
reality when you click on
BRAIN WORMS.

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Real Men Don't Need Dairy Foods. NOBODY Does!

11 Iyar 5768


It takes A LOT to make me post a Friday update. I like long weekends ;^ )

But this update shouldn't wait. MEN, this one's for you.

ACCORDING TO this Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology Harvard University School of Public Heath study, dairy intake can cause PROSTATE CANCER in men.

Skip the Milk Mustache.

Many people unwittingly endanger their health with dairy products. Lots of adults believe that dairy foods are nutritional for human bodies. "They're not," according to Dr. Neal Barnard of The Physician's Committe for Responsible Medicine. He often speaks of clinical evidence showing that human consumption of dairy foods can lead to diabetes and other health problems.

Cow milk is good for young cows and goat milk is great for kids with four feet, tails and shaggy coats. But the stuff's NOT for humans.

Organic or not, dairy items do not belong in human bodies past infancy. The ideal form of dairy nutrition for human infants comes only from Mommy. Second best (if Mommy can't provide) is a baby-compatible formula.

See this information-packed site to learn about actual medical evidence that DAIRY DOES YOU NO GOOD. IT HARMS YOU.

Men, lose the belly fat. Get your 6-pak abs in shape without dangerous dairy foods. Ladies, learn from the guys. Trim your form and improve your overall health by banning dairy foods from your menu.

And get a load of this insight about how DAIRY FOODS CAN DAMAGE your BONES AND THE REST OF YOUR BODY: OSTEOPOROSIS.

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