I have found I can consume Fage right out of the carton, with no ill effects, no restriction on quantity. I also use Fage for my starter culture. Initially, I started with the SCD, and cranked down...
You may not believe this one- and it's a lot of work- but if it does well for you, it's amazing: pemmican. It's a 50/50 mixture (by weight) of powdered, dried meat, and rendered beef fat. The stuff...
Heme iron is iron in blood cells- the iron at the center of the heme molecule (it's quite large- larger than the diagrams you will probably find show it to be) is what binds oxygen, allowing the red...
A suggestion: look into the Specific Carbohydrate Diet if you find your disease is affected by what you eat. The lack of energy takes some time to resolve, and it depends upon the origins of the lack...
This drug goes by a number of names- 5-aminosalicylic acid, 5-ASA, Pentasa, Rowasa, Asacol, Lialda, and Canasa- and is generally used for the management of relatively mild disease. As the name...
There is a way to test for MAP in your gut, but it's not approved for human use. You you would purchase the MGIT test from B&D and run the test yourself. The main problem is- what do you do if you're...
The symptoms are so similar that it certainly is evocative. Some of the anti-MAP antibiotic regimes work for some people, but there are questions about whether those drugs are acting on MAP, or some...
On the bright side, it's a pregnancy category B drug, which means there are animal studies that fail to show risk, but unfortunately no human studies. A lot of drugs are in this category....
Just to add to BeeSting's notes- LDN need not receive FDA approval; naltrexone itself is approved by the FDA, so any doctor may prescribe it for any malady they so choose- that delightful "off-label"...
You know, his "Vita-Nutrient Solution" is probably his most neglected of books. From the way it's written, I'm fairly sure someone else compiled it, and he slapped his name on it. The sheer number of...
True, Moore is a sensationalist- but his movie was not without its points. We spend a huge amount on health care in the United States, and we manage to rank 38th, behind Cuba (a statistic I'm not...
There is no dietary requirement for fiber; one does not "need" it to push food through the intestines, and some have speculated that it may do the opposite. Once food passes the duodenum into the...
I wish it was just the billing price- that was my true out-of-pocket expense because I haven't hit my limit this year ($2500 annual deductible). I used to do the insurance billing for a doctor-...
My insurance has a high deductible, and the patency test was going to run just shy of $1500. I contacted the company that makes it; the hospitals buy the pills for $100 each, minimum purchase of 5 in...
In Crohn's "Regional Ileitis" from 1958, he describes a number of individuals whose disease followed shortly after motor vehicle trauma- most from hitting the steering wheel. Of course, before 1958,...
Back to Ivy's original question: the way I understand it (and I could be wrong) is that during World War II, factories were only permitted to pay workers a fixed amount, and no more. In order to...
Shapiro's good, but note that all the facilities in Scottsdale have a high cost associated with them. If you have a high deductible, you may want to look elsewhere....
Ashyla03: the theories that MAP may be responsible for Crohn's need to explain one big problem first: if MAP causes Crohn's, then why don't immunomodulators cause the disease to get much worse? After...
I've been reading a few papers on the subject, and it seems that antibodies to Saccharomyces cerevisiae- common yeast- are prevalent in those with Crohn's disease. One paper suggests about 57% of...