Posted in Allergies: Food, Digestion, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Apr 7th, 2010
Many of us have issues that we’ve been dealing with for a long time, and we’ve gotten used to them, to the extent that we don’t even notice them or pay attention to them on a regular basis. Therefore it’s important to back up and take an inventory of your health and disease before you begin the ECD, so you can truly get a sense of how much benefit you’ve received from doing it.
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A brief primer on wheat intolerance and celiac disease
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Posted in Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Intolerances: Food, Medicine, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 26th, 2010
Removing the major reactive foods (wheat, dairy, and eggs) wipes out a large percentage of what most people eat, for some people up to 80-90%. Many people never get out of this stage because they simply don’t know what to eat. Planning is important on an ECD because 99% of the fast, easy, convenience foods are not going to be appropriate. So having meals figured out in advance is critical to your success.
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We have a Facebook Fan Page here (www.facebook.com/pages/Aspire-Natural-Health) where Dr. Gerstmar posts interesting bits and pieces he comes across in his daily practice and research. Our goal is to provide value by sharing ideas links Dr. Gerstmar comes across in his practice and readings. They might not be big enough or worthwihle enough to turn into proper blog posts but make great bite-sized reading for those who are interested.
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Posted in Allergies: Food, Celiac disease, Digestion, Digestive Health, Digestive Health, Food, Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 11th, 2010
Excluding gluten from your diet unfortunately is much easier said than done however. Here is how you go about it…
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Posted in Allergies, Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 4th, 2010
Even small amounts of reactive foods can keep the immune system activated and symptoms present. This is why preparing your food yourself is so important.
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Posted in Allergies, Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Health Care, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 4th, 2010
Before undertaking an ECD (Elimination-Challenge Diet) it’s important to determine your motivation. What is going to give you the drive to persist through the early cravings? What is going to allow you to say no when you get in situations where it would be so much easier to simply say yes? Unless you plan to be a hermit for the 3-4 week duration of the elimination part of the diet, you need to have motivation.
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Nothing in the alternative medicine world attracts more disdain and haughtiness from skeptics than homeopathy. “Homeopathy,” they sneer, “only idiots and charlatans practice homeopathy.” So what is homeopathy?
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In part III of this series, my intention is to outline how I as an alternative practitioner use EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) in my practice. Alternative or natural practitioners are often dismissed by conventional practitioners with the refrain “not enough evidence” or “hasn’t been proven to work”. This is true only under the strict definition of EBM we talked about in part II but as I will show I base my practice on a great deal of evidence, much of which is not given significant value by the conventional community.
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Posted in Doctors, Health Care, Health insurance, Hospitals, Insurance companies, Medicine, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Pharmaceuticals on Nov 13th, 2009
Continuing the discussion of evidence based medicine, this article discusses the current, and in my opinion, misguided interpretation of evidence based medicine.
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