Celiac Disease

The Ultimate Guide to Calcium Supplements

April 15, 2009

I had a patient with digestive problems who took pure calcium supplements for 20 years. By the time she was fifty-five years old, she had osteoporosis. She came to me in confusion, “Why did this happen to me? I took those huge calcium pills for two decades!” The reason is: you can takes tons of [...]

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“Natural” Does Not Mean “Safe”

March 27, 2009

“Natural”. “Alternative”. “Herbal”. Take a walk down the aisle of any health food store, and you’ll see these words everywhere. They make people feel good. They seem so safe. Natural supplements are often cheaper than prescriptions, so it seems reasonable to think that experimenting with them could do no harm. Unfortunately, this kind of thinking [...]

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Celiac Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Diet

December 9, 2008

When you have celiac disease, bread is not your friend. Celiac Disease (also known as non-tropical sprue and gluten sensitive enteropathy) is a condition where a person is unable to digest foods containing gluten (the protein portion of wheat, spelt, kamut, oats, rye, and barley). In time, this reaction destroys the villi of the small [...]

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Powerful Juice Recipes for 14 Common Ailments

November 25, 2008

This delicious wheatgrass cocktail is a lean, green healing machine. Fresh squeezed vegetable juice can work miracles in the treatment of any disease.  The raw power of juice builds new healthy tissue, purifies the blood, removes waste from the large intestine, and rejuvenates the endocrine system.

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The Miracle of Juice Fasting for Crohn’s Disease, Colitis, Celiac and IBS

November 22, 2008

I enjoy a good meal and a glass of red wine as much as the next person – so forgoing those two things has never been very high on my to-do list!  But when you get sick with ulcerative colitis (like I did), you get so desperate, you’ll try anything.

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