Bowel disease

Nutritional strategies

You can modify the composition of your gut flora by optimising your diet and supplementing with high-quality probiotics, the ‘good’ bacteria. * Fish oil is anti-inflammatory more »

The Western diet contains an average of 16.6 mmol/day of sulphate compared with the 2.7 mmol/day consumed by the average rural African. Animal studies have shown that high levels of sulphated polysacc... more »

Eating dirt

Getting dirty to stay healthy is a foreign notion to many of us - and eating dirt to stay healthy even more so. While it may seem primitive, eating earth (geophagy) is a universal phenomenon even toda... more »

How herbs can help

Doctors sometimes use a combination of herbs to soothe inflammation in the digestive tract. Aloe vera juice is often recommended, though it is not well studied in inflammatory bowel disease. more »

Worms and dirt: medicine’s newest weapons

The diagnosis of ‘inflammatory bowel disease’, or IBD, is among medicine’s many umbrella terms. It hovers over a range of inflammatory conditions of the bowel, although two in particular - ulcerative... more »

Crohn's disease - The hidden triggers

Viruses, bacteria or even drugs can be the hidden triggers of inflammatory bowel disease, and many other intestinal illnesses can be mistaken for it. ... more »

Case study: Alternative therapies for IBD

Despite having had ulcerative colitis for only 18 months, I have run a whole gamut of attempted cures and aids. I had my first severe attack a year ago and spent nearly two months in hospital. ... more »

Case study: Ischaemia of the bowel.

My mother had been very ill for two years wit stomach pain, diarrhoea and loss of appetite. She had numerous Barium meals and other unpleasant tests. During this time she was in and out of hospi ... more »

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1 Mar 2010 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

Asking the obvious

Someone finally bothered to ask the question: does breast screening work? The answer is a damning and resounding no, as our cover story this month makes clear. No breast screening programme anywhere i... more »

2 Feb 2010 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

A prescription for old age

Most of us assume that if we’re lucky enough to exceed our threescore and ten—the Biblical estimate of our lifespan—we do so at the expense of our bodies. We’ve come to expect ... more »

15 Jan 2010 | Health from your Gar... (bshubbard)

Plants help improve the enviro...

We read an article the other that walking through herb-covered mountainsides and forests is rejuvenating for four reasons. In nature one can just take things in without thinking too hard, the trees ab... more »

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