Author: Health Solutions
When is the best time for IBD bowel rest and how does bowel rest work? An elemental diet is a completely liquid diet with pre-digested nutrients that are quickly absorbed into the bloodstream (within 20 minutes). This gives your gastrointestinal system peace of mind, but still supplies your nutritional needs – also as a. designated Colon rest diet. TThe stool that results from an elementary diet is greatly reduced in volume and is usually fluid, allowing your colon to recover from normal bowel movements, which allows your colon and intestines to heal faster. Join me and Tami Hay, author of…
Let’s talk about affirmations! Perhaps you heard a little about it in Chapter 7 of Listening to Your Belly, or maybe you are already practicing it. But how can you use them to heal yourself from a chronic disease like IBD? Follow me on a wonderful journey as I bring up what Jini and I have both learned from the power of positive affirmations. Did you know that affirmations have been scientifically proven to help bring about lasting and long-term changes in the way you think and feel? Your thoughts and emotions cause physical changes in the body. So when…
If you are taking an antibiotic, you can either wait for treatment to finish before starting probiotic supplementation, or you can take probiotics during antibiotic treatment. WHY should you take probiotics during or after antibiotic treatment? Because nature abhors a vacuum! This means that once bacteria have been cleared from your gut, the risk of secondary or opportunistic infection is greatly increased. If you take probiotics during antibiotic treatment, the probiotics will help further promote the excretion of unwanted bacteria from your gut while inhibiting the overgrowth of yeasts, fungi and parasites – which can thrive without good bacteria (which…
These are two recipes that I am asked for over and over again – especially by guests who are at my home! They are an absolute hit with both children and adults so I am sharing them with all of you in the hope that you will love them as much as my guests do. 🙂 PRESENTED OAT PORRIDGE The evening before – or at least 12 hours before the oats are cooked: 1. Add 1 cup of slow-boiled (rolled or steel-cut) oats and 1.5 cups of filtered water to a bowl2. Add 1 teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice…
How can you change your mindset to increase resilience? Instead of looking at life as good / bad or black and white … what would happen if we looked at life’s experiences and emotions as colors? What if anger was yellow and joy was black, and peace was purple, pain was green, and so on? What if the purpose of incarnating into physical flesh was to * experience * the wide range of colors available in this life? Not just to stay in the golden bliss of the divine all the time? Live the rainbow The day turns into nightA…