Archive Year 2006 month 4

If you are wondering if you are able to digest anything or let alone absorb any nutrients - try this trick that Dr Pizzorno, ND told us in Healing Systems lecture a couple weeks back:

• Take 1 tsp of Brewer's Yeast with water on an empty stomach.
• Your next few trips to the toilet, look for yellow pee.
• If you have yellow pee, you can digest and absorb.
• If you do not have yellow pee, take 10 mg of B2.
• Your next few trips to the toilet, look for yellow pee.
• If the stream is yellow, then you can absorb nutrients but you cannot digest.
• If your stream is still not yellow, then you cannot digest nor can you absorb.

Question then is: What to do?

That's a big question.

Yes there are digestive enzymes. Yes there is betaine HCl. But why do that when you haven't tried the basics. And the basics may actually solve the problem.

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A patient came in yesterday with an unrelenting dry cough. It has been keeping her up at night for the last few weeks. During my interview with her, she was coughing non-stop.
I asked her what helps her cough. "Nothing," she reported.

She had been referred for an X-ray by our supervising physician. The radiologist diagnosed her with atypical pneumonia. However, I think he was wrong.

Listening to her lungs revealed no fluid, cracks or other sounds.

The supervisor prescribed her 1000 mg of Vitamin C derived from rose hips along with Bactrim antibiotic.

As a student clinician, I don't argue much with my supervising physicians.

However, I'

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I received an email today from someone who has been battling eczema on their face for over 1 year. They have been using a topical steroid - Elocon.

Steroids suppress. Suppression of skin problems pushes toxins deeper into the body. Why? Because the skin is a huge organ allowing toxins to leave the body. If this is prevented, then where do they go?

Typically - lung and joints.

The full question and answer is found on the Natural Health Forum.

Check it out - you may find it very useful for you.

Here is her question and my full response:
Alternative Means Which May Improve Eczema

We all make mistakes.

Yet when tasks are so straightforward and mistakes are done consistently over and over again, one must try to find out why. Simple data entry should be easy to do - a 10 year old could do it.

My guess is that the individual is or has one of these:

• lack of personal responsibility
• vision problems
• brain fog
• excess of external stimulus preventing focus
• the so-called ADHD issue
• limited education

Lack of personal responsibility from a physician's perspective becomes a counseling issue.

Vision problems becomes an optometrists issue - at least to screen for major conditions. However, basic supplementation with the necessary eye nutrients could help a ton.

Brain fog is a major one. I know of an individual who has Celiac's disease - meaning she cannot eat gluten containing foods such as wheat and some other grains. If a person with Celiacs eats gluten,

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Now that I am basically spending more time with patients then I am with books and lecture halls, I am going to re-focus this blog to discuss naturopathic therapeutics and perspectives.

Going to be quite interesting for many to see what the life of a naturopathic medical student sees in clinic rotation.

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So - my first post will begin this evening - or rather right now.

I am sitting here partially in my pajamas and partially in my clinic attire. My shift ended at 9:15pm this evening and began at 4pm.

This evening the energy was everywhere.

First patient was a woman with a headache for 2 solid weeks. After we did a full neuro exam and ruled out a tumor - at least for the evening - not entirely - we discovered she had 4 cervical vertebrae that we severely limited in rotation and

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Two things drive us on this planet.

We went over this in Practice Management today and it pretty much floored me.

Think back to caveman times - what drove them to survive?



We still are doing these two actions today in all of our actions:

• Seek Pleasure
• Avoid Pain

Think I'm off base?

Try to think of one thing that you do that is not related to one or the other - name just one that isn't.

Can you?