Recently I have been pursuing my passion for empowering people to help themselves to better health – starting right from the basics. I have been running a series of free workshops along with my colleague Dr Simon Prince – a private GP at The Therapy Room in Cambridge. It has been really well received and we have had lots of great feedback, about topics that people would like know more about. I plan to record these sessions and post them to my blog very soon.
Anyway, one of the most common problems and topics of interest were stomach problems, and the number of people that suffer silently without help or knowledge how to help themselves is incredible.
I have written on Digestion , widely on this blog and on youtube clips, but some of the common causes for stomach problems are -
1. Selecting foods that are not right for you, that you can’t produce energy from or build or repair cells with, and therefore stress the body. Metabolic typing is a great tool I use to help people with stomach problems.
2. Eating the four white devils – white sugar – white pastuerised dairy -white flour – white salt (NaCl)
3. Parasites and fungal infections – I do lab tests with my clients if I suspect an infection, as even the greatest diet matched to your unique needs, will not make you better, if these pathogens are present. They literally eat your food, beofre you get a chance to, and then poop out their waste, causing inflammation, and toxicity amongst other things.
4. Food intolerances – With a diet as suggested by the food pyramid – high in starchy carbohydrates and grains, and pasteurised milk the small intestine’s ability to digest dairy and gluten along with other foods is often impaired. Rotating the protein in your diet on a 4 day cycle is often a place to start, but I use kinesiological and lab tests when food intolerance are causing a big stress on my clients immune sytems.
5. Water – Dehydration is so common, and drinking enough high quality water is vital for the function of all your cells and especially eliminating the waste from our colons.
I am running the Stomach Problems free workshop once a month on every second tuesday at 12.30 and 1.30, and every second saturday at 10 am or 11 am at The Therapy Room Cambridge