digestive wellness

  • Boosting serotonin levels for MCS Boosting serotonin levels for MCS
    Dear Dr. Rea, In one of your past Q and A's, you state that "serotonin is frequently more effective for headaches and gastrointestinal reactions." I have G-I reactions to chemical exposures, and I'm wondering how I can increase my serotonin level.
  • Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Diet Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Diet
    Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride has taken the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and evolved it further to create a full protocol for healing digestive disorders and subsequent issues.
  • Low Siga Low Siga
    Dear Dr. Rea, I recently tested low (20) for secretory IgA (sIgA) and also low for beneficial gut flora. I was wondering if there is a connection between the two things, and if there is would you explain what it is?
  • Colonoscopy and MCS Colonoscopy and MCS
    Dear Dr. Rea, Doctors have found blood in a stool test and they want me to get a colonoscopy. I've had two in the past. Is it safe to repeat the colonoscopy now that my MCS is getting worse?
  • Share the joy of wellness - become a health coach to others Share the joy of wellness – become a health coach to others
    by Julie Genser | Could one conversation change the course of your life?
  • Digestive distress with menopause Digestive distress with menopause
    Dear Susun, I am new to menopause. Are digestive issues associated with this life change, and do you have suggestions from the Wise Woman tradition to deal with digestive issues naturally?
  • Healing the gut Healing the gut
    Dear Dr. Rea, My MCS and other related issues have healed using dense nutrition and gentle cleansing, however I continue to have some digestion problems.
  • Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD)
    The Specific Carbohydrate Diet is a nutritional regimen used to treat a variety of chronic and auto-immune disorders including Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Diverticulitis, Celiac Disease, Autism and Cystic Fibrosis.
  • Helminths Worm Therapy Helminths Worm Therapy
    A group of University of Iowa Health Care researchers has proposed that underexposure to intestinal helminths is a major environmental factor predisposing to IBD.
  • Cannabis Cannabis
    A British study has found that cannabis-based drugs could prove effective for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
  • NASA Nutrient Cocktail NASA Nutrient Cocktail
    A NASA-developed nutritional formula has brought 60-70% of studied children with Crohn's disease into remission, a rate comparable to steroid treatment.
  • Healing Diets Healing Diets
    A collection of dietary approaches that have helped others on their healing journey.
  • FOCUS ON: Digestive Wellness FOCUS ON: Digestive Wellness
  • Resveratrol gave me vertigo Resveratrol gave me vertigo
    Dear Stephen, On knotweed I felt fab after a day or so, and then TERRIBLY dizzy for days until I stopped it. I started out slow. Now what? I have no life.