Planet Thrive

digestive wellness

• 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
  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
  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
  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
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• 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
  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)
  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
  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
  A British study has found that cannabis-based drugs could prove effective for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
• 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
  A collection of dietary approaches that have helped others on their healing journey.
• FOCUS ON: Digestive Wellness
  
• 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.