Planet Thrive

healing diets

• What to eat when you can’t cook anything: Strategies for the chronically fatigued
  by Candice | The room is spinning, your legs feel like jello, you've got an ice-pick headache and it feels like someone whacked you in the stomach with a ping pong paddle... And it's time to make breakfast.
• What to eat when you can’t eat anything: Little Miss Sunbuttershine
  by Candice | Sunbutter is an alternative to nut butter, made entirely of ground sunflower seeds. The first time I tasted it, I declared that it was sunshine in a jar.
• What to eat when you can’t eat anything: Replacing forbidden favorites
  by Candice | Sometimes, just occasionally...for a few moments...I really just want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
• 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.
• What to eat when you can’t eat anything
  by Candice, late stage lyme sufferer | It's possible that my personal diet has the longest name out of all documented diets known to mankind.
• The alkaline brain: Dietary concerns in lyme-borreliosis
  by David Jernigan, D.C., D.N.M. | Certain dietary changes can help reduce the severity of the symptoms of Lyme disease in those that suffer from hyperammonemia, the excessive accumulation of ammonia in parts of the body.
• How to plan a 4-day food rotation diet
  by Julie Genser | It's taken me years to finally sit down and plan out a food rotation menu. I wanted to share my process with you, to help demystify it and get you on a healing regime as soon as possible.
• The health benefits of water fasting
  by Stephen Harrod Buhner | Fasting is an exceptionally ancient, and powerful, approach to healing many common disease conditions. It allows the body to rest, detoxify, and to heal.
• Decreasing brain inflammation in chronic fatigue syndrome
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | Steps to take to combat inflammation, decrease cell damage, heal your cells and increase your glutathione levels.
• Healing with probiotics
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | Our natural healthy probiotic levels are easily damaged by factors such as poor diet, stress, alcohol, hormonal fluctuations, cigarettes, surgery and drugs.
• Hypoglycemia and CFS: Deal with it and live better
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N. | The very best way I’ve found to deal with hypoglycemia is to eat every three hours. This has to be planned and isn’t something that I can just suck up until it’s more convenient to eat.
• Got post exertional malaise? Start by alkalizing your body!
  by Nadine Saubers, R.N., B.S.N. | If you have CFS then you are well acquainted with the dreaded Post Exertional Malaise, the hallmark and diagnostic feature that so distinguishes CFS.
• Common characteristics of traditional diets
  Dear Sally, What are some of the commonalities found in traditional diets, like those of the various cultures studied by Weston Price, aside from being animal-based?
• nourishing food
  The food we eat is the energy we supply our body with; what we put in our mouths becomes our cells, tissues, organs, and thoughts. Choose the highest quality nutrients for the highest functioning body and mind.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cancer Nutrition
  Resources for those who want to use a nutrient-dense diet to support their body through cancer.
• Autism Dietary Intervention
  Behavioral and cognitive symptoms of children with autism can many times be managed or eliminated through dietary change—an important first step to recovering your child.
• Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days trailer
  An eye opening documentary film that chronicles six diabetics who switch to a diet consisting entirely of organic, vegan, uncooked food to reverse disease without prescription drugs.
• Supplements
  Our favorite sources for enzymes, probiotics, vitamins, minerals, and other supplements.
• FOCUS ON: Digestive Wellness
  
• Fantastic Fixes for Low Energy
  by Connie Strasheim | Energy. We sufferers of chronic illness could all use a bit more of the stuff, and every little blip in our internal and external environments alters how much we have at any given moment.
• How to boost serotonin, Part 2
  Dear Donna, What role does serotonin play in our bodies, and what are some natural ways to increase this neurotransmitter?
• How to boost serotonin, Part 1
  Dear Donna, What role does serotonin play in our bodies, and what are some natural ways to increase this neurotransmitter? Thanks!
• Benefits of Bone Broths
  Dear Sally, I know that the gelatin in broths are very nutritious but can you tell me why, and what other health benefits can be found in them?
• Diet for autism
  Dear Donna, Is there anything besides a gluten- and casein-free diet that parents can do for their autistic children?
• What’s so bad about soy?
  Dear Sally, Can you tell me why your organization is so against soy food products?
• Tax deductions for diet?
  Dear Donna, Do you know if it's possible to deduct food costs on my tax return for the Body Ecology Diet and other lifestyle expenses?
• Superfoods
  Dear Sally, What "superfoods" do you recommend? Are they really necessary for the average person?
• Preparing grains properly
  Dear Sally, Is there a way to prepare whole grains so they are easier to digest?
• Food allergies and sensitivities
  Dear Dr. T, How effective is food sensitivity testing and a rotation diet for those with CFS/FMS? Is this something you use frequently in your practice? If not, why not?
• Anti-inflammatory foods
  Dear Donna, What foods will help to reduce inflammation? How does one know if they have internal inflammation?
• Diet for pregnant and nursing women
  Dear Sally, Do you have any dietary recommendations for women who are pregnant? Should their diet change at all when they start to nurse?
• Detoxifying diet?
  Dear Donna, I'm not ready to do a cleanse or juice fast, but am wondering if there are detoxifying foods I can add to my diet.
• Fasting for lyme
  Dear Stephen, I read that you have some ideas about fasting as a lyme treatment. Could you please expound?
• Dietary dangers
  Dear Sally, Are there any foods one should definitely avoid in their diet?
• Gluten Sensitivity and Celiac Disease
  Dear Donna, Are any grains okay to eat if you are gluten sensitive? Does the Body Ecology Diet address gluten sensitivity?
• 25 Reasons to Avoid Sugar
  Dear Donna, If we shouldn't eat sugar then what kind of sweetener do you recommend...sugar from fruits?
• Food Combining
  Dear Donna, I've always heard about food-combining but never paid much attention to it. Can you explain what it is and the basic principles for starting it? Thanks!