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"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food."
-Hippocrates
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The Road Less Traveled
Offering hope for the reversal and healing of Scleroderma and other auto-immune disorders.
"It's all about the gut" |
Greetings!
Welcome to the first edition of the newsletter for Dusty's Place, "The Road Less Traveled". I selected this title after careful consideration because it fully embodies my journey into disease and back to health. If you've stopped by Dusty's Place before or are visiting us for the first time, chances are you might be "looking outside the box" as well. If not, welcome to Dusty's Place and I hope you enjoy your stay with us. The focus for this newsletter is the "gut". While watching a television commercial a few months back, an interesting fact was mentioned, "80% of the immune-system is in the digestive tract." I thought this would be a great "back to basics" place to start for the first newsletter, nutrition and digestion. Enjoy! Kimberly "Dusty" Leal
"The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine" - Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
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NUTRITION
Nutrition is a topic I am questioned on frequently. How important was it to my recovery? "Critical" is my response.
During my journey back to health, I thought a lot about the computer phrase,"Garbage in, Garbage out". I realized that if I wanted a healthy outcome, I better look at what I was putting into to my body. With this thought process driving my research, I delved into the vast amount of information on this subject. I found, studied and tried many diets most of which had common themes; eating organic, eliminating refined sugar, meat and dairy to name a few.
My zealous quest even took me to a health institute in Southern California where a specific type of diet was prepared and emphasized. I spent three weeks on this campus dillegently following the program. I watched as people who were eating the exact same foods I was, thrive. I on the other hand, was not. After following the diet for several months it became very clear that my health wasn't going to benefit from it. Why?
One evening I was watching a hospital drama on television and something about the plot got me thinking. A nurse had given a patient the wrong blood type in a transfusion and the patient died. Could foods and blood type have a similair effect? Could there be foods that benefit one person and not another? I had just been told about a diet with a focus on a person's blood type, Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type by Dr. D'Adamo. I read the book and it made a lot of sense to me so I tried the diet. It was the most beneficial of all the diets I had tried and has been for many of the people I have worked with.
If you are curious like I was about this diet and would like to learn more about it or puchase the book.click here!
- Dusty
Please consult with your health-care practitoner before many any changes to your diet. |
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DIGESTION
Do you have a "leaky-gut"?
Every spring, I do a "tune-up" in the form of a cleanse following some of the criteria I used when I was recovering. I rest my digestive system by altering my diet thus giving my system a chance to repair itself. I also take supplements and/or homeopathic remedies that facilitate the purification process of toxins and parasites from my body. A habit that I continue to embrace from my recovery, I feel it keeps me on the path of optimum health.
The length or type of remedies may vary but I always seek the advice of my health-care practitioner, Jean. This year, she suggested that I try a program based on the research of Dr. Datis Kharrazian the author of the best selling book, "Why do I still have thyroid symptoms? When my lab tests are normal". Jean went to a seminar based on his work regarding the relationship between a condition called "leaky-gut" and auto-immune disorders. Dr. Kharrazian has developed a systemic dietary and nutritional program to address this issue called, Repairvite.
Leaky-gut occurs when the lining of the small intestine becomes too porous due to inflammation from diet, lifestyle, medications and infections. It allows entry of toxins, microorganisms, and undigested food particles into the bloodstream and triggers an inflammatory response. Intestinal barrier compromise has been associated with multiple food sensitivities, increased inflammation, autoimmune reactions, chronic fatigue, and diverse gastrointestinal symptoms.
After the intestinal mucosa becomes damaged, the damaged cells become unable to properly digest food and produce the enzymes necessary for digestion. This leads to malnutrition and further intestinal inflammation.
I overcame leaky-gut early on in my recovery from scleroderma and felt the recommendation from Jean was a beneficial one. I followed the Repairvite Program Jean designed for me for 25 days. One of the interesting effects of the program was that although I no longer suffer from Raynauds, I experienced a noticeable improvement in my circulation.
-Dusty
If you are interested in learning more about leaky-gut or the Repairvite Program Click here...
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DIGESTION
Are you experiencing acid reflux and taking a
Proton Pump Inhibitor? (PPI)
If so, you are not alone. In 2009, proton pump inhibitors were the third-largest class of drug sold in the United States with $13.6 billion in sales and representing more than 110 million prescriptions.*
Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI) are more commonly recognized by their commercial names such as; Prilosec, Prevacid, Nexium and Aciphex.
Recent concerns are surfacing over the usage and safety of these PPI's.
Dr. Mitchell H. Katz of the San Francisco Department of Health says, "PPIs have been over-prescribed. Between 53% and 69% of PPI prescriptions are for inappropriate indications." Katz recommends that doctors use shorter courses and lower does when possible.
A study under Shelly L Gray , Doctor of Pharmacy, of the University of Washington, Seattle, studied more than 130,000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative. Women who reported current PPI use were 47% more likely to have had a spine fracture, 26% more likely to have a forearm or wrist fracture, and 25% more likely to have any kind of fracture.
The FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration took note of this and on
May 25th 2010 issued a statement that labels for PPI's must state the increased risk of fractures of the hip, wrist and spine. For more information from the FDA about Proton Pump Inhibitor safety click here
Suzy Cohen, a pharmacist and author featured on the television shows, Dr. Oz, Good Morning America and The View, has written a book on this subject, "Drug Muggers - Which Medications are Robbing you of your Essential Nutrients and Natural Ways to Restore Them".
*IMS Health - a health-care market research firm
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Hear from other people who have "Stopped by Dusty's Place".
"I can't express enough how incredibly helpful and life-changing it was for me to stumble on to Dusty's website. I heard my story in both her experience and the clients she has worked with, and more importantly, I heard HOPE and POSSIBILITY and OPTIONS. Dusty's Place is a valuable and priceless resource for the scleroderma community and a true testimony of progressive integration for successful healing methods for those who both treat and live with the disease.
- J Leahy - Los Angeles, Ca.
" I have no hestitation at all in recommending Kimberly's Dusty's Place as a resource of immeasurable worth to anyone lost in the scary world of scleroderma"
-J Glasgow Auckland-New Zealand
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A wonderful family owned on-line bookstore that has been in business since 1993, Source Books, Sacred Spaces specializes in authors that embrace many of the concepts used by Dusty in her recovery.
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