You could be anywhere when it starts: the supermarket, your desk at work, your daughter’s school play. Sometimes it creeps slowly behind your eyes, other times it arrives with the fury of a hurricane. The symptoms of a migraine – jagged vision, blinding light, uncontrollable nausea, numbness or tingling, and the pulsing or pounding behind …
I. Did you know?: Facts about Gluten II. What is gluten? III. Where can gluten be found? IV. 12 Warning Signs of Gluten Intolerance V. Gluten Intolerance and Celiac Disease: What is the difference? VI. The Dangers of a Leaky Gut VII. Why Almost No One Tests Positive for Celiac Disease VIII. Diagnosis: How can …
Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity sound like two totally different entities. Celiac disease sounds severe while gluten sensitivity seems pretty harmless. Unfortunately, both are very serious digestive conditions and are actually much more similar than their names would indicate. Both celiac disease and gluten sensitivity are forms of gluten intolerance. Gluten and gliadin are proteins …
Over 100 trillion bacteria are crawling inside your body right now, the majority of which reside in your digestive system. Gross? Yes. Necessary? Yes. Without it, food could not be digested, our immune system would be underdeveloped, and all of us would have IBS. It’s time to start loving our bodies’ healthy bacteria. When our …
If you suffer from IBS or IBD, you have probably been introduced to a long and ever-growing list of medications. Unfortunately, drugs treat individual symptoms and not the cause. Additionally, many of the drugs have detrimental side effects. 6 types of drugs to treat IBS symptoms: 1. Bowel movement speed modifiers (Zelnorm, Lotronex, Calmactin) 2. …
Our digestive tract is a 30-foot-long muscular tube that begins at our mouth and ends at our anus. Its 3 main functions: 1. Transform food into absorbable nourishment. 2. Fend off invading organisms and toxins. 3. Expel waste products. Ingested food travels down the digestive tract through a process called peristalsis, a wave-like muscle contraction. …
“IBS symptoms in one quarter of patients may be caused or exacerbated by one or more dietary components.” This is a direct quote from a journal article in PubMed published by the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Do you suffer from IBD or IBS? Do you feel …
Digestive Health Ann Arbor’s 3-step method offers relief from food allergy symptoms and digestive disorders. 1. Discover what foods are triggers. 2. Exclude the trigger food completely from our diet. 3. Nourish stressed systems with supplements and enzymes. But how do we know what foods cause us trouble? If we suspect a food allergy contributes …
Many health care professionals say that food plays no role in digestive diseases: • The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation states that: “Crohn’s and Colitis are painful and chronic digestive diseases for which there currently is no cure…Although some people do have allergic reactions to certain foods, neither Crohn’s disease nor ulcerative colitis are related to …
