Seems Pretty Obvious
A patient came into today and was complaining about a lots of gas and bloating.
I had given him a Pitta Vata nutritional format along with aloe and his PSA had dropped from 18.1 to 2.4 indicating that his abnormal lab value was related to his nutrition. He had not been treated with any pharmaceuticals.
"So how are you doing with the nutritional work or diet," I asked.
"Oh, so so. But I am using the aloe." he said sheepishly.
"So Jim(not his real name), if you stop the pork, hot BBQ sauce and greasy foods that provoke your gut, I think that your bowel symptoms will dissipate and go away."
"Increased gas, bowel activity, acid indigestion are all related to acidity and/or increased bowel transit times," I continued.
This is not an uncommon scenario but it requires that we begin looking at GI function in terms of nutrition.
Wait a minute! You mean to say that what I eat has something to do with how my GI tract works and feels?
What a concept. If I pour acid on my skin and it burns, I think, "Oh the acidity caused that."
Why would we not think that putting acidic loading foods in the GI tract wouldn't cause the same provocation? Well, it's because our mindset about nutrition doesn't have room for it. The matter science nutritional format has no molecular room for it. Why? Because we have no concept that foods can be inflammatory or antiinflammatory, congestive on noncongestive, degenerative or antidegenerative.
There's a story of an Native American indian standing on the shore with a Spanish explorer asking how he got there.
"You see that ship out there. We came in that," said the explorer. But the indian couldn't see them because his context had no room for a ship like that.
This concept of lack of perception has also been also been shown in the laboratory with cats.
Soooooo… we can change about perceptions about nutrition(the ships are really out there).
Until tomorrow To health as a skill Love DrBill
