Posted 1/19/2014. Last updated 3/6/2014.
Simply put, the Allergies and Your Gut website is about how an unbalanced, impaired gut microbiota produces chronic inflammation in the body, which can eventually turn into disease or a disorder. My hope is the information on the site will help you turn that statement around – into knowledge about how to keep your gut flora balanced and healthy so your body will be free of inflammation and disease.
This mind-body website likely wouldn’t have come into being if I hadn’t been who I was from the outset – a little person with Sensory-Processing Sensitivity who noticed everything even when I didn’t want to, was driven to distraction by the flickering of fluorescent lights and high pitched noises, had a bit of synesthesia (my first grade teacher was puzzled when I insisted the number 3 is bright yellow and 4 is a lovely cherry red), had huge reactions to alcohol and pharmaceuticals, and didn’t easily make small talk. My father frequently criticized me for being ‘just too sensitive’, a trait I actually inherited from him. People were either drawn to my intensity or put off by it. I was always a sponge for learning so most teachers liked me.
If you recognize any of this, you are not alone. 15-20% of humanity is in this category. Elaine Aron has been researching high sensitivity since 1991 and has written several useful books on the topic: The Highly Sensitive Person, The Highly Sensitive Child, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, and The Highly Sensitive Person Workbook.
With doctors, I was often considered a “difficult” patient since Western medicine, with its reliance on pharmaceuticals, caused me many problems, large and small. I recall telling a physician that the corticosteroid he’d given me for conjunctivitis that turned into a massive sinus infection produced itchy bumps under my left armpit that lasted well over a year. He huffily told me he’d never heard of such a symptom and the drug would have been out of my system long before that anyway. Last year I met another highly sensitive person who told me she’d had the same reaction to a corticosteroid given to her as a child and no one believed her either.
So there I was, moving through life, becoming increasingly allergic to various things (dust, cats, foods) and trying to find medical help but then reacting even more severely to pretty much all the medicines I was prescribed.
Eventually I began viewing health in a more holistic way and realized I was going to have to find my own way to achieve it. I did research, sought help from alternative medical care providers: chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, yoga, therapeutic massage – and came to appreciate the concept of mind-body medicine for healing myself. At that point, I became a lot more interested in prevention than cure.
Small wonder I became a psychotherapist interested in mind-body interactions and most of the people I work with are also highly sensitive people.
— Joan Rothchild Hardin, PhD
New York, NY
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Do you have any posts for healing leaky gut? Loved your post on Malfunctioning pyloric valve and ileocecal valve very thorough.
Thanks, Mary. Many of my posts are about what causes a leaky gut and how to heal one, what to do and what to avoid. Here’s one of those posts:
* AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES: How they develop and how to put them in remission
http://allergiesandyourgut.com/2014/10/26/autoimmune-diseases-develop-put-remission/
* The essential amino acid l-Glutamine is particularly useful for strengthening the gut lining. This is an excellent supplement for doing that:
GI-REVIVE POWDER
https://www.amazon.com/Designs-Health-Regularity-Deglycyrrhizinated-Licorice/dp/B000FH11M4
GI-REVIVE CAPSULES
https://www.amazon.com/Designs-Health-Regularity-Support-Capsules/dp/B00290AXJW/ref=pd_sim_121_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00290AXJW&pd_rd_r=WKKE0GWJ4W0HYX1RJZ1Q&pd_rd_w=i1JJw&pd_rd_wg=IB5ux&psc=1&refRID=WKKE0GWJ4W0HYX1RJZ1Q
The powder is more effective than the capsules. I don’t like powders so take 2 capsules before each meal. (6/day)
* And here’s a good summary article on how to heal a leaky gut, from a site called Experience Life:
https://experiencelife.com/article/how-to-heal-a-leaky-gut/
Joan
Re: MALFUNCTIONING PYLORIC & ILEOCECAL VALVES – AND HOW TO FIX THEM
August 15, 2015
Hi there,
thanks so much for all of your wonderful info on the pyloric & Ileocecal valves – super helpful!
I’ve watched the videos of how to do pyloric & Ileocecal releases and was wondering if you ca tell me how many times per day you can do these exercises? ONly once or can they be repeated a few times?
I would be so grateful of your reply.
Many thanks
Huia from NZ – feeling very hopeful of a new break through!!
Hula,
I don’t know the answer to your question but my sense is that it wouldn’t be a good idea to do either of these valve releases repeatedly. Seems to me a better approach would be to focus on maintaining the health of the ileocecal valve.
Here’s what Dr David Williams says about the ileocecal valve & keeping it in good working order:
HOW TO MANIPULATE YOUR ILEOCECAL VALVE FOR BETTER HEALTH
https://www.drdavidwilliams.com/how-to-manipulate-your-ileocecal-valve-for-better-health
Joan
Hi Joan,
apologies for the late reply. I only just discovered your response! Thank you and I will have a good look at David’s work.
Take care,
Huia =)
Hi! Many thanks!!! I find your articles really complete and interesting. I would want to translate some paragraphs in spanish and put in my blog. saying the source. May I have your permission? María
Thanks, Maria. Yes, I’ll give you permission to translate sections of my blog posts & credit the source – if you’ll also put in links to my original posts.
Joan