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5 Ways to Go Beyond Getting By with IC and Getting Healthy

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Many who have IC accept that once the pain of the flares is reduced that it’s enough

Many look at health like this as well

“It’s enough” means to marginalize   To get by   But to sometimes skirt issues

You see I believe that a state of health is a process of evolution    Health is more than the absence of disease   That each day I can be healthier than I was yesterday

The energy science helps us a glimpse a that greater reality of health   Not to just get by

Good Deal!  The Pain is Reduced

There is a growing current mindset that there is more to health than being able to get up in the am, go to work, enjoy the weekends   That health is really more than being able to do the day well with reserve energy  If you have a lot of pain with IC now this picture doesn’t seem to be a reality right now

But as you do the work with the nutritional format, avoid certain food combinations, and take the aloe among other things outlined at this blog reduction in your pain will occur   And it’s estimated that 50% of patients with IC resolve their problem spontaneously

The matter science medical model creates for us a disease oriented health system and we become fixated on clearing IC symptoms   This is totally understandable and to just reduce the symptoms is an important milestone    Yet you may not realize that there is much more than reducing flares and symptoms

Roadblocks

The end result of this fixation is that you settle for second best   That is, symptom reduction becomes the order of the day  Thank you very much

But just the awareness that there is more to health than reduction in IC symptoms is a big beginning in going beyond getting by   You see the energy science can help you reduce the symptoms to tolerable levels   But it has so much more to offer

Real healing takes time   The matter science has taught us and shown us that healing is swift and can change the body quickly   Just shift some molecules around, take some molecules, or remove some and health is yours    You’re feeling immediately better after the appendectomy

But from an energy science view disease begins in imbalances in the energy field an percolate up to manifest as disease in the matter field that are labeled as IC, GERD, IBS, chronic prostatitis, or fibromyalgia   To heal these chronic diseases takes more than the molecular approach of the matter science model of healing

The observation here is that the qualities that produce IC are the same qualities that produce the other chronic “sister” diseases

The energy science approach to chronic disease requires change in lifestyle behavior patterns that produced the imbalance in the first place

The 5 Ways to Go Beyond Getting By

1  Awareness of these facts is a major hurdle to overcome the mindset and start viewing your health differently   The key is to live that awareness, to talk about it with yourself and others so that it becomes real for you

2  Use the energy science guidance that can help you develop lifestyle behavior patterns around nutrition that will bring about greater health

3  Realize that real healing takes time   That health is not something that you get but that which you obtain through your own discipline   That for every year of IC imbalance it takes two months to reverse that imbalance of IC

4  The energy science of Ayurveda says that a day in balance promotes health   This is a simple but significant step in going beyond

5  Understand that IC is the gift that starts you on your path to progressively better health each day   The use of nutritional work begins showing you how not only is this a mainstay in IC management but it will continue to advance your health beyond when the symptoms of IC resolved   The lifestyle behaviors that enhance digestion are also important to improving health long term

 

Until next week       To health as a Skill   Love  DB

 

How Long Does It Take to Heal IC?

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Obviously this is a common question posed by those doing energy science work for clearance of their IC complex of bladder pain and possibly IBS, GERD and fibromyalgia

As a child you may have asked, “Are we there yet?” and “Now are we there yet?”  So when will this IC be over?   The short answer is, “It’s over when it’s over.”  But to be more specific, in general it takes 2 months of release for every year of imbalance   So if you have had symptoms of IC for 10 years it will take 20 months of work to clear the energy qualities that have accumulated

This would make sense wouldn’t it?  The longer the imbalance the more work is required to get resolution   This doesn’t mean that there will not be improvement of symptoms   The flare intensity get less as the months go by and then the frequency lessens   But real healing takes time!

Are You Particle(Molecule) or Wave?

The body is simultaneously a matter field and an energy field.  The former expresses itself as molecules or particles and the latter as waves of energy   So this is how the energy field expresses dis-ease    In waves

Sound familiar?  The waves are flares that occur in the body.  And they continue to express themselves until you do something about it.  Until you decide to intervene   Otherwise the expression of the excess qualities will continue to occur

Because the matter field is a gross expression of the more subtle energy field, you now can see why dis-ease begins with qualities that then eventually become manifest as particles or molecules in the matter field   This is why I can say with certainty that the matter science will never be able to heal IC with its molecular approach to dis-ease

The Concept of Release

Once the urinary tract is involved with the energy patterns of Vata and Pitta, the symptoms of Vata presence begin episodic expression of light, cold, rough, dry, and mobile which lead to urgency, frequency and a feeling of incomplete emptying of the bladder   Pitta’s presence of inflammation lead to burning on urination, burning pain in the pelvis, vagina, and even rectum due to the sharp, hot, liquid and spreading qualities

These qualities lodge in the urinary tract and express as energy or wave   So the intermittent flares that occur in the body are waves of energetic expression

But what happens when you decide to do things to differently?  You begin paying attention to your day and how you live it   Energy science nutrition becomes important and you start seeing food as medicine   You choose certain herbs that can help with IC and use them regularly

When you no longer support the overexpression of these qualities in the body by the foods that you eat, the body naturally begins letting go of these excess qualities of light, cold, rough, dry, mobile, sharp, hot, liquid and spreading   This takes time but by and by there is lessening of the symptoms that the qualities brought and healing begins to occur

What you see is gradual regression of the symptoms   They do not stop all at once   There is a receding of the complex of symptoms much like the outgoing tide on the beach

Until next week                    To health as a Skill        Love DB

IC Trigger Foods and Matter Science Dietary Advice

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 One caveat: diet in IC is a very individual thing. When I read the list of foods that were deemed to be safe for IC, my reaction to the inclusion of some of them was “I WISH I could eat that!”              IC patient

The matter science dietary approach to IC is to determine personal trigger foods   This approach is hit and miss and makes it difficult to be sure what foods carry  the offending “molecules”  In the end it becomes virtual guesswork except for the obvious choices such as white chicken(good) or coffee(bad) for everyone   Confusion reigns

Matter Science Diet Approach

The elimination diet has been used for decades to help determine possible food allergies and has been used with mixed success for the IC community   Proponents push their “style ” of molecular hearsay and those who use it ponder what they’re doing wrong since they still have flares   In the end this molecular approach like all of the Western dietary strokes are anecdotal at best   When the approach doesn’t work the proponent of the diet responds “Oh you must be allergic!”

The difficulty with this approach is twofold   First a flare may occur for you but it is problematic to find which food was the offending agent    This leads to a  second problem which is the danger of walking yourself into a “dietary corner”    Literally food choices begin to be sectored away from the mainstream of choices such that nothing is safe anymore particularly when the flares are extremely painful

Other problems with this approach are the need for excessive diet diary entries and the possibility of interpreting foods that produce “an allergic reaction” when it is actually related to poor digestion(see the recent videos)  This applies to other sister related disorders such as GERD, IBS, chronic prostatitis, and fibromyalgia

 Ah! Removal of Dietary Guesswork

As I have written in previous blogs the food choices using an energy science nutritional approach removes food diaries and is elegant in its simplicity   Just follow the list at icdiet.com and you’re done!  Or if you want a more refined approach with more choices you can take the test at foodsheal.com and use the appropriate nutritional format for you mindbody energy makeup

The reason that this energy science approach works is because it is based on a philosophy and observations about the conscious workings of Nature Herself not on errant molecular observations, mythology, and guesswork.  When you ingest foods you are ingesting Nature’s universal qualities that make up you which creates balance or imbalance of those qualities   The imbalance causes all diseases and in your case IC

Because of this the energy makeup of the individual dictates food choices   If you have the inflammatory hot quality in excess then taking in more of that quality produces an imbalance and potentially a flare   This is a salient observation that sets apart the matter and energy science approaches to disease

Nutrition Versus Diet

But the energy science approach goes even farther   It takes “diet” to a new science of understanding   Whether you know it or not, you are looking for a nutritional approach to foods   Something that will bring sanity to a confused discipline   “I eat healthy” is a common refrain but virtually has no meaning   The individual defines healthy food choices which are based worn out belief systems that are often physiologically incorrect   So nutrition is a steady guide to override the mind and its food confusion

A nutritional system goes beyond diet because it takes into account appetite or digestive fire(metabolism), incompatible food combinations, bowel activity or the lack thereof, and the psychological effects of food(more about that later)  Nutrition is more than a bunch of molecules you ingest

Until next week                         To Health as a Skill   Love DB

 

 

Improving Digestion Helps Heal IC and Chronic prostatitis Part 2

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Nutrition is different than diet   Diet is about food choices but nutrition encompasses the entire process of nourishment

From an energy science view improving digestion by the enzyme and bacterial systems of the gut requires some changes in lifestyle behaviors around eating   So here are some helpful tips of do’s and dont’s around the nutrition

Some of the supporting information as mentioned in the video can be found at foodsheal.com

All my best for a great 2013  It’s going to be an awesome year                   To Health as a Skill     Love DrBill

Improving Digestion Helps Heal IC and Chronic prostatitis Part 1

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It’s estimated that 50-70% of IC patients have poor digestion as part of their disease process  So it’s a good idea that you understand how to get it healthy as part of the process of healing this chronic disease

The gastrointestinal tract’s digestive strength is likened to a magical forest where trees represent the enzyme and bacterial systems that digest your food(lactose, gluten, carbohydrates, proteins, fats)

But here’s the magic!!  As the trees burn and digest food they replenish themselves and the stronger the individual trees the stronger your ability to digest the food you eat    The weaker the trees the poorer your digestion

In this first of a video series on digestion I discuss what the symptoms are that indicate poor digestion

Nourishment begins by nourishing not the individual trees but the community of trees called the forest

In the next video I’ll show you how you can improve your digestive strength or fire  This is done by nutritional lifestyle behavioral changes which nourish the forest as a whole not just the individual trees

 

Interstitial Cystitis and the Bladder: The Good News

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The pain of your IC flare is related to the movement of the qualities of hot, mobile, and dry   These qualities lead to the burning in the pelvis and on urination as well as the frequency and intense urgency you experience(leading to the rusty zipper syndrome)

These primordial vibrational frequencies(fancy term for qualities) are moving through a long tube in the mindbody   This tube begins in the kidney and ends where the urine comes out when you urinate   It’s that simple!    Energy in the form of urine moves through this channel or tube from the kidney to the bladder and then out when urination occurs

Channel versus Tissue

The good news is that the energetic imbalance of the qualities of hot, mobile, and dry in IC occur in a channel not a tissue   Why is this such good news?  It’s much easier to correct an energetic imbalance in a tube or channel than it is in a dense multicellular tissue layer

Other examples of channels are the gastrointestinal tract(mouth to the anus), the respiratory tube(includes the nose, nasal sinuses, upper airway tubes, and lungs), the male and female genital channels, and the vascular network(both arterial and venous sides)   Other channel disorders besides IC include GERD, IBS, and vulvodynia

There are other energy structures in the energy mindbody that are tissue layers    The muscles of the mindbody are a dense energetic multicellular layer   A lot can go wrong in such a complex structure and so it takes longer to correct a tissue layer problem   Tissue layer disorders include fibromyalgia and chronic prostatitis

Yea!  IC is a Simple Channel Dis-ease

So we’re familiar with those people who develop IC and they have a brief experience with the symptoms but somehow or another there is a spontaneous resolution of the IC and they never have another problem with it   A pure channel problem clears

But then there’s the mixture of channel and tissue energetic imbalance   Here the IC becomes more complex   Tissue imbalances involving hot, mobile, and dry become mixed with the channel imbalance of IC with the experience of the symptoms associated with the dis-ease

From an energy science view this explains the reason why many people don’t get spontaneous resolution but smoulder in the embers of chronic IC   There is a mixture of energetic tissue imbalance coupled with the channel imbalance

Still Good News

Even though there is the energetic imbalance of hot, mobile, and dry in both the tissues and urinary tract channel or tube IC regardless is a channel dis-ease  and will respond to treatments more quickly   It doesn’t mean that the tissue energetic imbalances don’t have to be addressed   They do

But they can be addressed as the symptoms from the urinary channel are resolved by such channel soothing herbs such as CCF tea and aloe vera gel   Just visualize the aloe cooling the hot, mobile, and dry internal lining of the urinary tube just as it soothes the external skin when it’s burned

Ciao  until next week                                                             Your servant in healing  Love DrBill

CCF Tea: Antiinflammatory and Specific to the Urinary Tract

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From an energy science view painful IC flares and bladder pain are a result of inflammation in the urinary channel(UT)  since too much of hot produces inflammation.  Interesting isn’t it that the words burning and flare are used to describe what is physically going on?  I wrote a while ago about the use of the antiinflammatory cocktail using pomegranite juice and aloe vera gel and several of you have contacted me to tell me how helpful this has been.

So here’s another antiinflammatory drink!   This time a tea made from cumin coriander and fennel(CCF) seeds   Due to the cold energy of these herbs they also can be benefiicial in dealing with excess hot in the UT   Create a stash of seeds by placing equal amounts of cumin, coriander and fennel into a ziploc bag and shake it so it’s well mixed   From your stash you can draw one teaspoon and steep in cup of hot water   Or if making a thermos to carry with you during the day placing enough in the thermos for the amount of hot water that will be placed   The tea may need diluting if it gets too strong at the end of the day

Spices = Herbs = Medicinal Effects

Your kitchen’s spice drawer is a medicine cabinet and using spices skillfully over time can produce positive medicinal and physiologic effects  But the converse is also true   If you are using spices randomly and for flavor alone there can be adverse consequences   For example, most spices are heating so they can be provoking if you have IC   Or another example is the use of salt – too much leads to water retention

In general the value of spices is that they buck up our digestive fire or enzyme system responsible for digestion, absorption, and elimination  This is why for us in the northern hemisphere at this time of year the use of spices is important because our digestive strength gets diminished

Cumin coriander and fennel uniquely have an energetically cold effect to the physiology when using them and so are particularly useful in dis-eases with lots of inflammation with poor or impaired digestive strength   Cumin(not to be confused with curcumin from tumeric) is a unique digestant in that it bucks up digestive strength but brings balance to the GI tract   Coriander seeds come from the plant we get cilantro   The use of the fennel bulbs in the fresh vegetable section can give you a double whammy if you cook with it as a vegetable

Another interesting aspect of CCF is that all 3 herbs resonate with the UT   They are specific to the UT channel and therefore bring their cold quality to the UT mucosa

What’s Hot and What’s Not?

Of course not all spices are created equally   For the easiest way to find which spices are safe to use go to icdiet.com   There are grades or shades of hot within each herb so within the Favor list there are those asterisked    These are spices that should be used in moderation

Notice the positioning of fresh basil and fresh ginger   These are both beautiful spices to use on a consistent basis to bring about balance in the GI tract and improve digestion

Here’s to cooling off!!                       To Health as a Skill      Love DrBill

 

The Sour Taste As Inflammatory and Degenerative

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The sour taste provokes painful IC flares   The problem is that acidity is hidden away in matter science dietary recommendations   It’s also widely known that cultural diets that favor a more alkaline nature tend to promote within cultures greater longevity (eg Asian diets)

Animal based protein diets  which are high in acidity(fatty acids) demonstrate decreased longevity   From an energy science perspective this is not about vegetarianism; it’s about what increasing amounts of acid loading does to person   Not only does increased dietary sour decrease longevity, but it can provoke painful IC flares

Energetically the sour taste is the acid taste in Nature so from an energy science nutritional view meats rich in fatty acids are not the only culprits

Any acid in food carries energetically the sour taste  Even though we consider sour fruits acidic due to the citric acid(eg grapefruit), we don’t think of tomato(primarily in the seeds), banana, nuts, mayonnaise, red meat(dark chicken, dark turkey, beef, duck, lamb, and pork) and egg yolk as sour   Even though they don’t taste sour, energetically they physiologically produce the effects of sour   For more guidance you can go to icdiet.com or foodsheal.com for a more complete list

From an energy science view all six tastes should be present at a meal for it to be balancing so a wee bit of sour is not a problem as experienced say in a churan

For Pitta Vata(PV) some the sour taste is important in moderation – not all the time but 1-2x per week

For a Pitta Kapha(PK) energy makeup the sour taste should be kept to a minimum

What happens when the physiology sees too much of the sour taste?  Energetically we find inflammation such as seen in IC, chronic prostatitis, vulvodynia, IBS, GERD, and fibromyalgia in the body and psychologically there is judgement, criticality, jealousy, and hate

As we can see the sour taste can lead to degenerative changes even in PV due to the inflammatory nature of the taste if it becomes excessive for that particular physiological pattern

A simple rule:  Eat according to your specific mindbody energy pattern

Until tomorrow                                                      To Health as a Skill  Love DrBill

Oh Good The Antibiotics Fixed Me? An Energy Science Explanation

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“Mildred, I’ve got some good news and bad news,” says Dr Jones   “The good news is that you don’t have a urinary tract infection by your culture   But the bad news is that I don’t know why you have these symptoms of frequency and burning”

But then Mildred proceeds to tell Dr Jones that the antibiotic that he prescribed before the culture results were back actually made her feel better

Now both are scratching their heads   But in the end Mildred doesn’t care because her symptoms are better

And Dr Jones is happy his patient got better and that’s all that really matters  “A scientific fluke,” Dr Jones muses

Or Is It a Fluke?

People with IC(interstitial cystitis) can relate to this scenario if you’ve had a UTI   And if you haven’t then you may have had this mystifying clinical illness that got better with antibiotics even though no infection was  present

Typically whenever we can’t explain something in medicine it becomes the unexplainable   But as long as the outcome is acceptable we move on

Is there an explanation to these scenarios that are not explained by the matter science medical discipline?  Yes, there are simple explanations but we have to employ the energy science medical discipline to understand

Taste and Inflammation

There are many inflammatory conditions that are manifested in the physiology that are not associated with bacterial infection  The common cold, most forms of acid indigestion, many joint diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, prostatitis, interstitial cystitis to name a few

The acid taste in Nature is inflammatory due to the hot quality and the opposite of acid is alkaline

The alkaline taste is the bitter taste so if the acid taste is inflammatory then the alkaline taste is antiinflammatory

Antibiotics Carry the Bitter Taste 

Oh my gosh!  If I take an antibiotic and I have a nonbacterial inflammatory process such as Mildred’s bladder symptoms then this inflammatory condition can be improved with antibiotics

Even though there is no infection!

So antibiotics can be prescribed for infections that don’t exist and work because of the bitter taste that they carry as signals to the mindbody, “Cool down  Here’s some bitter for you”

The Energy Science Demystifies

The natural extension of this is that if we take foods that decrease the acid or sour taste in Nature and load on the alkaline taste like aloe vera gel then we don’t need the antibiotic

Of course we need the culture information but the use of anbiotics may not be warranted all the time in IC since it’s not an infectious process  It’s an inflammatory noninfectious disease

How the energy science discipline deals with this is based on its model of healing, surely different than the current matter science approach  And the good news is that since it can uncover the origin of disease it can heal it    Something the matter science will not be able to do

Until next week                                                        Your servant in healing      Dr Bill

How To Improve Digestion and IC: 10 Important Energy Science Secrets

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The pain of IC occurs because of an imbalance somewhere in inner space   From our previous blogs it’s apparent that from an energy science point of view dis-ease or imbalance in the mindbody occurs due to imbalance of qualities beginning in the GIT(gastrointestinal tract)   This  is particularly important for those who have associated conditions such as GERD, IBS, fibromyalgia, and chronic prostatitis

So the key is correct the imbalance in order to get your life back before IC changed it and turned into a shambles

The Precious Gift

One of the keys to help reduce inconvenient and untimely flares is to develop a healthy GIT which will go a long way toward improving your recovery from IC   But what does it mean to have  a healthy digestive system?

Again from an energy science view it means that we have a strong digestive fire which is defined molecularly as all the digestive enzyme systems from the mouth to the anus including all the organisms that help with digestion, the so called probiotic population

In fact it is said that all we need for great health is a good digestive fire!  It is indeed a fortunate person born with a strong digestive fire and is able to maintain it through her/his lifetime   It is a precious gift that Momma Nature gives us   With such a strong digestion like we had when we children, teenagers, and young adults we could eat anything and we thought it wouldn’t effect us   In part that is true but over time it catches up with us and the fire begins to deteriorate

It’s unfortunate that the matter science view of the human physiology does not have such a concept but that’s the way it goes

10 Things to Improve Digestive Fire

We have written many times about the importance of appropriate nutritional formats for individual mindbody makeups as well as incompatible food combinations   Observance of these is foundational to help improve or maintain the power of your digestive fire

But other things that we can do to enhance digestive strength:

1 Tongue scraping in the morning stimulates digestive enzyme system

2  Use of herbs such as fresh ginger, fresh basil, tumeric, cardamom, fennel, cumin, coriander in your cooking

3  5 interrogatives of eating:   When to eat the biggest meal of the day

4 Try not eating meals late at night  Best is to use fruit for snacks or late night eating

5 Don’t eat when emotionally upset

6 Only eat when you’re hungry

7 Ice is not nice   Don’t use ice anytime because it cools off the digestion

8  Exercise regularly

9 No snacks  If need to snack use fresh seasonal fruit

10 Drink milk separately from meals

So there you have it   How to begin improving your digestive fire   Overwhelming?  Just try one a week and before you know it you’ll begin feeling better and bowel activity will begin to normalize(regular bowel movements daily for those who are constipated)

Until next week                                                      Your humble servant in healing   Love Dr Bill