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It's interesting that he is promoting DF Culturelle probiotic and uses it himself. That's the probiotic I've used since Mary Beth posted a link to a review of probiotics showing Culturelle was one of the more effective ones.
The website www.chronicchives.com mentions that "blueberries seem to have a natural mast cell regulator property. Patients who can tolerate blueberries may benefit from consuming small amounts every day." It's interestng that Dr. Fine is promoting blueberry products.
I would love to eat blueberries again. How much more if they would actually help my MC. I have some in the refrigerator right now that I've been hesitant to test. Maybe if I cook them...
Gloria
Dr. Fine is hosting a "Gluten Truth" seminar
Moderators: Rosie, Stanz, Jean, CAMary, moremuscle, JFR, Dee, xet, Peggy, Matthew, Gabes-Apg, grannyh, Gloria, Mars, starfire, Polly, Joefnh
I have just sent an email to that Dr. Bouma who is going to talk on dr Fine's congress in November, where he will talk about revolutionary ideas in treating MC. I have asked him if he is specialist in MC (because I am looking for one in the Netherlands) and since he was looking for revolutionary treatment plans for MC if this also include food and diet and have mentioned our experiences here. I have no idea if I will ever hear from it again, but since he is one of the two Dutch speakers at this event, well you never know.
If I hear ever back from it, I will let you know.
harma
If I hear ever back from it, I will let you know.
harma
"As the sense of identity shifts from the imaginary person to your real being as presence awareness, the life of suffering dissolves like mist before the rising sun"
Harma,
I will be interested in the response you receive!
Gloria... this makes me even sadder that our dog just finished so many of our ripe blueberries. My husband was harvesting our serviceberries, and it doesn't take very many unsupervised moments for a joyful dog.
I hope they work for you. I have a bottle of the 'Just Blueberry' juice, and will test it when I return and re-start serious diet/symptom tracking. I did eat one very tasty blueberry... will be freezing the serviceberries that are washed and drying now, before our trip. (Smoothies? Ice 'cream'? not sure...)
All my best,
Sara
I will be interested in the response you receive!
Gloria... this makes me even sadder that our dog just finished so many of our ripe blueberries. My husband was harvesting our serviceberries, and it doesn't take very many unsupervised moments for a joyful dog.
I hope they work for you. I have a bottle of the 'Just Blueberry' juice, and will test it when I return and re-start serious diet/symptom tracking. I did eat one very tasty blueberry... will be freezing the serviceberries that are washed and drying now, before our trip. (Smoothies? Ice 'cream'? not sure...)
All my best,
Sara
Gloria -
Our dog is a big chewer/shredder - unlike our previous dog. Mercifully, he doesn't actually *eat* the baskets/shoes/etc. that he gnaws... and he only does it when overstimulated by guests and excitement (which is exactly when our supervision skills go out the windows). Eventually we will be retrained to manage these situations better
He has learned to bring us his various treasures during our piano lessons (TV remotes, sofa cushions... cordless phones... you would think we'd learn to put our toys away - the rubber mallet handle will never be the same).
Despite all this - he generally treats the backyard like a room in the house. So great in a tiny urban garden! Clients and neighbors often ask me, "how do you train your dog not to poo in the garden?" Um... Step one: Walk your dog! Step 2: You're done.
A friend's dog ate his tomatoes! We actually watched our first dog eat a bowl of strawberries we'd just washed for ourselves - we were so baffled that he'd want them, it didn't occur to us to stop it till it was too late. Naive first-time dog owners! Now I am proud that I have trained our guy to sit patiently after the cats have eaten on the counter, till I give him their bowls to lick. He could get them on his own, but he knows the rules - beats the heck out of having him freelancing all over the kitchen. Of course he "should" know that all surfaces waist-high or above or off limits, but our house is very hard to police, and he is a rescue - so we had a long list of things he needed to learn first (no, not OK to wake us up at 3am to wrestle! also - navigating stairs, general housetraining... frankly I wish we could teach him TO bark at the doorbell, which I don't always hear).
He is worth a few blueberries. Or maybe I need a few more blueberry bushes. And now we get it - if it can roughly be classified into a "food group" - a dog will eat it. (Not all dogs and all foods - kind of like people.)
Hope your blueberry experiment is successful. I have a feeling that the serviceberries are less likely to be a problem for me, and I wish I could promise that would be true for you - 'cuz I'd be Fed-Exing you some tasty concoction once I figure it out!
Love,
Sara
Our dog is a big chewer/shredder - unlike our previous dog. Mercifully, he doesn't actually *eat* the baskets/shoes/etc. that he gnaws... and he only does it when overstimulated by guests and excitement (which is exactly when our supervision skills go out the windows). Eventually we will be retrained to manage these situations better
He has learned to bring us his various treasures during our piano lessons (TV remotes, sofa cushions... cordless phones... you would think we'd learn to put our toys away - the rubber mallet handle will never be the same).Despite all this - he generally treats the backyard like a room in the house. So great in a tiny urban garden! Clients and neighbors often ask me, "how do you train your dog not to poo in the garden?" Um... Step one: Walk your dog! Step 2: You're done.
A friend's dog ate his tomatoes! We actually watched our first dog eat a bowl of strawberries we'd just washed for ourselves - we were so baffled that he'd want them, it didn't occur to us to stop it till it was too late. Naive first-time dog owners! Now I am proud that I have trained our guy to sit patiently after the cats have eaten on the counter, till I give him their bowls to lick. He could get them on his own, but he knows the rules - beats the heck out of having him freelancing all over the kitchen. Of course he "should" know that all surfaces waist-high or above or off limits, but our house is very hard to police, and he is a rescue - so we had a long list of things he needed to learn first (no, not OK to wake us up at 3am to wrestle! also - navigating stairs, general housetraining... frankly I wish we could teach him TO bark at the doorbell, which I don't always hear).
He is worth a few blueberries. Or maybe I need a few more blueberry bushes. And now we get it - if it can roughly be classified into a "food group" - a dog will eat it. (Not all dogs and all foods - kind of like people.)
Hope your blueberry experiment is successful. I have a feeling that the serviceberries are less likely to be a problem for me, and I wish I could promise that would be true for you - 'cuz I'd be Fed-Exing you some tasty concoction once I figure it out!
Love,
Sara
Funny Sara. I once had a dog that would eat jalapenos out of our garden. And yes she would vomit afterwards. That dog, Frosty, was also a skilled food thief. She would steal PBJs, pancakes etc off of my son's plate. She was very malnourished when she was rescued and came to us. She must have developed some sort of eating disorder from that because she always acted like she never had enough food - she could not be trusted.
Mary Beth
Mary Beth
"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
Sara,
Here is the dairy free blueberry ice cream recipe. It's quite tasty. For those who avoid eggs it can be made with just the milk.
http://foodsensitivityrd.com/blog1/2011 ... ice-cream/
Mary Beth
Here is the dairy free blueberry ice cream recipe. It's quite tasty. For those who avoid eggs it can be made with just the milk.
http://foodsensitivityrd.com/blog1/2011 ... ice-cream/
Mary Beth
"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
What a wealth of valuable info! Keep up the good work!-
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Gabby, thanks for positng the email - I need to get on his email list.
And everyone else attending the seminar - I'll look into going...it wold be great to meet you all in person!
And Sara, I'd be in for the yoga! And we could bring our knitting.
now for those deer...they have eaten all my blueberries her in NC! Well, what the deer don't get, the birds get. I've picked exactly 4 this year and my bushes are at the end of their production.
Will have to find a pick your own place around here so I can make that dairy free blueberry treat you all are talking about! yum!
And everyone else attending the seminar - I'll look into going...it wold be great to meet you all in person!
And Sara, I'd be in for the yoga! And we could bring our knitting.
now for those deer...they have eaten all my blueberries her in NC! Well, what the deer don't get, the birds get. I've picked exactly 4 this year and my bushes are at the end of their production.
Will have to find a pick your own place around here so I can make that dairy free blueberry treat you all are talking about! yum!
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Tex! Aha! I knew you looked like someone familiar, and it is Red Buttons! Mystery solved.
On deer season: I killed a 3-point buck once, during deer season up here. He did about $6000 damage to my car. He died instantly (I was going about 50mph) and was in such good shape after lofting over the top of my car that a friend used his deer tag and sent him to the butcher to be processed and used by the food bank.
On the berry discussion: strawberries are ripe here right now. It is so fun to drive down the road and smell the strawberry fields. Blueberries are next, then blackberries. My son was shocked to find blackberries for sale in the store (and quite pricey) in FL when he went to college there a few years ago. Up here they are considered a nuisance as they grow e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. But like the rest of the berries, so fun to pick and eat them off the vine!
On the conference: I will give serious thought to going. After a 3-week trip my children and I are taking in a couple of weeks to KS, MO, OK, TX, and TN, I just may have enough air miles to go free. It would be cool to meet anyone else who is able to attend!
On deer season: I killed a 3-point buck once, during deer season up here. He did about $6000 damage to my car. He died instantly (I was going about 50mph) and was in such good shape after lofting over the top of my car that a friend used his deer tag and sent him to the butcher to be processed and used by the food bank.
On the berry discussion: strawberries are ripe here right now. It is so fun to drive down the road and smell the strawberry fields. Blueberries are next, then blackberries. My son was shocked to find blackberries for sale in the store (and quite pricey) in FL when he went to college there a few years ago. Up here they are considered a nuisance as they grow e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. But like the rest of the berries, so fun to pick and eat them off the vine!
On the conference: I will give serious thought to going. After a 3-week trip my children and I are taking in a couple of weeks to KS, MO, OK, TX, and TN, I just may have enough air miles to go free. It would be cool to meet anyone else who is able to attend!
Marliss Bombardier
Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Marliss,
I used to really enjoy Red's style of comedy. I'm not sure about me, but one of my uncles did look a lot like him, and even had many of the same mannerisms.
The deer are more numerous down here, (Texas has 3 to 4 million of them, at least), but they're usually a lot smaller, so that collisions don't normally cost as much, unless the driver loses control, trying to dodge them.
Wow! You're planning to do a lot of traveling. You could be campaigning for the presidential election, visiting that many states.
Tex
I used to really enjoy Red's style of comedy. I'm not sure about me, but one of my uncles did look a lot like him, and even had many of the same mannerisms.
The deer are more numerous down here, (Texas has 3 to 4 million of them, at least), but they're usually a lot smaller, so that collisions don't normally cost as much, unless the driver loses control, trying to dodge them.
Wow! You're planning to do a lot of traveling. You could be campaigning for the presidential election, visiting that many states.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
