Hail, Hail Antibiotics! The Double Edged Sword

I have harped many times on this blog about the evils of antibiotics. Now it is time to give praise where praise is due. Hail, hail the lifesaver— hail, hail antibiotics!

Hail, hail Mother Nature —for giving us penicillin! Hail, hail Louis Pasteur for discovering it!

Hail, hail my grandmother who in our house taught us to fight over the gray/green moldy-looking stuff on the bread! Before refrigeration, our ancestors got their daily dose of natural antibiotics—nature’s gift—penicillin.

Penicillin being alive and intelligent is a natural resident in our lives there to keep the inner ‘landscape’ balanced. That is until science got a hold of it and pumped it up to a ridiculous potency. Throwing it and us out of balance by opening Pandora’s Box.

Hail, hail the fact that we couldn’t live without antibiotics!

Hail, hail the fact that I will be the first in line if I need them!

Hail, hail the knowledge about what to do after we take this miracle natural medicine! Penicillin functions within the ‘whole’-maintaining balance. The new stuff can blow a hole in your colon in one dose.

The biggest problem that we have now is the man-made synthetic antibiotics. One example is cipro which will kill anthrax. This chemical will go into your body and devastate your immune system in 1 dose.

If you really really want an inflammatory bowel condition go get some of this stuff or something of it’s ilk.

Please! For your own sake and that of your children before you run down to the drugstore ask your doctor what this stuff that he prescribed is and what are the side effects. That’s just very basic and not even one of you does that.

Hail, hail the knowledge of pro (for life) biotics!

Hail, hail the fact that with this knowledge each one of us can avoid or reverse the manmade ‘conditions’ such as IBS, Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease!

Hail, hail The Golden Rule of Bowel Management- if you take an anti (against life) biotic then take a pro (good bacteria) biotic—that will save your quality of life!

Inflammatory Bowel Conditions Permanently Healed

If you have an inflammatory bowel condition the good news is that with the proper treatment, you can permanently repair your gastrointestinal tract. The means is to replace the mucosal lining which protects the tissue of the intestinal wall. This tissue is made up of skin, fat, and muscle. Without the mucosal lining our stomach acid erodes the wall and over time will create the symptoms of IBD. Using nutritional supplements that contain the ingredients of what the mucosal lining and intestinal wall are made of it is possible to permanently recover from these conditions. Whether you have Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis, or Crohn’s this all applies to you. The longer you go without the proper treatment the more damage will be done to your colon. The proper treatment is the use of naturopathic medicine to repair this tissue and once done you will find that you will be able to live symptom and maintenance free.

The Real Diet for Inflammatory Bowel Conditions

The #1 thing that you need to know is that you cannot eat your way into or out of any inflammatory bowel condition. It’s not about food. You could eat the worst possible diet and it would not give you IBS. The same can be said about eating only organic food — that will not heal your Colitis or Crohn’s.

But YES, eating a certain way can make your life less miserable until you get this problem fixed.

It is very, very simple. Just 2 things you need to do.

1. The 1st rule of eating when you have an IBD is to eat a low fiber diet. This means no raw fruit, no raw vegs, no nuts, no seeds and no corn. Eating this way is temporary and doing just this can reduce your symptoms by 50%. But don’t fool yourself by thinking that you are healed. You aren’t. You just are not aggravating the source of the symptoms as much.

2. The 2nd rule is to temporarily avoid any other foods that you are absolutely sure to aggravate your problems. I emphasize this because almost all of you are juggling foods based on what you have seen online or what a friend has told you worked for them. That is just theory. The only thing that matters is how your body reacts to any foods. Otherwise you are unnecessarily denying yourself foods that you could be enjoying. Other than the fibrous foods the most common to cause problems are dairy, wheat and soy. This is because they are complex foods and require more stomach acids to digest. One of the secrets of treating IBD is knowing that in addition to fiber aggravating the bowel tissue it is your acids that actually eat-erode the bowel wall.

That’s it. There is no more to it. The real diet for inflammatory bowel conditions is not what to eat but what not to eat and this is temporary.

Remember that it is not really about food – you cannot eat your way into or out of IBD. But you can make it a more comfortable ride.