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So I started to read up on leaky gut syndrome and I feel like I have all of the symptoms exactly. I do have bladder symptoms also. I know that they are very similar and either way Dr. B's treatment protocol works for healing both. I just wanted to see how many other people have all of those symptoms too or just the bladder symtpoms?
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What are you reading?
What are you reading?
Leaky Gut
I think most people with IC have symptoms of leaky gut.
IC is just one of many
IC is just one of many symptoms of a leaky gut. I think Matia believes that a leaky gut, for most, is the ultimate cause of the inflammation and bacterial translocation due to intestinal permeability. Read her dissertation, it will help clarify.
If the leaky gut is at the
If the leaky gut is at the root of our problems, and it's the same for everyone, then why does Dr. B put people on different protocols?
Well said Tinkerbell. We are
Well said Tinkerbell. We are all so different. We have different "excesses" and "deficiencies" affecting different organs in different ways. This is what makes IC so hard to treat and why western medicine fails so miserably. Because it treats everyone the same (not to mention treating only the symptoms in the bladder), but it fails to look at the whole picture of what has gone awry to lead to the IC. Really, read the dissertation and you'll get it.
It does make sense - BUT, I
It does make sense - BUT, I have lots of kids so although I do have Dr. B's dissertation, have not been able to find the time to read it yet. can anyone possibly summarise what 'IC' is and also what the treatment protocol focuses on? Thanks so much in advance.
Btw, I don't mean summarise
Btw, I don't mean summarise the whole thing (!) but just the notion that the immune system breaks down so bacteria and candida proliferate, causing inflammation etc..? My point is that if that is the same for everyone, then why different protocols?
Vin- This is an enormous
Vin-
This is an enormous topic impossible to totally explain but here's one thought:
Everyone starts with the diet which begins to address the gut healing aspect of this treatment so we are all similiar in that way.
Deir and Nadia - thank you!
I had a 'lighbulb above the head' moment from both of your posts (and from a few others above too, so thank you). I now see why the diet is so important (i kind of knew before but now I really get it - thanks Deir) and I have ordered the Chinese medicine book (thanks Nadia).
this is an excellent article
this is an excellent article about leaky gut
http://www.brighttots.com/Leaky_Gut_Syndrome