IBS affects up to 20% of people globally. IBS symptoms are pains in the abdomen associated with altered bowel pattern and bloating. Rectal symptoms such as irritation, pain or urgency can be present. Sometimes non-colonic symptoms can develop.
Treatments of IBS fall into four categories. Patient education, medication, dietary modification and behavioural and psychological therapies are the four categories. Experts now agree that behaviour and psychological therapies provided better long term results.
The law of Attraction suggests that you attract into your life whatever you think about. The simple explanation of the Law of Attraction is that your thoughts determine your destiny. The Law of Attraction has built up an enormous momentum after a documentary film, “The Secrets”, was shown on Oprah. The Law of Attraction is used effectively for personal growth, financial success and achievements.
The question is: Does the Law of Attraction work in Medicine? In 2004, a study of 196 young people and 314 elderly subjects associated with rumination and negative thoughts concluded that negative thoughts can damage your health. In Reikii, all processes of healing or personal and spiritual development is associated with elimnating from a person’s energy field negative KI or life forces, and removing negative feelings and thoughts that have created it.
Negative thoughts, following job loss, relationship break ups and poor assessment, affect self-esteem. These people can feel worthless, insignificant, unsure and easily defeated. A positive person usually have high self-esteem and their level of success is determined by these thoughts.
In Irritable Bowel Syndrome, does the Law of Attraction apply? When a person is first diagnosed with IBS, what information is delivered? Here are a few. We do not know why you have IBS. There is no single treatment that works for everyone. Your gut is normal. Stress can trigger IBS symptoms. A cure is not an option. You have to live with it. It is also an established fact that most IBS sufferers do not get adequate support from their health professionals.
Is it not likely these negative facts can affect the mind of IBS sufferers and lead to negative outcome? Recently experts are recommending treatment that focus on the mind for IBS treatment. These include psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). “Patients who have ongoing IBS symptoms might benefit from a simple, early intervention of CGT, a means of changing thought processes from negative to positive that has been shown to be helpful.” Said Moss-Morris at the University of Southampton Dr .J. Lackner at the State University of New York reported that there was an improvement in 73% of patients with IBS after four short sessions of CGT and home study manual given to patients.
When an IBS patient tries a new treatment, expectation may well create significant improvement. This benefit may not last long because in the mind, there is fixed the thought that there is no cure.
There are cases of refractory Irritable Bowel Syndrome patients after having a course of hypnotherapy enjoying normal lives, having foods that previously cause severe IBS symptoms. When IBS becomes refractory no treatment works. Negative thoughts are plucked out of the subconscious mind during hypnotherapy and replaced by positive ones. The Law of Attraction is at work here. Ingrained negative thoughts created negative effects in refractory IBS. After hypnotherapy, positive thoughts produced positive effects.
If you believe in the Law of Attraction, how can you use it to change the course of your IBS? Keep the positives in the forefront of your mind. Make them your reality and eventually your thoughts and feelings. Here are some positives. Your gut is normal. IBS does not lead on to other serious illnesses. If stress is a trigger, you can control it. You can improve your IBS by getting a better balance in your life. You can lead a full life even though you have IBS. Whatever IBS treatment you are on, keep your dreams and aspirations positive.
When your doctor diagnosis you with IBS it can be a little perplexing, and as you stumble out of the doctor’s office with pamphlets, but no cure for this problematical digestive disorder that can cause considerable pain, discomfort, and contribute to other health problems as well. You may feel a little lost and alone. You are not there are millions of people suffering from IBS, and yet to be diagnoses Irritable Bowel Syndrome. You however do need to take action. IBS is not a condition that you should take lightly. The longer that your condition goes untreated the worse it will become.
So where do you start, what diet plan should you follow? What foods should you avoid?
There a few good Irritable Bowel Syndrome DietBooks that offers natural treatment options for IBS. It is important to look for a to follow an IBS Diet Plan that has been tested and proven to work on this chronic, painful, and life altering condition.
Diet Tips For Living With Irritable Bowel Disease
Include Lots Of Fiber
You need to include a diet that is high in fiber.
Constipation is a regular occurrence with IBS, and you want to have regular bowl movements that do not involve straining.
Increase your fluid intake
Drinking filtered water, low sugar juices, mineral water with each meal, and plan on drinking 8-10 glasses a day. Water is essential for proper hydration on a cellular level. Your digestive system and bowels require proper amounts of fluid to keep them functioning properly.
Avoid Foods High In Sodium
Salty foods will draw fluid from your intestines creating cramping and can contribute to bloating and gas.
Avoiding High Glucose Foods
Sweet foods laden with sugar can cause many of the symptoms of IBS. Studies show that when sugar laden foods are removed from the diet over 40% of IBS patients chronic symptoms improved.
Avoid Milk Products
Lactose intolerance has been found in close to 70% of patients diagnosed with irritable bowel disease.
Steer Clear Of Alcohol
Alcohol can pull fluid from the bowels, builds up toxins, and can cause electrolyte imbalances.
If you are looking for more information on irritable bowel syndrome, and would like to find proven diet plans that offer a solution to this chronic debilitating disease a good resource is by Kelly Parks-Hoffman. Her book has helped thousands of IBS sufferers just like you: Boost their immune system, relieve the pain, increase their energy, and live life without fear of this chronic disease. This informative, and curative book “How I Cured My Irritable Bowel Syndrome” should be read by every IBS sufferer.
Living with Fibromyalgia can be difficult enough, the flu like symptoms can keep you down, but toss in a migraine headache, and you can add even more pain, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and an even longer list of debilitating symptoms.
Migraines are very debilitating and can be triggered by many of the same things that trigger fibromyalgia: smells, food sensitivities, weather, light, sounds, and more. Migraines can be especially scary if they cause paralysis on one side of the body. These types of migraines are call hemi plegic, and should not be considered a normal migraine. If you suffer from this type make sure to speak with your Doctor.
Migraines, Fibromyalgia, IBS, Neck Pain, TMJ, or Panic Attacks Out of Control? Make Lifestyle Chang
Migraines, Fibromyalgia, IBS, Neck Pain, TMJ, or Panic Attacks Out of Control?
How can you take control of what is out of control? Begin with the basics. The basics mean making healthy lifestyle choices. Migraines, fibromyalgia, IBS, frequently neck pain, TMJ, and panic attacks are interrelated. The common denominator is migraine. I have chosen the phrase migraine syndrome to group the above symptoms together, because when you control migraines, then the migraine syndrome will improve. Successful migraine prevention depends greatly on understanding how lifestyle impacts the frequency and severity of migraine attacks.
People that are subject to the migraine syndrome have what I call the sensitive body. The body is more sensitive to light, sound, smell, food, and/or stress. It is important to remember that your body is sensitive. Avoid triggers. Triggers can be additive and total up to big trouble. The more trouble you have, the lower your threshold for developing symptoms. If your body is over-stimulated by triggers for a sufficient time period, then transformation of migraines occurs (migraine become more chronic) and more of the migraine syndrome is revealed. Transformation can ultimately lead to fibromyalgia. It is impossible to totally avoid triggers. Triggers are risk factors. Activities done to normalize the nervous system are protective factors. Lifestyle changes promoting protective factors and avoiding risk factors lead to good health.
Lifestyle changes markedly reduced the frequency of headache in studies that I have conducted. Let me prove my point. I have been the investigator in many medical research studies. In the late 1990’s, I did two studies that I found extremely revealing about the importance of lifestyle changes. They were simple preference studies. The patients would try the study drug and determine if the study drug was preferable over whatever over-the-counter medicine they were taking for migraine. In one study Imitrex was the medication studied, and in the other Amerge was the study medicine. Imitrex and Amerge are triptans. Triptans are drugs that help stop a migraine attack. In one study Imitrex was taken for three headaches and in the other study Amerge was taken for four headaches. The study patients were required to have five or six headaches a month in order to be enrolled into the study. In other words, these study patients’ lives were significantly impacted by having too many migraines. The patients had three months to complete the study. Assuming five to six headaches a month, then the study should only take a month. Nevertheless, they had three months. In both studies combined there were about seventy patients. My office treated these patients like regular migraine patients. We made the “mistake” of teaching the usual lifestyle changes-the changes I am about to teach you. Over half the study patients were unable to complete the study in three months! One patient did not have another headache in three months. Needless to say, we did not make that “mistake” again while conducting a study. We taught them lifestyle changes after the research projects were completed.
One of the basic needs is a consistent life. Everything needs to be done in a methodical way. Maintain adequate sleep-not too much and not too little. You need to go to bed at night and awaken in the morning at approximately the same time each and every day including weekends, holidays, and vacations. If you oversleep by more than one hour, you may feel hungover or tired, and you are definitely aggravating the migraine syndrome. Did you ever wonder why jet lag bothered you so much? Imagine awakening by 6:00 am weekdays and 8:30 or 9:00 am on weekends. That may explain weekend or Monday morning headaches or cricks in the neck. The fatigue is felt when you go on vacations and/or come home to reality. The variable sleep-patterns problems adversely affect high school and college students and night shift workers.
Eat regular meals. You need to eat breakfast! Commonly, I find migraineurs who just do not feel like eating early in the morning. Eat anyway. It does not have to be eggs and biscuits. A bowl of cereal or even a breakfast bar will work. Do not skip meals. If you do not eat, or if you eat junk food, you are setting yourself up for reactive hypoglycemia among a host of other problems. Consistent sleep and meals are very important. In other words, your life must be dull and boring-oops. What I meant to say is, the more regular your lifestyle is, the more protected you are from risk factors.
I will cover more lifestyle changes in subsequent articles. The subjects will include emotions, dietary triggers, medications, posture, physical activity, trauma, and environment. For more information, go to http://www.migrainesyndrome.net.
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