Health
Ketones for Surgery?
If you've followed my journey with Crohn's disease, cycling, and/or running, you know that I've experimented with ketone products (and my own formulations!) for ten years, as it was one of the keys to finally getting my inflammation under control.
I've also been drinking for the last couple of weeks to prepare for abdominal surgery and through recovery. So far, keeping my ketones elevated has...
In recognition of World Meditation Day on May 21st, I’m curating recent finds from my own practice. I started a daily practice in 2016 that turned into five years of daily sitting. Eight years later, meditation, along with movement and physical training, have been crucial for getting through a decade of health issues and Crohn’s Disease, and provide a direct through line to deep remission. Mind...
My book is in the top 200 of the Abdominal Disorders & Diseases category today and is receiving some amazing reviews, including this one from Jane McGonigal (!)
“This book can help anyone who wants to fuel their body, boost their resilience and heal with every meal. It’s full of clear, science-based guidance to making healthy, delicious meals that reduce inflammation and help your body heal.”...
After a LOT of hard work (mostly getting out of my own way!), I’m so excited to finally announce that I have a new book coming out, “Crohn’s Disease AIP Cookbook”.
• The Crohn’s and AIP connection—Get an overview of the science behind autoimmune symptoms and how the AIP diet is built to combat them.
• Amazing food—I dug deep to create amazingly satisfying and delicious AIP-friendly dishes that ...
The Secure-IBD project is an international effort being led by doctors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York to act as a database of outcomes of COVID-19 occurring in patients with IBD. At their site, https://covidibd.org, they are collecting data on reports of coronavirus cases as well as providing summaries of that data.
If ...
We frequently hear and say these things that are supposed to be motivating and inspiring (or at least make us feel better about the choices made in the quest for happiness) but upon examination are simply glib sound bites designed to take you away from the best parts of being alive.
“Life only feels short in retrospect - when we look back and reminisce about the time that has passed - it is act...
As the COVID-19 virus pings closer and closer to home we have been running through all the questions,
What should we cancel (answer: as much as possible)?
What happens within our kids who are at college?
Maybe more importantly, what happens if we are all stuck at home together?
And, how do we keep Joshua from getting sick?
Having an immunocompromised person in the house adds another level of co...
They say that we have a lizard brain, but I know it’s a lion—fierce and territorial—that emerges when there is nothing else to keep us safe.
Six years ago I was woken up from what was supposed to be a relatively routine surgery related to Crohn’s and told they found something unexpected, a cavity the size of a softball that was filling from my leaking intestines. On the day before Thanksgiving,...
Over two years ago I was put on Remicade (infliximab), a TNFa immune blocker, to control my Crohn’s disease. Two of the main biomarkers they use to measure inflammation with IBD is C-reactive protein (CRP), a protein released by the liver as a response to inflammation, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) which is the rate at which red blood cells sediment in a period of one hour. My CRP ha...
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