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I would like to add that I think that huge amounts of vitamin E, C, and many

other nutrients combined with large amounts of homemade Kefir will probably cure

this easier if they are combined with the fish oil. Frank

 

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Natural_cure_#2:_Crohn’s_Disease

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Overlooked Cures

 

Millions suffer from health problems that can be inexpensively remedied by

nutritional therapies. The problem is that these nutritional cures are not put

into practice by modern medicine. Health journalist Bill Sardi reveals

nutritional or simple practical cures for ten different health conditions,

complete with references from the National Library of Medicine, in his latest

series of health tips.

 

Today’s topic: Crohn’s Disease Cure

 

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Crohn’s disease is a very devastating disease. Crohn’s disease, or its cousin,

ulcerative colitis, are characterized by uncontrolled inflammation in the

digestive tract. Bacteria, food, viruses or other material may trigger an attack

against these foreign substances that produces ulcers, pain and even bleeding.

The National Institutes of Health says " at this time, treatment can help control

the disease, but there is no cure. "

 

Steroids comprise the drug treatment of choice, but while steroids quell

inflammation, they also impair wound healing, weaken bones, promote blinding

cataracts and interfere with sex hormones. A more recently approved drug for

Crohn’s disease, infliximab (Remicade), blocks an inflammatory protein called

tumor necrosis factor, which is involved in this disease. [NIH Publication No.

03-3410, January 2003] Uh, don’t tell anybody else, but green tea is an

effective TNF inhibitor too! [Ann N Y Acad Sci 928:274-80, 2001] Green tea is

even proposed as a natural remedy for inflammatory bowel diseases. [J Nutrition

131: 2034, 39, 2001] But there is another natural remedy that can throw Crohn’s

disease into complete remission for extended periods of time.

 

Health authorities recognize omega-3 oils from fish and flaxseed are effective

anti-inflammatory agents.

 

Investigators concede that omega-3 oils have therapeutic potential for the

treatment of Crohn’s and irritable bowel. Italian health authorities from the S.

Orsola Hospital in Bologna, Italy, say a review of all the studies involving

fish oil and bowel disease " suggest the effectiveness of these new therapeutic

approaches, not only when conventional treatment fails or when it is not

possible to treat chronically, but also, in some instances, as first choice

treatment. " [Proceedings Nutrition Society 61: 391-95, 2002] They point to the

evidence provided by researchers who found that Eskimos, who consume up to

13,000 milligrams of omega-3 fish oils, have very low rates of inflammatory

bowel disease. [Am J Clinical Nutrition 71: 339-42S, 2000] (Psst….

interpretation ... the Eskimos don’t have these diseases!) But researchers in

Brazil predictably claim that omega-3 oils and other nutritional therapies for

inflammatory bowel diseases " require further evaluation. " [Nutrition Hospital

18:57-64, 2003]

 

In 1996 a Canadian doctor had the gall to suggest (in print), that while

remissions from Crohn’s disease have been linked with omega-3 oil consumption,

fish oil pills could not be recommended, but a diet rich in fish oil could.

[Nutrition Reviews 54: 248-52, 1996] Of course, one of the major problems

 

Crohn’s patients suffer with is their inability to tolerate many foods! Fish oil

capsules would be a welcome alternative, but this doctor would rather cram a

tuna fish down the throat of a Crohn’s patient.

 

But our relentless researchers in Italy showed that about 3000 milligrams of

fish oil taken as an enterically-coated capsule on a daily basis brought about a

remission in 72 percent of Crohn’s patients versus only 31 percent taking an

inactive placebo pill. After a year the remission rate doubled on the fish oil

capsules compared to placebo. The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine

even accepted the report for publication. [New Eng J Med 334: 1557-60, 1996]

 

About 400,000 people in the United States suffer from Crohn’s disease. In a city

of 100,000 people, about 148 will suffer from this disease. How many Crohn’s

patients are told by their doctors that fish oil might bring about a prolonged

remission from their disease? Few, if any.

 

Copyright 2003 Bill Sardi. Single copy duplication for personal use is

permitted. The information in this report is for information purposes only.

Other sources of information should be pursued before altering dietary or

 

health regimens. The health claims made for dietary supplements and other

natural remedies in this report are not those of the manufacturers of these

products.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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