What a person eats can affect what they think in a millisecond, it works that quickly. That is why deep breathing or getting centered helps because it activates the vagus nerve. It helps to get both your mind and gut re-centered.
Silverman says that the vagus nerve is parasympathetic; deep breathing will elevate the vagus nerve and decrease the sympathetic, which is fight or flight. Some will become excited, while others, such as Dr. Silverman, will become sympathetic all day long. He states that the problem is, it's a seesaw. An individual wants to bring up the parasympathetic and balance the sympathetic, this is all governed by the vagus nerve which, in turn, governs the enteric nervous system.
This is also why the gut is called the second brain. It has more nerve cells than any other nervous system; it is the epicenter and the communicator. It communicates with any part of the body through the blood and its nerve receptors. Erika turns the topic to answer the question of a listener, Richard. He gave up gluten because he had celiac disease. He wants to know why that is? Silverman responds to say that this can happen, and this is what is called an elimination diet. Eliminate these foods and then put them back in, if they light an individual back up, then they know they are sensitive to that food.
It can take 72 hours after a food item is consumed, but a lot of people have trouble remembering what they ate that long ago. He asks if Richard gets gas and bloating after he eats, if that is the case then he has a digestion problem. If 45 minutes after he eats, he feels lethargic then he has a blood-brain barrier problem. Erika addresses another question from Melina, who was wondering about young adults and teens for school support. Erika suggests two supplements that she thinks are beneficial for teens, in terms of focus and concentration.
Choline, which turns into acetylcholine for the brain. It works with the synopsis and the way the myelin sheath works and the omega threes, which are important for the brain. Teens need to make sure they are choosing good, non-inflammatory foods.
Silverman echoes Dr. Erika in respect to choline. He states that it is very beneficial because it decreases microglia activations and microgliosis, which are the macrophages or the captain of the ship of signaling information in the central nervous system. The brain functions differently in women compared to men. When a woman gets a concussion, inflammation is turned on, but the microglia is different from men.
But if you want to do better on a test, go for fats over carbohydrates. Erika builds on the topic of fat helping with studies and suggests sardines as a great source of fat, omega-3, and protein; an inexpensive source. To which Dr. Silverman adds, chia seeds, another great option for omega-3s and are a plant source.
If everyone in the family eats healthy, they all will benefit, not just the teenagers. Erika circles back to Dr. She says there is a lot of information in this book, from the liver and the bile to the gut and brain.
Erika believes that someone can start mild and become a high risk. It can be hard to tell, particularly in the case of someone like Richard, who was thought to have a mild gluten intolerance, but then he did the elimination diet and then re-challenged himself. She would now consider him to be high risk because he has the genes and has had a profound reaction to it. She then asks Dr.
He responds that it is called native wheat, but there is also dwarf wheat. He suggests not eating American wheat. Gluten-free options are arrowroot, flax, millet, quinoa, sorghum, teff, and rice. So, for example, if someone wants a type of pasta or bread, they can get it with these ancient grains and they are health-promoting and they taste good. He suggests, instead of an ordinary pizza, for example, try a chickpea or cauliflower flour crust add some protein, like wild salmon or bison with your assortments and it is now a full, healthy meal that tastes great.
Erika adds, for those who are struggling with weight or blood sugar, insulin, have insulin resistance issues, will want to avoid gluten completely or only have it as a special treat. She then asks, how does epigenetics help, and how does one measure if it is working or not? At the moment, the epigenetic test enables the person to look at five different areas: biological health, hearing health, memory age, eye age, and inflammation.
In the case of the effects of gluten and gut health, the overall inputs of what a person is doing to their body, they should look under inflammation. The genes will be accessed to see if they have been turned on.
If a person has a high inflammation marker, that is something they are going to want to keep track of. It could express itself in lab work five or ten years down the road. While one cannot change their DNA, they can change their outcome. Erika adds that a lot of this relates to the kind of quality of life a person wants. For example, they can eat all of these things but the quality of life may not be the one they are looking for later in life. Because as people get older, they lose the effect of hormones.
Therefore, building up healthy habits is important because they will carry everyone into that longevity. Erika replies, that if a person were to remove something from their diet or add something back in with a nutrient, is that going to change their DNA results?
It will change the potential expression of it. Therefore, if someone was high risk, they will still be high risk, but their chances of expressing the effects are significantly decreased. For example, she has seen many people who are at high risk to be obese, and yet they are not. The reverse is also true, but because of trauma, environment, antibiotics, and food choices, they are overweight.
Everyone is the actor of their life and gets to choose how they are going to run the play of their life and health. Moving forward, and to close this live stream she states that the next live stream is going to focus on the role of epigenetics, DNA, and memory. For more information, contact us at info atmytoolboxgenomics.
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He too was diagnosed w Heliobacter infection via biopsy when having endoscopy. Kangaroo canned dog food by Rayne Clinical Nutrition is very tasty. My dog likes it as well as Alligator canned food.
He too is super finicky. He takes prednisone, cerenia, prilosec, metachlopramide. Now we are dog free, cat free and pet free but my son has to be on immunosuppressants for the rest of his life. Perhaps your dog carried an infection that spread to him?
What a nonsense! And your son may not be on immunosuppressants for life. He could go into remission. Before that, I was constantly at the vet and constantly trying different foods. Cyclosporine did not help and Budesonide made him much worse! I finally asked the vet if he could just stay on Metronidazole for the rest of his life because that is the only thing that really helps!
The vet said yes. I can give him a small amount of chicken or turkey as a treat, but I keep the amount really small. We are struggling mightily with IBD. We have periods of stability and terrible flare ups. We are amidst the worst flare up yet. My fur child is a 6 yr old GSD mix with a history of diarrhea, vomiting and anxiety. He has been on tylan, budesonide, Pepcid, antihistamines, xanax, reglan, mirtazapine and hills zd until this recent flare where he went on a bland diet egg whites, oatmeal, mashed potatoes, and cream of wheat , Flagyl, Cipro, cerenia and a few days of Imodium.
He improved immensely. As we have attempted to transition him to Royal Canin hP he is become quite ill again.. Any thoughts? In May we rushed our Bichon to vets overnight as she bloated up. They told us to expect the worst she may need to be put to sleep. They thought she had a twisted stomach.
They found out she had IBD. She had been on antibiotics and B12 injections. This worked for a week or two and then ascites returned. We changed her diet to Royal Canin AnAllergenic as per vets advise. She was fine for a week and now she is back to having loose stools one day and straining to poo next day. She has no energy and just miserable. She is our baby and we love her and would do anything we could to help her.
She is 8 year old Bichon neutered never had pups. Has anyone experienced this? Her ascites is quite bad today. Our Bichon developed IBD at 14 years. She has been up and down since then with just diet regimen using Hill ID. No treats or people food. Currently in the middle of a flare up probably triggered by stress of moving to new house so we started her on Prednisone and lorazepam 5 days ago.
We were making some slow progress until last night. Had the worse episode of severe vomiting, with horrible screeching sounds, then continual whining and we think she got a little Caesar salad from the table when we left her unattended for a few minutes.
We ended up taking her to ER for pain meds, anti nausea meds, and fluids. Not sure what future holds for her. So sad today. Our Benny has been struggling for 3 weeks, we have done so many tests to try to figure out what the issue is.. He keeps getting seemingly better, but then his meds run out, and he regresses.
Currently we have him on prednisone, cerenia, zulfran and an opiate to slow down his GI tract. Switched him to a prescreption diet Hills..
Just really at a loss, and saddened that this is a lifelong prognosis. Wishing your baby comfort in the days ahead. She came with 32 pages of medical history from the Blue Cross but our vets still did a bioposy to confirm Ibd for the second time.
She survives on hills id low fat dry and the stewed chicken id low fat wet along with cooked venison and chicken breast, hypoallergenic dog treats and antibiotics twice a day. She now never gets vomit ing or diarrhea but she has really painful stomach cramps that usually last 24 hours quite regularly. She is having an episode at the moment which is awful to witness as there is nothing I can do.
The vet is not sure this is IB D and has taken bloods twice in the last 4 months to check for pancreatitis but it has come back negative but showed some dehydration and low white cells. He wants to do an ultrasound and x Ray next but if it shows as IBD again then we are not covered on the insurance. Hate seeing her in so much pain though so really need to check to make sure the cramps are not something else!
However, if it does come back as IB D what do I do about the cramps? Concerned owner. Hello all!! Same is going on with my pup. If you find something that works please let me know and I will do the same. She had been having bloody diarrhea and vomiting, and spent 4 days and nights in an emergency center and they started her on steroids and she started to improve. Right before she came home the fungal study via urine came back positive for Histoplasmosis antigen.
So they stopped the steroids and put her on fluconazole, metronidazole, Carafate, and omeprazole. So my question is why is the steroids contraindicated for the Histoplasmosis if it was helping her? Thanks ahead of time. Hi I have an 18 month old cavapoo who has been struggling with lots of the symptoms described above.
Loose stools. This has been going on for 5 months now. He has ended up admitted for fluids twice. He has had lots of blood tests and an ultrasound scan. He is low in vitamin B Everything else has been ok. He is on Hills ZD food allergy diet kibble and the only treat he gets is freshly cooked chicken breast.
He is tiny only 3kgs and has lost a little weight recently as has gotten worse again- diet initially helped but seem to be in the middle of a bad couple of months! Me and the vet are both thinking IBD now and he is back at vets today for discussion about endoscopy and biopsies to confirm this. Also what food is everyone else feeding their doggies? We give him hills biome w Royal Canin soft glycobalance each day.
We had the GI blood panel done, all ok, we had xrays, all ok. Vet nutritionist says he can stay on this diet and we can add just a bit of boiled 94 fat free gr beef. Does anyone have a diabetic dog with IBD? Called vet for probiotics today, unsure if it will help. Our story began when she our Bichon was 6 months old-vomit,stools with mucus and blood more and more frequent- to reach a peak at about 7 days between the crises. We tried lots of diets and combined cooked foods, but nothing worked.
Our vet suspected her of pancreatitis — confirmed by some blood analyses, but when the episodes relapsed she was diagnosed with ibd-according to the symptoms. We followed treatment with metronidazole and prednisone among others. Finally, we reached a specialist for an endoscopy, but he insisted on trying to see if she gets better on a different diet — monoprotein diet — horse and annallergenic Royal Canin.
We also gave her some enterochronic powder and yudigest — a probiotic. We are even obliged to give her food ourselves, from our hand, which is not ok- she is quite spoilt also. But we do it since we really want her to feel better—she has gone through a lot. There are even times when I wonder how she managed to reach this point in her life. Finally, the doctor who prescribed the last died told us that she actually has food allergies and postponed the endoscopy.
Now, the problem is that we need to find others things that she can eat and to truly see if she has food intolerance. We intend to test her for this and from there to think again about endoscopy and treatment — as I said she is better, but she still got episodes.
The newest problem is that she has problems with her glands — they need expressing and this has become very often — every 4 days. She was given antibiotics, she was better and then relapsed. Anybody familiar to this? How can we help her? Hey, my english staffxbulli has had ibd for a year now,ive spent thousands on him to make him better without any luck, i am feeding him kangaroo ,prem beef and also fish in springwater, at times he poops ok, then its terriable,as hes an inside dog i gotta check his bum b4 he comes back inside and most time i have to wipe it , he gets marrow and sweet potatoe mashes in his food.
The vets wanna do a biopsy and an ordoscophy but this will cost another 4 thousand dollars, his tummy at times growls so loud and yes he chews on grass often. Ive been stopping him chewing grass , and a lady suggested some oil to help his tummy growls which has made it ease, at times he poops good but never stays that way.
Strange thing is he very happy and playful, nothing about him has really changed bar his tummy growls and his poops. I just wish he would poop good again.. Hello David. My English Bull Terrier sounds similar to yours — loose poos, having to wipe his bottom most days, eats grass and used to vomit EVERY morning but only does this some mornings now I feed him supper of one quarter cup of kangaroo based dry food.
I believe the blanket sucking is a comfort activity for him. Being a Bull Terrier he does not show pain or discomfort which makes this all a bit harder to treat.
Usually feed him Kangaroo mince mixed with some cooked brown rice white rice looks so bland and now also give him some Vet specialty dry based on Kangaroo and sorghum. He can also vomit up white frothy stuff and at times has vomited up entire meals. My dog was first diagnosed with IBD at around 6mo old via endoscopy and biopsy , although he was suffering since we got him at 8 weeks.
And literally within days his stool was normal again. It has been like magic. But it works wonders. It took him about months to transition to it. If not, I would suggest trying it. He has not had a single flare up in over a year. It immediately stopped the loose stools, but yes she poops 4 times a day. It is expensive, but takes care of loose stools. Now if I could only get her to stop swallowing parts of toys, sticks, etc.
He has been in perfect health all these years till about 3 wks or so ago. His vet gave him endosorb which did not help. He then developed ascites. Took him to the vet and his albumin was 1. He was on that dose of steroid with some initial semi formed stools and albumin increasing to 1.
Now he again has watery stools and his albumin decreased to 1. How long does it typically take for the steroids to work. It has now been at least 2 weeks since he has been on some dose of steroid.
Is it time to try a different med like cyclosporine or budesonide. Any other tips to help with his loose stools? I am at my wits end and have never seen such a happy dog turn into what he is now. You must be logged in to post a comment. Remove the stress of urinary issues in cats.
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