Guts Are Us!
Many people do not realize how important the GI tract (gut) is to our overall health. Sure, we all know that without it we can’t metabolize and absorb food, and when it’s unhappy we can become miserable pretty quickly! However, the flora (the healthy bacteria that we’re told we should eat yogurt to replenish) of the gut plays a critical role in our immune system health. If we face the facts, most of us have pretty imbalanced, thus nasty gut flora. In addition to candida, toxicity, constipation, drugs, even fast food, can actually break down the gut lining itself through irritation and inflammation leading to complaints like irritable bowel syndrome and leaky gut. When this happens, the immune system becomes severely affected in many ways.
Through our work with children with autism and developmental delays, we’ve considered a new tagline: GUTS ARE US. We at Homeopathy Center of Houston have learned many outside-the-box methods to support healthy intestinal flora and reduction of toxins and irritants through an advanced, sequential, homeopathic detoxification. Many of our children experience significant improvement by reducing the population of harmful microbial levels, increasing the levels of beneficial bacteria and flora in their guts, and thus reducing levels of inflammation markers overall in laboratory tests. Most tangibly, when gut health improves, so do behavior, language, academics and even social skills.
Our work with autism has transferred to the way we approach our adult clients with GI issues. Many people we meet suffer from what we call, “an autistic gut, without the autism.” They arrive at our offices with a myriad of diagnoses, such as: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, diverticulitis, diverticulosis, intestinal polyps, chronic diarrhea, chronic constipation, alternating between constipation and diarrhea, Crohn’s Disease, even something called “toddler loose stool syndrome” and the list goes on. We sometimes meet people who have had massive surgical removal of sections of their intestines, stomach surgeries, esophageal erosion, etc. In cases where parts of the structure are missing there will always be some level of compromise, but even in these cases, many clients have found they are much more capable of managing their health with homeopathy than with the drugs their doctors offered as “symptom management.”
Of course, the most rewarding cases are those in which the patient was told by their doctor that their condition cannot be treated and cured, it can only be managed, only to discover that after working with us to improve not just their gut, but their whole immune system, they no longer have any symptoms left to manage. People often come to us because hope has been snatched by the conventional medical world. In the skilled, experienced hands of our practitioners, these amazing, safe, non-toxic homeopathic remedies can truly work miracles.
If you or someone you love has been told you have an “untreatable” or “hopeless” digestive problem, if the drugs prescribed don’t help, or even add new problems, please call our office. Homeopathy does not require a diagnosis to be effective. If you don’t have a diagnosis, but are noticing the beginnings of problems, homeopathy shines as a therapy that can assist in avoiding further erosion of health. There is hope, there is help, and life is not ever hopeless.
Good health,
Cindy
