• Anti-Anxiety agents
• Antidepressants
• Diet
• Imodium
• Laxatives
• Levbid
• Lomotil
• Maalox

9 Hidden Keys to Happiness and Success
 by: Melissa Van Rossum

I came across this article today, so I thought I share it with my readers.

Having a Positive control over our thoughts results in a lower stress levels, consequently keeps Irritable Bowel/Brain away!!

Melissa wrote:
We all love to feel motivated. I know I do. It’s absolute nirvana to be on purpose and on task at the same time. But life often intervenes in my plans and that can mean stress, frustration and setbacks and I find that I have to live my life on Inner Motivation – particularly when the proverbial chips are down. Most of us wait for someone else to give us a reason to move ahead or we wait for circumstance or opportunity to line up in just the right way so we can move ahead with the inner commitment we’ve been holding back.  We wait for our partner to say ‘I love you’ first, we wait for a sign of acceptance before we commit to revealing some part of ourselves and we wait for the evidence of the result before we commit our belief.

To many of us this seems like a smart or even shrewd way of going about business and life. We think we’re protecting and insulating ourselves by not putting too much ‘out there’ and therefore avoiding disappointment or (God forbid) rejection. In reality, though, this is actually a very dangerous way to live life because it puts your life and your happiness in someone else’s hands - a sure fire equation for misery. From the inside this may seem like a very controlled way to live life, but it’s actually a very out of control way to live life. That’s why it makes us so unhappy and leaves us so unfulfilled. There’s nothing dependable or controlled about it.

One of my favorite movie scenes is from the Indiana Jones movie where he (played by Harrison Ford) and his father (played by Sean Connery) are searching for the Holy Grail. Indiana’s father lies dying at the hands of the Nazis and to save his life Indiana must find the Holy Grail. To get to the Grail, Indiana has to accurately decode his father’s Grail diary which will enable him to make his way through certain life-threatening challenges. After successfully making his way through several of the tests, he comes to a huge chasm that lies between where he is and where he wants to be.  He reads the Bible passage from his father’s diary which has to do with “faith being the evidence of things not seen”. He picks up a handful of sand and throws it out to the chasm only to see the sand fall on an invisible bridge.

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I love eating yam, but never knew they had a medicinal effect.

This article looks at “the health benefits of wild yams”

Wild yam has even been effective at treating common digestive concerns such as irritable bowel syndrome and cramping. Side effects and precautions. While wild yam is generally safe and effective for a number of conditions, Read more

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What is Aloe Vera?

Aloe Vera is a plant that evolved from the lilac family, on which garlic is also a member. Both possess great curative and nutritive properties.

How Does it Work?

Aloe contains a number of enzymes - those that aid in digestion (amylase and lipase) and those that are anti-inflammatory in nature. 

One component of Aloe, aloin, is used as a laxative.

1. It speeds up the transit time of the gut contents, as a result the stool becomes softer as it contains more water
2. Protein absorption is increased
3. Gut flora is regulated, especially where there is an overgrowth of the yeast Candida.

Aloe Improves the Quality of life!

What this means for IBS sufferers, is a new lease of life.

Do you or someone you know suffer from irritable bowel syndrome? The symptoms from this condition can be very hard to live with. Sufferers know that pain and discomfort is a daily occurrence. What these sufferers don’t know, is that there may be something that they can do to help their own condition. Classic research has shown no real link between what we eat and IBS, but modern research is changing all of that.Breakthroughs in medical technology are enabling people to gain more insight into the illnesses we experience. Research is conducted on a daily basis, and new cures and treatments for a number of ailments are being found. Current research is under way to determine whether a true link exists between an irritable bowel and a possible allergy towards, or intolerance of, food.

In these studies scientists give a food intolerance test to a group of subjects with gastrointestinal (GI) disorders as well as to a group of control subjects who do not have GI problems. The studies show that the subjects with GI disorders have significantly more food intolerances than the control group subjects.

What is the best way to learn if intolerance is causing your IBS? A step in the right direction would be making an appointment to see your family physician. If a food intolerance test cannot be given by your primary care physician, then he should know to whom you should be sent. It may be difficult to convince your physician that you need a food intolerance test, since classic research does not demonstrate that there is a connection.

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