Suggestion for you...
03/30/04 11:40 AM
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Heather
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 7799
Loc: Seattle, WA
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since it sounds like your goal is to stabilize just through diet, and avoid supplements. It's going to be easier to go about this "backwards" - start with absolutely everything that can help you (diet, fiber, herbal teas, peppermint caps, meds, yoga, IBS hypnosis). This will really, really increase the odds that you'll get yourself completely stable, and once you're stable it's much easier to stay that way. At that point, you can try gradually eliminating the options that you don't want to continue, and see if it's possible for your gut to stay stable with just the diet. It may not be, and you may end up deciding that you don't even want to try. You might also end up liking the other elements, since they're all healthy for you anyway and most of them enjoyable as well. But the odds of really taking control are better if you go all out, get stable, and then carefully back off, instead of trying one small change at a time and never quite tipping the scales towards stability.
- H
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