Bowel disease, microscopic colitis is just one type of 65 conditions associated with a deficiency of magnesium. Magnesium deficiency slows down bowel peristalsis, causing constipation, which can lead to toxicity as well as symptoms of colitis, microscopic colitis, irritable bowel syndrome or IBS, diverticulitis, and Crohn’s disease. Dr. Carolyn...
Articles with the Tag Colitis
Truth and Consequence
Truth and Consequence – Colitis When the boys out in the South Pacific saluted their officers and said, “Will do,” you can be pretty sure that if it was humanly possible, the task would be done because those lads had been trained in “know how.” This factor of “know...
Anemia and Colitis Relation
Anemia and Colitis The blitheness with which some doctors and almost every layman dismiss the condition known as anemia is amazing. “The doctor says I’m just a little anemic” is passed off as practically a clean bill of health. Yet right here is a serious weakening in the first...
Heart Disease Risk With Colitis
Heart Disease and Colitis – The Heart Disease Risk How on earth can colitis cause heart disease? Well, your amazement at this question is just as great as mine was when I first discovered that one of my patients, who had for some time past thought that he was...
Stomach Ulcer and Colitis
Stomach Ulcer and Colitis – Is It More Than a Stomach Ulcer? More than one person suffering from colitis has in the course of their quest for successful treatment gone from one doctor to another. In this process, they have learned the truth of the old adage that doctors...
Liver Disease And Colitis
Liver and Gall Bladder Disease and Colitis – Liver Disease If you will recall in one of the first lessons in how to control a crazy colon I pointed out that the food digestion canal was a hollow tube that passed through our anatomy in a peculiarly intimate manner....
Constipation Colitis And Cancer
Constipation—Colitis—Cancer One need only glance at the advertising pages of popular periodicals to realize that constipation is a universal complaint. It is spoken of as a distinct disorder. The medical profession itself is apt to consider it a separate ailment and treat it accordingly. For the relief of constipation,...
Worms In Humans
My! What A Wormy World This Is! – Worms in Humans Even in the days before Milton Berle we had comedians! One of their favorite chestnuts was the one about swallowing a tape measure and dying by inches. However fanciful this may seem, an unfortunate parallel is frequently met...
Catarrhal Colitis
What Happens Next? Catarrhal Colitis If you find you have an inflammation of the lining of the colon, the knowledge of this situation prompts the question: “Where do we go from here?” Quite naturally you are interested in knowing what happens next. In many cases, the question occurs to...
Colitis Misdiagnosis
Go Home and Forget About It – Colitis Misdiagnosis There are few situations in the field of health which are more distressing both to patient and to doctor than being faced with a string of negative results of all examinations. Patients are often told, “there is nothing wrong with...