Gastroparesis - Riverside,CA

The digestive health protocol from naturopath Debi Waldeck is attached. > Hope it helps your brother.

Protocol 1: Beginning Protocol

Week 1 – Aloe Only
Start one once in the morning, one once in the evening
Based on how well tolerated:
Double to two ounces of aloe in the morning and two ounces of aloe in the evening.

Continue increasing as tolerated until finished. If symptoms of detoxing are in any way uncomfortable, stay at the current dosage until relief is experienced then increase the dose. Interesting but it seems, when you can take 3 ounces in the AM and 3 in the PM, you can move on to just about anything without experiences side effects.

Week 2 Isotonix OPC only:
Begin OPC when Aloe is completed:
2 caps of OPC first thing in the morning on an empty stomach
2 caps of OPC in the evening, as empty as possible

Week 3 Isotonix OPC and the Digestive Enzyme drink:
The reason to dilute it at first is that often people with immune challenges have toxic digestive tracts, so it helps to dilute it at first, the reason I add the B-12 (B-complex) is that research shows when people have an intestinal imbalance they are deficient in B-12, plus it makes it taste better.

Digestive Enzyme Drink-Enzyme Formula and B-complex
(continue with 2 caps of the OPC in the AM)

Day 1: 1 cap of enzymes in 24 ounces of bottles water-1 cap of B12
Day 2-4: 2 caps of enzymes in 24 ounces of bottled water – 1 cap of B12
Day 5-6: 3 caps of enzymes in 33 ounces of water – 1 cap of B12
Day 7-14: 5 caps of enzymes in 48 ounces of water – 1 cap of B-12
If 48 oz. is too much water, don’t go to the larger amounts of water on day 5, see if increasing the concentration of enzyme/B12 is well tolerated in the 24 oz.

Debi Waldeck Naturopath

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Good luch --Q.

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Qing is right with the Naturopath suggestion. Medical doctors will tell you there is no cure. There usually is a cure for most things unless left untreated for too long. Paralysis of the muscles in the stomach can be reversed. It needs to be treated now. Nutrition and an absorbable multivitamin as well as something to restore the elasticity to the vascular system so that the rest of the body doesn't fall apart. Vascular damage is the detriment of all diabetics. I can recommend a product that restores the inside lining of the capillaries, veins and arteries. Let me know if you want more information.

M.

Any disease is degeneration of the body. If he is interested in regenerating, please let me know and I can share a DVD with you. He is too young to be sick. God Bless! J.

Gastroparesis is basically the paralysis of the intestinal tract.

It is a known complication of Diabetes (both type 1 and type 2) though it is much less common than most doctors believe. It's essentially a neuropathy (nerve damage) caused by high glucose levels over time.

I'd recommend making sure he's in the care of a good Gastro-enterologist. There's a specialist here in Indiana who did a lot of research on diabetes and gastric emptying rates (Thomas Nowak, MD) that led to advances in our understanding of this complication.

I'd also highly recommend speaking with a Registered Dietician who is also a Certified Diabetes Education - they would have the most information to guide with advice related to diet.

My other recommendations (I worked in the field of Diabetes for 8 years) would be to check out the following websites:

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/gastropares...

http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complication...

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/digestive-h...

http://tcoyd.org/search.html?searchword=gastroparesis

Hi there,
I am a type I mom. Over the past several years I have come to learn that doctors are not as equipped to really partner with diabetics as I would have assumed/hoped. Particularlly urgent care doctors, as their main goal is to stabilize us for the short-term and get you out the door. I found great information from reading The Diabetes Solution by Dr. Richard Bernstein http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Ach... I was so moved by his book I ventured back to New York to be treated by him directly when I was having difficulty getting stabilized. His view while radical really does allow me to have a full, active life with minimal issues. Since first being treated by him in 2003, did find a Dr out here in CA that follows his philosophy, but will manage patients on an insulin pump. I first saw her when I was pregnant with my first child and she has followed me through my second child who is now 10 months old. Her name is Dr. Lois Jovanovic and she practices out of the Sansum Diabetes Research Center in Santa Barbara (I know that it is far, but worth the trip). She can monitor the routine visits by phone and email/fax so that you have to go there in person too frequently. The thing that I like about both doctors is that there are themselves type 1s. They understand that managing the disease is a partnership and they work with me to give me support and information so that I can be my best advocate for my health. Dr. B's book has good recipes and Dr. J's center has a recipe book that I absolutely love too. The thing is that with gastroparesis digestion and when you need insulin on board just got a whole lot more complicated. If you can get to either Dr, I would think that they could really help you and your son understand his current disease state and how best to manage it.

Your son should act fast as this is degenerative and that worse it gets the harder it will be to manage his insulin demand and timing. I would suggest that he ask about an insulin pump if he is not on one. The pump allows far greater flexibility in the insulin delivery and may be able to "set delays" to allow his stomach to empty and have the insulin show up at that point. As I understand it the gastroparesis is a side effort of the uncontrolled/high sugars, so the pump may be able to better help him manage the wild swings. The other big Ah-hah moment that I had was that I just can 't eat whatever I want and take insulin to cover. I need to stick to Dr. J's and Dr. B's diet philosophies when I make my meal choices. The body is complicated and it does vary on how well the insulin is absorbed and there is variability in the amount serving size and nutrient content of foods. I believe that in the US, the food products report the nutrient information with an accuracy of +/- 20%. Meaning that a serving reported to have 10g of carbs could really have either 12g or 8g...this may not sound like a big deal, but when factor in taking a shot of insulin that may absorb different each time (the body's natural inflammatory response is triggered with each subqutaneous injection, so 2u of insulin today in the thigh may not have strong or as rapid of an effect as 2u in the abdomen tomorrow)...you can really get into danger quickly if you tend to have meals with 100-120g of carbs. I think that Dr. B calls it the law of large numbers. If you take large amounts of carbs and insulin then when you have issues they are huge blood sugar swings and major glycemic events. If you take small amounts of carbs and associated small amounts of insulin to cover the carbs, then you have small corrections to make with the benefit of time to react should an issue arise. That is likely even more the case with your son since his stomach emptying may be slow or even unpredictable depending on how advanced the gastroparsis is.

Good Luck, hope that this was helpful...and please don't be fooled by people who do not comprehend the distinct difference between type 1 and type 2. I have nearly died in the hands of doctors who were well versed in type 2 management, but wholely ignorant in type 1 management.