Category Archives: I.B.D.

Building bowel health: is there a place for whey?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dr Aoife

Last night I had the priv­ilege of spend­ing my even­ing with the local Halton chapter of the Canadian Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, and had a great exper­i­ence chat­ting about the health and patency of the bowel. For those of you who are avail­able … Continue read­ing →

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Commentary: Why can’t I eat all of the foods I like?

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Dr Aoife

I always laugh when I am at a party, and someone says “You’re a natur­o­pathic doc­tor? You guys just want to take every­one off all of the foods they like”. Firstly, I am not a sad­ist. I would love for every­one to be able to eat what … Continue read­ing →

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Heartburn is just a symptom

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dr Aoife

Heartburn. Also known as pain in the chest, burn­ing in the throat, pres­sure in the chest, mucous slid­ing in the throat…it has many ways of present­ing itself. Heartburn is not nor­mal how­ever. Heartburn is a symp­tom of a lar­ger issue. Several times a week I have … Continue read­ing →

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Feeling irritable with your Irritable Bowel Disease?

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dr Aoife

This past May, I had the priv­ilege of speak­ing with the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation as a guest speaker on integ­rat­ive inter­ven­tions for irrit­able bowel dis­ease. Initially, I wondered would patients be inter­ested in my opin­ion or more afraid of the pos­sible aggrav­a­tions … Continue read­ing →

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