Monday, November 28, 2016

MicrobeFiber™ Cures Tina’s Tummy Troubles

By Alex White, MD

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For the past few blogs I have been extolling the values of adding fiber to your diet.  I have also told you about the many ways in which fiber can aid everything from digestion, to weight loss.  I have also shown you how using an FDA-approved fiber supplement like MicrobeFiber can make the process of adding fiber to your diet quick and easy.   For today’s blog, I would like to do something a bit different.  Instead of explaining yet more reasons to jump on the fiber band wagon, I thought I would allow one of my patients to tell you about her experience.

My name is Tina and I started taking Microbefiber 6 months ago.  About 7-8 years before that, I had a lap band surgery done to help me lose weight.  I lost over 100 pounds, which thrilled me, until the band slipped and I was forced to take more than 20 pills per day to deal with the complications and the pain. It was to the point where I started to regurgitate my food every time I ate.  I only found out after the fact that what happens when your lap band slips is that it can be difficult to pass any food through to your digestive tract. 

Monday, November 21, 2016

Don't Be a Turkey

By Alex White, MD


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The Pilgrims started off the tradition of Thanksgiving back in 1621.   Evidence suggests that the 1st Thanksgiving dinner offered everything from deer and duck, to squash, carrots, beans, spinach and mussels.  (Nobody is sure if turkey was included.) While there was no cranberry sauce, the feast surely featured wild blueberries, gooseberries and grapes.

Far from having pumpkin pie, the settlers had not yet built an oven.  However, according to some accounts, early English settlers improvised by hollowing out a pumpkin, before filling the shell with milk, honey and spices to make a custard by roasting the gourds in hot embers.  Yum!

Monday, November 14, 2016

You're Only Human

By Alex White, MD

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They look like alien lifeforms straight out of a sci-fi movie.  Hideous creatures sporting huge teeth or covered with slime, that slither or lurch through dark corridors that never see the light of day.  They’re the stuff of our nightmares and yet they are all too real.  Living inside all of us is a zoo of microscopic organisms that call our body home.

More than 100 trillion tiny creatures inhabit each and every one of us, going about their business without our knowledge.  There isn’t a place in us or on us that these critters don’t inhabit.  A number of them like the view from our eyebrows and eyelashes.  Some prefer to spend their days burrowed head first in your skin pores, while others live in the depths of your bowels.  I know what you’re thinking…Ewwww!

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Beat the Bloat

By Alex White, MD

You know the uncomfortable feeling when your belly suddenly balloons out as though you have just finished eating a 5-course meal, even though you haven’t had a bite to eat.  Suddenly, your pants seem to be too tight and you want to let out a window rattling burp.  That’s when you know that the bloat is back.

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Like one of those creatures that you see on sci-fi flicks, once unleashed, the bloat is hard to kill.  If you regularly experience the gas and discomfort that are brought on by bloating, fear not, because unlike Jason in Friday the 13th, with a little knowledge you can beat the bloat.