This is the fourth video in the IBD School Basics Video Series, which aims to educate IBD patients, their friends, and families of people with IBD about Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis. This video explains our current understanding (as of 2011) of what causes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Please add comments, make suggestions for improvements, and suggest topics for future videos. Thanks!

Independent Shaklee Distributor. www.vitalizerhealth.com The immune system needs to be boosted from time to time to protect us from harmful illnesses and even the common cold. You can feed your immune system and keep it strong in various natural ways. Luckily, the vitamin and health industry provides many natural solutions to keep our immune systems healthy and strong throughout our lives. Immune system boosters create more white cells so your system has more fighting power against illness and disease. There are many nutrients and supplements you can take to give your immune system a boost and help you get back on a healthy path. There nutrients include • Vitamin E is an amazing antioxidant and immune system booster. It stimulates the creation of strong fighting cells that kill off cancer cells and germs. B cells are created and aid as antibodies that kill all kinds of bad bacteria. Vitamin E has also been known to be an anti-aging vitamin and also assists in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. If you don’t want to take supplements then try eating a diet containing vegetable oils, grains, and seeds • Vitamin C is the number one immune system booster and it is probably the most efficient supplement any one can take to fight off illness and germs. You can get your daily dosage of vitamin C by eating fruits such as grapefruit, oranges, strawberries, mangos, and kiwi fruit. You can also eat leafy green vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus, cabbage and cauliflower …

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www.RawFoodHowTo.com | Part 6 of Paul Nison’s talk “Raw Food Formula For Health”. (Part 6 of 6) Filmed at the largest raw food potluck in the Phoenix, AZ metro area in September, 2008. During this evening, Paul talks about the reason people want to avoid disease, the major cause of disease, the vegan raw diet, how he overcame his own illnesses, the most healthy foods, the most toxic foods, the one most dangerous thing in our homes, about drugs, cause of disease, sleep, best times to eat, the best diet and much more. Informative and entertaining as well.

Dear All, This is my amateur bad attempt to try to make my videos a little more fun. It’s a conversation starter — not medical advice. If you’d like more information, please check out my blog, where under the article “probiotics” I posted more detailed information: www.bostonmedicalstudent.wordpress.com here are some references: The main point is that: 1) clostridium difficile is a serious, bad, bacterial problem in the US that hits patients who have taken antibiotics and patients who are in the hospital. Just today, (4/30/07) our professor told us that four patients died of clostridium difficile at his hospital last year. The bad news is that conventional antibiotics can fail to cure clostridium difficile. And when they fail it could lead to death. The good news it that they could be potentially treated with probiotics (although a funkier version of probiotics) when conventional antibiotics fail. It might seem ridiculous to try Dr. Aas’ probiotics — but I want to bring his work to your attention because conventional antibiotics do fail with regards to c. difficile. With Dr. Aas, he’s reported success with this form of treatment when patients can’t fight off C. difficile with metronidazole or vancomycin (these are the common antibiotic treatments). Point #2: Von Niel argues that probiotics should be considered a mainstream therapy given the many positive results seen in randomized controlled trials (see the Von Niel reference). Unfortunately, it has been slow to catch …