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Subject:
New York Area Resource
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000
From: Lewis
E. Mehl-Madrona
Dear
SCD-list,
I
am writing to introduce myself. I joined this list at
the suggestion of my friend, Fia Richmond, who wanted
me to learn about these ideas. I have been enjoying the
posts and learning more and more.
I
am a physician who treats many patients with digestive
disorders and difficulties.
I
have recently joined a new practice in New York City,
and am writing to announce the opening of my practice
and to invite those of you who live in the New York metro
area and who need a doctor to consider me. My office is
at 245 Fifth Ave., 2nd Floor, and is part of Beth Israel
Hospital's new Center for Health and Healing. We are a
truly integrative practice, providing both conventional
and alternative medicine. Besides three family physicians,
we have a psychiatrist, a homeopath, a chiropractor, a
nutritionist, an acupuncturist, an ayruveda practitioner,
a nurse-healer, a gynecologist, a gynecology nurse practitioner,
two internists, two massage therapists, a pediatrician,
and assorted support staff. We provide hospital care at
Beth Israel and are backed by a full range of specialty
services.
I
have asked Mary Beth Augustine, our nutritionist, to join
this SCD list alongside me, so that when you come to visit
us, we will both be very familiar with what you are doing
and how to support your needs.
If
any of you local New York folks are interested in helping
us do a study of Elaine's ideas, I'd appreciate any volunteer
effort to get something like this underway.
Thanks
much for reading (if you got this far!), and I hope I
meet some of you.
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD
Clinical Program Director
Beth Israel Medical Center Continuum Center for Health
and Healing
245 Fifth Ave., 2nd floor
New York NY 10016 USA
Pager: 800-555-8035
Cellular: 917-856-3755
Fax: 646-935-2273
Home: 212-982-0021
Work: 646-935-2220
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SCD Listserve Responses to above letter |
- To
Dr. Mehl-Madrona and Ms. Augustine from Elaine Gottschall:
Thanks so much for your email and willingness to work
with us. It has been such a wonderful thing for me to
have the support of Drs. Galland and Hoffman and now,
you with a hospital setting!!!!! I am sure you must
realize that you and the other doctors have given our
IBD sufferers such comfort. You have taken the horrendous
fear (expressed yesterday by one of our list members)
away. We have nothing to fear but fear itself and how
beautiful our lives can become without it hanging over
our heads. Thank you. With much gratitude, Elaine
- Dear
Dr. Mehl-Madrona, Welcome to the list. I'd like to thank
you for taking an interest in this diet, which has helped
so many of us. I do not live near New York City, but
if I did I would certainly be making an appointment
with you and volunteering to help with your study in
any way that I possibly could. If there is any way that
I can help from Ontario, just say the word! Janice
- According
to Fia Richmond, " Beth Israel Medical Center has
opened a new department as of June 1st, 2000. The Center
for Health and Healing has Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, author
of Coyote Medicine, as their program director. Dr. Mehl-Madrona
has been my son's doctor for several years now and I
highly recommend him. He is one of the most open-minded
physicians that I have come upon. He also advocates
a strong spiritual component to his philosophy of healing.
He has continually supported and encouraged the SCD
diet with my son. You can learn more about him and access
his CV by going to http://www.healing-arts.org/children.
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Dear Dr. Lewis MM from ElaineGottschall,
You refer to "scientific studies" and I am not sure
what you mean. Doctors, some in New York City, Like
Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Galland plus many others, have treated
out-patients to find them recovering from UC and Crohn's
after years of suffering.Of course, they have their
medical records before and after.
While at Rutgers Univ. the Dept. of Nutrition had people
coming into the dining room of the Dietary Dept. for
3 meals a day. They also required stool and urine specimens
for the study they were doing. The only problem was
that these subjects would go home and eat whatever they
pleased without reporting. Obviously, this is not a
controlled study. Dr. F. C. Dohan (whom I reference
in my chapter on the brain) used a similar diet when
his schizophrenic patients were locked up and all food
was really controlled and he found that those on the
restricted diets were released in about half the time
of those that ate the normal food. The only thing I
can think of is to get subjects who are willing to check
into a sort of sanitorium (spa) and stay there with
someone doing all the cooking. It would have to be a
pleasant setting but one where they had no access to
other food. I can understand why many researchers work
on the level of testubes or one molecular enzymatic
action rather than take on the whole person. The alternative
doctors as well as some medical doctors have found that
the Specific Carbohydrate Diet works as an adjunct to
their care. Some doctors do not even use supplements
such as grapefruit seed extract or bother with sensitivity
tests but put the people on the diet and check them
out weekly using blood tests, etc. The sicker the patient
is, the more some rely on the diet solely as well as
any medication they may be on and with weekly checkups,
the medication is most often reduced.
The diet must be carefully controlled as I found that
even some of the laboratories are sending out elemental
diets which are far from elemental. They use maltodextrin
as a carbohydrate source which is a very difficult molecule
to digest because of the scarcity of the isomaltase
enzyme on intestinal microvilli. . The researchers come
up with all kinds of excuses not to use dextrose as
a carbohydrate source (which would truly make the carbs
elemental) because of the osmolality getting to high.
Without going into details now, this is a lame excuse.
I appreciate your interest in the work I have been doing
for 40 years and hope that with your assistance we can
make this nutritious diet an option, at least, for those
not doing well on traditional treatment. Let me know
what you want me to do next. With best wishes, Elaine
Gottschall
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