Autoimmunity

Reverse Autoimmune Disease with the Ancient Wisdom of Ayurveda

When I was 30 years old I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I was able to reverse this painful autoimmune disease within 6 months of diagnosis because I discovered Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda is the 10,000-year- old sister science of yoga. It is literally translated from Sanskrit as “science of life.” One of the teachings of Ayurveda that got me on my road from inflamed to vital was the knowledge that we are not all the same person. In fact, the different body types, or doshas, require different diets, sleep patterns, exercise regimens and they process their emotions differently. Ayurveda says autoimmune disease is undigested anger. I also learned that my dosha type was prone to holding onto weight, toxins, and emotional hurt. It was also prone to inflammation. I am a pitta-kapha dosha. So I set out to learn how to feed myself, detox myself, heal my past trauma, and became a yoga and meditation teacher. [Read more…] about Reverse Autoimmune Disease with the Ancient Wisdom of Ayurveda

Eat Treats and Still Reverse Autoimmune Disease

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When I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis 22 years ago I was a complete and total full-blown sugar addict. I don’t say this lightly. I mean it. I was addicted to sugar the way an alcoholic is addicted to alcohol. In order to reverse my autoimmune disease (which I did within 6 months of diagnosis and it’s been gone ever since), I had to quit sugar. The break up was tough. In fact I write about this in my #1 best-selling book, Solving the Autoimmune Puzzle. I talk about what I now call the “detox-retox rollercoaster.” It took several detox-retox cycles before I finally knew that sugar was like rat poison. I knew I would never eat rat poison, so I was able to stop eating sugar. One of the ways I was able to stop so completely is by replacing the rat poison version of sugar and sugar substitutes with some alternatives that still gave me the sweet taste every once in a while. [Read more…] about Eat Treats and Still Reverse Autoimmune Disease

Reduce Inflammation While Enjoying Birthdays and Holidays

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I get patients in my practice who are frustrated with the limitations their autoimmune disease and leaky gut has placed on their dietary choices. I always feel nothing but compassion for these frustrated patients of mine. Navigating the dietary changes necessary to reverse inflammation, hormone imbalances, digestive issues, chronic pain, and autoimmune disease can feel very overwhelming, especially when you are told to give up sugar completely. My patients always tell me how hard eliminating gluten, alcohol, caffeine, dairy and sugar are. It is hard. But it’s easier now than it has ever been. They also treat me like their mother confessor or food police. They will make an appointment around birthdays or holidays and tell me how “bad” they were. Usually that confession is followed by how crappy they feel and the desire to get back on track. [Read more…] about Reduce Inflammation While Enjoying Birthdays and Holidays

Reverse Your Autoimmune Disease by Treating all 4 of the Root Causes!

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Autoimmune conditions affect over 50 million Americans, 80% of whom are women. In fact, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called rheumatoid arthritis when I was 30 years old. I was able to reverse it within a year using the Freedom Framework Method I now use with my patients and teach to my students in my integrative medicine health coach certification program. [Read more…] about Reverse Your Autoimmune Disease by Treating all 4 of the Root Causes!

Where do you get your fiber from?

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I often hear my patients come to me and tell me that they’re constipated. They complain that they’re having trouble losing weight. Furthermore, they’re having trouble with hormone balance. Indeed, they’re having trouble with energy.

I’m Dr. Keesha Ewers, I’ve had the privilege of being able to help thousands of people with these very problems.

A “hot tip” to resolve these situations, is fiber. This question I get over and over:

Where do you get enough fiber and how much do you need? I want you to have about 50 grams of fiber a day. [Read more…] about Where do you get your fiber from?

Why Is Autoimmune Disease So Hard to Cure – or Even Diagnose?

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The truth is this, we are asking the WRONG questions!

Why do the thousands of people who I diagnose with autoimmune disease not know about it until I do the proper testing and ask the proper questions? Because in the pharmaceutical-based healthcare paradigm we are in right now, we are required to match the symptom with the drug. That means the many symptoms that could be red-flag indicators for autoimmune disease are being band-aided for years by doctors who are trained to alleviate symptoms rather than prevent disease. [Read more…] about Why Is Autoimmune Disease So Hard to Cure – or Even Diagnose?