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Dietary Changes

Overcoming Food Intolerances ACREs Mead CITS

How I Overcame Years of Severe Food Intolerances in 5 Days (+20 years healing complex PTSD)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 27, 2020 · 26 Comments

On my return from time with my parents for my annual summer visit in the early 2000s I finally connected the dots to realize that my unquenchable thirst and dry mouth were not solely from living at 5000 feet in the arid climate near the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Eating desserts and vinegary ...

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Healing Chronic Illness Trauma Nervous System Mead CITS

Healing Chronic Illness: 11 Tools for Addressing Nervous Systems Perceptions of Threat and Finding YOUR Pathway to Healing (2020 Covid Updates+)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 25, 2020 · 12 Comments

11 Tools for Healing Chronic Illness Our bodies have an underlying drive to heal and be well. They also have an innate blue print for health, even when we are sick with a chronic disease. Healing chronic illness from a nervous system perspective supports this powerful mechanism that every body ...

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Treating Chronic Illness #3: Making Dietary Changes took 10 Years

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 4, 2015 · 6 Comments

As I described in 11 Under-utilized Tools for Treating Chronic Illness, dietary changes can be an important component for working with chronic disease. Changing how we eat tends to be underestimated and can also feel daunting and unclear. The process that lead me to make a drastic and proactive ...

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