Dietary Changes

Treating Chronic Illness #7: Making Dietary Changes took 10 Years

February 4, 2015 6 Comments

Making Dietary Changes As I described in 10 Under-utilized Tools for Treating Chronic Illness, dietary changes can be an important component for working with chronic disease. Changing how we eat

Working with Food, Diet and Survival Patterns

September 19, 2014 2 Comments

Working with Food Exploring my relationship to food in general, and to my craving for sweets in particular, is an ongoing process even after 40 years. From the deprivation of low calorie weight-loss

Ever wonder if stress triggered the onset of your chronic illness? Whether childhood events affected your health? Or how flare-ups can be influenced by the simplest of things?

I'm Veronique, a former family physician and assistant professor who retrained to learn more about the intelligence of the body. I have been researching the role of the nervous system and how it learns to perceive threat as an important and under-recognized contributor to chronic illnesses of all kinds. Not because chronic illness is psychosomatic or that being sick is our fault. But because life events shape our genes and biochemistry as well as how our nervous systems and physiologies function.

I present the science I never knew as an MD. I also write about my experiences with my own chronic illness and share tips for making sense of and working with your symptoms.

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A Chronic Illness Path