Let me see… first off, I am very western medicine focused. Since Seattle has a very large Natural Medicine School, we tended to get a lot of Bastyr graduates. I am very leary of their training. I am sure they are good but I went to one once and she said my kidneys were poor by looking at my fore arms. Then she proceeded to stick needles in my ears and shit. That didn’t go over well. Anyway, since that my opinion has been pretty negative but I am open.
When my MD Neurologist told me to see this Naturopath, I was certainly interested but cautious. She was excellent and appeared to *love* her job. She reads all the medical journals just like MDs. She goes to MS talks just like MDs. So that brings us to the pee situation.
She went to a talk with a MD that specializes in MS. This doctor was certain that MS was caused by Iodine deficiency. She went to the internet right way to find a research study that showed this but there was nothing. She made it clear to me that there was no real “proof” that this was a proven cause. But that is good isn’t it? I want the doctors to try things outside the box. It’s non-invasive (gross but…) so if it comes back fine, nothing is lost (sorta 
). If it comes back low, I would need to figure out how to add iodine safely to my diet I suppose.
She said she had ran about 10 pee tests for other MS patients and 6 of the 10 came back deficient. Very interesting none the less.
I feel like I have the best care team I could possibly have. Pro-active treatment is key.
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1 Patti // Jan 16, 2009 at 7:35 am
Wish they were more pro-active there than reactive that’s for sure. Sometimes I wish I was still living in the States. Love to your Mom. Patti xxx
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2 Patti // Jan 16, 2009 at 7:36 am
P.S. I meant to say HERE not there! Maybe I should learn how to type better! P xxx
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ninareply on January 16th, 2009 9:05 am
That’s the MS talking Patti…
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3 Gretchen // Jan 16, 2009 at 11:07 am
Nina
Question for you–I recently saw a naturopath as well. She had me do one of the blood allergy tests. When it came back with the different foods that cause increased inflammation or I’m allergic to, I decided to ask rheumatologist what he thought. He was the first western doc I’ve seen since I got the results back. Anyways he didn’t have anything positive to say. Just no scientific research etc etc. I may still try to work on the diet and the things that came back high though as they are pretty easy change ( at least for awhile) . I am curious if you had to do this &/or what your nuerologist said!
Gretchen
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ninareply on January 16th, 2009 9:04 pm
The allergy tests are somewhat controversial. Western medicine is pretty against them but others are all for them. I imagine you have to filter through the results just like other things.
I haven’t asked my Neuro specifically about food allergies but when I brought up the idea, he referred me to the Naturopath. I take that as a “I approve this message” type resonse.
I’ll let you know. I’ll ask her how “real” the results are.
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4 Nadja Tizer // Jan 16, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Interesting. I never heard about the iodine bit. I’ll be curious to hear more.
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5 joy // Feb 19, 2009 at 5:36 pm
will be interested in hearing more about this too
since i am beginnging to search out answere about the foods and minerals i take.
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